The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-14
SENATE MIGHT ELECT PRESIDENT.

While iAhas never ocurred in the United States possibility is not 50 remote the bare statement of the propostion would seem that the present Senate may elea the next President.
 The Constitution of the United States provides that if candidgte for President shall receive a majority (not phrality) in the Electoral College ther the election ahall made by the House of Representatives which\is required to choose of the three candidates receiving the highest number of in the Electoral College It provides. further that in such caee each State shall cast to be determined by the majority of the States deega tion in the National House of Representatives There is still further provision that in the House is unable to choose President in this manner through Athe continuation of the deadlock. then the Vice Elect shall become the President and be alfguratcd
 h the event of no candidate receiving clear majoHty in the Electoral College for vice-Presidont inc CoQatitution provides that the United States Senate sAall elect viceP President.
 Now as to the possibilities Should there be ocfatic'ARepubliean and Third Party candidates for PieSdenhS particularly should the Third Party candidate be hNnry Ford-there is possibility that none of the candidates would receive clear majority in the Electoral Holege. In that event the elec- ton would go to thu House of Representatives There we find that the delegations of twenty-three States have Republican maiorites, twenty States have Demo- cratic majorities and fNe States have delegations equally divided between \he Democrats and Re- publichns. wv
 of course it could be possfA e that vice-Presi sen' "ouia DC elected by the Electoral College and rresiaeht not but usually the pary candidates for Fresident and Vce-Presdent receive the same number or votes, and the chances are that if tbera hrIa h deadioch over the Presidency there would also ba o"e over the Nlce-Presdency In the event of sucb q ueauocK' IL would devove the Senate to choose the Vice-Presdent Then, if the House Ashould fail o eiect President, as 1t would if all the members voted on all the ballots according to tbar n,,i1 affiliations the man elected Vice President woua h the President of the United States
 This leads us to another possibility sbopld o nave Third Party Of sufficient proportions to da iocN an election in the Electoral College if is not only possible, but probable that several cona.a| HOW listed as Republicans or Democrats ,vouId h come affiliated with it. Under such circumstao "ouiu 'he present Senate be able to cast majority ol votes Tor any single candidate for Vice prosidts
 e arc nine or ten Republican Senators and t,ro or three Democratic Senators who ara r, "
 e heaIy Tn accord with the policies and nrinoi,,
 , e ihfu farty movement than with tbo "'n "hch they now affiliate and tho eoya 'ioh or Nlce-President Coolidge to the prss;aox>, case of tie N'puolcans in o-r 'nere should be deadlock in the E,eotor, ,h 1, m 'ne House of Representatives over eana, ,''sion oi President and a deadlock in tbo oehate over the election of A Vice-pros,a. -, ~ Secretary of State in office March ,oae the become President under the terms of the pr,', Succession Act N "e fresiaential
 UT course, this is png possibility op no.,,,. ', ID nut hkeiy to occur yet it must he aam,,,, Ina' iess remote contingencies have take, n,a ~ ne course of world historv piace In
 Twice in the history of tbe oo,n,
 l.. ,, ent mas received majority of tbe votoa :. , 1iai ,ohese, and the election has eo,o ,,
 ~ oi representatives The first timo ~ U iooi "hen Thomas Jefferson and Aaro, p 'n'As n ~ eAaety the same number of votos ,ct Il ~ eoie the adoption of the Twelfth Amona" l
 w OoHSutuuon' when the Presidential r,rt - 70. two votes Tor President the ono roo,,,,
 ,e"eht huinDcr of votes was elected @ one receiving the second higbast rt
 "as erected Vice-President Jeffsr,o, ". -. eu the same numbr of votes for n M anu |. LOOK thiry-sx ballots of tt, IT, esi- - essh'atiVes 10 elect Jefferson Presfaenr se ol ,oos ..,, iSiueht, The second time it ocourr "aAo ,,1a,o ', "en Ahdrew Jackson John ,or,no,, was r pa,s U'a"iord and Henry Cla-, 1ora nss ''' : . ana none received ,,.' M ua.es ,~ Yiai eoiiege Clay was ,,,,..,aans . III the , - ouith Tn the list, D.'"use ne use Of Rcpresentatves/ ma ms strength in the ceved the yotas ., ,S thrown to Adams who ur although JoorE thirteen States out twenty . the Electoral c,@ had received a plurality , T defe fted A. Jllege Four years afterward Jack the Electr >dams by overwhelming majority
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 1T increase in Alaska's exports July this year r July for last year amounted to nearly thirteen Idrsd thousand dollars -s .6S 4c7O as against ga