The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-01-20
The March of the Electors

of the public records of his Office and shall be
open to public inspection; and the secretary of
state of the United States at the first meeting
of congress thereafter shall transmit to the
two houses of congress copies in full of each, and
every such certificate so received at the State
department.
"The electors shall make and sign six GER
tifcates of all the votes given by them, each of
which certificates shall contain two distinct lists
one of the votes for President and the other of
the votes for Vice President, and shall annex
to each of the certificates of the lists of the
electors which shall have been furnished to them
by direction of the executive of the state.
1.-THE electors shall dispose of the certificates
so made by them and the lists attached thereto
in the following manner:
First. They shall forthwith forward by regis
tered mail one of the same to the President of
the senate at the seat of government
Second. Two Of the same shall be deiv-
cred to the secretary of state Of the state one
Of which shall be held subject to the order of
the president of the senate, the other to be pre-
served by him for one year and shall be part
of the public records of his Office and shall be
open to public inspection.
Third On the day thereafter they shall for
ward by registered mail two of such certificates
and lists to the secretary of state at the seat
of government, one of which shall be held sub
The other shall be preserved by the secretary
of state for one year and shall be part of the
public records of his Office and shall be open to
public inspection.
Fourth. They shall forthwith cause the other
Of the certificates and lists to be delivered to
the Judge of the district in which the electors
shall have assembled.
when no certificate Of vote and list men,
toned in this act from any state shall have
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or by the secretary of state by the third Wednes-
day in the month of January after the meeting
of the electors shall have been held the presf-
dent of the senate or, If he be absent from the
seat of government, the secretary Of state shall
request, by the most expeditions method avail
able, the secretary of state of the state to send
up the certificate and list lodged with him by the
electors of such state; and it shall be his duty
upon receipt of such request Immediately to
transmit same by registered mail to the presi-
dent of the senate at the seat Of government
when no certificates of votes from any state
shall have been received at the seat of govern
ment on the fourth Wednesday of the month
Of January, after the meeting Of the electors
shall have been held, the president of the SEN
ate, or, If he be absent from the seat Of gov
ernment the secretary of state shall send spe-
cial messenger to the district Judge in whose
custody a certificate of votes from that state
transmit that list by the hand of such messenger
to the seat of government"
One interesting fact about this years official
election" and the parts which the speaker of
the house and the Vice President, as president
of the senate, play In the empty formalty Is that
Speaker Garner will be only the second man so
far in our history who has thus Immediately
"been graduated" from the presiding officers
chair in the lower house to that in the upper
0f fh0 Oft
with whom he shares that distinction was Schuy-
Ter Colfax, Republican, who was speaker of the
house from 1868 to 1869 and In 1869 became Vice
President under Grant and thereupon became
president of the senate
There have been other speakers who aspired
to both offices of President and Vice President
and in some cases have fulfilled their ambitions
but these came several years after they had
been speaker James K. Polk was speaker from
1885 to 1889 and was an unsuccessful candidate
for Vice President in 1910. Four years later.
however Q844), he was elected President of the
United States
Those who aspired and failed include three
famous "also-rans" In hstory-Henry Clay,
James G. Blaine and Champ Clark Clay was
speaker of the house from 1911 to 1873 from
1915 to 1917, from 1919 to 1921 and from 1923
TO 1928. He was an unsuccessful candidate for
President in 1924, in 1892 and again In 1874
Blaine served as speaker from 1869 to 1878 and
was the unsuccessful candidate for President in
1884. Champ Clark was speaker from 1911 to
1919 and was strong candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for President in 1912 losing
to woodrow Wilson in the famous Baltimore con-
vention. So the new Vice President who viii
take office on March belongs to the very ex.
elusive group of only three men who have ever
been both speaker of the house of representa-
tives and Vice President or President of the
TIpifad States