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PRESENT SENATE .MIGHT KI-WT I'RKSIDKM
While it has never occurred in the United States the possibility is
eot so remote as the bare statement of the proposition would see*r that
the present Senate may elect the next President.
The Constitution of the United States provides that rf no »i*ii
date for President shall receive a majority t not a plurality ) 'he
Electoral College then the election shall be made by the House of 'rt. pro
sentatives which is required to choose one of the three .aadulates
ing the highest number of votes in the Eleetorial College. It provides, i
further, that in such a case, each State shall cast one vote to be deter- i
mined by the majority of the State’s delegation in the National Hi ;i •• of |
Representatives. There is a still further provision that in eas* the ]
House is unable to choose a President i-n this manner, throm ■ the j
continuation of the deadlock, then the Vice President-Elect aha" ' • • ome
the President and be inaugurated.
In the event of no candidate receiving a cleat majontv the
Eleetorial College’"for Vice President the Constitution provide* •».,! the
United States Senate shall elect a Vice President.
Now as to the possibilities. Should there be Democratic. Re
publican and Third Parly candidates for President—particulars should 1
the Third Party candidate be Henry Ford there is a possibility none of j
the candidate would receive a clear majority in the Eleetorial College. !
In that event the election would go to the House of Representatives, i
There we find that the delegations of twenty-three Stales have Republican!
majorities, twenty States have Democratic majorities and live States have |
delegations equally divided between the Democrats and Repute . an- [
Of course it could be possible that a Vice President would be j
elected by the Eleetorial College and a President nor. but usuai y tin- party |
candidates for President and Vice President receive th. same number of i
voles, and the chances are that if there should be a deadlock over the
Presidency there would also he one over the Vice Presidency In the
event of such a deadlock, it would devolve on the Senate to chuoose the
Vice President. Then, if the House should fail to eleci a President,
as it would if all the members voted on all the ballots according to their
political affiliations, the man elected Vice President would be the Presi
dent of the United States.
This leads us to another possibility. Should we have a Third j
Party of sufficient proportions to deadlock an election in the Eleetorial
College it is not only possible, but probable, that several Senators now '
listed as Republicans or Democrats would become affiliated with it. I
Under such circumstances would the present Senate be able to cast a
majority of votes for any single candidate for Vice President ? There I
are nine or ten Republican Senators and two or three Democratic Sena- i
tors who are regarded as more nearly :n accord with the policies an<! !
principle** behind the Third Party movement than with the parties with
which they -now affiliate, and the elevation of Vice President Coolldge to
the Presidency has caused the loss of one vote to tin- Republicans in case
If there should he a deadlock in th*- Klectorial College and in the ;
House of Representatives over the election of a President and a deadlock
i-n the Senate over the election of » Vice President, the Secretary of State 1
in office March 4. 1925. would become president under the terms of th*- ;
Presidential Succession Act.
Of course, this is piling possibility on possibility and it is not likely
to occur, yet it must he admitted that less remote contingencies have
taken place in the course of world history.
Twice in the history of the country no candidate for President
has received a majority of the votes in the Electoral College, and the
election has gone into th*- House of Representatives. Th** first tint** w:>s
in 1801 when Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Ilurr received exactly the
same number of votes. That was before the adoption of th** Twelfth
Amendment to the Constitution. »h**n the Presidential Electors each
cast two votes for President, th*- one receiving th** highest number of
votes was elected Vice President. Jefferson and Burr received the same
number of votes for President and it took thirty-six ballots of th*- House
of Representatives t<> elect Jefferson President and make Burr. Vice
President. Th. second time it occurred was in 1825 when Andrew
Jackson. John Quincy Adams. William II. Crawford and Henry Clay were
candidates for President and non.* received a majority in the Electoral
College. Clay was eliminated, because he was fourth in the list, and
his strength in ih<* House of Representatives was thrown to Adams, who
received the votes of thirteen Status out of twenty-four, although Jackson
had received a plurality in th** Electoral College. Four years afterward
Jackson defeated Adams by an overwhelming majority in th. Electoral
College.—Exchange.
XKW STYLES IX BRO.VIM ASTiNCi.
No single thing illustrates the present day’s spirit of alertness,
with its quick c-ommunication of ideas through the newspapers anil the
public’^ quick acceptance of new ideas, butter than the spread of radio.
('•.in pa re it with th- years of hard sledding that tin- telephone --n^
countered in ts younger days.
Radio, on the other hand, has become practically a universal in
stitution within two year< Even now. perhaps, its ultimate possibilities
are unmeasured. Hut already ;t has developed from a toy to a general
utility. And why did t "arrive” so quickly ?
Because. <i»: People today are quick to greet new ideas.
Because. 121 The -newspapers spread information of new
ideas almost overnight.
Because, i :t t: The certainty that new inventions can be quickly
marketed throimh newspaper advertising, stimulates quick invention and
improvements.
The rapid spread of the radio habit is a demonstration of what
newspaper advertising can do for any • \i: dea, if that idea has real
merit to back up the publicity.
more r;oot> NEWS.
The announcement that tin- Alaska Pulp and Paper Company will
install early next year a in ami farturing plant at a cost of $100,000 to
consume the entire output of its pulp mill at Speel River Is another piece
of glad news for this section of Alaska. It means the establishment of a
new industry in the North, om* that will Rive additional employment and
thus increase the population of the country adjacent, to Juneau. It is
said the financing of the additional plant has been arranged.
If all the plans that ar.- well under way are carried out next year
will witness more developing in this section of Alaska than over before
occurred in one year. The indications are now that there will be big
things doing at Ju-neau, Thane, Speel River. Thomas Ray and elsewhere
in addition to the mining development at Jiialin. Hawk Inlet. Lisianski
Inlet. Chichagof Island. Sum Hum. Punter Bay. William Henry Bay and
elsew’bere. ,
The country of which Juneau is the center is making rapid prepar- 1
ations to go—Juneau Emp re.
A DIFFERENCE. ;
Purchasing and investing at home in a new Country (hat is in |
process of development is like protection to infant industries. It helps t
to develop the country. It - far different than the case in those coun- '(
tries that produce a surplus. There often investing and purchasing | j
abroad serves to expand the markets for the local producers. When;)
metropolitan capital is invested in Alaska or South America or other out- 'j
of-the-way places markets are created for the producers of the inetropoll- j
tun sections. That is not the case when Alaskans purchase Outside. I j
Their investments do not expand the markets for the Alaska producers. | <
The only markets the Alaska merchants and small producers have, are the (
home markets, and they .•«• expanded only through home purchasing'(
and investing. ;
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