Show A lapse lape in lavi lan to the election there ms mas 1 1 of dicus ion about what vasht chappin in qa C the file election nas ah throan into the ilou bouc e of depre enta tives b ly yea reason on of the electoral college age not dying a 3 majority mijo rit for either cither candi candidate datt that dicksion dic aion pitied to be wholly needless needles since there was biener an election which had leis leas lik lahood of going eoin to the house of kep reent aties than the one thit that we haic hac just through and now that that disca bion is 13 endi ended d another is sprung which it is hoped will ilbo also be ba needless but which is reilly really of imi importance ortance as showing I 1 s lapse of the law that might at any time bring us into i a serious condition it I 1 suggested that it if P resident elect rind and vice pr prisident aident elect were both to die between the casting of the note ote and inauguration day the united states would be without an executive head for the next four years and it la is pointed out by the CleN cleneland cland plain Dealer which springs this question that there is nothing in the constitution to cover such an unlikely unlike IN emergenci if the death should occur prior to the second monday alonda in Jan january uarl when the presidential electors meet in ithe ithe various state capital to east art their votes thea the could by correspondence or by f ui dance of the national democratic committee elect a president and vice president in a constitutional wa via but if the death hould raould occur bet between veen the 2nd and monday in january and march ath there is an absolute fi lence in the law as to what should be done this is a silence that ought not to be allowed to continue the judiciary of the house haq ha reported fai a senate reola tion vests in congress the right to designate a president in the event of both president elect anc vice president elect failing to qualify after the final action of the electoral college this resolution is properly taken to he be a recognition of the importance of providing for such a calamity ds 1 I might possibly happen but it does not seem to us that that is the right way to get at the election I 1 of president and vice president in case of such a calamity to cne nation as the death of president and vice president elect between the time of their election by ane electoral col lege and inauguration day A As 1 1 we e altu have mani times hl heretofore the elector il college ought to tricot meet as aboda in the national capital and anuth their cir do its office or 01 cit ilic ting eting the president dent and vice president ind and the electoral should be made a permaner perma neit t bod todi continuing until a nan nci electoral college is cle ald tic ever even fourth beal whenever there iq 11 a inanc in the he office of president the vice president succeeds the al college should then be called to meet and elect arother ther vile e dent and 0 o in fit case of the death of it a the electoral college collect should as a boda bod and ill fill the vic inc the great in all his mutter matter is 19 v hat seems to I 1 ie c on an irresistible desire on the part of cidna to get awa from constitutional methods and to provide ome iome other method of that hat would pass a without quite meeting the spirit of the constitution ever evera thing be for fully and con making amkin tho the oprice of presidential elector a continuous office the cletters cleli clet tors holding for four nears eara ard until their are elected und find qualified the electoral eleito ral cc college loge in that vare ae would be a stani stand me 1 I bodi to assemble aaa emble on short no notice tice ani an j repair ana an calamities bi deith death lunae lungoci or any other affliction that would cause the president or vice president to be disqualified for the duties ot hit hii office here is 13 the key to the whole situation make the office of elector a four year office and make the electoral college an assembled body acting together as a unit in place of acting separately in the capitals of the respective spec tive states and tending sending the note ole of these state electors to washington by me messenger the electors should meet in as a ody jody asid perform their functions of electing the president and vice president and them could so whenever fth vh enever there wo was s an emergency oiling for their action lien they being continued in office without d break in the electoral electo nl body wha there should be elabu elaborate rate provisions for or the Euc succession cession to the presidency in 1 I case of the death of president ana vice president presided as providing tor for succession ion hi anouk cabinet officers nho ire not elective 11 19 strange to see and no less strange is it to see this senatorial ree for an emergence election by coneless Coneie ss of pros president dent and vice president the electoral college is the body dest designated adt in the constitution for the performance of this office and that body should be so organized ai to enable it at any and all times to fill vacancies in 10 either cither the pre presidential identical ident ial or nr vice presidential office or arth acting in assembled body for that burpoe every time that occasion requires |