Show THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON UTAH T f) Tvo Americans Have Been Called I) "President-for-a-Day- " But Their Is D oubtful to That Honor WATSON PLMO SCOTT Nawapoper Union 31 years ago this month the United a President had States is it had if one day—that on believe the inscription INETY te: ill i V 'iK I & I i?ot ihtl 'eaiEj whilt £ stands Which Mo Statue in HU name Lttsburg U David Rice Atchison and in 1928 Te stable was many geved that he was entitled of being I 5 distinction t sted among the Chief Exec of the nation even utives to fame is though that claim based up on a technicality about: came it how is Here President James I Technically DAV1I) Polk’s term of office expired March 3 1849 and according Gen his successor custom o hanr Taylor should have been But on March 4 Inaugurated V t and March 4 came on a Sunday did because of this fact Taylor of office until hot take the oath 5 Monday March i According to the familiar story a contemporary based upon in the Congressional itatement M on March 3 George Globe under vice president Dallas Polk announced in the senate ever’ which he was presiding of my official term ‘The close I conform eing near at hand to an established and convenient from practice by withdrawing deliberations of this body” Hart Thereupon Senator Thomas that of Missouri moved Benton the d a:i nd J a NT 3 e7 wed locky di THOMAS Utah rates ’roup Wy 'Mr roup acre wet a wreaths last 1051 ada’a the state Si nt m” i a a out k mi FERRY W Senator David R Atchison be appointed president of the senate pro tem Since the terms of President Polk and Vice President Dallas expired on March 3 and the term of President-elec- t Taylor did not begin until March 5 when he was inaugurated it has been contended that Atchison was legally President for that one day Sunday March 4 1849 even though be fas not sworn in This claim was based upon the presidential accession act passed in 1792 thich provided that in case of the death removal resignation r inability of both the President and the vice president the president of the senate should act as President until "the disability be removed or a President shail be his colleague January elected" Not Legally ATCHISON 20 1886 Despite the fact that the “President for a day” distinction has been given to Atchison and a An early edition of the DirectCongressional ory backed up this Jkim by saying about his a as president of the senate tem “This office made him president of the United States Jffing Sunday March 4r4849 as was not sworn Taylor ®to office until the following" and the official Missouri mal for 1928 declared that he technically President of States until after the inauguration of President Tylor March 5" R the stroke of ttiit hour Zuchuiv Taylor became Piusidurt een though he did not take tfe oath of office until two das later Atchison's friends claimed for him not only the honor of having been President fot a da but also that he was “the only President who had never been clotted to either that office or tlnv y the only Piesident from a state west of the Mississippi river and the utils Piesident who never sinned his name as such” The claim in regard to the vice presidency is somewhat more valid than that of “President for a day" It was based upon these Franklin Pierce became President in 1853 Atchison was still a member of the senate William R King who was elected vice president with Pierce died in Cuba before he could be sworn into office and act as pre- Asiding officer of the senate tchison was chosen president pro which made him pretempore siding officer of that body and as such was “acting vice piesident” As for the statement that he was “the only President from a state west of the Mississippi" that of course was no longer valid when Herbert Hoover was elected in 1928 As a matter of fact Atchison had a career distinguished enough to guarantee his being even without the remembered claim that he had been “President for a day" Born at Fayette county Kentucky on August 11 1807 he was named for David Rice a pioneer Presbyterian minister in that state a man of because his father strict religious convictions hoped the boy would become a clergyman However young Atchison chose to become a lawyer and studied for that profession A Famous Senator Admitted to the bar in 1830 he began practicing in Liberty county Missouri and at the age of 27 he was elected to the state When he was 33 he legislature was appointed judge of Platte the same year within and county he was appointed United States For 14 years from 1841 senator to 1855 he was one of the members of the upper Upon his rehouse of congress tirement from public life he devoted his time to agriculture and died In Clinton county Missouri ' President 8 later editton'of the'" took the distinction y from him by eliminating erence to his having been president for a day” It says !&ever’ ntetory I It Was I? iff iS 3 a da v ost 3 8 support that They base upon the provision which requires oath of office "bef6re”he enter oi his °mce” he hall become Marshall t°hn chief of the Su- tC urt once declared that ' actual rrsi- ePre and that of the K ’lha 51 5 historians thtution that the iEv KXeCution S" krCh Pol ZACHARY TAILOR d tbJ J kthf rtaU Sl president of the senate March 11153 aUing on Sun-d- a not qualify until Mon-- y March 5 1849randwas iHTt not le8atty president a? 2® on Sunday March fore he WM n°t legally Pi!i of the United States JJJjkntInp10re i monument erected to him mainly not the because of it he was that claim only man for whom could be made In some "SP®3 It could mor White Ferry plied to Thomas MichUnited States senator from milarto situation igan when a 1877 that of 1849 arose in IIenry When ’Vice Prld®n 1875 “ Wilson died in November chosen president pro "was1 "Ferry of the senate and as tempore president suchas "acting vlw the Ilayes-Til- - lie SdrJfT5VwB5 oVwWV - J8 Joint lw“ tncellnjl It mmence at 12 of the third of “erefore James K ? President until mid- March 3 1849 and on h lhr dichrjtd the nd lu““ at Philadelphia on July 4 1876 Grant s term of office expired M midnight on March 3 1877 N'oriri h ffis successor Ruther-ffirB Unewould have been luted at noon on March 4 But ig March 4 felj on a i sa II did not take the oath of offi until Monday noon Mauh 5 Su the same proc-- f reaso: ir g which gave Ison distinction of being lV'suh i't for a day” Ferry a ho was a t ng vne president” was also a one dav Piesident At least oMe t Tar of American hie Kiapffi makes th assertion it hens was “President of the ruled Stales far the time between the end of Gi mi's n m and Haves' ration So if vou aie one of those who t'eiieve that David R Atchison of Missouri was “Piesident for a dav vou should accord the same honor to Thomas White Ferry of M ichtgan Again it may be said that the man thus honoied needs no such dubious distinction to make him memorable For Ferry like Atchison had a distinguished caHe was born m Mackinac reer Mich June 1826 tho son of a Presbyterian minister who had established a mission to the In- rrV? RUTHERFORD B- HAYES the island of The father later moved to Grand Haven Mich extensive where he acquired and enholdings of timberland gaged in the lumber business Young Ferry grew up under frontier conditions in that region with little opportunity for securFor a time he ing an education was a clerk in a store in Elgin III then returned to Grand Haven to work for his father and brothers in the lumber business Showing an aptitude for politics he was elected a member of the board of supervisors and county clerk of Ottawa county on the Whig ticket when he was only 21 years old Two years later he was sent to the state legislature as a Republican and in 1856 to the state Four years later he was senate son” for Michigan’s "favorite the nomination as vice president and running mate with Abraham Lincoln but he lost out to Iianni-vWhen his Hamlin of Maine term in the state senate ended he returned to the lumber business although for eight years he was a member of the Republican state central committee A Lincoln Escort In 1863 Ferry was appointed his state on the to represent board of managers of the Nation- al Soldiers’ cemetery at Gettysburg and the following year he He was elected to congress served as a member of the congressional committee which accompanied the body of the mar111 tyred Lincoln to Springfield for burial and in 1866 he was a delegate to the loyalist convention in Philadelphia where he further increased his reputation by ' his able speeches Elected to congress three times he was later as a representative advanced to the senate where he served two terms During Ferry’s service in the senate he was chosen president death pro tempore and after the Wilson was of Vice President which “acting vice president” as previously stated led to the claim that he was "President for a day” between the administraHe tions of Grant and Hayes to was a candidate for the senate In 1882 but his efforts not resulted term third a to win In his defeat but also in dis-- only stef lo“his lumUrtusbese hich finally was placed in the hands of a trustee ' After this double disappointment Ferry went abroad and In travel He spent three years his business operations faded to re-““"upon his return but He cover his former prosperity with an — novef' married and lived aunt until his death In Gran 14 1856 Haven on October dians on Even though authorities on constitutional history will not allow David Rice Atchison and Thotnas of White Ferry the distinction being "Presidents for a day" they probably will admit that there was another man who has a right to that title IF the claim is made with certain reservations His name was Samuel Johnston and he came from North Caro- hna “Never heard of him!" you exclaim Probably not but the fact remains that he was an American President for just one day July 9 1781— but let it be added immehe diately was “President of the United States in Congress Assembled” or "President of the Continental Congress Under the Articles of Confederation” And that is very different from “President of the United States of America” The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental congress on November 15 1777 They did little more than put into definite written form the principles on which the new nation brought into being by the Declaration of Independence had theretofore been conducted But at least they were a start toward a framework of government Two days later these articles were sent to the various states with a plea for their speedy adoption Some of the states assented to this readily enough some ratified the articles with certain while others led by reservations held back until their Maryland views in regard to disposing of western lands should be agreed to Finally on March 1781 the Maryland delegates to congress John Hanson and Daniel Carroll on the placed their signatures document At this time Samuel Hunting-toof Connecticut was President of the Continental congress having been chosen to that office on There was September 28 1779 no new election of a President when the articles were finally ratified on March and on July 6 President Huntington gave notice to his colleagues that the state of his health would no longer permit him to serve in that office Declined the Honor So on July 6 congress chose as his successor Samuel Johnston of North Carolina Evidently Johnston didn’t care for the honor for on the following day he offered his resignation offering "such reasons as were satisfactory" according to the contemporary record and his resignation was accepted Thus he became the “President for a day" of the Continental congress and in accordance with the manner in which such officers signed documents (although there is no record that he signed one) was "President of the United States in Congress Assembled” On July 10 the day Johnston Thomas McKean of resigned Delaware was chosen President of con- gress Still Cot breaks Y oic - tt- Stars Ily Virginia Vnlo Garden Advice Rock — C FLECTION of flowers and thelf O location in the garden cam make or bleak sour rock gardenJ REMEMBER to“June Moon”? return to the screen probably as “Lover Come Back to Me” with Nel- son Eddy as its star and por- haps with Milru Korjus ap- This is pearing opposite bun just one of the old pictures that will bob up before long “Morocco’’ in new versions for instance the first pictuie that Marlene Dietrich made in this country with liaty Cooper as her leading man on seedl Theiefuie descriptions pai kets must be read carefully hen seeds aie bought and thm plan of the lock garden must bW cucf idly ssoiked out for instanc CToepmg plants should he allowed to make carpet of color m Ur larger soil pocket Erect plants may be used in flat spai es Trailing plants should b allowed to dioop over the face of rocks or they niav he placed the top of the bank or wall tufted smaller In eicsues plants with rosettes of foliage and Most of us think that it was also sluu t flower stalks me smtabl her host one There may be n new garden or bedding plant “Show Boat” In fact most of sour Otdmuy should be eliminated from old favorites will he back for Hollyfor the rock garden it i is safe and wood brushing playing advised by Gilbeit Bentley flower off many of the scripts that hi ought expert Ttue rock garden plants grow Use only less than 10 inches tall annuals and perennials that grow among rocks in theirl native haunts— those that belong by nature among stones and until 1781 Hanson was elected for a definite term of - (jardeners Courting Our Neighbors served John Hanson was elected as his successor on November 9 TIPS K QDllSt liru$hin$ Off Old Scripts one year and served from 8 November 1781 to No-vember 4 1782 Because of this fact and because it is said that the Articles of Confederation of the "the first Constitution United States" did not come into effect until his election the claim has been made Jthst J ohn Han son rather than George Washington should be regarded as the "first President of the United ""' States” - This theory was pretty effectively demolished during the Washington bicentennial celebration in 1932 when the Carnegie 'Institution'of Washington Issued an article by Dr Edmund C Burnett of the institution7 division of historical research which bore jthe title of "Who Was the First President of the United States?” all the eviAfter considering dence In regard to Hanson’s right to be considered the first President Doctor Burnett says Is conclusive "The evidence that no president of the Continental congress by whatever name it may be designated whether 'the congress as It first called itself or 'the United States in congress assembled' ss it came later to be called was ever President of the United States “And this is true for this best of reasons among others because no such office is President of the United States existed until it was created by the federal constitution framed in 1787 and adopted In 1788 "There is therefore only one rational conclusion that can be reached and that Is that George Washington was the first President of the United States” HOW TO RELIEVE iv v 4s hvV ft ' ' ' It Simply to sLix Thcss Follow tho Eiso Pain Sore Throat Easy Dlrectlcss and and Discomfort Accompanying Colds MIUA KORJUS the public to the box office once upon a time Given different directors stars and sets they’ll piactically be new pictures When you see “Captain Fury” (with Brian Aherne Victor Mclag-leand June Lang) you will see special dances that are authentic of the hectic period of American colonization in which the story is laid You will recognize Hetty Blythe as the wife of a colonial secretary she is one of the stars of the silent screen who still likes to appear before a camera occasionally There’ll be old fashioned dances in “Wutherine Heights” too The dance director who’s responsible for them is Jack Crosby who once was a cowboy and then was a railroad fireman — "Dancing Daughters” made a star of Joan Crawford and may do the same for Virginia Grey Metro Is going to give her a chance at it t least And since the original version appeared In 1928 a new screen audience haa grown np who won’t feel homesick for Join when they see the 1939 one — — The European market for films may be shot to pieces but the one is more important than ever Movita the Mexican actress who was last seen in "Rose of the Rio Grande" will have the same sort of role in "The Girl From Rio” and will sing songs in both English and Spanish RKO is whipping up "The Girl From Mexico” with Lupe Velez as the Star No doubt ail the other companies will blossom out with pictures intended to please our good neighbors in South America before the year is over — — Kay Francis will appear on the air in full length play for the first time in March She has made few broadcasts - in the- - past - but may turn to radio more frequently if she stlcks'loher' decision “to" turn "her back on the movies —' Many a radio star can thank — lucky break for the boost that brought success Lanny Ross is one of them Tea years ago he wanted to join NBC’s legal staff Thej told him they were looking for lie auditioned singers not lawyers as Jlnrer and to his amazement was engaged He’s never returned to the law Gabriel lleatter leaped into na tional prominence as comments tor when he handled tho Hauptmann trial although he’d been doing an excellent job long before that Pau Whiteman just happened to hear Joan Edwards singing one day in music publisher’s office and engaged her to sing with his band Mark Warnow was a violinist in an orchestra that accompanied Morton One day the leader was Downey iiirand Wsrnow substituted for him with the result that Downey lnsistec that he conduct all his broadcasts from tha time on ’ ODDS AM) fM)SThii y trr carnival ( Dartmouth collega wit' tom money j Mi a WaUct ffmngrr tending a erne of technician! to recort of It for background material for £hnly Sanv “Winter CarnituT url ColJuyn kilt me I large ceil of hi fjayert in "Thirteen CSTlying" which will be be ted an the recent ernth of the llriiith flying bout “Cavalier Union Wfiicrn kpnpr 1 To uto pain and discomfort and raduca favor tika 2 Bayar Tsblsts— drink a gill of watar Rapist la 2 hours 2 If throat is raw tram cold crush and 3 Baysr dissolvs Tablets In ’s glass of water gargle THE SIMPLE WAY pictured above often brings amazingly fast relief from discomfort and sore throat accompanying colds Try it Then — see tour doctor He probably wilt tell you to continue with the llayer Aspirin because it acts so fast to relieve discomforts of a cold And to reduce fever This simple wav backed by I scientific use o?strong medicines filanted thecold toms Perhaps sj the easiest most effective way yet discovered But make sure you get enuine BAYER ipirin dus 15to UTAltXTt a rtux dozen as An Unworthy You love nothing when love an ingrate— Plautus yov AT LAST! 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