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Show A correspondent of the Washington Washing-ton Union has gone b.ck to the dc- . bates in the constitutional convention, . showing that the power now claimed by the extreme radical?, that the presiding pre-siding otiicer of the senate is vested with power to count the electoral vote rind declare the election of the president, presi-dent, was proposed in the convention, voted down and denounced as auti-popular auti-popular and aristocratic, which would enable combinations between the president and the senate against the representatives - ol the people to defeat .theif will. Thus every step back into the history of the past shows that the republican theory, giving the president of the senate this vast power of deciding a presidential result, is without foundation founda-tion and opposed, not only to the constitution con-stitution of the United States, hut was expressly denounced by its founders. |