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Show Ir is reported that the attorney general at Washington is rans-u-kiu hii law-books to ascertain if the two postmasters who wero ambiticus to be ' presidential electors cannot be counted count-ed in tbe electoral colleges of Ortgon and Vermont, or, failing in that possibility, pos-sibility, if their cases can not bt-treated bt-treated as vacancies and their seat filled under the laws of those states. It is now held by some legal authorities authori-ties that the ineligibility of one elector elec-tor would simply throw ;.im out oi the canvass, but that Lis opponent 1 could not thereby take tbe ee-it, the decisions being generally to this effect, but there is do la;k of precedents, prece-dents, we believe, in favor of seating ( the candidate receiving the next high-eat high-eat vote in cage of the ineligibility of the majority candidate. However. , there is time enough to settle this : queatioo, which is one- for Uwyerr , and judges and the authorities of the j states which have elected postmasters I as presidential electora. |