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Show jOTTRESlDENT-ELEa" ! A T A FT I STSffl&SvSSS I vltTBfl fi F FIR PI 1 A P VI oopyrieirt, 1909, I 1 I W I 1 1 1 H "II 1 141 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES : : : LPKUAKY Mnkroti-w ( Will V-P ml I 1 JOHN ELERETH WATKINS M I" Tnft the other day. surprised 'M fbritli the protest thai. he was SS ft ho President-elect. The lace technically akiue. the dec. Ufcg f Tnft and Sherman is y no over but tlio shou inc. a V be votVrs chose the e lbctjrs on r A Mnnriav iii November, and tne ri?"UdVr Piesid,nt and vice 8 J? not li hei- respective states on l ?onl Monday iu January, true C f Bui tw.ee-dnuo bal- V-5 'hns not vet "iffiod to coii.plcto-ll coii.plcto-ll -I Toft and Hiennan. 3 :,Dcinoerats must yet bo given a 6 to fonnallv contest tho J l' -r tf tvictorv of November, while the Vl vote must vet bo counted bv iW.-1- S:..im and Deiiiiienilie tellers, and Vt1,?"' '!.' finally ratiJio.l in the m So of th- national senate and tof lepresf ntatives mi t lie second imlriv' ot' February. Sri'.' vMr was put on Mie en-arjft' en-arjft' bf 1U- ship of state alter t if 6S breach"! mi the counting or he fra' votes for Haves and 'Uldeu Uni? c iiieumrnhlo electoral commihSiuu 7 y0 rtat was the public dis M Action with the old law under Jfa f'thai eom.t was made hat coii-kit coii-kit about to iviuody that sjn mot , uit managed to do by 1SS, after and hitler wrangle. Byuja-r1 Byuja-r1 Harrison was tin- first president & dT ihis new procedure. F8! ekcugers Arriving Prom States. -I Ej" PresMeiit Fairbanks is now re- I j official messengers bearing ttitfl HMivcloixs. containing certificates 5 ff forth the electoral votes of the i'Ula One nics:-cngcr is :;en( by eaeli 7 s tfroup of electors, and ho is gen-JM gen-JM one of the electors chosen lor 1 Srnuso and paid a handsome fee V is. trouble, alto his traveling -' ex-( ex-( g A duplicate of the certificate i'hc bears has been sent by mail HUM jy to the vie president, as a prc-.fv prc-.fv innrv measure. If there lias been 9 onnal contest over the choice ot sin?i is In anv state, a certificate show-6w show-6w this contest has been settled 00S ;bo forwardel bv the sovernor, P ,ii 'the Feal of his srate, to Sc.-re.tarv , flte l?oot. Secretary Ixoot must Mm publish the certificate, in .some -? ic newspaper'' and send copies or certificate lo the two houses ot ar-' iis'afe in his room at the eapitol ccpri1?nl ,,!IS li:ul kicked up the T.Jt envelopes bearing the certificates . ?? i electoral votes, "handed him by iocinl messenjrers from the states; Hie dispatches received by mail, have here been locked away with-, with-, fabir seals beintr broken or their ' I its examined. ""T TO in the carpenter shop ot the llan c..pert cabiiiot-malcer lias just i pled two hniidsoiiic boxes made, of bun flcst mabopany. In these tbe littih '.envelopes bearinc the certificates k locked just prior to the formal ' lot the votes. 5 iltol's Greatest Parade Evcut. . . Tre will be more fuss and feath-.' feath-.' nd parade incidental lo this offi-i, offi-i, omit on the second Wednesday of 'nrv tan 'rt 'li'vised for auy other i-Jm f"nv reeularly held at the e:iphol. mug pnnto and house-will convene as "M tuoon. in their respective wins IU1II :t 1 o'clock a nn'ssentrer will :ip-infij :ip-infij iu the senatfi and announce that ; I 0URO is ready to receive, it. A firocession, headed by Vice Presi-iFairhanks. Presi-iFairhanks. will immediately bo id, the senators falling in lino two "n' ifo. The ico president's escort Sty ousist of. first, a squad of special il policemen, then the scrireant-at- rr :!and after him the secretary of bate, walking with the vice pres-" pres-" Just bohind the vice president tfiMi :omo Alonzo Stewart, assistant TL eepor of the senate, bearing, in iiaiid one of the mahogany cases. flK jjr (ho electoral votes and held by - idle iu the top. 3ehind Mr. Stew-1 Stew-1 ill then proceed the double file of j brs. is "procession will traverse the long N of marble floor separating the Wirings of the eapitol and crowds '.'Kople "will bo lined up in statuary -Buid the rotunda to view the line ttineuished men as it passes. This MHVO'tbe only part of the- ceremony, Krwej. which the general public may .fe. for the galleries of tho house A at occasion will be entirely re-I re-I C065 f e president, tho .'jyiatic corps and members of con-2itirho con-2itirho will bo admitted by card. " locratB Occupy "Honor Side." ver tho procession starts tho door-JT'.fc' door-JT'.fc' of the house of representatives r -lyflter that great chambor by the y .wide and will formally announce 1 Beaker Cannon tho arrival of the rIMp Ninety-two members will then Wl tBv e E(lata in tho front rows of Iicrauc Bido ot tne nouso to n for tho senate, tho displaced itives finding other scats ut )emocrats will not bo unseated ' Ecpulilujan victory in to bo s some might' suppose, but be-Democratic be-Democratic side of the houso, leaker's right, is tho "honor that chambor and demands senate tho higher body bo era when tho two houses are ession. lse will riso and remain stand-g stand-g the entrance of the -proccs-tbe senate. Speaker Cannon bo on his feet to receive Vice Fairbanks aa the latter ie daia beneath tho largo silken 3 speaker will yield his chair fl to tho vice president and her seat to his left. President's Ohief Fling, fill bo tho most ceremonious on which tho vice president been in the limelight since; nn. Congress many vears ago clearly as to who sliould pre-'.its pre-'.its .ioint sessions, tho fram-ins fram-ins statnto having provided such a complication as oc-- oc-- a. joint scbh'ioii of the Colo-slaturc, Colo-slaturc, four vours ago, when dispute a3 to who was the officer tho lieutenant govor-Bpeaker govor-Bpeaker proceeded to overrule er, each ondeavoring to out-ie out-ie othor with his gavel. Tt i added, however, that in the o some, legislative author-i author-i assemblage of congress for al count oil tlio electoral voto .ioint session in tho truo t a mooting of the two bodies, , m the garno hall, each main-its main-its own organization for tho of witnessing tho count, iment at Cleveland Count. womcb containing ih0 bal-bo bal-bo placed upon the desk bo-mco bo-mco . prcMflent and spoakor, the Ztik fcCrUnm.b0X, U this stage of f eetorui VwtQ r Cleveland and. i Stevenson, tho absent-mindedness of Vico President Morton precipitated no t little mcrrimeut. le estended his hand to tako up the keys, but was surprised to find that they were not iu their placo besido the bores. He raised tho papers on his dcslc and peerod beneath them, but vainly, and while tho proceedings pro-ceedings lagged lie grew more and moro visibly nervous. Speaker Crisp, sealed beside him, joined in the search, look-ing look-ing under various articles, including tho inkstand. The cleric and his assistants as-sistants then took a hand, and soon thoy wore augmeuted by other attaches searching on, about aud under tho desk, tho vice president becoming moro' and moro nervous every minute. The boxes were tried, but their lids refused re-fused to yield, and it begau lo look as though G rover Cleveland could got into oflico only by aid of a Jimmy. The four hundred and more legislators upon the floor, appreciating the humor of tne (tltnculty. commenced to laugh when tho vice president began to fumble fum-ble in his pockets, impatiently searching search-ing first thoe of his trousers, then those of his coat, even going down into the very depths of the cavernous recesses re-cesses of his coat tails. Finally, when ho ran his fingers into his waistcoat pocket and. with a sigh of relief, brought forth tho missing keys, senators sen-ators and representatives alike burst forth in a hearty round of annlause. Vice President Fairbanks wilt produce pro-duce from within tho boxes forty-si'x large, brown envelopes, each having the name of a separate state. After laying these upon his desk he. will rise, gavel in hand, and address tho assemblage assem-blage in these words: "This being the day and tho hour i appointed for opening the certificates ; and counting the votes of electors for president aud vice president tho sen- ate nnd house of representatives havo I 1 " " T met togothcr, pursunnt to . tho constitution consti-tution and laws of the United States. Tho vice president will then take up tho packages in their alphabetical or-dor. or-dor. lie will first break the seal on tho envelopo from Alabama and hand the certificate within to four tellers seated at the desk below linn, two of whom a Democrat and a Kopublican will have been previously solectcd bv each houso. The Republican teller up-pointed up-pointed bv the senate will read aloud tho full text of the certificate of tho Alabama electors. The tellers having satisfied themselves that all of tho certificates are iu proper form, will omit reading tho others in full. Tak-nig Tak-nig the states in alphabetical order, they will simply announce the votes o each, and tho vice president will ask if thero are any objections to tho statu-monts statu-monts given, Split Voto of One State. Tho onlv Kpiif. vote announced will be that of Maryland, found to havo cast six electoral ballots for Brvau LH and two for Tnft. This split in tho ii Maryland voto is due to thoP failure of gnorant voters to understand t o i. t w t0 baU0t, US,C(I on option dav when thoy marked the head of the "list of LH electors rather than a sim ?r 1,,aco H indicated for a straight vote! A J S H lar error four years ,nKo gavo the Den . iH of the Maryland electors, the latter being Charles J. Bonaparte, tho pro" H h ii i1'10 'Jtes ot 1,10 otIlr states ut :,,,1bflst'M one way or tho other, although thero is no law, save the un-written un-written law of party loyalty, prevent-ing prevent-ing any Kopublican elector from chang-ing chang-ing his mind and voting for Bryan or ""-Y, democratic elector from voting for" Elector Voted Against His Party. Once in our history this has occurred, an elector failing to vote for tho notni-nee notni-nee of Ins party. This was in tho dec-tion dec-tion of 1S20, when .In men Monroe re-ccived re-ccived all tho electoral votes but one, this solitary ballot being cast against: him by a Now Hampshire elector of his own party who had conscientious IH scruples against any man's receiving so great an honor as the unanimous vole of Uiq states. Clinching the Victory. t Tho vo(cs of all, of the statc3 h.iv-' ing been added bv t.ho tellers. Vico President Fairbanks will formally an-nounco an-nounco the rosult-,'521 for Tnft and "Slier-man, "Slier-man, 162 for Bryan and Jveru. Thero being no contest. Mr. Fairbanks will make the formal declaration of the elec-tion elec-tion of Taft ami Sherman in theso words, -which will clinch the victory for the Bepiiblicans. "This announcement of the stato of the vote by the president of the senafo IH il.liy Iaw a sufficient declaration that William II. Taft. of the stale of Ohio is elected president of -the United States, and that James S. Sherman of tho state of New York is elected ico president of the Unitod Slates, each for the term beginning March -4, lflUl, and will be entered, together with a list of tho votes, on the journals of tho senate and of the house of repre-sentatives." repre-sentatives." Vice President Fairbanks will then accentuate the announcement bv a fl whack of his gavel, the falleries' will applaud aud the senate will march back lo its chamber. Five minutes later each house will have settled down ag.-'in. to its routine of business, the cntiro ceremony having consumed about au hour and twenty minutes. Mr. Fair-banks Fair-banks will receive the twJ handsomo 'niahogaii3' boxes as souvenirs of tho ceremony, and if the precedent of four years ago is followed he will pncnt IH one of them to Mr. Tafi. JM In Caso of a Contest. Should there be contest of thin year's count, ii would have to cenno about in this wav: Upon :he vice res-ident's res-ident's calling for objections, senators and representatives can present iheni, but thov must, be made in writing and signed bv at least one senator and oun representative. Such objections could properly arise onlv where there was such a question as which of two state au-thorities au-thorities can propertly determine what lectors havo been chosen. No regularly given electoral vole from tiny stato whore the electors have been "lawfully certified to, and where only one return has been received, can bo questioned. IH Tho objections being received, the two houses would separate, the senato re-turning re-turning to its own chamber. The ma-jority ma-jority of one house nlono would not bo sufficient lo reject tho returns from any state, but both houses would havo to vote the same way, aud they would havo to do this within five days after tho first meeting of the two houses, or no recess would thereafter be hllowod until the matter was settled. Thero is no prospect, however, of such tactics be-ing be-ing resorted to except iu a caso whero the electoral vote was very close aud where the parl3 seeking a reversal of the indicated voto had a majority in both houses. jH Such a contest would not, therefore, have to be settled by an electoral com- jH mission such as that which straight- JH ened out the Uayes-Tilden tangle fol" IH lowing tho election of 1S76. So unccr-tain unccr-tain was the result of that eloction that IH t Ii rtn rrli f fn t tnnn in ntinrrrncc i'nrnci aivi e HflflflflH great trouble over the approaching IH count of the electoral votes by tha president of tho senate, got to work IH early in the winter nnd passed a law IH that in enso thoro should be more than one return from any stato it3s voto should bo decided by a commission oJ! fifteen lnoinber?. Each houso should elect fivo members by oral vote, and with these should sit four justices of tho supremo court, who wcro to select a fifth 'justice to sit with them, nnd tho senior justice sclectod was to pre side over the cntiro commission. Famous Commission. Such a committee of physicians waa forthwith appointed to sit upon the body of Til do n and determine wholhor he was politically dead or alive, and thus we havo the famous "electoral cqniinission. " It consisted of eight Be-publicans Be-publicans and seven Democrats, tho fifth justice chosen by tho four ap-pointed ap-pointed justices making tho odd Bo-publicnn." Bo-publicnn." It mot on February . 3S77. and deliberated upon tho legality of disputed returns for a mouth, the joint session of congress not meeting until IH March 2 lo witness the canvass o IH tho electoral voto by the president of IH the senate, who. on the basis of tho IH findings of the commission, announced tho election of Hayes and Wheeler. It was the country's widespread dissat- IH isfaction over this arrnngemcnt which H caused tho passage of a law providing H that tho state themselves should deter- PH mine contests of their electoral votes, 1 but allowing that un appeal may bo taken to congress in caso of such com- H plications as would warraut tho above IH mentioned objections of members dur- jH ing tho next official count. 1 One contingency, however, would pro- jH vent tho vice president's putting such finishing touches on the election us he will ndd next month. This would bo tho discovery that none of those voted for by the electors had received a ma-jority ma-jority of all tho votes cast, aud it would nccessitato the vice president's throw-ing throw-ing tho election into the house of rep- H resontatives. But one presideul John fH Quincy Adams has been thus elected jl S lar-JOHN FLFBET1I WAT.KINS. tl |