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Show A lOMt'LIUUIIW rossinii- A ojrniiondent of thu Iioulsvlllo i'utirkr Juuriuil raises a very Important Import-ant iuiitlon In couiHctlun with the election of rresldeiit and Vice President Presi-dent lu case the choice cf thu former were to go Into the llouie of llepre-tiututlvii llepre-tiututlvii aud of thu latttr Into thu Hvuato. Thu contingency which has been tuggssted I y many, of such a tblngtAklugplaconttho result of the (lending national contest, makes lira ulject a very intonstlug one. It bo-lug bo-lug conccJed now that the l'eoplo't 1 arty will liavont least a t rinkllug of otct lu thu electoral collide, that tome of Michigan's voto will bu taken from tho Republicans and given to Hie Democrats and Hut other changis ma) occur iu the ?ortliwcst,lt btglus to ns-tumnthuhase ns-tumnthuhase of iMlblllty that tho llrst named )iurty may hold the bal-lULe bal-lULe of ower and dictate who the uext rrctllent and Vice l'rrsldent ahall to, or throw thu election Into Coigicia It Is, however, uuly possible, possi-ble, the robabllitles ui thluga stand now not iiclug at all Inclined Hut way, riio oorrosKiudent taja ' du) jmjki tin electoral collige makis no choice and thu eltutlon of Vlco l'rtsldeut Is thrown Into tho (Senate, can u puitou hschotenl) that bod) from the aamu -tato M.lhu perrou chonen by thu llouiuof lttpritentntlvesto bo I'risl- dml?" Ihls Is a joint that has lecullar Intermt at this time, lecaiMu If thu uliclloii should go to Cougress It wojU meau the choice of n Democrat for rritldcut and a ltepubllciu for Vhe-1'retllint, Mr. Cleveland would nf luunu be the former, but as Mr Held belongs to thu tame state, could ho bo legally i hoieii? Thu puier of w hlch thu quNtlou Is iked hjb, substantially, that Hie House of llrprteintntlves chooses tin ('resident from the perrons "having the highest nimibirs, not excluding litre, oi the list of HlOM) otud for as I'retldenV'uulttietieuatechooaua the lce-1'reildent from the two highest tames of those vctad for at Vice- 'nslleut. That would setm to llow thu Heuutu lu ohooie a Vice I'rcildent from tho saiuo state ns ho 1'reildsnl. but thu llrit clausu ol Die MI Amendment to the otiidl-lutlou otiidl-lutlou eiys Hut the President and Vice I'resldent shall nut le from the stmo state an 1 the last clause ay that a person comtltutlonally luilliible to the ofll co of President shall not t eligible eligi-ble to that of Vlcu I'lrsllent The Intention In-tention clearly was thtt the two men should m In cllU.ru of the same state, aal It Is possible that the Hu-preme Hu-preme t'ourt of the ITiilUd Htutcs woill J restrict the Hcnate's eholct , and coiujkiI It to select a Vlco I'reildent Ifom another slits llnti the l'Maldent It will bo 'bierved, however, an I I'll I the point which Hie liiurkr-Juurnnl liiurkr-Juurnnl falls to nuko ultogether, tha. tin re Is no Inhibition exit) I tiwn thu elucton, that the two ufllosrs Vtli-J for mint not llvo In the tamo sta'o as thcmielves, for Inilacri, If the ltepubllciu tlecloral thket should In tuccrssfiil In Indlaua, tho electors uould and voulJ vote for Harrison for I'rtaldent but they woul I not I c allowed to vote for a Vlco IVcsl lent from that state, aud )f the Democrats carry .New Vorkthe (.lectors would volo for Cleveland but would have to vote for some one lu tome other stale for the second place, And then the ulector,having compiled with the law, would have nothing further to do with thu matter. If their vote failed to elect tho President and Vlco I'reildent nud thu election went to CongroM, under tho teller of the Constitution thu House uiuld elect Cleveland and thoHonato Hold, for It only irohlblts the efecfort from voting in that wur, which they hava not done. Wo agree with our loulivlllu coteinporary that Its ojiiutrucilon of the uieaulng of the fraruera of tho part uf thu Constitution iu iiucsllon Is un-doultedly un-doultedly the right uuo-tlnt they mtant to have the two officers couiu from two dlllerent states and so far this has been djne, but It does not say that, and herein lies the o purtuulty of a strlot rnukttucttouUl to makelrotib'e. The dlipoaltlon to observe ob-serve the meiulug uf a ttalutci or merely Its naked provisions, 14 often governed by tho polut B lu which Is moil likely to be beneflcUl to the arson ar-son Interested, lut when it la a matter allecllug the jicople of thu nation In kcneral, a great ,nlltlcil party Incidentally Inci-dentally an I a com icuous cltlien tur-tlcularly, tur-tlcularly, doubtlers the Hupeuie CVun uf the United Htulcr, sUllug at a court uf equity, will bo called upon to either alllrui tho literal construction of thu Constitution nr fill up tho gap which thu frumers male regarding what the) designed totay. |
