Show A TROUBLESOME POSSIBILITY The New York Sun asks s the question of who would be president if after a meeting of the electors and their election of president an and l vice president the president-elect president should die before it was time for him to take the oath of office Congress has fixed the matter in case there should he be a vacancy of both the offices of president and vice president during their term enn but there seems to be a lapse both in the constitution constitution constitution con con- and in legislation as to who would succeed to o the office of president in case the president-elect president and vice-president-elect vice were to die dio between the meeting of cf f the electors and the fourth of March l thereafter i We think in case the president elect sh should uld die lie I that the vice-president-elect vice would succeed to to the to-the the theoffice theoffice office on the fourth of March larch just as he hc would on oh the I. I fourth of April if the president should die on the third If both president elect and vice president I i elect were to die there would be a a. question Our judgment is that the president would hold over until an election could be called and a now new president elect elect- ed cd That would be the natural way war To cure the tho evil S Senator Bacon has submitted a aI I constitutional amendment the ilie burden of which is that in case of such vacancies congress ma may maj- by law provide for the case where there is no person entitled to hold the office of president declaring what shall then act as president It has been suggested suggest d that in that event the power poyer of the tile electors would remain until the fourth of March larch after a presidential election and in case bf vacancies vacancies va Ya- va- va that the they might fill the office but that is objected oh oh- to on the ground that in that event ent the will of the states would not be carried out as ns in case Mr 1 Taft were to die before the fourth of March arch Mr 1 Bryan would be he elected Outside of that it wOl would d be a dangerous precedent to establish because it would be such a temptation for strong partisans to assassinate the p president Congress is the lawmaking lawmaking law- law making malting power of the count country and it is wise to have a constitutional provision leaving it to congress to designate designate designate des des- ignate who in ch such an all event will be president until there could be he an election called and the people de dc- de- de ei chic cide e. e |