| Show is SS fra N 4 NIN N IN 4 NI N I A 41 ss V towy 6 PA woj CO WD av andel IF ARE deadlocked 4 then 9 by JOHA JOH DICKINSON SHERMAN arta 11 managers are promising political excitement galore this fall they liae a bit ter presidential campaign a tremendous kreuk adous vote a cool idge and dawes ava blanhe lam he a dahs davis and bran an Land landslide silde and a I 1 afoa letie lette and all wheeler heeler upheaval but suppose there lat any ata lanche or any landslide and the upheaval uthemes up heaves just enough to prevent a choice in the electoral college and throw the election into congress then there will be something exciting for it Is then quite within the IDS pos that both the bouse house and the senate should ie te ili ill oer the election and that for the first time since april 30 1789 there should be no I 1 resident res dent eitts or vice nice president elect to take the oath of office march 4 1925 25 this li Is not a il screed but a puzzle story here are the facts puzzle the thing out in your own oan way there are vote in the electoral college and are necessary for or a jhoice suppose for the sake of ar aument that Lal cillette carries at least five states with ith 39 30 electoral votes and that the remaining votes are so evenly event divided bet between aaen cool idge and davis that neither has am then under the constitution the election of a president Pred dent goes to the house and the election of a vice president goes to the senate that Is the suppositional sit alt ional ease in a nutshell nut thell anil and politics being fur far from an exact eel ence there Is nothing unreasonable about it Larol lettes opponents in both of the major parties concede him the chance of carrl ng wisconsin 13 minnesota 12 north dakota 5 3 south dakota ft 1 and montana 4 total 3 39 electoral notes ige Is iener enen my lly conceded 15 states with ith 14 electoral el etoral votes davis Is generally conceded the solid south ut of 12 states with 13 electoral vote it la lq more mor or less assumed that daus dallis will ill carry blest cst virginia 8 and that bryan will carry abraska eb S total the result in the remaining 14 states with their electoral otes notes include ing the big ones like illinois 29 J indiana 15 missouri 18 new york 45 and ohio jl 20 ls on the knees of the gods if it lafollette pots enough electoral votee votes to blok election in the electoral collet college the house will proceed to bal lot for president Pres dent february 11 1925 lr k the twelfth amendment to the constitution provides ldes that each state shall have one vote a if majority of the delegation determining that vote A quorum consists or of a member or mem bera bers from two thirds of the states a majority of all the states 25 L necessary for a choice the house Is so made that a deadlock Is not dot at all improbable there are 23 republican delegations gat ions and 20 democratic five dele lele gation those of maryland montina montana nebraska new ew hampshire and jersey are evenly divided and there robar x LA ro tal VT E RIF maxa fore presumably unable to note ote wisconsin nominally one of the 23 republican states would presumably vote for I 1 lafollette so to win cool idge would bae haie to get three of the deadlocked states and davis would hae hine to get all of the five fite incidentally here la Is evidence that the lafollette managers have long been preparing for this situation in june the house settled a seat contest between beti een two claimants from new york bloom democrat and chand ler republican Republic am the contest committee had found for chandler the lafollette group voted with the democrats to seat bloom alby hyt because Chand chandlers lees note would rould have hare put new ew york in the coolidge column blooms 3 vote puts new ew york in the davis column let us assume that there Is a deadlock in the house and that it continues to march 4 neit next on that date the term of president coolidge expires and on that date his successor should be sworn in the house having failed of election that successor be the vice president elected since february 11 by the senate but suppose the senate has been unable to elect a vice president since february 11 let us take a look at the conditions in the upper house in respect to this election the senate under the constitution Is restricted to voting for the two candidates til dates receiving the largest and next largest iota ote in the electoral college that would eliminate either daues or bran or wheeler take your choice and work out the answer in your own way A quorum for the purpose of this election consists of two thirds 64 of the whole number of senators 00 and a majority 49 of the whole number Is necessary for a choice now bow in irk the pre present ant senate there are 51 nominal republicans 43 democrats and two fanner farmer Lat sprites and johnson of minnesota lette himself ts Is one of fesq nominal republicans brook brookhart bart of iowa and frailer frazier and ladd of north dakota are listed as republicans so are sev eral other senators who have been tagged by the regular regulars as radical and Insurgent nV 1 it Is therefore evident that lafollette with very little help would bold hold the balance of power in the election of vice president by the senate keeping in mind that this ia oi pu pui Z tie gle article and not a political creed meed let os us assume that dawe dawes has eliminated by the vote of the electo ml college uw how would lafollette hia his foli following lowing maneuver to bring the election of wheeler over bryan now suppose bryan had been allm by the electoral college and lafollette job wa was to elect ever ehni tha t ow wilmer S yi 10 thol kimom 1 and i the th vis was we bt 1 dawes 1 ook ta 1 rj A follette U 1 group P could dea Doell 06 Is ila t I 1 march P 4 that amid 7 1 his 4 follo 11 IN republics 1 11 1 o 0 1 pat or 1 apparently BP parentI elea itha either It hc em ar r i S hining o 0 ala toil 1 PM anns of ottman 41 on it pardo nii iS of 0 rrb alcin aud an admi D arnts mt could at 0 to timo time break N 2 CN deadlock tad aad i dair da f we is III ro pl fil tr III ali lit ly le E ti to 3 I 1 B alfr TON i whether hether the lafollette group V irod favor dawes or brian bryan mail je IN own guess having gone so far ar for th 0 of argument let as us keep on ul ad sume that both chambers bin lian P I 1 in deadlock from to march 4 and have failed 0 tm tw either a 11 resident or vice predad there Is therefore no ilivA president deall wear swear la in as successor to k coolidge when his tena term Is 13 no vice president to be I 1 t and automatically become presided det 1 the new house Is 13 seated to thirty senatorial seats are gre filled but with no president and no 10 president to inaugurate what hao Is the united states for the til V time since april 30 1789 without wIt botill i I 1 president or does secretary of state oa eans automatically bac awo president 11 the constitution provides tatlo that ft congress may by law provide tot fot ca case e of removal e death resign stio or inability both of the president vice president declaring what ahall do all then act as president ww 0 officer shall act accordingly disability be removed or a preddy shall be elected the succession ta proved january 19 1918 ISM SG proem the sl succession accession shall pass to the theme 0 bers of the cabinet in ill the fouw order secretaries of state T W ury and war at attorney torney general tr master general secretary ol 01 navy a in the event of secretary becoming I 1 president it would be oro 1 the full term of four years congress the power to order I 1 10 cor 0 presidential election either chamber were iwa a it deel decisive sive majority would order such an election thil Is a panic puzzle story not 1 cal cat screed but would it flot not be ina In 1 Z charles E who resided re riffe the supreme court only to be M should tor for president in 1918 1916 achieve hia his ambition would not the uell 1130 it if bild cna fate fites be aptly illustrated to 61 aw bryan ifould thus alcala three times refused 1111 more oie w ous brother brot ber william jena jennie |
