| Show ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 0 ON N auy july loth ambill abill passed congress ex eluding the unorganized states from the electoral college the object of this law is it is said to define the duty of the officers counting the electo electoral ial lal vote votes s r it provides that in each of the states wh sherelda ereida erelda a sate state government has been baen ata established blushed in conformity with the acts of congress prior to the day of election acdan an election takes tako place under tinder the laws of such government that the vote of such sueh state shall be counted in the electoral college but that no apte in either elther ther of said plates wherein there is no state government organized org anizel since march I 1 1867 and aad under tinder the t e laws of con gi gress shall be received or k counted ke RL publican journals dm deem the passage e bf thid bill very timely itly timm tiff as it prescribe in advance what states stales shall shail and what shall not vote aid ad ald renders the holding of bf elections under the old laws and officers of the rebel states illegal and mid of course their thein vote votes cannot legally be DO sent to washington to th be azy counted ted they claita that as the tho constitution provi provides des deg for co of the electors tors of the several states in iki february there YU ouid I 1 oid did be matifes t impropriety in leaving this subject to be acted upon att aft at the of congress after therb there the re S suit buit U it of bf the elec elee election sha shall be known what view the democrats take of the lii pill ill we behave have not yet set learned I 1 this subject is how ree rec receiving cons consider ider lder erable attention in yesterday dispatches it was stated that president mint fint jonnson had sent congress a message re d amendments to the constitution ution he bayors the election of the president by a tt direct yote vote of the people pebyl a d would have him when elected confined to one term with altu the present race of af politicians this last suggestion ngay may be a good one if they were continue uddin d in office longer chaff ihari four years grave bave evils might grov grow and flourish alid the constitution and jaws of the tha country coul itrY b but if a ma mao mau cou could ld b be faund patriotic layal and honest who could be tru trusted sted what good could be t gained by thrusting him out of office at 1 the expiration of foun four years just when his experience in the position would enable him to fill it judiciously and with dignity why not permit him to bere bore elected as long as he should retain the confidence of his fellow citizens when the thedac chy shall come that the latter day saints will bave have to step forward as the champions of constitutional liberty and raise hie the constitution aloft out of the mire into which it will have been trampled frim trim pled pied by contend contending hig factions we hape tasee an amendment adopted removing every restriction upon the reelection of the president and permitting him the office as hodg lobigas as he shall bb dee deemed i med worthy of the confide confidence nee nde of hili hill fellow citizens brom from an article in the 8 F call we glean many of the follow following 1 ing items under the original 1 nal nai constitution before any amendments had been adopted whoever was a candidate ifor for president or vice president was first of all entitled to be specially a tt candidate for the presidency ency eucy itself the certificates of the electors of the several states were opened and counted by the president of the th e senate in the presence of the sen senate ate abd abd the house of representatives the candidate date who had bad the highest number was dee det declared lared vice president if cwb candidates I 1 dates should have an equal num berba er f votes or if no on d have a majority of the votes cast it was made s the duty of the house of representatives to elect from among the five highest in in the list I 1 one for president and the thenon thenonie ivane ivano fe for vice president in this election I 1 sach each state had bad one vote durin duning during wash forst first term Co congress tigress passed pase d an act march 1 1792 providing that electors should should ba be appointed 1 in I teach leach ach aeh state within thirty four days 4 receding preceding the firs wednesday in 1 lai lal 92 and in ivein very fourth year yean thereafter 6 that at the number of electors should be equal to to th the nuin number bei of senators aud and 1 representatives en es to which the several states should be entitled at the time th atthe electors should meet and give their votes on the first wednesday of december decem her ber that they tiley should appoint a eisch ta deliver the thy certificates of or their to the president of ibe united A states senate enate before the first day of january f I 1 next ell eil ensuing suing that ohi orf the se of february following congress should be in session to open co the votes announce the there reu suit sult aud and take actton action thereupon and that the term of four years for which the age president resl resi resident dent andvick president commence on the fourth dd day af pf march r in ma 1802 duning during jeffersons first term teim an amendment amen ament to td the constitution was vas asa proposed by congress and subsequently ad adopted by the states bychich by which persons dey definitely were to be voted for for the offices respectively of president und and vice president b by w which b h if no one should haqq hav a marcej ty otal of all ail the electoral vot votes e the house of representatives was to select a president from among the three highest candidates on the list and the senate to select a vice dent from the two highest for that office and by which a quorum of congress should consist of representatives from two thirds of the states under this amendment known as the twelfth article of the constitution both lyoth of the highest officers odthe of the republic from jeffersons time to johnsons sons have been heen chosen just before poles inauguration a law was passed january 24 1845 by which the electors of president and vice vie e president shall be appointed in each state on the tuesday after the first monday in the month of of november of the year in which they are appointed before the passage of this act the electors had been elected very irregularly so far as time was wa concerned generally on the days of state elections on the 3rd ard of november next of law the electors of president and vice president will be voted for by the citizens of the various states on the first wednesday of december the electors ejectors for tor whom the majority bority y of the citizens have apted will meet at the capitals of their respective states and cast their ballots for dent and vice president they appoint a messenger to bear the certificates of the result to washington by a law of congress this messenger receives as compensation twenty tive cents a mile for every mile of the estimated dis diA distance tance between his home and washington going and returning return ine lne prior to the arst day of january 1869 under a penalty of one thousand dollars he must deliver to the president of the united states senate the certificates and on the second wednesday in february following both branches of congress must meet tog together sether gether probably in the hall sail of the house of representatives count the them votes and declare de clarp clare through the president oc of the senate who of the aspirants have been elected to the positions for which they were amb ambitious inous idous li |
