Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1925, Page 47

YOU AND UNCLE SAM Series of Educational Articles Telling How Federal Govern- ment Is Organized and How [t Functions—Written Expressly for School Children. No. 28—Our Electoral College. BY WILL P. »vember 5 ted . but =3 d it will and House, in | [ November the t their bal ors, who met State capitols last |4 d the popular vote of their State and In accordance with the Constitution cast their ballots for President and ve f the ;18 In an appropriation bill just pa by Congr item of $14, e of Ohi lled at- tention of the House to the fact that | this was merely carrying out a cus- tom fnstituted in 1792, when the Post | 1 rtment had Jjust been when the certific had to be brought by h or horsebac He argued ¢ the United States mails fo messengers, and might well be saved. Framers' Original Plan. ernment ting their n Arti- ragraph 2, that State shall appoint in such as the Legislature thereof may number of electors equal to number of Senators and ves to which the State entitled in C ; but no of trust or profit un- tates may be appoint- e could not e done and so ectoral vote in Rhode Island and ina also took no part in on because they had failed to ratify the Constitution. The electors as candidates are pledged to vote for a certaln person for President and another person for Vice President, and to violate such pledges would constitute political n. So that the electoral vote e cast for a dead man Greeley was atic party in the college candi- s for|e of | S as 1800 when there was a tie een Jefferson and Burr, each re- ceiving 73 votes, while Adams re- ceived 65. Jefferson was finally elect- ed In the House on the thirty- KENNEDY. ballot _as President nd . Burr as Vice President. An amendment, Article XII, was prompt- Iy ratif a result of that demon- tration of the unwisdom of voting or Presiden the same ballo could vo e President separately sixth _ ballot and Vice Disposition of Certificates. o law provides that after the January, and the certificates led up and certified, tire elec- all dispose of these certificates ows: One certificate to be sent to the seat of Government by a mes- senger, a second to be mailed and a *|third certificate to be deposited with the judge of the district in which the electors are assembled. of the United to the district tody one certificate > had been also been nies to the judge in wh f the vote fi 1. Certifiicates hav < com e Senate. ago the entire proceed- the electoral votes sion of Congress con- less than 40 minutes. ave been elected by a y of the electoral votes, but by only a plurality of the popular ote—in 1899 James K. Polk fell short f a majority of the popular vote by 119. In New York his plurality ay was 5,106. Thus a change would have given the vote to Clay, who > been elected by a stes in the electoral THE EVENING have been introduced In Congress seeking to change the present elec- toral system. (Copyright, 1925, by Will P. Kennedy.) DAVIS NAMED DIRECTOR. Presidential Candidate to Serve New York Bank. / YORK, January 16.~John W. Davis, Democratic candidate for President in the last election, yes- terday was elected a director of the National Bank of Commerce, Indl- cating a return to his former activi- ties in the financlal district. The announcement of Mr. Davis' connection with the bank revived re- ports in Wall street that he planned to resume the various directorships he relinquished prior to entering the presidential campalgn, notably his place on the board of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. 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