A Non-Partisan Family {S volume xxxv. < If the Election Should be Dead-Locked? Wc'think it fitting at this time to copy the following detailed explanation of the procedure should the election of the Fresident fall to Congress, taken from the Charlotte Daily Observer: Much has been said and written about the possibility of the forthcoming election being thrown into Congress. Speculation of the possibility continues, and people are apparently becoming more and more interested 0 in the question of what would happen in the event of a deadlock, in the electoral college. Even in Charlotte we hear frequent discussion of the question. And while the course to be pursued has been often explained, at least briefly, we have seen nothing on the subject more comprehensive ami clear than the treatment of the subject by the Atlanta Journal, which act? forth <4a summary of the legal aspect- of the problem." which it says has been submitted to eminent Authorities on the Constitution and pronounced substantially correct. The Journal's summary in th- form of a set { questions and answer:. will be read with a great deal of interest by a lot of people who have b.-oor.v interested in the question: In the first place, what doc - a dead loch mean ? ? The Constitution requires that the i President must have a majority of' the electoral college to he elected.; A deadlock i- always possible with thrc-i candidates in the fit* row \Yil????* was a mm* % 7,600.1)00 lor KOOSOVei. attu i ???v. W hy wasn't the 1012 election dead lock i d. Taft. however made so poor a show ing on the basis of states carried (he captured only Utah and Vermont) that in the electoral college he had but eight votes Roosevelt had 88 votes. \\ il.-OTi had 430 and in the electoral college was an easy winner. It i > on the bash yf -t.vv;s a*. units then, that the election is decided. Yes, Coolidge and Davis might have a total of 210,000 votes in Nebraska ( as against 130,000 for LaFolIettee; j 1 * : C I k...; .MAl>n UnfA. tlv.n VU1 l 1AII Ulirnv mill muii: Minn uiiiu ^ithor Coolidge or Davis individually, then aij of Nebraska's eight electoral votes, and not just a proportionate' ?hare of them, would go to the third parly ir the electoral college. What would deadlock the election * now ? There are 531 votes in the electoral college. Of these 531. 191 are votes in the Solid South and bordering States which a Democratic candidate is reasonably sure of carrying. That leaves a remainder oi 337. A majority of the college is 260. Accordingly this is the situation. If Davis carries the 19 1 votes of the solid South and the border States then Davis and LaFollette between them need 72 additional votes to block the election of Coolidge. LaFollette is usually credited, as a minimum, with chances of carrying the five Northwestern States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and the two Dakotas. That is a block of 39 votes. Thirty three more for either Davis of LaFollette, any wh tee out jride the Solid South would prevent the election of Coolidge. Endless combinations can be suggested which provide those 33. New York alone, for example has 45 votes ** to deliver. On the other hand. Davis cannot win his own election in the electoral college unless to his 194 he adds 9; more. Ar.d if LaFollette is given 39 then to win in the college, Davis mu3t cut the Coolidge total to 226. You can guess the answer any way you like, but it is clear that with evcrv state LaFollette carries, both oi his opponents have an increasingly smaller margin to play with. LaFol lelte's strength is probably not spree evenly throughout the country a: Taft's was in 1912, but massed ii operate states. That is why there i: talk about a deadlock. If no candidate in the electoral co lege, receives a majority, what hap pens next? The first step is for the House o Representatives to attempt to choos a Preside lit from among the thre high candidates. But first the hous does not vote as it ordinarily does, b i individuals, but votes by states. Second, each state counts one vot aiid only one?New York for instanc with its 43 members, counts no mor th -.n Wyoming v/i'h its one Third, it is not the ? House tha \t Mil iewspaper Published in and 61.50 Per Yur BOONE. Wa "BETTE A T ' Y A t x:.v.4 ! FREI I?*. -n -3" .55 ;><^g 1 " %jj|G?|| . .. v-s>i; docs the voting, but the old House, 'u* that is, the existing House, even tho <' 1 -the election may have changed its ant membership substantially. j *-ul Who wins . hen the House votes ' ' Once more a majority and not a po. ary for a majority, each not State counts o:u vote; set LaFolletts! five aside and all either Davis or Coo- i Hii lidjre has to do to Mock the other's fal election in the house is to tally It): tin votes. For these It*, with Lafollette's I th< five, would leave the other party on-, I, Iv 24, and 24 is.one shy of a major- Lit itv. hi? Assume this happens. What follows gri next? thi The House has until March 1 to ? break its deadlock if a deadlock shall fir arise. The break could come either idi . by LaFolletie surrendering enough of his state delegations to Cooliage or Si ! to Davis to furnish a majority or by pa enough Coolidge states going over C( , to Davis, or vice versa, on the theo- of I ry that a victory for the other side ed I was better than confusion. dc I Suppose, however that party lines pr hold fast. What happens in that case? qt The question goes to the senate? jq Does the Seriate choose a president Xo. what the Senate does is not to G| I elect a president, but to elect a Vice pC President from among the two high- as | est candidates. The Twelfth amend- to | ment to the Constitution provides: cl j "A quorum . . shall consist of two ? thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary* to a choic' What happens if a vice president is elected? He proceeds to act as President ~ and the incident is closed, j But it is not difficult to believe if I the deadlock was carried thus far it might go one ^age further. To be sure the contest is n arrows, ed down by this time; one man is 11 ruled out, and the choice before the ' Senate is now between the two highi est candidates for vice president. But nose these two highest candidates .are ~! Dawes and Bryan. There are three 1 Republican votes (Lafollette's, Fra* zier*s and Ladd's) which would alp most certainly go to Bryan; there e!are two farmer-labor votes (Ship(* stead's and Mangus Johnson's) which y wo'dd ro ir? the same direction. That y - old tie the voting 48 to 48. Or, to e a majority until party lines c; broke, these three Republicans, two c Farmer-Labor men and perhaps sovoi e.? moie insurgent colieait guvs, nnght refrain from voting ei1 femji* tor Boone and Watauga TAUGA COUNTY. NOR 1H CAR< R L.ATL THAN NEVE BY BILLY t*OkNE ^ CHE I //V { - #>:# fVr -, yfflff/M i??ue .% i way The Constitution requiresj ft majority of the whole membership' i not merely a quorum, for an el-! ion. For the sake of .Hast rat lap al) the ssihilities which the situation holds ^ tnt that another deadlock blocked. ^ Senate's action. What would fol-i ^ after that? * It would take a fortune teller to p I certain. For the Twelfth Amend- f. lit. which lays down all these com- y rated rulings. leaves off here and thing: takes its place. ; T It has b"en suggested that Mr. { ighes, as Seeretary of State would ,, ! heir to tin* presidency, thanks to ^residential succession act and provisions of Article II, section of the Constitution. But if that is. , le, the same statute also requires | II to call a special session of Con- i ^ l-s>, and in this case it might lit* ^ i> dutv of the* incoming: Congress ! the statute doesn't specifically atm o?" deny it?-to elect, anew Present and Vice President. . It has also been suggested that the ipremt- rourt might he asked to { ss 011 both the interpretation of the : institution and the constitutionality J the statute. But the question rats-1 , i, the method of electing: a Presi- ' ( 'tit might be regarded by the Su-. ome Court as a non-justiciable K-stion over which it would decline risdiction. Other theories suggest ail manner emergency mcuioas, irom tne ap.ir.t ment of an electoral commission i in the Hayes-Tilden controversy the theory that the present oc- < ipant of the White House simply t Probing Politic?." cD ^ ^ This is the group on the Senato is probing charges and counteraver rhaf huge sums arc being r " mas ... in ar.U . Si:., i. x M County, the Leader of ] JLINA. THURSDAY OCTOBER LR I" Eft UP. "OH/HQ! _ I rourt**sy of tho AshovUIe Ciiiton. dail Service Now Boone to North Wilkesboro The new mail service that was put nw.khe 27ih between Boone and N bilker-bore almost completes a pored sjstem for Boone and othei arts of the country. The mail is scheduled to arrive ir loom- at 10:30 a. m. and leave on it: 'turn at 12:30 p. m.. reaching No i ilkesboro in time to connect with he train earning mail down state he Winston-Salem .Journal and the ireensboro Daily N?*ws now read ere the morning they are puhlishec hile all lector mail from these anc intervening cities reach here tin norning after they are mailed. Evci Cv\v York papers are being read ii 5oone the day after they are takei rem the presses. Friends of th harlotte Observer are sorry indee< hat it gets ii late in the afternooi 1 iter the two dailies have precede : here by sc ei .il hours. If this civ remedied it would please many n >m people greatly. Postmaster Farthing says that a nail going on the Wilkesboro rout h.ould be in the office by noon a he .*10 minutes will be occupied i making up the mails. BLOND BESS OPINES 1 told Dick he was getting bette looking every day and he said tht ivas a habit he had ever}; year shorl y before Christmas. :ontinues to hold office until his su< e-osor is elected. ^ ''Slush FuikIs''^ TfW - . J rial Investigating Committee which charges oi the rival parties, who vsed to back the candidates. Left *yaid, T. H. Caraway, \V. E. Borah nttfjtt; Northwestern North Carolii 30, 1924. 5 Ct*. ?Copy " Amendments and ] Acts to be Voted On Five proposed acts ana amendmentp to the State Constitution of 1 North < arolina arc to be submitted < (to a vote of the people at the general , ; electior next Tuesday. The substance t of these is as follows1. Rai fication of the act known ] as the Port Bill. It is the Port Commission Bill It provides for the, < establishment of ship and water tran! spoliation along the coast and the ; inland waterway of the state; crea- ^ tes a port commission to direct the t affairs. It authorizes the state treasurer to issue eight million five* hun- ^ j dred thousand dollars of bonds to ] procure funds for this purpose. Sev- 5 en million is to be used for the coo- \ . struction of ports and terminis (do- , pots* while the remaining SI,500,- ( 000 will he held in reserve for con- j struction of a merchant ship line. ] should ;t be necessary for the success of the project. j 2. Second b *he proposed amend-1 ment to the state const ution relating to the inviolability " tf sinking! ^ fund, allowing the u>? of revenue collected from taxes oh automobiles and sale of gasoline for retirement ; highway bond. ->. The Patterson bill to increase i the pay of the leg . ator- from $1 to ? t> r day. 4. The proposed amendment which ! would allow the owner of a mod- j ? ; gaged r > me stead valued at less than ! 1 $S.(?00 to list only the value of the I im-i . : for taxation a; ?i the mort j ; s-iKf uit listing inr otner nan, . jcharging the present rate of interest of f?ve and one half per cent. : i on the mortgage to the full legal rate c of ^ix per cent. i The soldier homestead Act, in- i i troduced by representative Frank ( Grist of Caldwell, passed hv the rog- j ] ular s? ?ion of 192.*;, provides for the! < t issuaiu- of by the treasurer of two million dollars of bonds for the pur- j chase of homes in sums not to exceed $2,500, to soldiers of the World War residents of North Carolina. News Items from the Training School The Training School was indeed " glad to have Capt. K. F. Lovill, Chair man of the Board of Trustees of the School, at chapel exercises a few days ago to hear his encouraging voice in j ix most sensible ta k to the students ' j Prof. I' 1). Dougherty, treasurer! and busim - manager of the school j has not been well for some time hut4 the doctc. ay< he is improving and will doubtless be well soon (> The Mi lonary ladies and young , people of the Methodist church hail 'their District Missionary meeting at . Valle Cruets on Tuesday of the past week. A ? mber of ladies and young ^ people from Boone attended the meet big and report a most excellent and j. inspiring program. Prof. K. M Loy. who was a tea vher in ch> school during" the past ( summer, principal of Tryon High : School in Gaston County, brought i his senioi class, the young ladies and i the young men? basket ball teams, some teachers and other friends on 1 a mountain trip to Boone and the lt .-unrounding country on Friday and L" ^Saturday. On Friday night both of, the teams played the Training School - teams in basket ball The score for the young ladies game was 36 to 7 in favor of the Boone team and that - of the young men. which was a very line game, resulted in a scor?* of 38 to 34 in favor of Boone. The spirit was fine and everything moved along nicely, .he school gave a reception in their honor at Lovill home on Saturday night. A rather peculiar incident occurred at Mrs. J. M. Moretz' kitchen about two weeks ago. All unexpected to Mrs. Moretz and without warning a young colored girl walked up to the door and said she had come to j stay a while with her. The girl had ' never seen Mrs. Moretz but her fa! thor hml worked for Mrs. Moretz* fa ther for a long time and the girl had heard them talk of Mrs. Moretz as Miss Ida Farthing and became deeply interested, so much so that she decided sh _ would come to see her as soon as she was old enough. So wher she was about fifteen she started She walked from the western pari 1 of the county to Cove Creek the firs day and the next walked into towi and to Mrs. Moretz'. The girl is i bright, rather unique character am eenv- as happy as a lark in her net i c pi :>r'* ia.? Established in 1888 NUMBER 43 Mew Power Plant Goes into Oceration The people of the town are very lighiv pleased with the new plant f the New River Light and Power L'ompany. which first gave service o the town this morning. The plant is located on Middle fork of New River three miles from .own and is said by experts to be >ne of the most modern in North- % .vest em Carolina. The machinery is all new and improved to the last vord The plant was ready for opera:ion last week, but it was deemed vise by those in charge to have the .vcrk inspected by Mr. David Shearer Electrica' Kpgineer who installed the -mall plant for the school. Mr. Shear ?r came Saturday night and left Monlay, having given I no job an official u>. K. Hi- was load in his praise of :he work of installation c ; by U F. Tate and McKiniey A. After the machinery i.- thoroughly 'broken in" we will navt 21 hour e:vice. The .urrenl is fine. Woodman Chiefs Meet With, the Bocne Camp On Frida\ ntgrbt. October :M the iloo le camp of Modern Woodmen of America met with M. L. (remain. !alt Deputy and the following of he Di$tr:<-1 Deputies: F. M. Brown, ireeiulior<.. H. Wi ami Kinston; I. G. Smith. Karniville; i C. Evans, decry Ii i; T. I. Moore Charlotte, i *i of nine members were initiated into the local camp. The candidates wore very vouch pleased with the high type of the society and expressed themselves as one hundred per cent Modern Wood men. The interests of the Modern Wood men of rnerica are being very energetically looked after in the State by State Deputy Tremain and his cro ps of District Deputies. They nrc without exception men of high standing in thei rown communities and are deeply interested in promoting this fraternal order that as many men as possible in the state may become acquainted with its principles and profit through its benefits. Recent Proceedings in the Mayor's Court ! James Miller, drunk, fined $5.00 j and cost. J James Miller, having liquor in pes session. Bond required lor appearance at spring term of Superior Court. Burt Godsev, having liquor in posession. Bond required for appearance at the spring term of Superior Court. Carl Payne, operating car without license. Fined ?5 and cost. Appealed to Superior Court Letcher Teague. operating car with out license. Fined $5 and cost. Appealed to Superior Court. J. H. Cook, operating car without license. Fined $5 and cost. R. L. Honeycutt. Afffray. Released on payment of cost. Zeb Farthing. Affray. Released on j payment of the cost. i GEE?YES! Clerk (driven to desperation by a J bargain hunting boy) : "Listen, young . man why don't you take that top? ^1 Do you want to got the world with a fence around it for a nickel?" > Boy: "I dunno! Let's see it." t j i friends in an interesting manner with i conversation and song while she con1 tinties her work. Mr.-. Moretz is greatv ly pleased with her new help, d J. M. Downum