Majority In House Could Be Problem In Picking President
High Point' Enterpriie, Friday, Sept. 13, 1968 3A
By JESSE LAVENTHOL
North American Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON — The parly
line-up of the U.S. House of
Representalives in the new
91st Congress is crucial
because that body may be
called upon to choose the
President if, in a predicted
close contest, the electoral
college fails to produce a
majority winner.
Whether t h e Democrats
retain control or whether it
will pass to Republican hands
for the first time since 1952 —
only the third time in 36 years
— will be unknown until after
the November 5 general
election. In the present
expiring House, the count is
248 to 187 in favor of the
Democrats. Thus the G.O.P.
needs a minimum net gain of
31 seals to prevail by a
majority (218) of one.
But even attainment of a
majority would not thereby
necessarily assure either
winning party of election of its
presidential nominee, parti
cularly if its margin is small.
For the constitution requires
that the stand-off in the elec
toral college must be resolved
in the House on the basis of
one vote for each state.
This means that a state’s
vote will be cast for the
candidate of the party whicli
has a majority within its total
delegation. Thus states whose
representatives are equally
divided between the two
parties will have no vote.
In the current 90th Con
gress, the Democrats are in
the majority in 31 of the state
delegations, the Republicans
in 16, and in three states —
Illinois, Oregon and Montana
— they are evenly divided.
This would appear to be a big
handicap for the Republicans
to overcome, since 26 votes
are necessary to elect a presi
dent.
But the fact is that the divi
sion of party strength today is
so close in 18 other states that
the shift in November’s elec
tion of only a single seat to the
opposition in any one of them
would create a tie in that
stale.
Of those 18 that narrow edge
is now held by the Democrats
in 11 states. They are: Ala-
Ag
new Withdraws
Soft On Reds Charge
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -
Gov. Spiro T. Agnew has with
drawn his charge that Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey
is soft on communism
the substantive issues of the
campaign,” he said.
“Had I ever realized the ef
fect that this expression would
have, I would have shunned it
like tlie plague,” the Republican
vice presidential nominee said
at a news conference Thursday.
“I would frankly call the use
of that particular phrase on my
part an error,” the Maryland
governor said.
Agnew said he was not aware
when he made the remark in a
Washington news conference
this week that it would be inter
preted against the political
background of the late Sen. Jo
seph R. McCarthy, whose
charges of communism in gov
ernment led to countercharges
of witchhunts.
Agnew said that had he known
his remark criticizing the Dem
ocratic presidential nominee
“would in some way cast me as
the Joe McCarthy of 1968,
would have turned five somer
saults to avoid saying it.”
The soft-on-communism re
mark led some political observ
ers to believe that Agnew had
been designated the hard-line
campaigner and that GOP pres
idential nominee Richard M
Nixon would take a loftier posi
tion on issues.
Agnew said, however, that he
wanted to get off the low road of
politics.
Before he retracted the
phrase, the Republican congres
sional leaders. Sen. Everett M
Dirksen and Rep. Gerald R
Ford, expressed disapproval of
the remark at a Washington
news conference.
Agnew said he had not been
contacted by Nixon or any Nix
on aides but said he spoke with
Dirksen shortly after his arrival
in Rochester.
“It would seem to me that
there’s been too much attention
to the line they call the wormy
side of the campaign. I said
squishy-soft and I am not proud
of it,” Agnew said.
“So we are going to try to get
off these catch phrases—as far
as I am concerned we are going
to get off of them—and mov
Labor Order
Appealed
By Chatham
bama,-5 to 3: Arkansas, 3 to 1;
Colorado, 3 to 1; Maryland, 5
to 3; Maine 2 to 0; Massa
chusetts, 7 to 5; New Mexico,
2 to 0; Oklahoma, 4 to 3;
Pennsylvania, 14 to 13; Rhode
Island, 2 to 0; and Virginia, 4
to 2.
The other seven states held
by the Republicans, where loss
of a single seat would tie the
delegations are: New Hamp
shire, Idaho, South Dakota and
Utah, each 2 to 0; Indiana, 6
to 5; and Minnesota, 5 to 3.
So it is apparent that the
more stales that are dis
qualified from voting by
reason of lies, the more diffi
cult it will become tor either
party to garner the required
majority of 26 votes. This
assumes, of course, that there
is no break in party lines
within the state delegations.
This year in addition, there
are several other factors
contributing to the compli
cations and uncertainties that
make it almost impossible to
accurately predict the party
character of the House, and
the sliades of viewpoint within
each party.
1 — The voter has become
more discriminating,
according to his lights, in
choosing servants for high
public office. He has learned
to cut across party lines and
to make up his mind, if not
always on issues, then cer
tainly on the candidate he con
ceives to be “the best man for
the job.”
2 — Since the U.S. Supreme
Court “one-man, one-vote”
decisions the boundaries of
congressional districts have
been reshuffled — usually
favorable to the party in
power in tlie respective state
legislatures — thus removing
the possibility for comparison
with recent past elections.
This year alone 17 states
have been redistricted for the
91st Congress, including such
states with large delegations
as California, New York, New
Jersey, Ohio, and Texas.
This shattering of long
standing geographic voting
patterns, together with the
coming of age of 11 million
young new voters in 1968, the
upsurge of independent voting,
the mobility of the population,
and the deep splits among
both major parties as evi
denced in their conventions —
all of these becloud the
outcome.
ELKIN, N. C. (AP) - Chat-
liam Manufacturing Co. is ap
pealing a National Labor Rela
tions Board ruling which or
dered the reinstatement of 18
employes allegedly fired for
their connection with union ac
tivities.
W. P. Sandridge of Winston-
Salem, the company attorney,
said Thursday the company
filed a request for a review with
the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals at Richmond, Va., after
receiving the order Wednesday
night.
The NLRB ruling upheld a
September 1967 recommenda
tion by one of the board’s trial
examiners.
Tho board found the company
guilty of unfair labor practices
and ruled that 13 workers fired
during a two-day strike in 1966
and five fired later allegedly for
union activities, must be rein
stated with back pay and inter
est.
All of the workers were ern-
ployes of the company’s Elkiq
plant which employs some 2,400
people.
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