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T IE REGISTER. CONYERS,UA., THURSD\Y DEC 21, 1870. MR. STEPHENS’ VIEWS. National llotki. ) Washington, l\ C., 1 >e(-cml)ei 0, 1876. ) Messrs. 1 Valsh <k Wright, Editors of the Chronicle anti Sentinel, Avgusta, Ga: 1 send yon enclosed nil editorial s i|> from the Union, of this morning, the new Democrat paper established in lliis city. The title of the article is‘Consti tutional vs. Revolutionary Methods. Will voa please {publish it in your pai per In full, with this note from met The article more cotnplcUljr coincides with my own views on the pnaeut situa tion thin anything 1 have teen from any other quarter. I am in daily toj ceipt of letters from all parts of the State, and especially from the Eighth District, inquiring my views upon the BDhject. 1 think it best, therefore, to answer all in this way. I could not ex press my ideas moro clearly than they arc set forih in the article referred to, Your®, most respectfully, Ai.EXANUF.it 11. Stephens. CONSSITI TIONAL VS, RbOLUTIONAKY MeTII- OHS. I here are but three methods provided by the Constitution by which a Prcst dent may be elected. Any departure from these method®, no matter by whom meditated or attempted, is revolution. First.it is provided that each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, Presi dential electors. These electors must be qualified persons. ‘No Senator or Representative or person bolding an of fice of trust or profit under the United Stales shall be appointed an elector.’ These electors are required to meet in their respective States, to vote by bal’ot for President and Vice-President, to certify the result, and to transrrrt the certificates, signed and sealed, to the seat of Government, directed to the President of the Senate. When the President of the Senate shall, in tliei preseno of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted, the person having the greatest number of votes for President slia’l bo the Prcsi dent, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed. Ttus is the first method. If, however, no person have such majority, then, from the persons having the highest numbers, not excei ding three, the House of Representatives shall choose bninc- dialely, by ballot, the President, voting by States, the representation from each State having one vote, and a quorum for the purpose consisting ot a monitor or members from two-thirds of the Slates, and a majority of all the States be ing necessary to a choice. This is the second method. If the House of Representatives shall not choose a President, whenever the riflit of choice shall devolve upon them, before the 4th day of Mai ch next following, then the Vice-President becomes President; the Vice-President being(l)the person hav ing the greatest number ot votes as Vice President, it such number shall be a majority of the whole number of elec tors appointed ; or(‘2)if no person have such majority, the person chosen as Vice-President by the Senate from the two highest numbers on the list, a quo rum ot the Senate for maxing such choice consisting of two thirds of the whole number ot Senators, and a major ity ot the whole number being necessary for choice. This is the third method and exhausts tlio constitutional plan. It is the fashion just now to speak of that plan as a failure, and ot the questions arising out of the recent election as n ‘constitutional muddle.’ Such lan guage implies a very imperfect acquaint ance with the provisions ot the Consti tution. It is difficult to sec what more the wise trainers of that instrument could have done to meet by anticipation every possiblo contingency. If any ‘muddle’ exists it is only in the minds of those who cannot or will not under stand the Constitution, or who seek a solution of present difficulties by uncon stitutional means. We have, in regular order, their re spective powers ami duties assigned to the electoral colleges, to the House of Heprcaentaiivea, and to tlic Senate. Each body has its appropriate duty to perform at its appropriate time. If no one lias a majority of the whole number ot electors appointed, the House elects. It the House fails to perform its duty by the 4th of March, the Vice-President becomes President, provided one has beer, chosen by the electors. If no f , the Senate elects the Vice-President, who, by virtue ot the constitutional provision, becomes the President A a the func tions of each body are separate and in dependent, neither has any right to con trol the action of the other. The Senate has no more right to interfere with the House, or to dictate to the House, when • ever the right of- choice of President shall devolve upon it, than the ilouso to ! dictate to the Senate in thj matter o! tl oosing the Vice President; or either nouse, or both Ho 'ses, to dictate to to. •l--oral colleges. For the express | im pose, it would seem, of avoiding any possible conflict of authority or jurisdic tion, and the perilous const quenccs of a disagreement between the two Houses, the powers of one House do not come into p'ay until those of the other, touch ing the matter, have been exhausted. The powers of the Stay* electors are exhausted when they I nve east their bit! lots, and signed, sealed and certified to the result. They lire then fundi officio The power of the 11 mse is exhausted, if they shall not choose a President, wh never the right of choice shall de volve upon tin m, before the fourth day of March next following. Then, and not until then, and only in the furfher con. tingeocy that no Yice-Prt sideiit has been chosen by the electors, is the ques tion remitted in any Conn to the Senate. There is no concurrence in point of time, still less iu point of action, re quired in performance of their respec tive duties by the duty is devolved at dif ferent limes, under difforint circum stances, or electing ft* President, Colli sion can only come from the revolution ary and uunurthorized attempt of one body to intrude itself into the sphere ot duty assigned to another. It may come from the extraordinary and unrounded assumption on the part of the presiding officer o) the Senate that he is the per son who is to decide whether there has been any election of President and Vice President by the electoral college, and whether, therefore, either House has any constitutional duty to perform in the premises. This theory makes the Presi dent of the Senate the judge of the pow ois of both the Houses. It does more. The electoral colleges do not declare the result ol the election. For that pur pose a count of the votes is made neces sary by the Constitution. Only the persons having a majority ot the whole number of electors appointed can be de dared elected, and no person can be ap pointed an elector who is under any ot the disqualifications mentioned in the Constitution To exercise the pow er which isclaimed for him, of coun ting the vote and declaring the result, the President of the Senate must, there fore, uot only act ministerially, in can vassing the vote, but judicially, if any question arises upon the genuineness of the certificates, which may he falsified or forged ; npon the legality of the appoint merit of theelectors. and upon their quali fications. How is lie to decide these questions? Of his own knowledge or up on evidence, after a hearing? Whence docs he derive these or any judidial funi lions under the Constitu ion ? That in strument does not even givo him the power to count the votes. It only say lie “shall open all the certificates,’thus ex pressly negativing the assumption that where there is more than one certificate from the same Slate the President of the Senate may decide which is the proper and legal certificate to be opened. No such power in the President of the Sen ate was ever dreamed of by tiie framers ot the Constitution, or is even hinted at in any ot the debates which proceeded it's adoption by the States, un i no such power has ever been exercised. It is contrary to the whole spiiit and intent of that instrument. It has frequently happened that the Vice-President has been a candidate for the Presidency Such a theory would have made him the judge of his own election. Now that there is no Vice-President, and the President of the Senate is the mere creature and appointee of that body, such a construction would be practically conceding to the Senate exclusively a power over the electoral vote which the theory itself denies >o both Houses con currently, and might be made the means of depriving the House of its conslitu.- tional function in the election of Prcsi. dent. The assumption of any other power by ’.he Presidenttof the Senate on the occasion of canning the electoral votes than that of simply opening all the certificates, ‘or so many of them as have been received' (Revised Statutes United States, section 14*2), would be a usurpation as dangerous and intolerable as the forcible seizure of the Government itself. B The only other method by which a collision between the two Houses mid a consequent frustration ot the constitu* tional plan of electing a President can be brought about would be by the assump lion by the Senate of the same power, which, upon the theory we ham been discutsing, is claimed lor tho President ot that body, viz: ofdeciding whether the contingency lias afisen w lieu the House ot Representatives has the constitutions] duty to periorm of electing a President. It is the assumption that the concurrence of the Senate, iu other words, its permis sion, is necessary to enable the House to perform a duty which, under the Oonsti tulion, the House alone is authorized to perform. Not only is this contrary to the fundamental rule of constitutional construction that the duty to do an act upon a certain conlitingency implies the the power to decide whether that contin gency has arisen—it is equally opposed id the whole tenor of the constitutional provisions defining and distributing the separate functions ot the Electoral Col lege, the House, and die .Senate, in ref erence to the election of President and Vine-President. Fettered by Ihe neces silv of obtaining thej permission ot the Senate before it can proceed to elect, the House might be debarred ‘altogether from the eytercise of its constitutional right. An ambitious Senate, desirous ol absorbing all powei in its own hands, and especially that of controlling the election of President, would find it east to accom; lish its purpose. The framer* o! the Constitution were not guilty ot the folly of thus providing beforehand for the certain failure of their carefulh devised electoral system. Amid all th< ‘cheeks and balances’ ot the (Jonstitu t on, the wisdom ot none is nice appa rent than the careful adjustment and separation of the functions of the two Houses in this important matter. W doubt whether it is possible, by an) amendment to the Constitution, to improve upon the system it provides. We aresure that this is not the time for the House of Representative to think of abdicating its cor stitutiolial functions, either in favor of the Surpreme Court or any other tribunal. Only high-handed usurpation and open revolution can rob the House of its rights, or prevent the settlement ot the great vueslion now agitating the countiy by purely constitu tional intrenched methods. Woman. A woman in a neighborhood is cnly exceeded by .-mother woman. She ‘can love truer or hate worse than the men ot ordinary calibre. She can make ot a home a little heav en or a litt’e hell, on less capital than any other business canjbe carried on. She can make a ten or hundred dollar bill go up, O ! so quick. She can drive a man out of a house it her tongue bo working all right quicker than beast Butlot could get away with a s t of spoons. She is better than pine or stojie coal for keeping a neighborhood boiling hot and home more unendurable than a burn on your first thumb joint, all the time making you think she is a package of refined innocence, a saint, a favorable angelic advertising agent for Gabriel. She can kiss another woman ‘sweeter and then la ! k about her worse than one ot these Refoim Republicans can talk aloul the President. And she knows mote by intuition of all the affairs of the neighborhood than Grant knows about his relations or the post office presents he receives or is to! She can be nicer to a woman she hates than a carpet-bag politician is to a negro before lie has voted. She can walk further to display anew dress than a loyal or disloyal contra band could travel for chickens in the nigl t. And Gol love her, il she loves a man, she will stick to li’in longer than the Dent family will to the immortal speech maker Uiysses! J j Like dollars, good women are hard to! get, hard to keep, bothersome to look after, hut here is a conundrum ! How can wo get along without them !—Brick Pomeroy. A western judge recently constructed the longest sentence on record. He sentenced a murderer for life, and after wards added two more years to the sen tence because the prisoner called hint no gentleman. A Chicago women swore at her hus band tbe other morning till she was blue in the face, just because lie wouklen't got up at 4 o’clock and put the pitcher out ou the front stoop for die milk man. He got even by getting out a writ of wo luandus for 1 er the first thing that day A gentlemen, on walking out one Sunday evening, met a young Scotch peasant girl, whose parents lived near his house. ‘Where are you going Jenny?’ said he, ‘Looking tor a son-in-law for my mother, sir.’ Increases the Quantity. Improves the Quality. ARMS T KONG’S UNcom iimn powder. GOOD FHESH BUTTER AI.L THE VEAR ROUND, BUTTER IN 20 MINUTES. Lincoln Butter Powdei is an entirely harm less article made from a cerebrated English recipe, and now in daily use by many of the most no toil farmers in the butter counties a round Philadelphia. In hot weather this Powder makes batter much firmer and sweeter than it usually is, and keeps it from turning rancid. It also removes the strong flavor of turnips, garlic, weeds, corn stalks, cotton seed, etc. : and the increased yield of butter much more than pays the tri fling expense of using it. 35 CENTS PEK PACKAGE. 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