Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — THE PRESIDENCY. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENCY.

Th« Senate Bill to r-ovlde for the Presidential Succession. The bill which passed the United States Senate regixlattng the succession to the Presidency provides that in case of the removal, death, resignation or inability of both the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, or if there be none, case’ of his removal, death, resignation or inability, then another member of the Cabinet in this order of precedence: Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Interior, Shall act as President until the disability is removed, or xxntll the vacancy is otherwise lawfully filled, such officer being eligible to the office of President under the constitution, and not under articles of iinpeachment by the House of Representatives at the time the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon him. Provided , That whenever the powers and duties of the President of the United States shall devolve upon any of the persons named, if Congress be not in session, or if it woxild not meet regularly within twenty days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the person upon whom said powers and dirties shall devolve to Issue a proclamation convening Congress in extraordinary session, giving twenty days’ notice of the time of meeting. Section two enacts that the first section shall only he held to describe and apply to those officers who shall have been appointed by the advice and consent of the Senate to the offices therein named. By the third section, section 146 of the Revised Statutes is repealed