Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1883 — PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.

Provisions of the BiU Passed by the Senate. The bill which passed the United States Senate regulating 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 hone, or in 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 1 ostmaster General Secretary of the Navy, Secretary es the Interior, shall act as President until the disability is removed, or until the vacancy is otherwise lawfully filled, such officer being eligible to the office of President under the constitution, and not under articles of impeachment 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 would not meet regularly within twenty days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the person upon whom said powers ana duties snail devolve to issue a proclamation convening Congress in extra, ordinary session, giving twenty days’ notice of the time of meeting. Section two enacts that the first section shall only ha 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 By the third section, section 146 of the Revised Statutes is repealed. ■ m i. i. .lb