6875. PRESIDENT, Election of.—
The
bill for the election of the President and Vice-President
has undergone much revolution.
Marshall made a dexterous maneuver. He
declares against the constitutionality of the
Senate's bill, and proposed that the right of
decision of their grand committee should be
controllable by the concurrent vote of the two
houses of Congress; but to stand good if not
rejected by a concurrent vote. You will
readily estimate the amount of this sort of
control. The committee of the House of Representatives,
however, took from the committee
the right of giving any opinion, requiring
them to report the facts only, and
that the votes returned by the States should
be counted, unless reported by a concurrent
vote of both houses.—
To E. Livingston. Washington ed. iv, 328.
Ford ed., vii, 443.
(Pa.,
April. 1800)
