—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 1.1969
10
WASHINGTON REPORT
Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman MKI
16th DUtrict-Panniylvanld IHHH
Smee the opening oi the 90th
Congicss theie has been a good
deal ol talk about electoial ie
loim I inlioduced my own vei
sion toi changing the Piesiden
tial selection piocess a couple
of v.eeks ago. That pioposal
was b..sed upon lathei extensive
ic«eaich, and it offeis the
changes that appf-.e- to me to
have the best chance of be
coming law befoie the next
Piesidenlial election
Aftei completing the icseaich
into electoial icfoim my staff
assistant. Robert Walker, and 1
lelt that the information we had
gatheied might be of some gen
ual mtei est We put it to
gether in a magazine ai tide that
was published early this month
m THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY
magazine However, I thought
that a condensation of points
covered in the article would aid
those of you who follow my
newspaper column m under
standing the multitude of prob
lems that the Congress faces as
it goes about trying to change
the electoial system There
foie, this column and the one to
appear in two weeks will be de
voted to the subject of electoral
reform
The issue is certainly not a
new one for the Congiess As
eaily as 1797 an electoial re
vision plan was offeied in the
House of Repiesentatives Since
that time hardly a session of
Congiess has passed without
the intioduction of one or more
pieces of legislation seeking to
change 01 abolish the electoral
college Yet during those 171
years, this nation’s peculiar
fashion of picking its leadei has
remained basically unchanged.
Under the electoral college
system, the American people do
not leally choose their chief
executive A small band of 538
independent men and women
aeiually cast the deciding bal
lots This system often seems
■completely inadequate in the
modem day, especially when the
public’s voice can be totally
ignoied But, while a wide var
iety of ideas have been suggest
ed to levise the electoral col
lege, each plan has weaknesses
as well as aieas of strength
Several questions must be
asked about each reform pro
posal to determine its relative
merit. Those questions include
Will it make the election pro
cess more democratic 9 Will it
eliminate the uncertainties now
# DHIA Directors
(Continued from Page 1)
Strasburg Rl, president; John
Breneman Kirkwood Rl, vice
president; and Donald Eby,
secretary Jacob Houser, Jr,
and J Wilbur Houser both of
Lampeter Road, were reappoint
ed treasuier and head tester
respectively
Over 1000 herds in Pennsyl
vania weie reported on the
once-a-day testing, but no num
bei of the county herds on the
new testing program was avail
able
Robeit Hess, state directoi, le
ported on central laboiatoiy
testing and announced a distuct
meeting foi DHIA directoi s foi
Maich 6 at the Fleetwood
Giange Hall Many of the local
dnectois expiessed opposition
to the central laboiatoiy testing
concept, but most seemed to be
lieve the move is eventually in
eutable
If you want a man to tell you
how smart you are, first, tell
him how wonderful he is. It
works every time.
, , , coming an amendment (o om
embodied in the election j ■ Constitution The thing to bo ie
tem'’ Will it add an element of niembercd 1S that three quarters
secuuty from possible const tu 38 of the flft stdtes musl
tonal ciisos ausing Horn elec- ) j(if Constltutlon<ll Amend .
toial deadlocks and the like’ ment> and m lhis case the smjU
Can it suivive the diffici t d slEteSi jn p ar ti CU lar, would have
complicated piocess of becom- a baslc reason for opposing a
in§ T C ? ns K U ll lo . nal , switch to dnect election The
nient Is it a bettei syste' * reason is that they would tend
what we now have. Jly i « hto lose considerable influence in
has indicated that none e tbe wbo i e Presidential selection
icfoim plans under consideia- process _ In other words> the few
turn, including the one I e e ] ec toral votes given a small
submitted, bung a yes - sfate are much more in fi uen ti a i
sponse to eacn of the above th „ n the total vote of lts po p ula .
questions. t ion would be, and a small state
One pioposal that seems to is not likely to give up this de
have a good deal of popular ap- §iee of power. Seventeen
peal is called the dnect election slates stand to be affected ad
plan. Such a system would have versely in this manner by a
the vote of the people be the direct election plan, thereby put
only detei mining factor in the tmg a probable damper on the
election of a President The elec- chances of such a plan finding
toial college would be totally acceptance,
abolished, 1 shall Pick up the discussion
at this point in my next column,
Direct election has numerous look at some other reform ideas,
features to recommend it as an and explain a little about the
adequate reform measure. It conclusions that I reached.
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Direct election appears to
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