I. Two-thirds of all the Senators constitute a quorum.
II. The Senate must vote for the two persons who received the
highest number of votes for Vice-President.
III. A majority of all the members elected to the Senate is
necessary to a choice.
IV. Should there be a tie in the Senate, the Vice-President may
give the casting vote.
V. Should the Vice-President have succeeded to the presidency, or
have vacated his office, and the President pro tem, (a Senator),
preside, in that case there might be a tie, and no election
reached.
THE PRESIDENT PRO TEM.
Q. What are the provisions for filling temporarily the office of
President, when vacant?
A. I. In case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability, of
both the President and Vice-President of the United States, the
President of the Senate pro tem., and in case there be no
President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of
Representatives shall act as President of the United States for
the time, until the disability be removed, or a President be
elected.
II. In case of a vacancy in both the offices for President and
Vice-President, the Secretary of State of the United States, shall
notify the Governors of all the States, and cause the same to be
printed in at least one newspaper in each State, ordering an
election for electors of President and Vice-President: PROVIDED
there shall be a space of two months between the ordering of the
same and the first Wednesday in December following.
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