The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-14
CZAROWITZES.
Continued from Eleventh Page.)

LIS last SIX years OIL MS lll6 VI SHaiS
WITT Constantine.
Under the circumstances it will be
admitted that Grand Duke Michael
who has just been proclaimed heir 10
the throne, has reason to feel relieved
by the neglect of his eldest brother to
invest him with the dignity OF Czaro-
WITT. all the more as he will enjoy all
the preroatives and status of next heir
to the throne until the young Empress
gives birth to a son. which she Is not
expected to do until the completion OF
the Tsigane prediction, according to the
terms of which she is to bring into the
world no less than seven daughters De-
fore presenting her husband and the
nation with a son. Moreover. as heir
to the throne, Michael, who 10 slightly
over twenty-one years of age. is en-
titled to the regency in the event either
of the Emperor becoming mentally or
physically incapacitated from reignlng
or In case of his death. leaving son
who Is minor. Thanks to the extraor-
binary influence welded over him by
his mother. the widowed Empress. who
Is the life and soul of the reactionary
and anti-liberal party in Russia, ne
may be relied upon to inaugurate pol
icy Numerically opposed TO that or
Nicholas if he secures control or the
reins of government, and 1t Is tnat
conviction, which prevails among all
classes of Russian officials, that rend-
ers 1t so extremely difficult for the pres
ent Emperor to secure an honest ana
loyal obedience to his behests. Nicho-
lass life-a precarious one at the best,
what with the danger of assassination
and his constitutional delicacy Of health
is all that stands in the way of re-
turn to the old policy Of medieval des-
potism that prevailed during the life
time of his father and of his namesake
the first Emperor Nicholas. Until he
has a son who is Of age. and VINO
shares his own enlightened and pro-
gressive views, there Is no guarantee
whatsoever of the continuity of the lib
eral policy which he has tried so hard
to establish, That Is why the 'Tchin-
noviks'-that is to say. the office hold
ers-not merely disobey. but even act
ually obstruct his wishes and COM
mands convinced that by so doing they
commend themselves to the favor OF the
Empress Mother and Grand Duke Mi
chael, whereas if they identify them
selves with the policy of Nicholas they
run the risk of disgrace at his death. 1t
Is to this peculiar condition of affairs
that must be ascribed the apparent
contradiction between the utterances OF
the Car and the acts of the Russian
government All his best intentions are
frustrated.
i,,
to the laws of succession to the Musco-
vite throne, about which little is known
abroad since they are to be found In
no standard work about Russia. They
are comprised in the decree Of Emperor
Paul, and were published in the I'M
peral Gazette" at Moscow on May IL,
1897, with the intiination that on the
| day of his coronation His Imperial Ma
| iesty had laid the decree in question on
the altar Of the church where the cere-
mony took place. According to this
decree he nominated at his heir his
| eldest son Alexander, vesting the sue
cession in the latter's male issue. In de-
| fault of Alexander and of the latter
| male ISSUE the Crown was to pass TO
Emperor Paul's younger sons and to
their male issue. In the event OF all OF
| Emperor Paul's sons remaining without
| male issue the Crown was to go to the
eldest daughter of Paul's eldest son,
and to her issue, male or female, but
by preference male, even If the latter
was Junior in point of age to the fe-
male. In default Of this the Crown was
| to go to the daughters of Paufs other
sons and to their male and female is
sue and only in the event OF these lines
becoming extinct was the throne to
pass to Emperor Paups daughters and
to their issue. Emperor Paul in his de-
| cree expressly stipulated that in the
event that a grand duchess next In line
of succession to the throne happened to
be unmarried, whereas her younger sis
ter had sons, the elder and spinster prin
cess should forego neither her preced-
ence nor her prior rights to the throne,
seeing that there was always posi-
bility that she might marry and have
| children In one word, a younger sister
can, in the matter Of succession to the
throne. never outrank her elder sister,
although younger brothers have prior
rights to those of their eldest sisters
| very important feature of Emperor
| Tauls ukase is that which relates 70
| the possibility of the Crown of Russia
plssing by right of Inheritance to for
4an Princt-that is to say, to the issue
| Of a Russia Grand Duchess who has
! married a foreigner. The decree insists
| dat in such an et ent the prince IN
question must renounce his foreign ma
tionality, and, if possessed of foreign
| +bropa ,pust aha ndOn that as well, In