The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-21
NICHOLAS WATTS A hALE HElR
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL, THE GAR
EVITCH, is PERSONA
NON GRATA
SUCCESSION TO THE THRONE
His Imperial Majesty, Under the Elk
listing Russian Law, Has the
Matter Practically in His
Own Hands.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov pa medical
practitioner of high standing in the city,
who is not connected with the state sery-
ice, after analyzing the bulletins from
Livadia, told the correspondent of the
Associated press that the illness of the
car had taken an unusually favorable
course.
apparently" he said there is more
anxiety abroad than there is in Russia.
This may be due largely to the statIs-
ticts of typhoid mortality in this country.
But these are misleading. The mortality
with us is due to defective care. Rus
STA has only one physician to every 30
COO inhabitants. Furnish her with one to
every 500 as in the United States and the
results with equal care would be equally
as favorable as anywhere else
The st. Petersburg bourse, which is
chronically weak was slightly affected
when the cars illness was first made
known, but a few bankers asserted this
morning that it was fully recovered.
HOPES FOR A SON.
Conditions are at this time peculiarly
bitter to Emperor Nicholas, because he
is hoping for the birth of a son with
in a few months. 1t is an open secret
that the czarevitch, Grand Duke
Michael now about twenty-five
years of age, is not favor
sire is to leave a son an heir to the
throne.
A ST Petersburg jurist. who was asked
today whether a posthumous son would
inherit the throne, consulted the works
of the best authorities, among them Prof
Kourkomoff, of the University of st. Pc
tersburg, and Frofs. Glodosky and Alex
Jeff of the University of Moscow, and
gave the reply:
LAW OF SUCCESSION.
=. Existing laws do not answer the cues
f non, The manifest of Aug. %, 1926 af-
| lords a precedent in an affirmative sense.
but does not lay down a general rule
cconhnlng itself to dealing with the par
tIc4 ti case then existing. Nicholas [
IN the manifest declared that if he should
ue before the czarina, who was en-
clente, the heir apparent then living must
wait until the birth before assuming the
powers and dlgn1tles of car and that if
the child were a son the latter should in
merit. TIE present car is equally compe-
tent to regulate the case il necessary.
The present law Of succession decree
ing prImogehture, with preference to
male lines and to males of female Inzs
before any woman could succeed was in
troduced by Paul l., whose mother. cath
crime IL, who reigned from 1862 to 1898,
did not respect his rights and prepared
a Will by which he would have been dis
inherited ld19i1 had it not bsen destroyed i'm
meqlately upon her death.
Paul l.. attempted to give this law a
particularly holy character, declaring
that all his successors to the coronation
should swear to keep it inviolate. Never
lheiess MS successors enjoy the same
unlimited powers as himself and several
minor changes have been introduced.
ii Emperor Nicholas should decree the
succession of a daughter his will would
be the law of the land, although it is not
beHeVed he would undertake it. The Ha-
cred features OF the law of succes sion
which are considered absolutely binding
antedate Paul l. They are the require
| ments that the ear shall be of the or
thodoX religion and that he shall not
occupy any foreign throne"
THE CARS CONDITION.
LIVADIA, European Russia, Nov. 20
The bulletin issued by the cars physi-
| clans today is less favorable 1t says:
The emperor passed a satisfactory day
yesterday. At o'clock in the evening
the patients temperature was %; pulse,
SO. His majesty slept until o'clock in
the morning His rest was broken and
perspiration appeared. This morning his
condition was fairly satisfactory, temper
allure, 1904; pulse TO-
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2O.-The min
1Sters have been entrusted with the con-
duct of current business during the pres
ent phase of the cars illness, each of
them carrying on his departme accord
ing to his personal judgment, decisions
on important matters being postponed
for he firo1C hoi,,o