The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-21
NICHOLAS NOT so WELL
GLARS SLEEP BROKEN AND TEN
PERATURE SLIGHTLY HIGHER.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
Said to Have Been Stricken
with Paralysis.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 20-The min
listers have been intrusted with the conduct
of current business during the present
phase of the Cars illness, each of them
carrying on his department according to
his personal judgment, decisions on i'm
portant matters being postponed for the
time being.
The bulletin issued by the Cars physi-
clan at Lividia to-day is less favorable. 1t
says:
1.-The Emperor passed satisfactory day
yesterday. At in the evening the pa
tents temperature was 1922, pulse so. His
Majesty slept TRANQUILITY until 3 o'clock in
the morning. Subsequently his rest was
broken and perspiration appeared. This
morning his condition was fairly satisfac-
tory; temperature 1904. pulse 40"
A medical practitioner of high standing
in the city, who is not connected with the
State service. after analysing 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 Rus
sia- This may be due largely TO the Stats
tics OF typhoid mortality in this country.
But these are misleading. The mortality
Win us Is due 10 ueIeCtlNe care. Russia mas
only one physician to every $4,000 inhabit-
ants. Furnish her with one TO every five
hundred, as in the United States, and the
results. with equal care, would be equally
favorable here IS anywhere else
The st. Petersburg Bourse, which is
chemically weak, was slightly affected
: when the news of the Cars illness was
first made known, but prominent banker
asserted to-day that IL had already entirely
recovered.
Death at this time would be peculiarly
bitter TO Emperor Nicholas. because he is
again hoping for the birth OF son within
a few months. IL Is an open secret that the
Czarewitch. Grand Duke Michael. now
about TWENTY-FIVE years OF age, Is not
favorite of the Emperor, whose supreme
desire is to leave son as heir to the
throne.
A St. Petersburg jurist, who was asked
to-day whether "a posthumous son would
inherit the throne, consulted the works of
the best authorities, among them Prof.
Korkounoff, of the University of st. Peters
burg. and Profs. Gradovsh and Alexieff.
or the University of Moscow, and gave the
reply: Existing laws do not answer the
question. The manifesto of Aug %. 1926.
affords precedent in an affirmative sense,
but does not lay down general rule. con-
filming itself to regulating the concrete case
then existing Nicholas /, in the manifesto,
declared. that IL he should die while the
Czarina was enceinte. the heir apparent
then living must wait until the birth before
assuming the powers and dignities of Car.
and that IL the child were son, the latter
should inherit The present Car Is equally
competent TO regulate the case IL neces-
sary.
1.-THE present law of succession, decreeing
primogeniture, with preference 10 male
lines and to males of female lines before
any woman could succeed was introduced
BY Paul I, whose mother Catherine H. who
reigned from 1852 to 1876. did not respect his
rights and prepared a will by which he
would have been disinherited had ii not
been destroyed Immediately upon her
death Paul 1 attempted to give this law
a particularly holy character, decreeing
that all his successors at their coronation
should swear TO keep ii fnviOlate. Never
theless, his successors enjoy the same I'M
limited powers as himself and several
minor changes have been introduced. If
Emperor Nicholas should decree the sue
cession of daughter his will would be
the law OF the land. although IL Is not be-
lieved he would undertake this. The sole
features of the law OF succession. which
are considered absolutely binding antedate
Paul i. They are the requirements that the
Car shall be OF the orthodox religion and
that he shall not occupy any foreign
throne.