The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-21
Official Bulletin of His Physicians
Notes a Slight Change
for the Worse.
PATIENTS REST WAS BROKEN.
Russian Laws Are Not Clear as to
the Right of a Posthumous
Son to Succeed to
the Throne.

Livacia. European Russia. Nov 2o.-The
bulletin issued by the Cars physicians to-
cay is less favorable. 1t says:
The Emperor passed Il satisfactory day
yesterday. At in the evening the patients
temperature was 1904; pulse 50. His Majes-
ty slept TRANQUILITY until 5 in the morn
ing. Subsequently, his rest was broken and
perspiratior appeared. This morning lis
condition was fairly satisfactory, pulse %"
RUSSIAN LAW OF SUCCESSION.
St Petersburg, Nov. GA medical prac-
t:tioner of high standing in this city. who s
not connected with the State service. after
anaiyzing the bulletins from I.igadia. told
the correspondent OF the Associated Press
that the Illness OF the Car had taken on
unusually favorable course.
Apparently" he said, there is moro
anxiety abroad than there Is III Russia.
This may be due largely to the statistics
Of typhoid mortality in this country. But
these are misleading. The mortality with
US is due TO defective care. Russia has
only one physician to every 5000 inhab-
liants. Furnish her with one to every so. as
in the United States and the result would
be equally favorable here as anywhere
else
Death at this time would be peculiarly
bitter TO Emperor Nicolas. because he is
again hoping for the birth of son within
a few months. 1t is an open secret that
the Czarevitch. Grand Duke Michael, now
about - years old, is not favorite of the
emperor. whose supreme desire Is to leave
an heir TO the throne.
The ST. Petersburg Jurist. who was asked
to-day whether u posthumouS son would in
herlt the throne consulted the works of the
best authorities. among them Professor
herkounir of the University OF st. Peters
burg, ana Professors GradUvski and AleSieff
q Moscow
the reply:
Existing laws 90 not answer the ques-
ton; The manifest of August %. 1926. ar
tords a precedent in an affirmative sense.
put does lot lay dawn a general rule, con-
inning Itself TO regulating the concrete case
then existing. Nicholas ], in the manifest
declared that II he should die while the
CZarina was eEciepte. the heir apparent
then living. must wait until the birth before
assuming the powers and dignities of Gear
ana that II the child Were a son, the latter
should inherit. The present Car is equally
competent to regulate the case II necessary.
Ihe present law of succession, decreeing
prlmogeniture, with preference TO male lines
and to males of female lines before any
woman could succeed. was introduced by
Pau !, whose mother. Catherine II. who
reigned from 1863 to 1876. did not respect his
rights and prepared q will, by which he
would have been disinherited had it not
been destroyed Immediately upon her death.
particularly holy character. decreeing that
all his successors at their coronation should
swear TO keep 1t invioiate- Nevertheless,
his successor found the same unlimited
powers as himself and several minor
changes have been introduced.
If Emperor Nicolas should decree the
succession of a daughter his viii would
be, be the law of the land. although it Is not
believed he would undertake this. The
sole features of the law of succession
which are considered absolutely binding
antedate Paul !. They are the require.
ments that the Gar shall be of the ortho-
dox religion and that he shall not occupy
any foreign throne
London. Nov. 2L-The Cars slight relapse
Is attributed. says the Moscow corre-
diet. i'"'
Dotcor Ehrfuherer. German specialist,
writing In the St; Petersburg viedomostI
says that the Cars temperament, so far as
heart action is concerned, is so abnormal
that 1t might deceive experts and he has
some misgivings that tie physicians at
lending may have been misled in dag
Hosdng the disease
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
limes wiring Sunday, says:
strlct censorship prevents the newspa-
pers here from saying a word conccrnfn,
the Car beyond the bulletins. No nuthen,
nc details are obtainable as to the way the
illness was caused. The Court Minister
has not even favored the Ambassadors with
a word Private information has reached
me that his Majesty first caught cold from
excess in bathing" A-