Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
THE GEARS SUCCESSOR
Is UNDER DISCUSSION.
ALTHOUGH ALL AGREE THAT HIS
DISEASE IS PROGRESSING
MOST FAVoRABLY.
PosTHUMoUs SON SUGGESTED.
QUESTION OF HIS SUCCESSION
WHOLLY IN THE HANDS
OF THE GEAR.

ST. PETERSBURG, November 90
A medical practitioner of high stand
ing in the city, who is not connected
with the state service, after analyzing
the bulletins from Livadia, told the cor
respondent 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 statistics of typhoid mortality in
this country. But these are mislead-
ing. The mortality with us is due to
defective care. Russia has only one
physician to every 100000 inhabitants.
Furnish her with one to every five
hundred. as in the United States, and
the results with equal care, would be
as favorable here as 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 a prominent
banker asserted to-day that it had al
ready entirely recovered.
Death at this time would be peculiar
ly bitter TO Emperor Nicholas, because
he is again hoping for the birth of a
son within a few months. H. is an
open secret that the czarewitch, Grand
Duke Michael, now about % years OF
age, is not a 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 posthumous
son would inherit the throne, consult
ed the works of the best authorities,
among them Prof KorkounoG. of the
University of ST. Petersburg, and Profs.
Gradovsky and Alexieff, OF the Uni
yersity of Moscow, and gave the fol-
| lowing reply:
Existing laws do not answer the
question. The manifesto OF August %,
1926, affords a precedent in an afilrma.
tive sense but does not lay down a gen
eral rule, combining itself to regulating
! the concrete case then existing.
| Nicholas |, in the manifesto. declared
| that If he should die while the czarlna
was enciente, the heir apparent then
living must wait until the birth before
assuming the powers and dignities OF
car, and that if the child were son,
| the latter should inherit. The present
car is equally competent TO regulate
the case if necessary.
The present law of succession, de-
creeing primogeniture, with preference
to male lines, and to males of female
| lires before any woman could succeed,
was introduced by Paul /, whose mota-
er, Catherine II, who reigned from 1852
| to 1896, did not respect his rights end
! prepared will by which he would
have been disinherited had 1t not been
destroyed Immediately after her death.
Paul | attempted to give this law
particularly holy character, decree
| ing that all his successors at their
coronation should swear to keep 1t in
violate. Nevertheless his successors
enjoy the same unlimited powers as
himself, and several minor changes
have been introduced.
IF Emperor Nicholas should decree
the succession OF a daughter, his viii
would be the law of the land, although
| it is not believed that he would under
take this The sole features Of the law
OF succession which are considered alb
solutely binding antedate Paul /. They
are the requirements that the car shall
be of the orthodox religion and that
he shall not occupy any foreign
| throne"