The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-07
TO CARRY ON GOVERNMENT
ROOSEVELT WILL PERFORM THE
 DUTIES OF PRESIDENT.
Cabinet Council to be Held i'm Buffalo Members Expected There at Once Obligatio Imposed Upon the Vice President in Case of Death or Disa- bility of the Chief Executive.

Washington, Sept. 6.--Steps were talk en this evening, immediately after the ! receipt of the news of the attempt on the life of President Mckinley, to pro- vide for the future of the executive branch of the government. It was realized that, even under the most fa- vorable conditions the presidents injur- | les are of such character as to make 1t almost certain that he cannot under take for long time to discharge the
 duties fo chief executive. even in the
 most formal way. Every member of the cabinet able to, travel is expected to speed at once to Buffalo, and there a cabinet council will be held to decide upon the course to be followed by the executive branch.
 Vice President Roosevelt is under stood to be in Vermont, this being the information furnished by his relatives
 here, and of course will hold himself in
 readiness to do whatever is necessary and to meet the obligations imposed
 upon the vice president by the consti- tuition of the United States These are contained in paragraph 6, section 1. ar
 ticle ?, in the following words:
 Tn case of the removal of the presi- dent from office, or of his death, resig- nation or inability to discharge the
 powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the vice presi- dent" etc.
 Under the terms of this article, as soon as Mir Roosevelt is assured by proper authority, probably in this case by the senior member of the cabinet, Secretary Hay, who will doubtless be in Buffalo by tomorrow evening, he will undertake at once in provisional way to discharge such duties as may devolve upon him,
 Much will depend on the report of the physicians on the character of the pres ident's injuries as to the extent to which MT. Roosevelt will discharge the presi- dential duties, if he undertakes them at all, and it is almost certain that, in the absence of great emergency in public affairs, even if called to assume these obligations the vice president will con- fine himself in the exercise of his pow CTS to the discharge of the most routine and indispensable functions.
 For the present the thought of a fla tai termination of the presidents con- dition is referred to with aWe-!ike ap- prehension, and there is a hopeful an- ticipation that there may be no need for meeting these grave emergencies which would follow a fatal termination of the tragic event, Should the worst come, however, it is realized that im- portant changes in the public affairs of the country would soon be brought about Whether there would be an ex- tra session of congress is open to ques- ton, but there seems no doubt that an extra session of the senate would be es- sential, as an incident to a change of administration.
 All this has been thought of here only in the vaguest manner, and confi- dence is almost universal here, based on the presidents magnificent consti- tuition, his present excellent physical condition and the tremendous stride that has been made since Garfield's time in surgery, that there will be no occasion to resort to the constitutional provisions made to meet the demise of a president in office.