Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-09-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gaselte.
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lCorrospor dence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. September
A cablegrsm was received at the
Adiutaut Generals Office this morning
from Gen. Chsffee dated Manila, Philip
pine Islands, expressing sympathy and
solicitude for the President from the
army 10 the Philippines, and one from
Judge Taft also expressing sympathy.
Secretary Cortelyou sent the follow
ing bulletin to the White House this
morning dated Buffalo, 9:20: "The
President passed fairly good night and
DO serious symptoms have developed.
Pulse 146, temperature l02. respiration
"a" The dispatch is signed ny Doctors
Rixey, Mann, Parke and Wandin. A
dispatch from Maj. SymoDs, the army
surgeon stationed ct Buffalo, dated 10
o'clock this morning was received by
the Adjutant General as follows: "Presi-
dent resting comfortably. No uOfavor.
able symptoms have developed. Presi.
dent suffers no pain except when he
breathes deeply. Pulse 120. Looks well;
feels as well as could be possible under
the circumstances. Doctors speak en-
couragingly." A dispatch was also re-
ceiyed at 1l:20 from Capt. Wiser, COM
handing the Seventy-lhird company
coast artillery at Buffalo, which after
discrediting the operation performed
Yesterday says: Doctors say that II
peritonilis does not set in within the
next 60 hours the President will re-.
cover"
"Iu case OF the removal of the
President from Office, or of his death,
resignation or inability to discharge the
powers and duties of said Office, the
same shall devolve upon the Vice
President" So says paragraph 6. sec
ton /, Article / OF the Constitution of
the United States. Under the terms OF
this article az soon as Mr.. Roosevelt
shall have been properly advised Of the
Presidents "inab lily to Discharge the
powers and duties" of his Office, he will
undertake at once to discharge, 10 a
provisional way, such duties as may
devolve upon him. There will not be
much during the remainder OF the
congressional recess except Ger.
tain iUi-pensable routine functions.
Should President Mckinley die, the
Vice President would succeed to his
Llace Immediately. The mode of sue
cession to the presidency was provided
10 a law the necessity of which was
made evident by the assassination Of
Garfield. This law provides. among
other things, that if change In the
presidency should occur while Congress
is not 10 session, or if it would not meet
within 80 days, that it should be the
duty of the new President to con-
vene Congress in extraordinary ses
sion, giving 20 days notice of the
time OF the meeting. The new
law does not provide success
sion to the vice presidency. To the event
Roosevelt should become President,
there would be no vice president. As
at the time of Vice President Hobars's
death, the Senate would simply select
new presiding officer, who would act
as such aud be known as such without
possessing any other powers, and with.
out placing him in the line of succession
to the presidency. The next in that
line, after the vice president, is the
Secretary OF state, then the Secretary
Of the Treasury, Secretary of War, At.
torney General, Postmaster General,
Secretary OF the Navy, Secretary of the
Interior. The law was passed before
the Office Of Secretary Of Agriculture
was created.
The State Department has received
over 200 kilograms OF sympathy and
coincidence from heads OF foreign State
d partments, ambassadors, ministers,
etc. The regular Marine Band concert
on the White House grounds, which
was to have taken place this afternoon
has been ordered postponed.
Justice Anderson, on behalf OF the
bar association of the District OF Column
ola, this morning adjourned the District
Court out of respect to the President.