Evening star., 1901-09-16
THE ILLUSTRloUS DEAD
ORG AIMED BODIES TAKE ACTION ON
THE LATE PRESIDENT.
Sorrow, Sympathy and Demand for
Suppression of Anarchy the
Themes of Resolutions.

at the appalling conditions which made the
| crime of the dastardly assassin possible
has found expression everywhere through
| out the land from bodies of those citizens
who are organized for various purposes
| in societies and other associations. In the
| District of Columbia, where the President
was best known and most tenderly loved,
| resolutions have been adopted by all such
| organizations. The congregations Of
! churches, fraternal, social, political pa
| trietic labor and business associations
| have expressed themselves with true Amer
| ican feeling. Sorrow at the grand mans
| death, sympathy for his devoted ana al
| ficted WIFE and detestation of the anarch-
| ism which made the extension of such trtb-
utes possible, have been the themes of all
| alike.
| OF MANY Of the bodies which took such
action President Mckinley was member:
| He was comrade of the Grand Army OF
| the Republic member of the Sons OF the
American Revolution, companion OF the
military order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, while Of other patriotic as
sociations he was an honorary member: All
the posts of the Department OF the Poto-
mac, G. A. R., adopted resolutions OF the
character described.
Sons Of RevOlutiOn. :
In the course of their resolutions the Dis
trict of Columbia Society, Sons Of the
American Revolution, declared:
And the members of this society desire
to raise their united voice in our earnest
appeal to the lawmakers of the land that
such legislation may speedily be had as
shall provide for the proper restraint and
punishment of all persons who may be in
any degree in sympathy with the spirit
which would lead man to raise his hand
to aSSaSSinate ruler.
And they would urge a measure of
great public Importance the general intro
duction into our system OF education a
definite and sufficient instruction as to
the blessings secured to our people by the
form of government under which we live,
to the end that the children of the coun-
try, as they grow up, may be patriots and
never anarchists; that they may learn to
respect ard honor all in authority, and
become living pillars in a temple of pure
and strong government that shall con-
tinue while the world endures
I'm the death of compatriot. William
Mckinley, the members of this society
| mourn the loss of wise, patriotic. and
beloved chief magistrate, who had en-
deared himself to all good citizens, not
more by his public virtues than by the
purity of his private life, and they tender
to his invalid widow their heartfelt SYM
pathy in this hour of her bereavement
Union Veterans Union.
Encampment 60, Union Veterans Union,
adopted petition to Congress which Sena-
tor Hanna and Representative Grosvenor
will be requested to present in the Senate
and House at the approaching session of
Congress. The salient suggestions incor-
porated in the petition are follows:
1. The deportation of all foreign anarch-
lists and the constant surveillance of all
suspects
Amendments of our immigration laws,
which. when rigidly enforced, will prevent
the entrance into our country of all sus-
pected of being anarchists or of belonging
to any criminal class.
3 Amendments to our naturalization laws
which will provide for the more careful in
quiry into the history and character of all
who may apply to become citizens, and the
preservation of their complete personal
records.
4. A law suppressing all anarchist meet
inSs, public or private, with proper punish
ments for the expression of anarchist Opin-
ions and sentiments, or the approval of the
assassination or attempt to assassinate any
ruler under our own or any other govern
ment. or to engage in any conspiracy to kill
any ruler, and making it a capital crime to
attempt the life of the chief executive or
any of those designated by law as his sue
cessor in office.
s. The repression Of anarchist literature
in the press any form of publication,
and of its circulation through the mails.
g. The establishment of q penal colony to
which all convicted may be sent.
T. Diplomatic negotiations with all other
nations for such international measures as
may be needed to secure cosmopolitan
system of supervision and suppression
s. Such amendments to the Constitution
OF the United States and of the several
states as may be necessary to confer full
legislative powers in the premises to the
end that the most severe preventive and
punitive measures may become everywhere
possible and be speedily enacted into law.
New York Republfcans.
The New York State Republican Club, in
it's resolutions. deprecated the spirit of
anarchism which has been permitted to
establish itself in this country, and urged
upon Congress and the several states the
need of prompt and decisive action to re-
move the great evil and prevent the recur-
renee of a similar calamity in the future.
Ihe resolutions concluded with pledge
to President Roosevelt as follows:
THAT in the successor to our martyred
President we recognize honored son of
our great state faithful republican and
a typical American. He has already been
tried and not found wanting
That in this hour and throughout the
continuance of his administration We
pledge to his excellency. President Roose-
welt. our answering loyalty and support
in his expressed purpose to carry out the
plans and policies already so successfully
inaugurated.
The West Virginia Republican Associa-
tion, through its executive committee has
promulgated series of resolutions express
I've or sorrow over the national calamity;
of execration of the crime which robbed
the country Of its lustrious chief execu-
tive, and requesting action by Congress for
the suppression of anarchy in the United
States. Members of the association will
meet this evening in the Office of Mr.. T. L.
Jefords in the Columbian building. to
formally pass upon the resolutions and to
arrange for representation at the funeral
The Junior Congress of the Columbian
University, an association of students pat
termed after the national government; the
United States Naval Volunteers Of the
Spanish American war, the Union Veteran
Legion, the Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Ellks and host of other bodies took
appropriate action.
The Confederate Veterans Association
will meet tonight to make arrangements for
participating in the funeral procession and
to frame resolutions expressing their SEN
| timents over the assassination of their be-
| loved President.
Expressive of sorrow.
AS token of sorrow over the death of
| President Mckinley, preparations were
made yesterday to drape with the folds of
mourning the pillars at the main Nichols
| avenue enerance to the Government Hos
| pital for the Insane. and also the front
| entrance to the institution at the north end
OF the administration building. DIR. A. B.
Richardson, the superintendent Of the hos
| pital who was a friend of the late Presi-