The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-10
other members of the cabinet at least
for day or two.
The Cabinets Devotion.

The devotion of the members of the
cabinet to the President is touching.
All would desire to remain near him
until the crucial period is passed, and
Secretary Hitchcock and Secretary
Wilson avow that only absolute and
imperative public business will induce
them to depart before the President is
pronounced out of danger, Senator
Hanna will also remain until the ply
sicians give absolute assurance that
Mr.. Mckinley will live. Controller
Dawes and some of the other eminent
men connected with the administra-
ton expect to depart tomorrow or
Wednesday if the improvement con-
tfnues.
Vice President Roosevelt has occu-
pied peculiarly delicate position since
the event which threatened the Pres
ident's life, but he has borne himself
throughout this ordeal in such manner
as to win the admiration and respect
of all. 1t has, moreover, added a new
bond between the Vice President and
those intimately associated with the
President, and the latter are swarmest
in their expressions of the manner in
which he has met every requirement
of the situation. Not for a moment
has he permitted the idea to be enter
tanned that there was need for consid-
ering the constitutional disability of
the President and the exercise of exec
utive functions which this would inn
pose on him.
The Optimism of Roosevelt.
On the contrary, Mr.. Roosevelt has
been one of the most positive in the
conviction that the President would
recover. During the long period of
Garfields illness nice distinctions arose
as to what constituted the disability
of the President within the meaning
of the constitution; whether when the
physical faculties were benumbed
while the mental faculties were unim-
paired there was any disability as
meant by the constitution. But, for
tunately, there has been no such issue
presented on this occasion, and the
Vice President himself has been pri-
marily responsible for the avoidance
of any thought of the temporary ex-
ercise of executive functions by him.
Nor has there been any occasion for
the exercise of executive authority.
for such minor routine matter as
comes can readily be left until the
present emergency has passed.
Twice during the day and again this
evening the Vice President has called
at the Milburn residence to inquire as
to the Presidents condition. During
the afternoon call he met several of the
cabinet officers and Senator Hanna and
spent a short time with them in infor-
NAL discussion. On the streets Mr..
Roosevelt has been the center of re-
spectful attention, but he has met this
with dignity and composure. Despite
senseless remarks that he was going
about guarded by secret service men,
he has positively declined to have any
thing like a guard about him.. One of
his remarks to-day, in speaking to two
laborers, who greeted him, struck a
popular chord. They had suggested
that he might be afraid to be stopped.
mo, indeed" he replied. you men
are our protection, and the foul deed
of Friday will only make you more Wig
orous. in protecting those whom you
elect to office"
Emperor Nicholas gave happy ex
preston to the worldwide solicitude
over the President, in a message which
was given out during the day. 1t is ad-
dressed to the President. and after ex-
pressing his happiness at the Presi-
dents improvement, adds that he joins
with the universal world in wishing
SreedV recoVerV