Show CHINESE S WANT Hm n THRONE Much Feeling is Stirred up in the Flowery Kingdom Over Successor Succes-sor to Dowager Empress i More Urgent Than a Constitution For China or the Amalgamation of the Opposing Chinese and Manchus is the Selection of a Future Ruler Peking The question of the Manchu Man-chu succession native officials assert has become tho paramount topic of deliberation at the summer palace One i of the ablest foreign authorities bays that moro urgent than a constitution for Chinn or the amalgamation of the opposing Chinese and Manchus Is tho question of an heir apparent which the dowager empress the greatest of all Manchus closely Identifies with the continuance and security of the dynasty The question has not been raised since the time subsequent to the dowagers deposing of Prince Chuns son Pu Chun III accordance with tho protocol of 1901 when a majority of the Imperial clan reaffirmed loyalty to Pu Chun This action caused a dangerous dang-erous scandal and was regarded as an affront to tho powers threatening u removal of complications A price was placed on Chuns head the clan was denounced and Its activity suppressed sup-pressed The urgency of the question ot tho succession and the difficulty of Its settlement set-tlement Is serious owing to the natural natur-al Infirmities of the dowager empress due to old age which are complicated by apoplexy and also by the condition of the emperor who constantly con-stantly Is reported to be ill He Is said to bo the victim of a decline which adds to the posihility of an accident ac-cident to the throne other than that feared from anarchists and revolutionists revolu-tionists In view of her own precedent of arbitrarily ar-bitrarily making Kwang Hsu emperor It is believed that the dowager empress em-press will declare the heir apparent I Independently of the wishes of the Imperial clan |