Show TH pa presidential succession A READER of the desiring information on an important subject submits the following i I 1 after the absurd rumor of the shooting of president cleveland evelond Cl at kansas city missouri the question was asked by bv a great ost many mady is As to 0 what tile the effect of his fr death would be whether there was any ono one to step directly into the place whether some oleu would have to be chosen and whether or not there would be an interregnum in any event 1 I 1 and doubt le s the others would be pleased to have an opinion from the NEWS on oa the matter the situation would in the ih event of the sudden sadden demise or resignation oi of the present executive Euald tive be very or I 1 i aey etal I 1 casoni ea solid soni apart from the misfortune its itsell I 1 but b at none of those suggested above would figure gure the te process of gr apin from one ane chief r to b another Js is ali a al i ways wi ametter of great grast importance aud and for that reason is invested with ono con Wd erable ceremony solemnity even abea the change occurs under the th forms and circumstances duly provided by Is law and well understood vy by the average ai 4 izoa ye W p are ar e in a peculiar not to say paradoxical situ n abia this subject for or represent wei we present to toe cae abrl the spectacle of an interregnum every now and then and theeb the ex isains fact of there no such thing in the language or meaning of our charter an interregnum has refer euce anceto to monarch feie between kings 9 where it happens only by violence since while things are in ia their cormal state the atie sovereign never dleo dies the personality like commoner clay goes tience but the kings kingship bip elivea alvea and I 1 passes to the successor previously provided ded for and always in readiness fo for ant it upon the breath forsaking the body and of coarse we have nothing of that kind in the he united states we recognize and the law recognizes no man at tue lue head of the nation woo has not taken the prescribed oath and thus we see that there is always in emergencies void between the outgoing of one maa insa and the incoming of ef another it ic may be generally is of only a few minutes or at the most lost hours durat ioui but during that space the country is without a president this is not an interregnum it to is a blank absolute vacancy a time in which so tar far from partaking of monarchal methods even in name we ex hibib our republicanism or rather democracy more strongly than at or binary times since we are without a leader and are moving along in the current ot of our destiny with no other mortal guidance than our patriotism the ta elefson lepson of the past and the sound judgment of the present ir this is a sublime picture but it would not nolt last long i it is fabe fact that the th vold void is ouch brief dar duration altion and is so easily filled that makes as tire re dardat gard it so lightly almost toe fore we are conscious ot of thea fact that we are moving along aloag of our political momentum a leader we have a new one and the he wonder of an hour ago relapses aaa lato into the matter of coursie of now ft pose though that s uch a eld critical period could i be prolonged oven even twenty four hours talat might make a vast dif difference terence one week of it might disrupt the nation alter a brief experience like that which poor is now undergoing I 1 jt 11 The there would be bea a person take up the leadership of the people beote if president Cl cleveland evaland should from any cause lay it down doan that man an is the president of 5 the united senate J enalls of kansas As the vice president do de jure is tv ex oP president resident of the senate so esthe lutter latter dejure de jure the ex vice af pf dent when that office officer is tr fram cause out of the place upon rna rec log ing authentic news that cleveland was dead emoor or had bad feigned it would uldie be mr mra ingalls duty tp tr go eo at onte once before the most mos accessible judge of a court of record and W a 90 ath n as president of the united tit bestrom which time he be would be the if there were no such judge jud e he could cald go before a justice 1 of the per peace e and if none of that class could he found in a few I 1 walk a notary public buld do tae T ae emergency femer gency no nt t admit 01 ol delay while the dignity and the proceeding demand judicial functionary within reach reachie be called in to administer the oath here arises the most moat important point of all sup suppose pose mr cleveland abid andar wr ingalls should die simultaneously corcio o would then be president till progress meets nobody we would surel he in for it in such an emerl eberg ty and while such a thing is i u ly improbable lc it to is not possible and no ino provisions hayet 0 made to meet it two weeks later it would make no deference dle rence lor for 1409 there would be a speaker of of the jadw which is tot not the case now and j wn the death or other disqualification of the presiding officer of the senate the speaker would become the president s |