Show much feeling is stirred up in the flowery kingdom over successor to dowager endress more urgent than a const aution for ch na or the amalgamate Amalga mat on of the appos ng ch nese and danchus is the select on of a future ruler peking the question of the man chu succession native officials assert has become the paramount topic of deliberation at the summer palace one of the ablest foreign authorities says that more urgent than a constitution for caina or the amalgamation of the opposing chinese and danchus Is the question of an heir apparent which the dowager empress the greatest of all danchus closely identifies with the continuance and security of the dynasty the question has not been raised since the time subsequent to the dowager s deposing of prince chun s son pu chun la accordance with the protocol of 1901 when a majority of the imperial clan reaffirmed loyalty to pu chun this action caused a dang bious scandal and was regarded as an affront to the powers threatening a removal of complications A price was placed on chun s head the clan was denounced and its activity sup pressed the urgency of the question ot the uc cession and the difficulty of its set Is serious owing to the al infirmities of the dowager empress die to old age which aio complicated by threats of apoplexy and also by the condition of the emperor wao con scantly is reported to be ill he is said to be the victim of a decline which add to the poss ability of an ac aident to the throne other than that feared from anarchists and revola zionists in iier of her own precedent of ar making kwang hsu emperor it Is believed that the dowager em press will declare the heir apparent independently of the wishes of the imperial clan |