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Show The Political Situation. I - The chief political interest that attaches to Vice-President Hendricks' death is involved in-volved in the question of the Presidential succession. Althongh every effort was made in Congress to pass a bill that should forever determine how the office of President should be filled in the event of the death or resignation resig-nation or inability, all measures proposed failed. CLEVELAND TO-DAX STANDS ALONE, A barrier to the seating of a Republican President in the White House. Should he die, the President pro tern, of the Senate, who will be chosen immediately upon the reassembling of Congress, would become President until such time as a special election elec-tion could be held and the Constitutional succession established. It has been the custom cus-tom before the expiration of Congress to elect a President pro tern, of the Senate as presiding officer in the event of any accident Derailing tue vice-rresiaenc. nenancKSwas urged last winter to vacate the chair for the purpose of electing a President pro tern., but this he steadily refused to do. His reason rea-son was that Arthur refused to consent to the election of a Democratic President pro tern, during his short term of service as Vice-President, Vice-President, because the Democratic party then had a majority of one in that body. Mr. Hendricks said he did not propose to permit Bepublicans now to elect a President pro tern. . II was pointed out to him that in case he should meet with an accident, the Bepublicans, being in the majority in the Senate, would elect a presiding officer, but he answered that conceding such to be the case he saw no reason of sufficient weight to induce him to change 'his determination. The consequence is that if Cleveland should die or resign before the first Monday in December there would be no President until upon the assembling of the Senate a President Presi-dent pro tern, could be elected to perform the duties of chief magistrate. When the Senate meets, SENATOB EDMUNDS, OF VERMONT, Will probably be chosen presiding officer. There is some talk of electing General Logan Lo-gan to this office, because he was the defeated candidate for Vice-President on the Bepub-lican Bepub-lican ticket a year ago; but Edmunds was President pro tern, during - Arthur's term, and if he desires the honor he will have no difficulty in obtaining it. In the death of Hendricks the Democratic party loses one vote in the Senate. This vote would have been of no particular value for the next year, but in the evenly-matched body after March 4th, 1887, its value would have been of the highest importance. THE FIFTH ON DEATH'S BOLL. Hendricks makes the fifth Vice-President of the United States who has died in the j occupation of the office. The first was j George Clinton, of New York, who died in 1 1804, after presiding over the Senate for eightyears. The next Vice-President to die in office was Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, whose funeral took place in this city in 1814, one year after his election, and whose ashes repose in the Congressional Cemetery in East Washington. "William B. King, of Alabama, was the next to follow. He was in poor health when elected, and at the time of the inauguration of Pierce, Mr. King was in Cuba. The oath of office was administered to him there by the American Consul. Soon afterward he returned to his plantation at Cahawba, Alabama, and before the meeting of Congress, died. He did not live to ever preside over the Senate. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, who was elected on the ticket with Grant in 1872, died in the room of the Vice-President at the Capitol in 1875. He was buried at Natick, Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. JUSTICE MTLLEB, OF THE SUP HEME COUBT, In speaking of the Presidential succession, said: "If Mr. Edmunds had been elected President pro tern, of the Senate at the recent re-cent extra session of that body he would now be the constitutional successor to the Presidency, in case of the death of Mr. Cleveland during his term of office, though the tenure of office of the President pro tern. can be terminated at will by a vote of the Senate." , ' , "Do you think that the sudden death of the Vice-President will give rise to a Constitutional Consti-tutional amendment denning more clearly the status of the President pro Urn. of the Senate?" "No; it is not needed. The President pro tern, holds office until the return of the Vice-President Vice-President or until the Senate elects his successor, suc-cessor, nor is his tenure of office limited to a single session, for the Senate is a body in perpetuo, not expiring by limitation, as does the House of Representatives." THE FEELING IN DEMOCRATIC CIBCLES. New Yobk, November 27. The general feeling in regard to the taking off of Mr. Hendricks is that of hearty and quick-spoken regret, while all regrets have a groundwork ia the question as to who shall be his- successor suc-cessor as President of the Senate. In Republican Re-publican circles the belief is of tenest expressed ex-pressed that General John A. Logan or Hon. John Sherman will be elected. Both Tammany Tam-many and the County Democracy will hold meetings to-day to take action, and Irving Hall will act on Saturday. Indianapolis, November 26. The flags on the publio buildings here are at half-mast this morning, and forces of men are engaged en-gaged in putting up the various ensigns of mourning out of respect to the memory of Vice-President Hendricks, who died last evening. In several of the city churches Tnanksgiving services were being turned into memorial services, and Bishop Knickerbocker, Knicker-bocker, of the Episcopal Church, to which Mr. Hendricks belonged, abandoned his Ber- vices altogether. Early this morning, Hon. W. H. English received a dispatch from the oergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate asking for information about the j time and place of the, funeral, of which he j will take charge. An answer was not re- burnea lmmeaiateiy as tne arrangements had not been made. At Mrs. Hendrick's suggestion sugges-tion a number of prominent gentlemen, personal per-sonal and political friends, called in to consult con-sult over the matter. A committee consisting consist-ing of Senator Harrison, W. H. English and Chief Justice Niblock, of the Supreme Court, was appointed to take general charge of the arrangements for the funeral and public meetings. - - ' . The body, which was embalmed this morning, morn-ing, will remain at the residence until Sunday Sun-day noon, when it will be removed to the courthouse . ' TO LIB IN STATE UNTIL MONDAY EVENING. . Local military companies and a detachment of the regular army are doing guard duty. Ihe funeral services will be held at St. Paul s Cathedral at noon on Tuesday, Dr. Jenckes, rector, and Dr. Pnltort of St. T.ia officiating. The services will be those of the .Episcopal Church, and there will be no sermon ser-mon or memorial address. The- burial will Deat Crown Hill Cemetery,- ncih of -the city. Governor Gray will issue a memorial proclamation to the citizens of the State' this evening. The State House is already covered with emblems of mourning. All public offices and business houses here will be closed on the day of the funeral. It was decided to-day not to have a post-mortsm post-mortsm examination of the remains, Mrs. Hendricks not thinking it necessary, as she is satisfied that her husband's death was the result of paralysis of the heart. THE FUNEBAL WILL TAKE PLACE AT NOON TUESDAY. The procession leaving the house at 11:45 o'olock for the churoh in the following order: Police, military companies, civic societies, the President, members of the Cabinet, United States Senators, pall-bearers, the hearse, family, county and city officials and citizens. The body will be placed in the casket on .Saturday morning. The casket is of cedar covered with blaok velvet and lined with white satin and silver trimmings. . After the funeral the casket will be placed in the marble mar-ble vault at Crown Hill Cemetery, north of the city, near Dr. Hendricks' private lot, elevated above the common level, and in the centre of which is a granite column forty feet high, plain and uncovered, except with the simple inscription, "Thomas a Hendricks," Hen-dricks," near the bottom of the shaft. Here his son, his only child, is buried. . B. H. Parks, the sculptor, will arrive from Chicago in the morning and take a oast of Mr. Hendrioks' face, to be used in making a marble bust of him. AT THE FAMILY BESIDENCE. In the large double parlors, where Mr. Hendricks was accustomed to see his friends, were many articles with which they were familiar. An old-fashioned portrait in oil, painted when the Vice-President was a young man, is on the wall, and the features have a boyish look, free from care or anxiety. anx-iety. On the table were several panel photographs pho-tographs taken recently one that was particularly par-ticularly noticeable, as having been taken on the day preceding his inauguration as Vice-President. On a stand in the corner was a collection of canes twenty or more which had been presented to him by admiring admir-ing friends, and some of them were unique in design and inscription. The library cases, in which were many valuable and rare books, were just as he had left them when he had occasion on Monday evening to look up some works of reference. THE BODY LAY IN THE FABLOB CHAMBER Up stairs, and few were allowed to see it. The embalming process to which it-was subjected sub-jected this morning has been successfully accomplished, and in the face there was a look of content and freedom from care. The features are wonderfully natural and unmarred by the suggestion of ghastliness. In the room adjoining where the Vice-President died was his private desk, covered with papers and letters which had not been disturbed, dis-turbed, and the half -written sketches of his publio and Congressional career which he was preparing for publication in the book containing the proceedings of the surviving surviv-ing members of the convention which framed the Constitution of Indiana in 1850, and sketches of its members. The decorations of the room were plain and conventional. con-ventional. and the windows were darkened, and within, all day long, sat the faithful colored servant who has been in the family for years. There was no pretentious display of mourning about th premises, only a few folds of crape on the front door, and above the bell. Just a block away the State House with its large black flag at half mast stood out in bold relief: but all the offices were closed, and the publio business for the time was suspended. Among the callers at the residence resi-dence to-day were Gov. Gray, State officers, Judges of the Supreme Court, and the committees com-mittees appointed by various legal and fraternal fra-ternal organizations. |