Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1925, Page 18

18. ONE-DAY PRESIDENT NOTED IN HISTORY David R. Aitchison, Senate President, Served When Zachary Taylor Skipped. “President for the biography day” Is found in of & member of the United States Senate who served in that body over 80 years ago, David Atchison, famous citizen of Mis- i, and for whom the city of Atchi- 1, Kans, is named, was President > tempore of the Senate when Zachary Taylor was to have been inaugurated | on the fourth of March, 1849, The day coming on Sunday the Old Rough And Ready Whig President refused to iieve the ceremony on Sunday and neglected to take the oath of office prior to the noon hour of March fifth when President Taylor was sworn in through the regular ceremony on the Sast front of the Capitol As Senator Atchison was President ro tempore of the Senate, and constitu- tional provision had been in force since 1793 for that officer to assume presidency in case there was a vacancy for any reason in the office of President and Vice President, Sen- Atchison being President pro wore always insisted that the failure Taylor to take the oath left in the Presidential succes the hour of noon on Marc 12 am., March making the presiding of- Senate technically Presi- United States for 24 hour a the vacaney sion after 4, 1549 1849, thus ficer of the dent of the to o'clock Provision in Constitution. constitutional authority 1793 provided, in case of office of President and for any reason, the the Senate or the House should suc- presidency dooubtful constitu- tionality and dangers Congress in repealed the old acts of Exec and provided that succession of should next pass to of States and on to mbers of the cabinet. nt Taylor, it seems, did not give much attention to the mat- ter as did the Missouri Senator, who was careful to have the fact that he President for a day” recorded in his biography Atchison was a native of Kentucky d conspicuously in the Mis- troubles just prior to Under Congress in vacaney in Vice Presid pres Spealker nt After years of in the the the tive such preside reta other m Presi the was and fig souri-Kansas the Civil War. There have been other Inaugura- t fell on Sunday, but the tion has been taken to admin- ister the oath before the actual in- auguration ceremony, so that March 5 would be the public swearing inand but a formality, repeated for the benefit of thousands who come Washington at our quad rennial occasion of Executive change or success at the head of the Gov- ernment On account of the rumors that Sam- wel J. Tilden would take the oath for the presidency on the 3d of March, 1X77 (the 4th being on Sunday), President Hayes, it is said, took the oath of office on Saturday, the 3d, and repeated the same on the 5th, at front of the Capitol The 4th of March came on Sunday the beginning of President Wil- son’s second term. He took the oath of office on Sunday the 4th, and again in front of the Capitol on the 5th. east Question Developed in Campalgn. The triangular contest”i tHe last political campalgn developed a gues- tion in the final results of the elec- toral college which suggested a print- ed compilation of matter now tn pos- session of the Congressional Library embracing all the acts, discussions and possible complications that might arise in the presidential succession This compilation is prefaced with interesting reference to Chancel- Kent's observation on .the sub- The learned American jurist Baid, “it presented one of the most difficult and momentous questions that occupied the deliberations of the Assembly which framed. the.Constitu- tion, and if ever the tranquillity of this Nation is to be disturbed and fits liberties endangered by a struggle for power, it will be on this very question of the choice of a President.” an Jor PASSING OF EBERT MAY MAKE LUTHER OR MARX PRESIDENT (Continued from First Page.) at Ebert's funeral, until after the icountry's Socialist president has been laid to Republican flags of black, red and gold, looped with crepe, line the of Berlin and Potsdam and the saddened public quietly awaits 1he morrow which will be a general day of mourning throughout the re- public for those who fell in the war. The day will have a double signifi- cance to the real Republieans of Ger- | many, who realize the nation has lost one of its giants Chancellor Luther oration at the funeral Wednes: which will be held in the execut mansion in the Wilhelmstrasse, Frau Eber request. As Germany has precedents for a presidential funeral, the officials who are arrang- ing the ceremony are having a diffi- cult task, and were unable to com- plete pl today The palace, which used as the executive mansion, is not large| enough to accommodate many mourn- | ers, but it has a large court and, if the pleasant weather contiues, seats will be arranged in the open air. Throughout the day silent crowds Etood in the street before the =an tarium where the President died, as well as in front of his home, and wwatched the seemingly endless line of diplomats, officials and, friends whe called to leave cards. .74 ) Nationalist Press Hitter. Amid a chorus of praiss of, the laté] President Ebert’s character and ‘pa-{ triotic work, some of the Natlonalist papers openiy admit they are uaable] 10 deplore oss of this “Republican and Soc The Deutsche .muum..f for exampl ys Wo are unable to spesk in SIGHaIY terms about the first president, lst mlone place a laurel wreath on ‘his «coffin, and we cannot .shy-one~word of conciliation over his grave.’ The Tageszeitung also blames Herr Ebert for the part he played during | the 1918 revolution. The:monarchist XKreuz Zeitung describes his six years in the presidency as a “period of the greatest humiliation Germany ever. had to undergo,” and adds that if a slight improvement ‘was: recently noticeable in the country, ‘it was not} due to the president, -but rather -to | his_political opponents. | The Boersen Zeitung says tlia presi- | dent remained true to Socialism to his dying moment and the Socialists, | therefore, eulogize him, but “we| others, who consider that Marxism be- | trdyed s and Brought us'td disdster, | cannot join this eulogy.” { The Socialist and Demoeratic journals pay the highest tributes to| the late president and declare his | loss is irreparable to Germany. | LONDON FEARS CRISIS. { out the republic except rest will delive: is Dy the Associated Press. LONDON, February 25.—The lead- ing organs of British opinion not ap- pearing until Monday, there is little | WORK OF SOLDIER-ARTIST. Orlental sereen, in the Whistler Glassford, World War veteran, whose exhibit opens tomo comment on President Ebert's h available, but the presidential crisis in Germany, coming after the so recent ministerial crisis both in the Reich and Prussia—neither of which could be settled except by quite unsatisfactory compromises—is viewed in political and diplomatic quarters in London as a matter of greatest gravity There are so many questions caus ing strained relations between many and her late enemics and ri quiring a aquiet, stable condition political affairs in Germany, if any peaceful solution is to be hoped for, that the disaster that has overtaken the new German republic can cause nothing but disquietide for the fu- ture, in the opinion of British ob- servers Ge a of Successor T The position is known. aggravated by the fact that there appears to be no known figure in German statesman- ship to whom fate points inevitably as successor to Ebert. Nobody pears to have the faintest whom the mantle will fall; therefore it is felt that anything may happen to make matters worse. The Weim constitution appears to have made ne provision for a definite method ¢ electing a president The fear held in political quarters in London is that under the existing circumstances in Giermany P dential election may register a ther move in the direction tionalist and Monarchist sentiments. Two names prominently mentioned as possible successor t Dr. Luther, the chancel helm Marx, the former c} the political tendencies of neither of these statesmen are such as to give confidence of future smooth progress of the relations of Germany with her neighbors. Smarting already under the delay in the evacuation of the Cologne zone, the German government has had to submit to what it regards as a further indignity “-an unaccountable delay in the publi- cation -of the report of the inter- allied commission of control on Ger- many’s alleged infringements of the Versailles tceaty in the matter of armaments. Then there ‘s the question of French security, which has assumed a posi- tion of greater difficulty through its entangiement with the question of the Geneva protocol. The proposed com- mercial treaty between Germany and France also is still in the negotia- tion stage, and all these threatening problems are likely to be affected by the outcome of the new presi- dentil election It may be said that the grave situa tion which now has arisen has only been hastened, because Herr Ebert's term of office, had he lived, would e ended in June. But, he had expressed a wish not to stand again as a presidential candidate, there was always the chance of his Fe-election, which would have avoided disturbance in the flow of political international affpirs, and tended to smooth the progress of the execu- tion of the Dawes plan. There will now be eriodl of waiting, until af Ebert’s suceessor in Ju only too likely to delay settlement of the lems Nothing has vet been here whether the British enter into an official mourning period for the dead Presidnet, but since the King had been prompt to convey his condolences to Herr Ebert's family and as the two countries are on a friendly footing sidered like- Iy that such an step will be taken. The Sunday paper: on the death of President Ebert, con fine themselves to brief eculogistic tributes to Herr Ebert's personality The Sunday Express characteriz idea upon an uncerta the electic . 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Glassford, who native of Washington, although he was born in New Mexico, coming to this city as a small boy and recelving much of his education in Washington schools, has devoted his art work -to the construction and painting of screens of unusual character. The six screens he will place on exhibi- tion tomorrow are of the type to which he has devoted the last several months. A and an is really a L The soldier- served 26 to retire 1930 and devote Army Serviee. rtist, who has already rs in the Army, Intends from the military service in his time to art. Maj. Glasstord studied art at the National School of Fine and Applied Art in Washington, the San Francisco Art | Institute, the Fine Arts Institute of | Kansas " City, and also studled under | Hitchcock, noted landscape painter of Hawail; John Sloan, Birger Sandzen and Randall Davies. For five years he was an instructor and assistant professor of the department of draw- ing at the United States Military | Academy at West Point, from which he was graduated in 1904 Maj. GGlassford was appointed briga- dier general in October, 1918, and as- | signed to command of the artillery | brigade of the 26th or Yankee Divi- sion. He was the second youngest American general in the World War, |He commanded the 103d Field Artil- |lery in the second battle of the Marne, and the same regiment in the reduc- | tion of the San Mihiel salient and in | the Meuse-Argonne offensive. He At | was wounded in September. 1918, and and |l received the silver stag citation for 1€ | gallantry In action. ma- | "rwo of the screens to be placed on | exhibition tomorrow of Oriental | derivation, while another is a pea- screen in gold, black and dark green, adapted from a window panel | | by James McNeil Whistler in the pea- | cock room of the Freer Gallery. | SILVER RIDER BEATEN. style, painted by Maj. Pelham Davis row. sad- public |him as “the shrewdq, aclous |dler who steered the German r | through stormy years of peace.” | "It continues: “His qualities were |homespun, but they served. It {will be well if Germany can discover |another Ebert to save her from her Lenins and her Ludendorffs.” The Sunday Observer says moderation and little part of what internal strength the new republic attained and the unity in which Germany survived the exceptional internal and external stresses of the past decade.” | The Sunday Times writer thinks that t | efices will count in the succ to President | that although the | most conesive G | jority of the el and so Dr. Lut a better chance EITALIANS SEND CONDOLENCE. “Ebert's good sense bear no aiplomatic ligious influ- election of the Ebert, Catholics are rman party, & tors are Protestants her will probably have than Dr. Marx ss0 r are Mussolini Instructs Envoy to Give Personal Message. Associated Press , February 2§ By the RO solini remier Mus- | ttempt to attach a rider to| the | the second deficiency appropriation | | bill, directing Secretary Mellon to|( | complete purchases of silver under the Pittman Act, passed by the Senate last session, was defeated in the Sen- ite yvesterday on a point of order. ana| Senator Phipy alled |Fado. offered the this instructed Berlin Germar evening Italian ambassador at to ex- press personally ernment tl the death of President half of the Italian government himself. Many persons today at the Germ embassy to their regret and the at_half mas Cardinal tary of eath of to th gov- deepest condolences on Ebert on be- { Republican, Colo- | rider, but Senator | expieed | Cousens, Republican, Michigan, made | German fag flew |@ Point of order which was sus-| tained | sparri, ate, upon President the papal s- learning Ebert of | a message of condole in the | of the Pope, to Chancellor | Luther. 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MOSCOW, February 28.—Russia, which through seven years of civil war, famine and revolution has become somewhat cailoused to suffering and _distress, was shaken out of its lethargy today by the revolting murder, in the Volhynia district, of four children by thelr father, who imagined that by sacrificing them he would gain heaven. The father, who is a peasant of the name of Zimbaluk, recently joined a fanatical known “Stundsts,” which forbids t wedding ceremony the ground that Adam and Eve were not mar- ried. After he had be ed in the rites of the its president, who set among the peasantry divine personage, Zimbaluk donned a white robe and, entering the room where his children were sleeping, tled their feet to the bed and th killed them with Their agonized failed to deter the his mad passion he crush of their skulls and then set fire to the house. 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