Presidential Succession

The Constitution provides for the succe ion of the Vice-President in case of the death, removal, resignation or disability of the President, and gives Congre power to provide what officer shall succeed in case of the death, removal, etc., of the Vice- President. In 1793 Congre provided that in such case the president of the Senate should succeed, and then the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This was of doubtful constitutionality, and attended with some inconveniences and dangers. Hence Congre in 1886 provided that in such case the succe ion should next pa to the Secretary of State, then to the Secretary of the Treasury, then succe ively to the Secretary of War, the Attorney-General, the Postmaster-General, the Secretary of Navy, the Secretary of Interior, and the Secretary of Agriculture. ‘ President’s March,” a popular national air composed in 1789 by Pfyles, leader of the orchestra at the John Street Theater, New York. It was played for the first time on Trenton Bridge as Washington rode over on his way to be inaugurated. Later Judge Hopkins on set the words of ‘‘ Hail Columbia’ to the air, and it became immensely popular under that name.