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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4466, 20 September 1901, Page 7

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UNITED PBZS9 ASSOCIATION. BT ELECT 810

TELEOEAPH.—COVYEIOHX,

PRESIDENT WIoKINLEY’S DEATH.

REMOVAL OF THE' BODY TO CANTON.

WASHINGTON, September 18. The remains o£ the late President w«re conveyed to Canton to-day, bells being tolled all along the route. Heavy rain was falling, but thousands of persons congregated at the railway Roosevelt has gelded that the tragedy of Mr McKinley’s death eliminates^hVcandiddture for the Presidency adds —"If I fail in m y nresent duties I cannot hope for future honours. I shall fail if I give a thought beyond the actual task- ' MOURNING in THE STATES. (Received September 20, 1.2 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 19. Seventy tnousand people viewed the coffin while it wag lying in the Rotunda at Washington. . , , The town of Canton is draped. Thousands of personal friends awaited the coffin in the deepest grief. Mrs McKinley collapsed under the universal marks of sympathy, and had to be carried to her carriageThe body was on view in the Courthouse for some hours, and was then removed to Mr McKinley’s late home. AN ANARCHIST LEADER. (Received September 20, 1.2 a.m.) WASHINGTON. September 19. Miss Goldman’s bail was W at twenty thousand dollars, (about £4000). No surety was forthcoming.,

SYMPATHY FROM THE COMMONWEALTH.

MELBOURNE, September 19. The Federal Senate and House of Representatives adopted resolutions deploring the death of President McKinley and sympathising with his family and the American people, and then adjourned.

AUCKLAND, September 19 The Primate, has forwarded Uie following letter tq,tho American Consul:™ “ On behalf of the Church of the Province of New Zealand, I ask you to accept my profound sympathy with the neoDlo of tte United States of America m the loss of their noble President. The horror felt by all English-speaKing people and by the civilised world in general at the insane crime perpetrated at Buffalo on the 6th inst. wiU, we may hope, help to deter other fanatics from following the example of Mr McKinley s assassin.” _ ... . The City Council to-night passed a resolution of sympathy in connection with the death of Mr McKinley, and aecided to send a cable requesting That a wreath from the city of Auckland be placed on the coffin. OBSERVANCES IN WELLINGTON. In addition to the adjournment of Parliament yesterday, the Government offices were closed between three and four o’clock in the afternoon, ag a mark of respect to the memory of the late President of the United States. Ihe Union Jack at Government House was flown half-mast high- A salute of fiftynine anus was fired at the Piprfcea Point battery by a party of Permanent Artillery under Corporal Key. The otars and Stripes was hoisted to half-mast <m the staff at the battery while the; minute guns were being fired. Minute hells were tolled at the General Post Office. The display of bunting in the city during the past four days' in token of mourning equalled that ■ made on the occasion of the death of Queen victoria.

RESOLUTION BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

At the meeting of the Wellington City I Council last night, only urgent business was dealt with, and an adjournment was made, aJter a resolution _in regard to the assassination of President McKinley had been passed. ... The Mayor (Mr J. G. W. Aitken) said this was the first meeting of the Council after the assassination of President’ McKinley, of the United States, and many , of them thought it would be right and prppQßnlhing that they as public body should adjourn out of respect to the memory of the late presi— : dent, and also out of respect to the great nation of which he was the head. -When one stoml in the presence of death in any circumstances, it wag _. appalling enough, but when one stood in the presence of death in the circumstances under which President McKinley died, it was very alarming and very dreadful., One thing that had struck him, in reading the cablegrams which' came to hand while the President lay on his death bed. was the calmness, with which he met his fate. It struck him as being indicative of the very noble character pf the man, who knew and was prepared to meet what .was before him. _ It was in these men, who were calm in the face of' so terrible a catastrophe, that ono saw the heroes of the world. President McKinley, although exalted to an exceedingly high position, yet lived a very simple and a very unassuming life. That was a feature, not in his life only, but also in the lives of many of the Presidents of the United States. -liter urawing a comparison between the assassination of President, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, the Mayor said ho considered that the latest crime .was the worst. It wag committed by an anarchist, one of a class of men who, in their . minds and hearts, were waging war, not only against presidents and kings, but aJsc against all rule and all authority. The anarchist* had set themselves against all persons in authority, and that was a reason why what had been done by quo of their number on this occasion was very much to be da. plored. Ho moved, “That , the; Council of the city of Wellington hereby expresses its sympathy with the American nation in the great calamity whioh has lately befallen it through the death of tho late President McKinley ? and the horror in which it holds the crime which has.cut abort so,noble and distinguished a career.” . ’ ■ .

Councillor Smith, in seconding the motion, said he was in full agreement with what the Mayor had said in regard to the assassination of President Mo. Kinley. He expressed the hope that no such occurrence would ever take place again. _ v Councillor McLaren said it was some* times said that these acts were done for the good of poor people. As one who had been closely associated with such people dn > different parts ot the world, and also as one who had taken part in labour movements, ho felt that the men who perpetrated such crimes as the assassination of President Mo Kinley were the worst enemies that the workers of the world could have. He believed 'that they were the men who helped to create tyrannies which other*

wise would never exist; and he felt tnafc in supporting the motion he was only doin'* ms duty by those with whom he at all times sympathised. The motion was carried unanimously by the Councillors all standing. It wag algo resolved that a copy of the resolution should be forwarded to the American Consul for transmission to the Government of the United States. PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL. A special meeting of the Petone Borough Council wag held last evening. On the motion of the Mayor (Mr R. Mothes), seconded by Councillor Fraser, the following resolution was ordered to be placed on the minutes of the Council, and a copy of the same be forwarded to the American Consul:—“We, the Mayor, Councillors and burgesses of Petone hereby offer our deepest sympathy to Mrs McKinley, wife of fie late President of the United States, in the sad and sudden bereavement she has sustained in the death of the President, and we join in her grief, which ig shared by all nations, and express our deep sense of abhorrence at the dastardly deed perpetrated at such villainous hands.”

_ A united memorial service in connection with tho funeral of the late president McKinley will be held at flhe iJrillshed at 3 o’clock this afternoon, the ministers of different denominations taking part. The Garrison Band will at. tend.