Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1901 — TO PROTECT THE PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO PROTECT THE PRESIDENT.

Senator Hoar of Massachusetts Father of Buch a Bill. The distinction of introducing in the Senate a bill for the protection of the President falls upon Hon. G. F. Hoar of Massachusetts. The bill provides “that any person who shall within the limits of the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, willfully kill or cause the death of the President of the United States, or any officer thereof, or who shall willfully kill or cause the death of a ruler or chief magistrate of any foreign country, shall be punished with death. That any person who shall within the limits of the. United States dr any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, make an attempt on the life of the President of the United States, or any officer thereof, or who shall make an attempt on the life of the ruler or chief magistrate of any foreign country shall be punished with death. That any person who shall within the limits of the United States or any

place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, advise the killing of the President of the United States or any officer thereof, or shall coixspire to accomplish the same, or who slfail advise or counsel the killing of thj ruler, or chief magistrate of any foreign country, or shall conspire to accomplish the same, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twenty years. That any person who has conspired as aforesaid may be indicted and convicted subsequently, although the other party or parties to the conspiracy are not indicted or convicted. That any person who ’shall willfully and knowingly aid in the escape from punishment of any person guilty of either of the acts mentioned in the foregoing sections shall be deemed an accomplice after the fact and shall be punishable as if a principal, although the other party or parties to said offense shall not be indicted or convicted.”

SENATOR HOAR.