BRIG.-GEN. HARRIES.

CHARLES H. OURAND,
_Major and Inspector General, Acting Adjutant-General._

OFFICIAL ORDERS SENT OUT.

SALUTES TO BE FIRED AND FLAGS LOWERED AFLOAT AND ASHORE.

Secretary of State Hay and Secretary of the Treasury Gage, the only
Cabinet officers in town, held a consultation on the morning of the 13th
as a result of which the following order was issued:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, _Washington, Sept. 14._

_To the Secretary of the Navy_:

Out of respect to the memory of the President, the executive departments
will be closed to-day and on the day of the funeral.

JOHN HAY.

A similar order was communicated to all the heads and acting heads of
the executive departments in Washington by government telegraph. They in
turn issued the necessary orders for the closing of their respective
departments, not only in Washington, but throughout the country. In a
short time the large buildings were deserted, except by a few clerks
detailed to aid their chiefs in the promulgation of necessary orders.

In addition to issuing the order closing the Navy Department,
Acting Secretary Hackett dispatched the following order to every
commander-in-chief, to every navy yard, and to every United States ship,
stating simply:

It is with profound sorrow that the department announces to you the
death of President McKinley at 2:15, September 14.

The Acting Secretary also issued the following order to the naval branch
of the United States:

[SPECIAL ORDER No. 12.]

NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, Sept. 14, 1901._

The President of the United States died this morning at 2:15, in the
city of Buffalo, N.Y. Officers and men of the navy and Marine Corps need
not to be reminded of the public and private virtues of their late
Commander-in-Chief. The whole people loved William McKinley, for he
loved and trusted them.

As soldier, statesman, husband, and as a pure-minded, great-hearted
American, his fame now belongs to his country.

Under the Constitution, Theodore Roosevelt, previously Vice-President,
has become President and Commander-in-Chief of the navy and Marine Corps
of the United States.

F.W. HACKETT,
_Acting Secretary_.

The ceremonies to be observed are provided for in the naval regulations
as follows:

Upon the receipt of official intelligence of the death of the President
of the United States, the senior officer shall direct that on the
follow