| Interview with Senator Hanna      Buffalo, Sept. 7.—Senator Mark A. 
              Hanna was seen by a representative of the Associated Press this 
              afternoon, a few minutes after he left the bedside of the president.The senator requested that a denial 
              be made by the representative that he had sent a message to his 
              son, Dan R. Hanna, stating that President McKinley’s condition was 
              alarming.
 “I have sent no message to Cleveland 
              or any other point in the country, regarding the condition of the 
              president, other than the official bulletins issued by the physicians,” 
              the senator said.
 “To forestall any report that may 
              obtain circulation, I wish to state now,” he continued, “that no 
              one is to blame for this terrible affair. The exposition officials, 
              the officials of the government and the local officers did everything 
              in their power to guard the person of the president, and no one 
              is responsible in the slightest degree.”
 “Has there been a meeting of the cabinet, 
              senator?”
 “No, there has been no meeting of 
              the cabinet, informal or otherwise, and I sincerely believe that 
              no emergency will arise that will make such a thing necessary.”
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