New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-21

VIC believe that the people, though they would
4 be grateful for any opportunity to prove their
feeling, have desire III this matter but to see
! the wishes Of the Presidents family respected
+ and would really prefer that there should be no
series OF funeral pageants, such there was at
the death of Lincoln. Then the extra, agant
3grief OF the country at the sudden blow which
had befallen it needed some outlet. The
funeral procession wound its way slowly across
the land from Washington to Springfield. fol
lowed by the tears and lamentations of millions
before 1t was ended, the spectacle became
pathetic IN new sense, with its long holding
back OF the poor body from its restng-place
There need be- and will be- no repetition of it
now The arrangements for the Presidents
funeral remain as announced yesterday
Whether living or dead, he belonged to the
scountry, but whether living OF dead he be-
longed IN a higher sense to his devoted wife
and children. and his aged mother. The dead
is theirs 1t is fitting that, so far as it is posi-
bic, the privacy of their great grief should be
1undisturbed The people who have watched
Tor eighty days i'll the spirit at his bedside, can
follow him to his tomb in their prayers.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Presidents death removes the scruples
which many honestly, and perhaps wisely, en-
tertalned respecting proposition to make a
large gift OF money to the family of a living
Preside t. Now there will be no question as
to the right and duty of the country to insure
provision for the family OF one who was slain
In her service and for her as truly as if he
had fallen on the field of battle. Subscrip-
tons were received yesterday of 49,, 900,
making $4,000 thus far subscribed Sub
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cities, and the original amount named of
$3.50, 900 will doubtless soon be exceeded. II
ought to be said at the outset, however. that
whatever is done now by private action should
not affect at all the future course of Congress-
Ii the precedent has never been squarcly set
/; that the family of President dying in Office
become the wards of the Nation, the time has
lcome to set it, and Congress should take
prompt action upon the subject There is GER
family no good reason why the rule which is
applied to the case of a Congressman should
be checked at the death of a President The
consideration of this matter brings to
the mind one pregnant reelection. James A.
Garfield died, having attained the highest
honors a country which is the hope OF the
world had to bestow, and he had not accumu-
lated, at nearly fifty years of age more than
$4,000 worth of property. Like Agassiz he
had been "too busy to make money!
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The right of the New Jersey authorities FOL
claim Guiteau as their prisoner seems clear
enough, but it is not expected that they will cx
ercise it. A law of the State provides that
whenever person shall be "fcloniously
stricken or poisoned upon the sea or at any
place out of the jurisdiction of the State. and
shall die OF the same within the Staten the
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there exists ample jurisdiction to punish the
crime in the District of Columbia, where il WAS
committed-and the best authorities are clear
on inns point-lt would be worse than useless to
attempt a change of venue to New jersey. Ill
would involve the holding of an inquest at
Elberon, and the detention of the Presidents
remains, with the transfer of Guiteau from
Washington, and the great danger of an out
break against the assassin, which would be n |
National scandal. Add to this that the chief
practical effect of such change would be to
add to the distress of the late Presidents
family, and the reasons for not ATTEMPTING il
are numerous enough. Jersey justice is an e,-
celent thing, but Districv of Columbia Justice
will no doubt be sufficient. The action of the
Jersey authorities in waving the coroner's i'm
quest doubtless shows that there is no intention
OF making an absurd demand for Guiteau.
There need be no fears, either, of failure TO
convict on technical grounds. The wisdom of
the best authorities seems TO be summed nm
IN the words of Wharton, "Mur(er. like all
other offences, must under the common law he
" inquired of in the county in which it was
" committed.n
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Inc intense popular interest in the medical
features OF the Presidents case will cause the
report OF the autopsy to be read everywhere
The ball was found below the pancreas. about
two and half inches to the left of the
spine, and behind the peritoneum. The pan
creas, the unprOfessional reader NAV be
glad to be told, is gland deeply seated in the
abdomen, lying transyerSely on the spinal
column between the three curvatures of the
duodenum which is the upper part off
the intestinal canal connecting with the
stomach; the pancreas lies behind the
stomach, and to the right of the spleen
The surgeons were, therefore, apparently
somewhat In err or as TO the precise location Of
the ball. They were doubtless misled bv the
direction of the long suppurating canal, which
was supposed during life to have been the
track of the wound but which is now found
to have been caused by the burrowinc
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