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not require the presence of his private secre-
tary until IL o'clock. About 10 Senators
Frye, of Maine, and Teller, of Colorado, called
and remained about an hour. There were no
other callers this morning. He will not go
to New York until a week from to-day and
then only for day or two. :,
The president has ordered his official mail
sent to the White House, and it will be used
for the transaction of business. Inc o1nclai
force of the late president is retained, lnclud-
ing j. Stanley Brown, who will aid J. 9. Reid
in the private secretary's office. Seven ap-
pointments were made this morning, all post
masters in the territories. These had all been
decided upon previous to Garfield's prostra-
ton. The postmasers appointed this morn
ing are: w. E. Spencer, Globe, Arizona; D. l..
Cassidy, Casselton, Dakota; j. w. Madden,
Carlisle, H.; s. Y Leigh, Girard, ILL.,; Willis
ter, KY; NJ. F. Coon, Buffers, Neb.; and VIM.
Slime, Walla Walla, W. T.
SECRETARY HUNT MUST 60.
Among the cabinet officers sure to be su-
perseded is SAID to be the secretary of the navy.
In April last naval officer requested Vice
President Arthur to interest himself in OBJ
tanning a certain detail. In compliance with
his friends wishes he visited the navy depart
ment and opened the matter to Secretary
Hunt. He was treated with some brusqueness
and subsequently wrote to his naval friend that
he ha been unable to do anything to advance
his interests ana had probably been
damage to him. Judge Thomas Settle, dis
trict judge of Florida, but in 1875 a candidate
for governor of North Carolina, is billeted for
secretary of the navy. Judge Settle is pressed
as the best representative native Southern Re-
publican available for the position. He made
a canvass with the present senator, +. b.
Vance, for the governorship of North Caro-
lima in 1876, and held his own before audi
ences politically opposed to him. If the South
is to be recognized in the new cabinet Judge
Settle will be satisfactory in point OF popular
ity to the stalwart element He was president
of the convention which nominated Grant for
his second term.
THE ARMY RETIRED LIST.
Not the least pressing of department affairs
now before the president is the filling up of
the retired list of the a my, which is done by
selection. There are probably fifty officers
eligible to retirement, either by age or length
of service. There are but seven vacancies on
the list, which is limited to 400 Presidents
Hayes and Garfield used their powers in the
list rather in favor of the staff department.
The line of the army, and especially the in
fantry, now demands attention. Gen. Sher-
man favors the retirement of Col Pinck-
ney Lugenbeel, Fifth infantry, and Col
will probably be made next week. 1t is known
that Gen. Grant has long desired the appoint
ment of Gen. Rufus Ingall as quartermaster
general when Hayes took up the retirement
he wished to retire Meigs, but to do so in
volved promotion of Ingalls,, as Rucker, the
next in line to Meigs, was too old and feeble
for the position. In order to avoid the re-
fusal of Grants request and at the same time
keep Grant man out of so influential place,
Meigs was allowed to remain. 1t is consid-
cred certain in army circles that the promo
ton of Meigs will take place very soon.
WINDOW A SENATORIAL CANDIDATE.
Officials in all the departments are uneasy.
The opinion prevails that the cabinet will be
changed throughout, with the exception OF
Lincoln. Kirkwood and Window, who re-
signed senatorships to accept cabinet places,
It is thought, could succeed to themselves, as
neither Iowa or Minnesota have yet elected
senators in their places It is said that both
have already lntimated their readiness to en-
ter for the race. AS the treasury department
has long been under influences opposed TO
Arthur's wing of the Republican party, there
is more trepidation among the employees there
han elsewhere. Commissioner of Pensions
Dudley feels secure in his place.
THE DOCTORS QUARREL.
WASHINGTON, Sept. A.-The statement
published this morning, criticlsing the autop-
sy on the late president, declaring that the ball
was accidentally found in the basin among
the bowels, has been credited in part to Gen.
Swain. He desires it to be known that he
had no hand in it, and has no criticism to
make upon the case, or upon the physicians.
DR.. Woodward, one of the late presidents
surgeons, was asked in regard to the criticism
of the autopsy presented this morning. He
said that those present at the autopsy would
makesa joint statement at proper time, but
they could not stop individually to chase down
the lies in circulation. He said the operation
was performed by Professor Lamb, one who
was entirely unconnected with the case previ-
ously, and gentleman OF the highest profess
sional and personal character, and particular
ly distinguished as demonstration of anat-
omy.
The late presidents physicians are disposed
to treat the criticism of the autopsy with con-
tempt. DR.. Revburn refuses to discuss SO false
statement as that which makes the discovery
of the ball a matter of accident. DR.. Bliss says
the ball was not found rattling around in the
bottom of the basin. It was found IN sta,
and was carefully dissected from its last rest
ing place. It was thoroughly encysted, beng
covered with a smooth, nearly transparent
deposit of mucous tissue. It had done no
possible harm for weeks, in fact, scarcely any
| since it stopped where it was found. Its
smooth surface had long since ceased to be an
irritant of the surrounding tissue. The other
statements in the article were not worth no.
ticing. Prominent physicians here, upon
being questioned to-day, are of
the opinion that heroic surgery
could not have saved Garfield. His wound in
the light of the autopsy, was fatal one.
Viewed in the light of the diagnosis upon
which the case was conducted the president
ought to have recovered, and the confidence
of the surgeons, up to late date, was fully
warranted by the supposed track of the ball
The fact that the president lived for seventy.
nine days after wounded, as known now, will
always be remarked as one of the most re-
markable triumphs of medical skill in the
treatment of wounds and disease. A detailed
statement of the autopsy is beng prepared al
the army medical museum by Prof. Lamb. as
sisted by Drs. Barnes and Woodward 1t will
be published by the medical department o.
the army.
WASHINGTON, Sept. "a DIR D. Lamb, o.
the medical museum, who held the knife ii
the post mortem on the late President Gar
field, says of the bullet that the report of the
autopsy issued by the surgeons was correct
and true; that nothing was concealed or helt
back and also that the wound was necessarily
fatal. The attempt of several doctors OUTSIDE
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