Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-24


ures to secureHis extradition. To such papers
| issued on the governor general of Canada the
signature Of the President was essential. and
the eXtraditiOn warrant for the arrest of the
pretended priest was the paper signed by the
President the 10th inst 1t is now being
| executed by Mr. Willis as the messenger of the
| nation and state, and the return of the convict
to his old quarters is expected shortly.
SENATOR BECK ON THE COURSE OF THE DEMO-
Gratis.
special to the Milwaukee Republican from
| bayfield,, Wis. gives an interview with Senator
Beck OF Kentucky. with reference to the course
that democrats should take i'm case of the death
| of President Garfield. Senator Beck said 1T
would be time when love of country should
| rise above all party questions. AS to my own
course would be in favor of some conservative
| republican, say Henry II. Anthony, of Rhode
island. for the position of president pro TEN. OF
the Senate. and thus avoid any inducement for
| any insane person or political fanatic to desire
the death Of Mr.. Arthur. In such a contingency
this would be graceful recognition of the fact
tilat under the great calamity which had befallen
the nation the intensity of party spirit and the
eagerness for spOils were for the time forgot
ten.'
Reasons for Hope.
THE SENIOR CONSULTING SURGEONS VIEW OF
THE CASE.
From the Philadelphia Press of To-day
Dr. ID. Hayes Agnew. the senior of the con-
sultlng surgeons, was to have been relieved at
the Presidents bedside yesterday by Dr. Hamil-
ton, and after the morning examination he left
the Executive Mansion for Philadelphia To a
Press reporter. who found him on the sunny
lawn OF his home at HaverfOrd late Yesterday
afternoon. the eminent surgeon seemed in bet
Ter spirits than at any time since the unfayorable
change in the Presidents condition more than
week ago. He asked what the noon bulletin
from the White House had contained, and added
that there was at presen>very little to be said
In addition to what the attending physicians
regularly reported of the Presidents condition
The public, he said. had been lead within day
or TWO to magnify the new danger the President
was IN and to fear sudden change for the worse,
wmch the physicians had not looked for. Reply
ing to the assertion of his visitor that MANY per
sons who held the Presidents recovery very near
at heart had never given up hope until now, Dr.
AgneW said it was equally true that many people
nad hardiy realized before now that the President
was very badly wounded, and that the injury
might almost at any time have caused his death
1t was only within short time that the wound
mad passed its most aggravated stage a stage
which was inevitably attended with great weak
ness and debility, followed by period of almost
complete prostratiOn.
ONLY A QUESTION OF RECUPERATIvE FORCE,
lit is necessary" said DIR. Agnew for a
patient so wounded to reach the bottom of the
ladder before he begins to ascend it again to the
high ground of restored health. That period of
complete prostration through which he is pass
stomach. That has been partially restored to
strength, and now it is question of the staying
powers of the President and of his recuperative
forces whether he shall advance toward conya-
leScence.'
Secretary Blaine, in his official disnatches
last night, spoke of the Presidents exhausted
ana enaciated condition, and said plainly that
MS 1aliure TO regain strength was the one fea-
ture Which gave special uneasiness and appre-
nension is this extreme weakness which the
Stntn rnFpr to- ,%,l 4.
prolonged solely 10y the stOmachic trouble of the
past ten DAYS 2"
THAT and septicamia. The amputation of
limb IS followed by sort of wound fever. which
is sometimes called surgeons fever. The Presi-
dents wound has caused this same continued
low fever, which the whole system is fighting
against and which will decrease if the stomach
continues to receive necessary nOurishment.'
There are no indications of malarial fever?'
Not any. With particular care have looked
out for that. There are no traces of malaria at
the White House, nor could find that any one
who had ever lived near the Executive Mansion
had been affected with it in the past The sick
room is perfectly comfortable and healthy. The
temperature may be reduced almost to any de-
gree by the refrigerator apparatus. and the
chamber where the President lies is by far the
most comfortable place that have been in at
ALL"
Are there fears of new complications from
the swollen parOtid gland? Dispatches from
" 1t may become necessary to open an abScesS
II the Inflammation develops to that point but
1t would hardly be called an operation. The sore
ness came from the impoverished condition of
the blood, but the danger of the present niiam
nation from that cause has been magnified by
unofficial dispatches"
1t has been stated that the Presidents men
tai faculties have at last succumbed to the
assaults OF the wound and the failing strength of
the system, and that his mind has become par
TALLY if not wholly Obscured"
NO MENTAL ALTERATION
DIR. Agnew replied that the patient was very
weak and emaciated. but that his mind was
quite as clear as it has ever BEEN He was the
lrst to know the result Of the physicians exam
nation which precedes every bulletin. He talks
very little to his attendants, but no one in the
slck-roOm knew better than he what was going
on about him. All that he says is spoken as
nationally as DR.. Agnew was himself talking at
that moment
1T has been stated, too, that the attending
physicians withhold from the public many dan
room ?"
1T is not true" said DR.. Agnew. ''that the
physicians know much more than is commune
Gated through the bulletins" From private
interviews ~ with the physicians correspondents
at washington, he said, had gathered hints of
new complication in the Presidents illness,
as IN tne case of septic9mia, before it had been
announced In the bulletins. Correspondents
jumped at conclusions. The physicians did not
conjecture anything. Septicamia was an
hs hoencea IN private dispatches several hours
before those dispatches were indorsed by the
You may say" concluded Dr. Agnew. 'that
tne case Is by no means hopeless that we do not
anticipate any sudden change either for the
worse or better; that our hopes are based ON the
recuperatlVe power of the President and the re-
stOred strength of his stomach to bring renewed
vlgor, and II in the end his Improvement is per
long one" '
Dr. Agnew spoke guardedly and with that re-
serve which the distinguished surgeon has shown
from the frst, and which has given SO much
weight to every encouraging word that he has
vOuchsafed since his first summons to the Presi-
dents bedside seven weeks ago. He will not
return to Washington until Saturday. unless he
is summoned thither by the attending physicians
in the meantime.
Rank Of Army Oaicers.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALS REVIEW OF THE
QUESTION.
The Secretary of War having referred to the |
Attorney General for his opinion, the |
question Of rank between officers of the
same grade and date of appointment upon |
which previous opinion had been given by |