Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

1 AMONG THE CABINET The Cabinet officers one and all are mos | confident They attend to their duties witt the full assurance that there IS no lmmedlat l danger and that there are signs of recover. I ahead Their calls at the White House ar l regular but short. This evening as usua
 they have been there with their wives. MT | Phillips of Mentor, who has been spend1n!
 |. few days at the White House, with Presi l dent Hinsdale, pr. Boynton and Marsha
 Henry, left for his western home this morn ing bearing loving messages from the Pres1 dent and family to the Presidents mothe and the younger boys at the Mentor farm together with the latest intelligence of hi l condition which will cheer all hearts
 DEVICES FOR COOLING THE SICK BOOM. 1 The idea has gone abroad that because SC many experiments are being tried to improve | the atmosphere of the Presidents room that l it must be in fearfully dangerous condition Such, however, is not the case. The atmos phere is good and the President'sprogres has been in no way retarded. The physicians
 not now satisfied with any of the appliances so far tried in reducing the temperature ol the room. The original apparatus of porous cloth and ice though is still in the room and has done good service for the past two or three days. All the inventions of this kind that are received here given fair trial in the extreme northwest corner of the house on
 
 cooling apparatus which was ordered from
 Boston arrived this forenoon and was erect
 ed in the basement but found to be unsatis-
 factory. It was worked by electricity. but
 sufficient force could not be secured. A bat
 tery from the Western Union telegraph wires
 was turned on, but did not furnish sufficient
 force Mir. Jennings of Boston, who came
 with the apparatus, left today with it.
 This forenoon Mir. Childs, of the government
 printing office, brought up machine which
 was used for cooling the press room.
 The only objection that was found with it at
 the printing office was that it made things too
 cool The doctors do not want to put int o operation any plan that in cooling the room
 would cause drafts of cold air to pass upon the President All those appliances which seem that they might be successful in lower ing the temperature will be tried in General Swain'sg room. Dr. Dorsey, 8 celebrated mining engineer of Boston, has suggested that the same method be employed in fore ing air into the sick chamber as ably considered and he was given author ity to use the engine now employed in hoisting stone at the new State department building in putting his plan in operation. This engine is over LOGO yards from the White House. Machinery for exhausting the air in the sick room and replacing it with fresh air will be put in operation soon as possible. Secretaries Blaine and Hunt are taking great interest in this proposal. The latter has issued an order to Commodore Pat terson, conlmandant of the navy yard at Reading, directing him to place under the dis posal of MT. Dorsey every article of machin- cry for which he may make application and also assign to duty under him a skillful engi- neer machinist with such other assistants as he may require; also directing him to obtain all necessary transportation of material and men MT. Dorsey may require, and they must be furnished without delay. The work of putting up the apparatus has already begun and the experiment will be tried tomorrow Meanwhile the Presidents room is comfort able, but capable of being made more so.
 GUIrEAU AND HIS MENTAL CONDITION.
 Guiteau, who is still at the jail is provoked because his victim has not died, and is anx- ious for all possible notoriety. Day by day testimony is given by those who have known him that he is not insane. The substance of these opinions is summed up in that of Dr. Bricke of London, Ontario, asylum, who says he believes Guiteau to be in full posses sion of his mental faculties but is a moral idiot, incapable of any feeling of affection and utterly destitute of conscience. He should be killed like 8 mad dog, and is dan gerous to be at large. There are a few de- tectives who yet cling to the theory of a con- spiracy, but who can i've no reason for the faith within them other than to look wise and
 
 now scouts the idea of a conspiracy, and so does Chief Brooks of the secret service. The district attorney too scouts the conspira- cy idea but holds it his duty to attend and investigate each and every hint and sugges- tion. His close and scrutinous examination and investigation is for thepurpose of vindica- ting parties who have been lnslnuated as par ties to the deed He says that he is perfectly convinced that it is an individually planned and an individually executed crime, and the only individual connected with 1t is Guiteau. The opinion of the chief of the secret ser vice was asked to-day in regard to the theory of conspiracy. Major Brooks said that the theory has been exploded. In regard to Guiteau Chief Brooks said ''He is an eccentric man, man who would be a fanatic about any subject he might dabble in He would go to extremes. I don't think that anything he said to me indicates irration- ality. He is as responsible as you or I am. An insane or a monomaniac rather exc1tes ones pity. He excites antagonisnl. One's disposition is to argue with him. When one advances an argument that baffies he seems to realize that his position is untenable and says, don't want to argue with you you can't con- vince me and I can't change your views " The papers found on Guiteau have not all been made public yet. The character of only 8 few of them is known. One of them is a campaign document entitled s'James A. Garfield and ". s. Hancock y This he claims to have written and afterwards delivered as a speech i'll several western towns. It was in favor of Garfeld's election, and for this service he claimed a consulship in Austria. Other papers found in the package set forth that the purpose in spired in him of killing the President was to unite the Republican party, that it was pc litical necessity which would be recognized by all. Re had but twenty cents on his per son, two silver ten-cent pieces, which with the pistol and papers were placed 1n the drawer of Lieutenant Eckloff's s desk ,and while that officer was absent from the office to &C., company the assassin to jail Colonel Cork hill called at police headquarters and took all the articles away with him. They have not even been turned over to the property clerk nor labeled, and consequently there is no police record of them. The pistol was not taken from the prisoner by Kearney, who first laid hands on him.
 ANOTHER FREAK OF THE ASSASSIN.
 At about 10 a. m. to-day lady dressed in black and apparently about forty-five years old called at the City Hall and inquired for District Attorney Corkhill. As he had not put in an appearance yet the lady was given a chair in the rooms of the Bar association. She there talked freely of her mission, al- though she positively refused to reveal her name. She said that short time before the Morey letter while she was writing and speaking for Hancock, Guiteau and two oth- CTS called on her at Chicago and offered her a lot of sensational writings to be used against Garfield. She refused to pay for and accept the papers, as she did not believe they were true or could be made use of and did not like the looks of the man anyhow. Her object in seeing Colonel Corkhill was to see if she could not connect these two men with Guiteau. She exhibited one of Gu1- teau's cards, which she said had been given her at the time spoken of. She was after wards closeted with Corkhill for an hour or so but the result of the consultation he re- fused to reveal
 TELEGRAMs OF SYMPATHY.
 Various other dispatches received and sent were the following:
 1.-The people of Freeport, H., fully realizing the odum of the insane conduct of quondam resident of this city in attempting to assassinate General Gar field, devotedly hope and pray that God in his good ness may speedily restore the President to health and loving country The hearts of all classes ages and parties go out in condemnation of the dastardy deed and in love for and sympathy for the good man stricken down and now lying deaths portals and with affection and admiration of the noble wife so herocally nursing back to life his beloved com panion. The community also deeply sympathizes with the family of the late L. W. Guiteau, whose standing in this city is second to Business has been to large extent neglected since the shooting and the latest bulletins waited for with impa- tience and read with intense The favor