The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-12

m8nd, Dull SAID IN quiet manner, and
wishing to avoid any appearance OF re.
fusing his request "The President i:
asleep now. o one can see him at pre-
sent. "intinaling that he might see him a,
another time when he was asked Then
DR.. Baxter nroke out: Il demand to sec
him. He Is my patient. I am hi-
family physician, and you have
no RICH to keep me out Of hi
room The medical gentlemen present
were 20 sstonished at this extraordinary
statement that for a moment nothi o
was ssid OF course it goes without say
physician of Garfield which be is not,
it could not have changed his position.
! Another gentleman had been called IN
attenda CT by the President, and by his
personal directions was in charge. ii in
aU., Dr. Bliss, who il very energetic
man, sAid: Il do not know anytbi q
about your claims to be his family phy-
sician, but one thing is fully certain d
that is you are not in charge, that you wi
not see the President, and that you have
no right here, one way or the other that
will be respected at present. DR.. Bax
| ter made some violen remarks at thi>
st 'ge of the proceedings, saying it was
an infamous outrage the way he was
being treated, and it is the way Bliss
always treated medical men, and he did
not know how to treat them. DR.. Bliss
| said, you know very well you are not
a physician, that you are lobbyist and
that you push your professional services
just as you are doing now regardless IF
all shame and decency, saying nothing
st all Of the c0mnenest priRciplcs Of
medical etiquette Yon force yourself
upon the attention of every official hose
influence and favor you are seeking.
You are q very ambitious man,
DR. Baxter, You want to be
surgeon general of the army; you
push every little screw possible, but
1t Is remotely probable you can overdo a
good thing. This plain talk threw Bsx-
ter into perfect paroxysm of rage. He
sprang to his feet and shouted, "You
lie." The conversation up to this point
had not been raised above the converse
tional tone. DR.. Bliss arose to strike at
Baxter. Then he suddenly thought
where he was, calmly folded his hands
and said, "You are no gentleman. That
fact, however" he continued, needs no
demonstration. Your presence here and
your conversation and your wretched
claim at this grave time indicate very
clearly yeur character" At this young
DR.. Bliss said, Father, let me attend to
this man. will put al end to this scene
in minute" He walked brisklY up to
Baxter, took him by the collar and pro-
PEELED him out of the consultation room.
When Baxter had retired the doctors in
attendance upon the President agreed to
say nothing about the affair, as it was not
pleasant episode to have mentioned at
so grave time. They argued that If
they said nothing about it, DR.. Baxter
certainly would not, but the latter COM
planned Of his treatment to two cabinet
officers, and so the affair got out Mrs.
Garfield has since denied that Baxter WIS
ever her family physician, and says be
had merely occupied the relation of
friendly caller His conduct of course
has settled forever any chance of his ever
being made surgeon general. Besides,
it is hardly probable the present incum-
bent Of the Cfice, who is one of the reg
ulsr consulting physicians. will be re-
tired by General Garfield as long as he is
President
SENATOR LAMAR.
Memphis, 9.-Appeaps Aberdeen,
Miss, special: Senator Lamar, in q
speech tonight, expressed feeling of
sorrow and regret at the attempted assas-
sination Of President Garfield, condemn
ing the act as that of q mailman or q
demon, and forcibly demonstrating the
consequences should Arthur assume con-
trel The speaker eulogized Gdrfeld's
course.
ENGLISH SYMPATHY.
New York, 9.-The Tribune, te-mor-
row, will publish the following from
London: English interest in the Presi-
dent, manifested in hundred ways dur
ing the week, continues as genuine and
universal as ever, though the anxiety is
now exchanged for hopefulness. Weekly
papers, including most of the radical
organs of working men, re-echo the ex-
pressions Of profound sympathy which
have never ceased to appear in daily
journals. The Weekly Dispatch, per-
hips the most influential Of all, says the
English people seldom have been moved
to more spontaneous feeling of sorrow.
They take the calamity which has befSl-
len their kin beyond the sea as much at
heart ar if it had befallen themselves.
LLOyd'S Weekly rem arks that the anxiety
here equals American hopes. Americans
accept the overwhelming proofs Of EGG
lands afectiouRte sympathy towards
them which lies deep in the heart in the
mother country. In my judgment,
these demonstrations of such papers,
speaking for millions of British people,
deserve at least as much attention as
those of the political and fashionable
world. The Saturday Review is the only
exception among these latter, publishing
two articles, both guarded by phrases of
conventional regret, but both ofensive.:E
Conkling's so-called statement was sent
by cable in substance to the Times and
produced an extremely unfavorable i'm
preston OF that statesman. The United
States legation and other American
centres are still beset by throngs of en-
quirers. Minister Lowell, besides mani
feststions from public bodies, royal and
other personsges, receives daily many
touching messages from private iDdiVid-
uals, American and English alike, that
Blsine's admirable and most accurate
dispatches might be more frequent. No
others are regarded with equal confidence.
The Spectator expresses the general
English feeling of admiration for the
Presidents bearing, saying that his
coursge is as remarkable as the sound
ness Of his constitution; that his conduct
since he was wounded is thoroughly
American and that he is very courageous,
full of domestic kindness and tinged
slightly with grimness and humor. En-