Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-31
Proposed Removal OF thu President.
WHAT DIR. BLISS SAID THIS AFTERNOON-TE
PREsIIENT AGAIN DEsIREs 1T.


PRESIDENT AGAIN DEsIRES IT.
DR.. Bliss this Afternoon said to STAR repor-
ter that the question of removing the President
was being earnestly considered. 1t has been
decided, he sait, to remove him lust as
soon as it will be advisable. The
President would be Iemoved at an early
day, he said. -he President this morning,
knowing that the physicians were talking of the
matter of removal, agaiI said that he wanted to
get away. DR.. Bliss toll him that he would be
removed the very first nDment when he was in
a condition to standit Dr.. Bliss also told the
President that he would Ike to gratify him by
sending him to Mentor, but thought that he
would first have to be mO-ed to a nearer point.
The removal would be at an early day. but closer
than that DR.. Bliss could not predict Dr. Bliss
does not incline to The salt water voyage
evidently, although he will not speak definitely
on the subject.
THE PRESIDENT BETTER
"Do you notice any gain of ilesh or strength
asked the reporter.
I'VE would not notice any gain of flesh until
1t had been going on several days. I think.
though, that the President shows more vitality
You know we have to tlm him over on his side
TO dress the wound. Tlis morning he assisted
us some in making that movement There are no
new points where pus las accumulated. There
is spot on the shoulder, but that does not
amount to anything. l do not think there will
be further accumulati,ns OF course. after a
while it is possible that title assesses may form
on the body at different points and have to be
opened, but that is onlya possibility
"How much has the dand gone DOWN."
turn hiyI, Al,.1z =
very small nOw.''
Everything is satisfadory?"
Yes. That noon bulletin shows that We
do not say much in the bulletins because there
is not much to be said, Oher than that there is
nothing unfavorable, AM everything is favor
able.''
DIR. BLISS THINKS sTIMu1.WTs SAVED THE PRES
IDENI
"Some people say that prayer has saved the
President said the reporter.
"They may think so. In my opinion it was
whisky. have received anumber of letters to-
day abusing me for using stimulants. But it
was the stimulants administered that kept him
up until the suppuratiOnOf the gland could
commence. We tried to withdraw the stimulat-
ing enemata. Then the pulse would go up and
act wildly. The administration of the stimu-
lants every four hours wOuH reduce and steady
the pulse and he would boom right along"
THE SWOLLEN GLAND
'The cause of his great weakness was the
gland, was it not?'
"It was. That gland was swollen up and was
as hard as if the flesh had been drawn over a
rock. / could not see how the President could
bear up under it until the apparently unyielding
swelling began to suppIrae Dr. Agnew said
this morning that we could not have expected
such suppuratiOn as has occurred from such an
obstinate swelling"
ALL THE DOCTORS ENCOURAGED.
"Do the other doctors think the Presidents
is satisfactory"
''They do. They say that when they come
into the room in the moning they can always
tell how the President is by the appearance of
our faces. l assure you our faces were bright
enough this morning"
"YOu do not think there is any yfurther danger
of relapse?"
% l do not. I think the President will con-
tinue to get along well and improve. DR..
Bliss Iaughingly said in colcluson that it might
be possible for the newspaper men to get up
some morning and not find ihe President in the
White House. 1t had nd been decided he
repeated where the President should be removed
to when the time should come. Almost any
change would be desirable. The question as to
where he shall go will net te decided until after
further and fuller consultation ofthe physicians.
Secretary Blaine Encouraged.
The following was sent this afternoon:
Lo,ceU, Minister, London:
The Presidents condition Is very encouraging
to-day Pulse down to 95 Lower than it has
been for several weeks. Temperature and res
piratiOn normal. No adverse symptoms appa-
rent at this hour G p.m.)
BLAINE. Secretary.
P. M.-IMPROvEMENr CONTINUES.
The President passed the afternoon up to 8
o'clock very quietly. His pulse remained below
a hundred and he rested some. The White
House was very quiet. The day so far has been
a very good one. 1t is much better than yester
day, which on the whole was a bad day.
ANOTHER SENSATION STORY CONTRADICTED.
There is no truth in the report published in
a New York paper to-day that the President suf-
fers severe pain in the side, and that he has been
cupped there. DR.. Bliss, when his attention
was called to the statement, said that it was
news to him.
THE CONSULTING SURGEONS AND MARSHALL
HENRY.
DR.. Hamilton this afternoon positively refused
to say word to any newspaper man. He says,
he can say nothing that would afford the public
any information outside Of that contained in the
bulletin, and very broadly intimated that if he
thought he could he would not say it to any re-
porter. DR.. Agnew left this afternoon at two
o'clock for Philadelphia. Capt Henry will leave
tonight for Ohio. He thinks that the Presi-
dent is on the road to recovery.
THE PRESIDENTS CIGARS.
The strength Of the cigars smoked by Presi-
dent Garfield has been brought up as an eti-
dence of the strength of his stomach Collector
Thomas, OF Baltimore, is credited by the Balti-
more sun as saying that during an interview
with the President just before he was shot, the
PRESIDENT handed his visitor . cigar of the
strongest kind and smoked two of them him.
sell Wnlle they were talking. Mr.. Roose, the
cigar dealer, set matters right IN the mind of
STAR reporter to-day. He says he has furnished
the PRESIDENT with cigars for fifteen years. and
that the President always gets the very mildest
cigars that can be found. He thinks, perhaps.
tina that the President played q Joke on Gen.
Thomas and gave him some tIlirty-four pound''
cigar that had been sent to him.
THE PRESIDENTS CHARACTER. AS A CHRISTIAN
MAN. .
KEY. r. D. Power. pastor Of the Vermont Ave
nue. Christian Church, has written letter con-
cernins the Presidents character as a Christian
man, IN which he says 'sHe has never besitated
When It was necessary to testify to his faith. He
mas iectured publicly in the christian Church.
Wlthln Two years ON the evidences of the Chris