The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-02

he thing In some particulars, While In
others II might have done moro. The late .
president was sufferer for nfy.0no days .
from the time lac was shot until relieved by
death, II we mistake not and during that F,
time Drs. Bliss, RtYnuRN, WOODWARD,
BARSEs aud BoYNTov were In constant a.
tendance upon him, and Mns. On, Epson
was his faithful, devoted, untir-
ing nurse; while DHs. HANuToS
times in attendance In consultation. The
laborer is worthy of his hire, and we be-
heye that every man should be paid for his
services In accordance with his knowledge
and skill and fidelity. Every person who
gave service in behalf of the late president
during his long illness and suffering should
be paid in full, amply and literally for that
service, no matter whether he was the lead
ing physician or the scullion who did the
drudgery of the sick room, but why should
these services be paid Tor at an cN-
orbitant and extortionate rate? Why
shoald Dr. BLISS be paid at the rate OF $500
per day for his attendance upon the
wounded president? Were his services
worth any more beside the suffering bed OF
the president of the United States than
they would have been by the bedside OF
that presidents private secretary, or by the
bedside of SERGEANT MASON, now undergo
ing trial for shooting at the spot where be
supposed the assassin Guiteau was stand
ing? 1t is an admitted fact that DR..
Bliss gave his entire attention to
the president, but was his practice
which he relinquished worth $500 per day?
If not, why pay him $500 day? We ask
in all seriousness and in the name OF com
mon sense and common reason, II 9lOO per
day would not be handsome, indeed,
princely remuneration for DRs. Bliss, REY-
BURN. and BoYNToN, and for DRs. HAMIL-
TON aid AGNEw, their expenses also being
paid, for each day they were in attendance
for consultation? One hundred dollars per
day will aggregate $36,500 per annum, and
where there is one physician who makes
the half oft in year there are five thou
sand who do not The prestige given these
gentlemen for their employment in the
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committee in its wisdom think SURGEON
GENERAL BARNES and SURGEON WOODWARD
sufficiently renume cated by being promoted
the one to the rank of maior-gen-
eral and the ether to that OF
lieutenant colonel, why should not
the reputation and the prestige
given the other gentleman by their connec-
ton with the case count for something
The names Of these gentlemen will go down
to history. They will live thrCdgh all time
| in the medical annals of the country, and
surely this is worth no little to them We
cannot understand why such a disc nina
ton should be made between MP d.. Ed
SON and DR.. BoYNToY. Neith5r o.. them
we're reckoned in the case medically
N either of them, although both pre-
Using physicians, were admitted
to consultations, or suffered 10 make sug
gestions as to the course OF treatment to bl
pursued. They we're only counted a!
nurses, ard this being SO why should DIR
BoYNToN rece we twice aa much pay as
Mrs. Epson? For cur par. Hc think Mrs
EDsoNs remureYation very disproportion
ate with that/of DIR. B.lss and the othe
physicians If they deserve the enormou
sums the committee proposes they shall D.
paid, then Mrs. Epson should have NOR
than the amount assigned to her. Again
we cannot understand why the Whlt'
House steward should have $1,000 eXtri
pay. 1t is well enough to give the execu
tive mansion employees two months eXtr'
pay, because there were extra demands
upon them, but we certainly think tn
steward should fare no better than the 9th
I er employees. We do not endorse the prop
osition to pay Mrs. GARFIELD the balanc
of the late presidents salar,
for the remainder of the cur
: rent year, that is up to Marcl
18th. 1882 That looks to us to be nlggardly
especially when contrasted with the liberia
pay to be allowed the physicians Why
not give Mrs. GARFIELD the balance OF TIT
late presidents salary for the term 10
which he was elected? Republics shoulC
not be ungrateful and they certainly
should not be parsimonious in recognizing
the services of their citizens. In our view
of the case, it is but just &c
Mrs. GARFIELD and her orphaned
children that she be paid the remainder o
her husbands salary for the term for which
he was elected, but prevented from filling
by the assassin's hand. BE strictly just Il
the physicians and others who served 81
faithfully the late president, and be Just ant
generous too to the presidents widow anC
children, deprived of their protector frien'
and supporter. We trust that these physi
clans bills will be cut down and the allow
ancc to Mrs. GARFIELD increased.