Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-20
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President Cleveland Slept Thirty Hours
On His Sea Trip
He Was Exhausted by Overwork and Laoh
of Rest-No Organic Troubie-His Policy
- Detailed by . Correspondents.
According TO "Holland," the New York CORE
spondent Of the Philadelphia Press, President
Cleveland is not suffering from organic diseass
or anything approaching it. In q long letter
on the health of the President q detailed re-
port is given of the famous trip by sea about
which so much has been written and which was
the forerunaer of the attack OF rheumatism,
which confined the President for some DAYS
and caused anxiety all over the country. Az
related by the correspondent. when Presidents
Cleveland boarded Mr.. Benedict's yacht Of the
Battery on the evening of the day upon which
he issued his call for the extraordinary session
of Congress, he asked immediately TO be shown
to his state room. His manner was that Of o
man utterly exhausted for lack Of sleep.
He was in his bed within half an
hour sitter he boarded the yacht and he was
the pillow. He fell into that deep, dreamless
sleep which follows exhaustion. and for eighteen
hours he did not move. When the steward
went to his stateroom in the morning he found
MIN sun sleeping. and all were instructed not
| TO awaken HIM The Oneida Was put upon half
speed, 80 that its motion would not disturb him.
The sound upon that day was smooth as .
mill pond. SO that the motion of the sea did
not awaken the President In the middle OF
the afternoon he awoke. came upon deck for
1 n aff 49,
after returned TO his stateroom and again slept
| many hours. and in the two DAYS and q half
| IN which the Oneida was upon the water Mr..
| Cleveland slept probably more than half the
time The vessel was kept at sea; the weather
being favorable. because il was believed that
the sea air acted as n healthy hypnotic, although
SO great Was the President's exhaustion that be
needed no other influence than q pillow and Q
bed 20 procure sleep.
This trip. with its prolonged sleep, did great
deal toward restoring the Presidents vitality,
but it also had one unfavorable effect in the
acute development of the rheumatism which
Turks in his system That. his physicians said,
could be subdued after he reached his cottage,
and IL was TINS subdued. Rest made it easy for
the physicians TO treat the complaint, and the
President is now practically free from thia
| trouble.
After arriving at Gray Gables Dr. Bryan
made a thorough examination OF Mr.. Cleveland.
and pronounced INTERESTINGLY that he was suf.
/
that with proper attention TO regimen there
was not the slightest cause for uneasiness. the
idea Of the physician being that the exhaustive
| work which Mr.. Cleveland has been doing was
the cause OF ans ailments.
The press correspondent furt her details the
well-known capacity for hard and constant
work which is one Of the Presidents most
marked characteristics. and speaks Of the many
times when Mr.. Cleveland has been known to
remain at his desk in constant occupation for
a series Of hours impossible for most even Of
the hardest working OF business men
NEW WORKERS UNEASY.
An interesting portion Of the article ID Q de-
tail of the manner in which the encouraging
physical condition Of the President was learned
in New York. According to Holland: The re-
ports of this exhausting labor to which Mr..
Cleveland submits himself and the alarming
| stories of his collapse after he left Washington
caused far more anxiety here among business
| men than was made apparent At last if Wa
determined by some of them to make an AT
tempt to discover the Presidents exsct condi-
ton. the information being desired not as q
matter OF curiosity. but for purely business
reasons. The president OF one Of the grestesi
corporations we have. another president this
one of a banking institution, and two or three
other business men sent responsible person
about a week ago TO those who are IN close reia-
tions to Mr.. Cleveland, asking that information
be given regarding his health. the nature Of the
trouble with winch be was reported 70 be
afflicted. and perhaps no finer compliment was
ever paid to a President than was conveyed by
that messenger who said that those who sent
him. some OF whom were republicans and soms
democrats. felt confident that if Mr. Cieve-
lands life spared the country would be
brought safely through It's present peril; but
that if the administration was 20 pass or stood
in danger OF passing to another the business in
terests would be compelled TO take certain steps
in sef-preservation, since there was no conf
} dence that the party under the leadership OF
any but Mr.. Cleveland would do those things
which are wise and healthy"
II The Presidents Policy.
The story further relates that the business
men also became convinced that the President
, was devoting unceasing attention to the fuan-
cial question 20 the utter exclusion Of al
thought concerning the tariff which he con.
sidered a matter which could well wait Ac.
| cording to the correspondent Mr. Cleveland does
not propose TO adopt the financial propositions
Of any financial party or group Of men. he 10
determined that the silver purchasing chase OF
the sherman law shall be repealed, and be will
use every recognized and partisan privilege
which he possesses 10 accomplish that. He ID
not gold monometalist; he believes the senu.
ment in the west is great that il amounts "a
universal popular opinion against the recogni.
| ton OF gold alone as money. On the other
hand. he is as strongly opposed TO free coinags
or to that suggestion Of free CON-
age which comes from the west. But ex-
| actly what shall be the financial system b
expects 90 leave TO Congress, only asking that II
shall be established IN such manner = to bring
| the eastern and western sections of the country
| together in financial harmony. He proposes to
| use his influence 20 procure such Legislation.
He insists that a system can be reached which
will forever put end 20 the friction, the
unhappy jealousies. the ordinations and re-
ordinations which have characterized the
financial relations Of these two sections Of the
country. His mind is absorbed upon that
problem. and even republicans who have seen
him say that for the time being all questions OF
patronage and the purely partisan development
of his administration have been dismissed from
his mind.
Mr. Cleveland is also credited with the opin-
ion that the financial question must be settled
without regard 10 party politics, but that the
solution must come from the united patriotism
OF the combined parties
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