Evening star., 1901-05-24
PLANS OF THE PRESIDENT
HE WILL PROBABLY START HOME
TOMORROW.
COnsuItntiOn of Physicians Today t.
Determine Whether Mrs. Nc
kinley 10 Able to Start.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 24.-Secretary
Cortelyou today made the following state
ment concerning the plans Of the Pres4-
dent:
The departure for Washington on Satur-
day morning will depend upon conference
Of physicians relative to Mrs. McKinley's s
condition. This conference will be held at
noon today. If they decide that Mrs. Nc
kinley is strong enough to stand the trip,
the start will be made as scheduled, and
there will be no stop over until Washing
ton is reached. The President does not IN
tend to leave his train. No side trips will
be made, not even to Salt Lake or Den-
yer. The earnest desire Of the President
and Mrs Mckinley is to return to the
White House as soon as possible. The trip
will not be made. however on rapid time,
but in a rather leisurely fashion, in order
to lessen the burden for Mrs. Mckinley.
The two trained nurses, who have been
in attendance upon Mrs. Mckinley, VIII
accompany her to Washington.
Today will be much easier for all con-
cerned than was yesterday. The President
is down for two functions, leaving his
evening free to rest and prepare for the
journey home.
Yesterday afternoon the President re-
viewed at the Preside the 45th and 46th
Regiments, lately returned from the Phll-
ippines In an address to the men he SAID:
II count myself very fortunate to nave
been in the city of San Francisco upon the
arrival of these two regiments, that L
might join with my fellow-ctizens OF this
city in giving you welcome home, ana at
the same time to express not only my own
thanks, as President of the United States,
but the gratitude of the American people
for the splendid services you have rem
dered to your country in the past two
years. Our heart have been with you; our
hopes have been with you, and we have
realized, in large measure, peace, as the
lad
in the Philippine Islands. You went, car
rying with YOU the purposes and the spirit
and the conscience of the people OF the
United States; you carried with you the
flag which is the symbol of the best and
noblest aspirations Of free people, and
you bring that flag back with added honor
and deliver it to the government that you
served so well and so faithfully.
You come back now to be citizens OK
the country and government whose honor
you have preserved. You were citizens be-
fore you were soldiers. And you became
soldiers because you were citizens loving
your country, attached to our free institu-
tions and because of which you were will
ing to give that which is the best that any
man can give, his own life's blood. for the
honor of his country. You have done your
duty You have done it nobly, and you
come back to enter the walks of Citizenship
with your other fellow-citizens and take
the places that you left when you enlisted
two years ago.
That is one thing about American honor
that is a surprise to the world. We have
mustered great armies. The greatest army
that ever was mustered was from 1861 to
1860, and yet when the war was oVer
when Lee surrendered to Grant at Apo
mattox the nearly 100000 of men came
back to their homes, fell into quiet walks
Of citizenship. sustaining the government
for which you fought. And so you come
back as your forefathers came back, more
than thirty years ago, having done your
duty; and it is a proud thing to do duty
for your country. You come back having
done your full duty soldiers, now to do
your full duty as citizens; and l want to
express my heartfelt thanks to all of you
for the services you have rendered, and
you all the good things of life. l thank
NOu.'