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alone was considered an excellent Symn-
tom. If he continues to improve it Will
be gradually. If he should grow worse
the change in that direction also proba-
bly, will be slow. This is the opinion Of
DR.. Mann. There VIII be no crisis. If he
arrives at convalescence DR.. Park ex-
presses the opinion that it will be three
weeks before it will be safe to move
him. 1t is expected that the interior
wounds will heal first. The sutures Of
the. lacerated tissue We're made 50 soon
after the bullet passed that they are
probably healing rapidly. With the eX-
terror wound it is a slower process.
The extreme optimism of the vice pres
ident and the members of the cabinet
would be difficult to overstate.
81 am absolutely confident everything
will turn out all right" declared the
vice president, and he said he based
his confidence on information behind the
public expressions of the physicians
RETURN TO THE CAPITAL.
So relieved are Secretary Gage and
Attorney General Knox at the steady i'm
provement that they returned to Wash
ington tonight feeling strongly that their
chief would recover, but with the assur-
ance Of the physicians that if a change
fer the verse should come it would be
gradual and that they would have ample
time to return. In the case OF Seer etary
Gage there was also a public reason
why he should be at his post. New York
financiers have appealed to him to relieve
the situation in the money market by
increasing deposits in nadonal banks, and
he feels that he can hardly act at this
distance from the scene # he finds ac-
ton desirable. Secretary of State Hay
is due to arrive tonight, and will remain
with the other members of the cabinet
at least for a. day or two. The devotion
of the members Of the cabinet TO their
chief is touching. All would desire to re-
main near him until the crucial period
is PASSED, and Secretary Hitchcock and
Secretary Wilson avow that only alb
solute and imperative public business will
induce them to depart before the presi-
dent is pronounced out of danger Sem
ator Hanna will also remain until the
physicians give absolute assurance that
Mr.. Mckinley will live. Controller
Dawes and some of the other eminent
men connected with the administration
expect to depart tomorrow or Wednes-
day if the Improvement continues.
ROOSEvELT's POSITION
Vice President Roosevelt has occupied
a peculiarly delicate and trying posi-
tion since the event which threatened
the presidents life, but he has borne
throughout this OrdeaI IN Sucn manner
as to win the admiration and respect of
all. 1t has, moreover, added a new
bond between the vice president and
those intimately associated with the
president and the latter are warmest in
their expressions of the manner in which
he has met every requirement of the
situation. Not for a moment has he
permitted the idea to be entertained that
there was need for considerable consti-
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the exercise of executive functions which
this would impose on him. On the
contrary Mr.. Roosevelt has been one Of
the most positive in the conviction that
the president would recover. During
the long period of Garfield's illness nice
distinctions arose as to what constituted
the disability of the president within
the meaning of the constitution; wheth-
er when the physical factors were be-
numbed while the mental faculties were
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