Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-30
HALT TAFT'S TRIPS MORSE REPORT HERE
Democrats Planning to Cut Off Reaches White House After
Travelling Expenses. President Leaves City.
KNIFE FOR OTHER ITEMSIlS SAID TO BE ADVERSE
Unavorabe
sion Under the Ban Immediate Release
SCHEDULE FOR CASH BILLS NO WORD SENT TO MR. TAFT
to
Taken Up FirstA Diagnosis Shows No
No Big CutsLi Likely.
is SAID TO BE ADVERSE
Understood to Be Unfavorable to
Bankers Immediate Release.
NO WORD SENT TO MIR. TAFT
This Fact Believed to Indicate Army
Board Diagnosis Shows No
Present Danger.

The report of the special board of army
surgeons detailed by President Taft to
make physical examination of Charles
w. Morse, the convicted banker in At
lanta penitentiary. is said to support pre-
vious reports which have been made to
the President, and is understood to be
unfavOrable to the prisoners immediate
release.
The report gives a careful analysis of
Morse's physical condition. and is said
sudden development.
The examina ton was made at the d.
rection of President Taft because of rep
resentations that unless Morse was re-
leased at once he would probably die.
President Leaves for New York.
President Taft left Washington at 10
O'Clock this morning for a day I'm Phila-
delphia and New York.
An hour after the depa rture of the
President from the city Gen. Leonard
Wood. himself at one time an army sur
geon went to the White House with the
report of the board. which had been sub
mitted to Surgeon General Torney of the
army and then passed to Gen. Wood, chief
of staff.
The White House will not telephone or
telegraph any word of thet report to the
President, but he will find it upon his
desk tomorrow il he wants to inspect it.
The probability is that the President will
not take the report UP until Tuesday and
that he will then send for the medical
experts and have them explain the con-
cluSions reached by them.
1t is definitely known that the report
does not indicate need for immediate ac-
ton on the part of the President. If a
or riofS in h1,r oft tI,of 1S<., L
er had been discovered by the board the
President would have been informed yes
terday or this morning, before leaving
the city.
Rumors About Condition.
The understanding is that the report
will state that Mr.. Morse is the victim of
several diseases that will eventually prove
fatal. but that he is in no danger of death
at this time. Unofficial reports have de-
clared these diseases to be Brights dis
ease, heart trouble and hardening of the
arteries. complicated by paralysis on one
side.
The President has several times made it
plain that he will moi grant a pardon to
Morse unless he is convinced by COM
petent medical authority that the ex-
millionaire is at the point of death and
has no chance to recover. The significant
fact that the special army medical board
prompt attention is taken by Morse 8
friends as unfayorable to their pleas.
Statement by Morse's Counsel.
Harry NJ. Daugherty Of Ohio. one of
Morse's counsel. has returned from At
lanta and states that the condition of his
client is pitiable. He says that it is i'm
portant to many interests that Morse be
allowed to live as long as possible so as
to close up business in New York that
Will be in long litigation should he die in
short time, as Mr.. Daugherty con-
siGers probable.
Mr.. Daugherty saw the President some
time ago and may see him again next
week.