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Show PRESIDENT WILL NOT PARDON C.W. MORSE WASHINGTON'. Dcr. :M -U was announced an-nounced at the While llouso tonight that tins report of the army medical ofj-tlcern ofj-tlcern who hav? examined diaries IV. Monjc, convicted New York bJ.ukcr. nerving nerv-ing a sentence In the Atlanta federal penitentiary, does not warrant Immediate interference by the president, and the pardon will not be granted at this time. The physicians made a. phyalcnl examination ex-amination of Morse In the military prison at Fort MePhnrson. where the banker ib being treated under guard. They also studied his? mental condition and "transmitted their findings to President Presi-dent Taft through Surgeon General' Tor-n Tor-n ey yesterday. . The physicians tlnd Morse is suffering from' ai teclc-soholorosis. valvular troubl.j of the heart. P.rlght's disease nnd has but recently suffered an uculc' atlack of couscstlr.ii of the kidneys. They found no paralysis. The doctoia pronounce Morse's condi tion incurable, but do not expect immediate im-mediate death. Their recommendations 3i-o such that President Taft found no reason to depnrt from the attitude ho has assumed In thu Jloinc case. It In generally understood I'rcJildonl Taft Is unwilling that Morse die a prisoner, pris-oner, but he does not Intend to grant tho pardon until he Is convinced the prisoner la dying. |