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Show PRESIDENT GAINS MORE STRENGTH Continues to Improve, Bulletin Bul-letin Says; Cabinet in Sessior , By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINQ. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, Oct. . 6. News from ttie,'K "White House tonight encouraged the belief' that President "Wilson Is on the road to recovery. "The president is mending slowly," said Rear Admiral Grayson, Mr. Wilson's personal per-sonal physician, adding that he believed it reasonable to expect that the patient would continue to gain strength under enforced quiet and rest. Optimism concerning Mr. Wilson's condition con-dition spread through official circles after the issuance of the following bulletin at 10 p. m.: "The president has had a fairly comfortable com-fortable day, with a slight improvement.'1 Bicycle policemen are enforcing the maintenance of a zone of quiet around the White House and the Washington hotel, a -block away, has cut out its jazz band, which was disturbing the rest of the president. The executive office, was flooded today with messages of solicitude from all 'parts of the country and cablegrams from the heads of foreign governments and the premiers and other statesmen with whom Mr. Wilson was associated during his seven months' sojourn at the peace table In Paris. A message from the pope was received by the state department In the following cablegram from Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state: "The holy father is most anxious about the condition of the health of President Wilson. His holiness wishes and prays for his speedy recovery and would be grateful to be kept informed about the course of tiie Illness of the illustrious pa- i tlent." I The cabinet met during the forenoon at the call of Secretary of State Lansing, prepared to discuss the adoption of aiiv unusual measures for carrying on the administration ad-ministration if it should appear that the president were llkeh- to be Incapacitated for the discharge of his public duties for a protracted period. The air was cleared Immediately, how-- (Continued on Page 15, "column 4.) but sugtresUd .that only urgent matters be brought to his attention, in order that his rest be made as complete a? possible. The state of business in the departments is such that there is lit tie requiring the president's immediate consideration. Senator Hitchcock conferred with Mr. Tumulty, by whom he sent to the president presi-dent assurance that there is no cause for anxiety over the peace treaty. PRESIDENT GIS IRE STRENGTH (Continued From Pa?c One.) ever, by the report by Dr. Grayson, who assured the cabinet that Mr. Wilson Is gaining, and probably within a week or two will be able to give attention to such public business as appears to be most pressing. He cautioned the cabinet, however how-ever to hold in abeyance all matters that wo u id require consideration by the executive. ex-ecutive. The session of the cabinet was devoted mainly to a discussion of the budget which the departments ar1 now beginning begin-ning to prepare for presentation to the next session of congress in Decern her. The cabinet was caiied to consider several sev-eral questions in which more than one department is concerned. The most im-portant im-portant of these is the basis upon which the annual estimates are to be made, in view of the new services after the war. |