The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-04
.HONORS FOR DEAD SOLDIERS
EXECUTIVE ORDER ISSUED BY
THE PRESIDENT.
Directs That Fitting Military Honors
Be Paid at the Interment of Bodies
From Cuba.

Washington, April Arrangements
have been practically completed for the
funeral services on the occasion of the
retnEermeng in the Arlington cemetery
at o'clock Thursday afternoon Of the
remains of about $50 soldiers and civil
ians who lost their lives as a result of
wounds or disease in tie campaigns
Of Santiago or Porto Rico. The services
will be of the simplest character, being
confined to, the commitment service
conducted by Post Chaplain Charles
w. Freeland who has been summoned
here from the military post at Fort
Monroe for that purpose. Fill military
honoIs viii be paid the memory of the
patriotic dead, and all regular troops
in this vicinity, the district national
guard and a battalion of marines will
participate in the ceremony at the Gem
etery. Colonel Francis L Guenther of
the Fourth artillery will have command
of the military escort exercises. The
remains of $50 of the heroes of the war
have already been deposited in tents
near the spot selected for their inter
ment, and it is expected that the re-
naming 200 bodies vii be brought on
from Jersey City tomorrow or next day.
The president and most of the officials
of the administration in this city will
President Mckinley today issued the
following executive order in connection
with the interments:
1T is fitting that in behalf of the ma
ton tributes of honor be paid to the
memories of the noble men who lost
their lives in their country's service
during the late war with Spain. 1t is
the more fitting inasmuch as in conso-
nance with the spirit of our free insti-
ftIff ri IN, n1,nr1 TO f1aO
exalted promptings of patriotism, those
who were sent to other shores to do
battle for their country's honor under
their country'S flag, went freely from
every quarter of our beloved land. Each
soldier, each sailor, parting from home
ties and putting behind him private in
tereStS in the presence of the stern
emergency of unsought war with an
alien foe, was an individual type of
devotion of the citizen to the state
which makes our nation strong in unity
and in action.
Those who died in another land left
in many homes the undying memory
that attends the heroes of all ages. 1t
was fitting that with the advent of
peace, won by their sacrifices, their
bodies should be gathered with tender
care and restored to home and kindred.
Cuba and Porto Rico. Those of the
Philippines still rest where they fell,
watched over by their surviving COM
rades and crowned with the love of a
grateful nation.
THE remains OF many brought to
our shores have been delivered to their
families for private burial. But for
others of the brave officers and men
who persisted there has been reserved
intermnt in grounds sacred to the SOL
diers and sailors among the tributes of
military honor and national mourning
they have so we'll deserved.
Il therefore order:
THAT upon the arrival of the cortege
at the national cemetery at Arlington,
all proper military and naval honors be
paid to the dead heroes; that suiting
ceremonies shall attend their inter
ment: that the customary salute of
mourning be fired at the cemetery, and
that on the same day, at o'clock.
Thursday, the 9th day of April, the ma
tional flag be displayed at half-mast
on all public buildings, forts, camps
and public vessels of the United States,
and that at II o'clock noon, of said day,
all the departments of the government
at Washington shall be closed.
"WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
Executive Mansion, April 8, 1899"
In the same connection, Acting Sec
rotary of War Meikeljohn issued this
order:
THE remains of officers and soldiers
who lost their lives in the war with
Spain during the operations in Cuba
and Porto Rico will be inferred with
due and fitting ceremonies in the ma
tional cemetery at Arlington, Va, on
Thursday, April 6. at 2 p. m.
by direction of the president, all of
the United States troops serving in the
vicinity of Washington, together with
the national guard of the District of
Columbia, will be assembled at Ar
lington on the date in question to par
ticipate in the funeral ceremonies"