The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-23
AMERICAN SYMPATHY SHOWN
VERNMENT AND CONGRESS ACT
 ON QUEENS DEATH.

Flag of the White House Placed at Half
 Mast-This Mark of Respect Never
 Before Shown to Any Monarch
 Resolutions Adopted by House and
 Senate President Sends Coincidence to
 King Edward VII.
 Washington, Jan. 22.-President Me Kinley has sent the following message of coincidence to King Edward VII: Telegram sent from Washington, January p, 1901.
 His Majesty the King, Osborne House, lsie of Wight:
 have received with profound sorrow the lamentable tidings of the death of Her Ma jesty the Queen. Allow me, sir, to offer my sincere sympathy and that of the American people in your personal bereavement and III the loss Great Britain has suffered Ill the death of it's venerable and illustrious soVef- eisn, whose noble life and benehcent lnllu- ence have promoted the peace and won the affection of the world
 William Mckinley. Secretary of State Hay, upon officially hearing of the death of Queen Victoria, promptly cabed the following message to Ambassador Choate at London:
 Department of State, Washington, Jan. 22, lo01. Choate, Ambassador, London:
 You will express to Lord Lansdowne the profound sorrow of the government ana people of the United States at the death or the queen, and the deep sympathy we feel with the people of the British empire Ill their great affiiction. John Hay.
 The other members of President Me Kinley's cabinet expressed their sympa- thy at the queens death and paid touching tribute to her personal quail ties and force of character. The flag on the executive mansion was placed at half-mast at 9:30 o'clock this afternoon, So far as any record goes, this IS the first time in the history of this country that this mark of respect has been pald to the memory of a foreign ruler.
 senate's Resolution.
 In the Senate this afternoon Mir. Ali son offered a resolution expressive of sorrow of the Senate at the news of the death of the queen. The resolution is as follows:
 That the death of Her Royal and Imperial
  renown, is sincerely deplored by the Senate of the United States of America.
 The resolution was adopted unani- mously.
 Action of the House.
 The House to-day adopted resolu- tion expressing profound regret and sympathy for the English people on ac" count of the death of Queen Victoria The president was requested to com municate the expression to the British government and as further mark Of respect to the memory of the queen the House immediately adjourned. The ac- tion of the House was particularly inn pressive ir that the resolution was adopted without a word of dissent or debate. The resolution passed was as follows:
 Resolved, that the House of Representa- tives of the United States of America has learned with profound sorrow Of the death of her majesty, Queen Victoria, and sym pathjzes with her people in the less of their beloved sovereign. That the president De requested to communicate this expression of the sentiment of the House 10 the govern ment of Great Britain. That as further mark of respect to the memory Of Queen Victoria, the House do now adjourn.
 The half masting of the national en- sign In Washington was an unusual tribute to the memory of the deceased sovereign, It is said that this has been done rarely on the occasion of the funeral of some great worlds ruler but not in the case of a monarch before.
 The actual dispatch of the messages from the president to the new king of England and from Secretary Hay to Ambassador Choate was delayed only long enough to receive the physicians statement announcing the demise of the queen and then they were sent forward at once and copies were furnished to the press.
 At the British embassy the royal stan dard, flying ovels the embassy building, was perhaps the first in Washington to sink slowly half way down the stan, giving notice to official Washington of the sad event Another unusual mark of the high appreciation of the worth of the deceased queen was the action taken by the House of Representatives in adiourning as a mark of respect to her memory. Nothing now remains to be done by the United States govern ment save to exchange through the slow ,,rocess of the mail the formal express sions of regret which are prescribed by international etiquette.