The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-02-27
(By Associated Press.)


Washington. Feb. 27.-At noon, In the
hall of the house of representatives, in
the presence Of President Roosevelt,
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother Of the
German emperor, the members OF the
cabinet, the judges of the supreme court,
the general of the army and officers of
the army and navy, who have received
the thanks of congress, the ambassadors
and other diplomatic representatives OF
foreign countries. the senators and rep
resentatives in congress and a large
number Of distinguished guests, the
Hon. John Hay, McKinleys premier,
pronounced a eulogy upon his dead
chief.
Four times before, national memorial
services for presidents who have Died
In Office have been held in this hall, two
OF them like this, In commemoration of
chief magistrates who have fallen by
the hand of assassins.
BY a strange coincidence today was
the twentieth anniversary of that on
which the peerless Blaine in the hall had
delivered his euJogy upon the martyred
Garfield. and. stranger still. the subject
OF today's memorial service was the
chairman of the committee that had
cason.
Only one year ago, less than five days,
at the head of an imposing civic and
military procession Mckinley passed tri-
umphantly along Pennsylvania avenue
for his second Inauguration.
Buffalo Tragedy.
Six months later the tragedy occurred
at Buffalo and another but different sort
al. l.t. I..I
through the streets to the rotunda of
the capitol, where the brief funeral ora
tion was delivered over his coffin and
the tributes of the nations Of the earth
about his bier bespoke the universal
sorrow. Today, once more with -uncov-
cred heads, the nation paid it's last
tribute of respect and publicly expressed
its loving grief.
Again the broad avenue was filled with
vast crowds as they were year ago.
Then the streets were sea of glinting
bayonets and waving plumes and the air
was filled with the music of hundred
tongued resplendent bands. Today all
was changed.
The procession was unorganized. No
martial music lightened the feet Of the
throng. No cheers rent the air.
Escorting Prince Henry.
The only pageant was the Gathering
troop OF cavalry, escorting Prince Henry
and his party to the capitol and carriages
here and there conveying officers IN
uniform or diplomats in court costume
to the place where the eulogy was to be
delivered. That was the extent of the
outward spectacle
For the panoply was of the heart and
mind, rather of the eye and hand. Not
withstanding 1t was proclaimed In ad-
vance that admission to the house OF
representatives, and even to the capitol
itself, was to be restricted to those
holding cards, the people congregated in
unnumbered thousands about the great
marble pile upon the hill.
While the ticket holders besieged the
great bronze doors to the entrance of the
rotunda and overnowed the portico and
steps leading to it. the crowds were kept
back by lines of blue-coated police,
walled on the three sides of the broad
plaza in front of the capitol.
The only emblem of mourning at the
capitol was the flags huttering at half
mast above the two wings and on the
great arching dome. This precedent in
the case of the Garfield exercises was
followed closely.
The hall was without decoration Of
any character.