The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-05

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 Presbyterian Church. After the ser vices. the procession will reform, and all that is mortal of William Logan Martin will be escorted to its narrow resting place in beautiful Oakwood.
 All the members of the family of Speaker Martin are now in the city. William Logan Martin Jr.. cadet at West Point reached the city at mid night Sunday night short while after his father breathed his last. H. C. Abell. Mir. Martins son -in-law was ex- pected to reach the city last night. Both were telegraphed for as soon as 1t was realized that Speaker Martin was desperately i'll. but death was fas- ter than steam. MT. and Mrs. F. w. Ledbetter of Anniston, relatives of the dead Speaker reached the city last night.
 Hon. Virgil Bouldin. of scottsboro, for many years associated in the prac- tice of law with MT. Martin, will reach the city this morning to pay the last tribute to his dead friend. He will be accompanied by Hon. Lawrence D. Brown, a prominent member of the Jackson County Bar, and who will rep resent the bar at the funeral exercises today.
 The bar of Jackson County, of which Speaker Martin was member for many years, has already expressed it's sympathy and its sense of loss at the death of the distinguished member of the bar. The association has sent in a beautiful tribute of flowers for the funeral today. The Montgomery bar, at a meeting yesterday, appoint ed a committee to draft resolutions of sympathy.
 At the Martin home yesterday. there was a continual stream of visiting friends and lawmakers. A large number of floral tributes were sent in. and the universal sympathy that found expression yesterday was evi- dence of the general opinion that the death of a man of MT. Martins abil- ity and usefulness was at this time a public misfortune.
 Legislators are saddened.
 In the leisure of their adjournment yesterday in honor of Speaker Martin, the members of the Legislature were visibly depressed at the death of their leader. Above their appreciation of Mir. Martins strength and ability in the conduct of the affairs of the House. the members were most mindful of the kindliness of his nature, which had its expression in the uniform courtesy with which friend and foe were always treated. There was none among them who could remember that he had been partial or that he had been discourteous to a single member of the House.
 The members did not hesitate to express their opinion that the Speaker had labored harder than any other member of the Legislature. with that faithfulness and conscientiousness which has characterized his whole life, whether his work was done in private or in pubic. And the ap- prehension was expressed that his con- scientious and unremitting energy in the discharge of his duties had so weakened him that he was poorly pre- pared to resist the savage attack of the disease which removed him from the field of his usefulness.
 The funeral today, held under the auspices of the State, will in all prob ability be the most imposing cortege that has pessed through the State since the remains of Governor William J. Sanford, after lying in state in the Supreme Court room in 1891, were escorted to the depot for burial at his home in Opelika.