The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-13
RESPECT FOR DEAD SENATOR Many Expressions of
 Sorrow Heard. GRIEF OF PEOPLE UNIVERSAL Judge Jones Comments from Bench
 on Loss to State. General Feeling Among 0mciaIs and Citizens That Friend of the Pee- pie Has Been Removed from
 Active Life.
GRIEF OF PEOPLE UNIVERSAL

While the official proclamation of Governor Conner and the tribute which Judge Thomas G. Jones of the Federal Court delivered from the bench demon stratcd the many and difficult and mo- ble services Senator John T. Morgan had rendered the State of Alabama, it was in the conversations of private cit izens that the full measure of the re- spect and the love felt by the people was displayed.
 When The Advertiser announced to Montgomery and the State yesterday morning that Senator Morgan had died Tuesday night, the grief of the people was universal. Men felt that not only a public servant, but a public friend, faithful to the people for whom he had labored so long, had been taken away, and everywhere about the city, in every store and shop and office. upon street corners, his name was mentioned with reverence, his death, against which Alabama had hoped for 80 long. was deplored in feeling tones and words of love.
 Immediately after the issuance of the proclamation by Governor Conner the United States flag upon the staff that surmounts the Capitol dome, was half-masted and the entrance to the Capitol was draped with black. The news of the Senator's death had been known by the officials In the Capitol through the publication of it in The Advertiser, so that the proclamation af- fected them only in regard to the for nal observance they were to make by the closing of their offices in the Capi- tol on Saturday when the funeral will take place.
 But in every office there was express sion of deep regret. for some of the Senator's closest friends are those whose business Is within the State House. It was notable that in nearly every instance the sense of personal loss was as deep as the patriotic feel ing that the State had lost its most valuable servant.
 Governor Conner announced that he would attend the funeral in Selma Sat urday and 1t is expected that many other officers of the State will attend. The announcement of the funeral ser vices was made by Senator Pettus in a telegram to Governor Conner. It stated:
 General Morgan's funeral services will be in the Methodist Church in Selma at 12 m., next Saturday"
 The corpse will be taken from Wash ington to Selma on special train of four cars. John Metcalf, agent of the Southern Railway Company in Montgomery. received from Washing ton yesterday a telegram stating that the remains of Senator Morgan, accom- panied by the family and about eight other persons, with the committees from the House and Senate, would be brought to Selma on train operated as the second section of No. 37 on the Southern Railway to Atlanta, whence the train would be taken through to Selma on the West Point Route and the Western Railway of Alabama.
 The train will leave Washington at 1115 o'clock tonight and will reach Montgomery about midnight Friday. If will arrive at Selma early Saturday morning. It is expected, however, that those who go to the funeral from Mont qomery will travel on the regular Western passenger train. leaving the citv at 7:5O a. m, and reaching Selma at 10:20 a. m.
 The wish that the body of the states man might lie in state in the Capitol for part if not all of the day was
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