New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
Justice White
To Be Paid Last
Hor1ors To-day
y
President 10 Follow Body
TO Georgetown Cemetery
After Simple Church
Service AT ST. Matthew's
Ships and Army Posts From
Rhine 10 Philippines TO
Fire IL Funeral Gums

WASHINGTON, May 2o.-The wheels
OF government swung to rest in Wash
ington tonight to stand idle until last
honors shall have been paid tomorrow
to the memory of Edward Douglass
White, Chief Justice Of the United
States.
Under Presidential order, the execu-
tive departments were to remain closed
all day. Lesser courts also were to be
at a standstill and the Senate adj
journed late to-day until Monday. The
House alone was to be in session after
the funeral, driven by the urgent re-
quirements of public business, having
already suspended for day in honor
to the dead.
While the wishes of the family were
for simple, private ceremonies, the
great place Justice White held as head
OF one of the three coordinate branches
Of American government forbade aban-
donment of al! official pasV in the
mourning.
Service at ST. Matthew's
After services at St. Matthew's
Church, the body will be carried to
Oak Hill cemetery in Georgetown for
burial, accompanied by the eight sur
viving members of the greatest legal
tribunal as honorary pallbearers, by
Vice president Coolidge and select
Senate committee, Speaker Gillette and
the leaders of majority and minority
in the House and the full delegation
in Congress from the dead mans native
state, Louisiana. President Harding
also was expected to attend and Cabi-
net members and ranking officials of
ali the government departments.
The House adjourned to-day out of
respect to the late Chief Justice. Reso-
buttons we're adopted expressing pro-
found sorrow at his death and 3
committee composed Of Speaker Gillett;
Representative Monde!l, Wyoming, the
Republican leader; Representative
l1crlett, ~ccnra'esee, acting Democratic
leader; representatives vv,ye2;. Min
nesota. and Thomas, Kentucky, ranking
Republican and Democrat, respectively
on the Judiciary Committee, and all
members of the Louisiana delegation
was named to attend the funeral
MIR. Mondell said that by the death
Of Chief Justice White the nation "lost
the services of a great iurist and
Louisiana lost a great citizen"
He was great man, faithful, fair
and fearless" said MIR Mondeu. 1--WE
all profoundly mourn his loss
Louisiana's Tribute
As spokesman for the Louisiana
delegation, Representative Dupre.
Democrat, characterized the dead iur-
ist, who formerly represented Louis
lana in the Senate, as "a valiant
soldier, great lawyer, learned and
Just judge, far-seeing statesman and.
more than all, = simple Christian gen
tleman.'
Justice Whites high place in the lepal
fraternity continued to-day to pour
INTO the Supreme Court from men Of
the law throughout the nation. Hardly
an organized society of lawyers had
Ialled to add it's share to the flow of
tribute and affection when the day
ended. At the hause, too, messages of
sympathy piled up through the hours
from every part of the world, but rela-
tlves Of the late jurist did not make
these public, perhaps out of respect to
the lifelong modesty of the man whose
virtues the messages extolled.
AS last arrangements for the funeral
were completed the Presidents orders
"eAe tutoring over uhe World by cable
TO bring to half mast fer thirty DAVIS
flags that fly over American diplomatic
ana consular missions. Already the
orders had been flashed to army and
navy posts and the navy ships at sea
that would bring the colors tomorrow
to the world-old sign of mourning
and with these went instructions that
a funeral salute of seventeen guns
should boom out at the funeral hour.
Army batteries from the far Philip
pines to the Rhine and from Panama
to Alaska will rumble with the last
military tribute to the dead, beginning
at . O'Clock in the morning as the
coiors are half-masted for the day.