, 1921-11-10
INVITATIONS
Wyoming's Senior Sena-
tor only Citizen of u.
S. to Receive Two
Invitations to Ar
mistice Day Ger
emOnies.

WASliINCTON. y. G :tov. 8
Especial to the Hepublican)-Only
one member of Congressional prob
ably only one man in the United
States-has the distinction of having
received two invitations to partici-
pate as an "official mourner' in the
ceremonies pertaining to the buria!
of an unknown American member of
the American EXpeditionary Forces.
who lost his life during the world
war.
That one is Wyoming's senior
senator. Francis f.. Warren.
Each Senator and Representative
was of course given one invitation to
take part in the procession which,
headed by the president. will proceed
from II Capitol to the Memorial
Ampitheatre at Arlington National
Cemetery on the morning of Novem-
Der eleventh.
Senator Warreu's additional iHvi-
tation came to him because he is a
Medal OF Honor man. The Secretary
OF War invited all holders OF Medals
of Honor to come to Washington as
guests OF the Nation to participate in
the event. The Government is to pay
travelling and hotel expenses of those
COIIlluB HUH Il ulSldnCt. MdnS nave
accepted the invitations-not only
World War veterans. but also sur
vivors of the Civil War, Indian wars.
and war with spain--heroes all, as
evidence by the decoration they are
privileged to veal and by the special
honor conferred on them in this oc-
casion by the War Department.
Not many decades have passed
since it was notable that the ma
jority of members of the House and
Senate were veterans Of some war
the Civil War men, naturally, pre-
dominating.
Now there are only fOur Civil
War veterans in Congress: Senator
Warren of Wyoming, Senator Nelson
OF Minnesota. Representative Osborne
of California, and Representative
Stedman OF North Carolina-all OF
whom served in the Union Army ex-
cept Stedman.
During the engagement in which
Private Francis Warren went over
the top" and won his Medal of Hon
or, Private knutp Nelson was taken
prisoner by the Confederates. This
was at the siege OF Port Hudson
Louisiana. in 1868. Both young
soldiers were afterwards made cor,
| porals. At the same battle the late
: Chief Justice Edward Douglas White,
t then a slender young lieutenant and
: aide to the Confederate commander
surrendered with his fellow Officers
and their commands to the command
er OF the Nineteenth Army Corps o
the Union forces.
or the Spanish War survivors
there are now only 25 in Congress:
five of whom served also in thu
World War. The veterans of thu
World War in Congress total 80 {;
number which will no doubt grow
rapidly. Jour of whom o TIL
. Croix de Guerre in France. One o
l these foul was also granted the Dis
tinguished Service Cross and Dis
tinguished Service Medal by ouI
Government.
: But in the World War only eighty
men were awarded the CongressiOna
Medal of Honor. our country's high
est military decoratiOn-one of tht
several decorations of our Govern
ment and foreign governments tina
will be bestowed upon IL unknown
soldier to symbolic the gratitude o,
4 the United States and the World fol
his supreme sacrifice and the sac
rifices made by each and every mar
living and dead, who took part il
the World War.