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Show TRIBUTES TO LAWTON. High Expressions of Regard From Root and Long. Washington, Dec. 20. Senator Fairbanks Fair-banks saw the president today in regard re-gard to. the return of General Law-ton's Law-ton's body to the United States. The senator suggested that the funeral ser- p vices be given, something of a national 1 character. Secretary Root made the following" staferiieht m' regard to the death of General Lawton: "It is seldom that a loss can be called irreparable as in' the case of General 1 Law ton's death. Because he not only possessed the highest soldierly quali ties, but the process of selection by actual ac-tual experience had brought about universal uni-versal recognition of these qualities, while he was in the full vigor of life, so that the opportunity for. great usefulness use-fulness and the highest commands lay before him. lie had not merely , the ; quality of courage, but the quality of command which inspired his troops; : with his indomitable will and disregard disre-gard of danger. When the story of his march through central and northern i Luzon, in the autumn of .1899, comes to be written, I believe that the crowning crown-ing achievement of his life of strenuous strenu-ous and noble service will be deemed to add luster to American arms and secure se-cure for him an enduring place as one of the heroic figures of American history." his-tory." Secretary Long has uttered the following fol-lowing tribute to General Lawton's character: "General Lawton was in many re spects an ideal soldier; single-minded, devoted to his duty, and of unqualified courage. He belongs . to that class horn the world designates as the brav est of the brave. He made hjs reputation reputa-tion on the field. 1 saw a good deal of him during the president's-trip to Atlanta At-lanta last winter, and was impressed by his quiet, unassuming manner. When called up:m to speak in public he) nn?vered with but a word. But somehow, some-how, as you heard that -word and looked in the face and sa'w the man, you felt that if anything was to be done he was the man to do it." |