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Show ir.l S.YG7'().V SEWS. Last Tributes of A flection antt Respect to the Memory of .senator l'lumb. Washixutciv, Pee. 21. Today tho United States senate, the house of renreseiitatlves, tho executive aud Judicial departmen ta of the government, the representative of the foreign powers, and his many friends among the Washington public, paid a last tributo of affection and respect t thu memory of the late Senator Preston B. Plumb. Karly this morning the body was placed In a handsome hand-some cloth-covered casket of cedar, on the lid of which was a plain silver plate bearing the following Inscription: "Preston li. Plumb, born October 12, 18117; died Decern-ber20!h, Decern-ber20!h, 1W1." Puring the night the only watchers at the residence of the deceased were a detail of messengers from the capital and hi private pri-vate secretary. This morning there were few callers at tho house, mostly senate employes. em-ployes. At 10 o'clock the casket was borne from the house to the hearso by eight capitol cap-itol police, Immediately forming a small funeral cortege consisting of the hearse and a single carriage. Arriving at the capitol tho casket was placed near the president' chair lu the senate chamber on black catafalque, cata-falque, and all persons were requested to retire. When the senale met at noon the chamber was partially arranged for the funeral obse-qulcs. obse-qulcs. The desk aud chair of tho deceased senator were heavily draped. The. galleries were crowded with spectators, except the diplomatic, and vice-president' galleries, which were reserved. lu the opening prayer tho chaplain referred re-ferred in a feeling manner to tho death of Senator Plumb. On motion of Manderson the reading of the Journal was dispeused with, aud Pcffer rose to make tho official announcement of Senator riuinh's death and offer the usual resolutions. Ho said: "Mr. President, I esteem myself peculiarly unfortunate: in that, before I am a member of this body long enough to become familiar with even the dimensions of tho chamber in which wo (it, I am called upon to announce the death of my distinguished colleague, upon whoso wonderful resources I expected largely to rely." Poller eulogized his lato colleague eloquently, elo-quently, and concluded by offering tho following fol-lowing resolution: liegolrni, That t!i sudden death of Preston B. Plumb cause ppifound sorrow and deep regret to his associates iu the senate. JtonhrtI, That a committee of Ave senators be appointed by tho vice president to take charge with a conimlstee from llio house of representatives representa-tives of superintending the funeral of tho late Senator Plumb, and as a mark of respect for his memory that his tody be removed from the capitol cap-itol to the ctate of Kansas In charge of the ser-reant-at-arms and attended by said committee which shall have full power to carry this resolution resolu-tion into effect. Jlfsolrrd, That the senate will at 12:30today attend at-tend in Its chamber the exercises incident to his funeral, and that these resolutions be communicated communi-cated to the house of representatives. Tho resolutions were agreed to unanimously, unani-mously, and the vice-president announced, as the committee on the part of the senate, Pcffer, Polph, Paddock, Ransom and Palmer. The senate then took a recess. Atl p. m. the senate was called to order. Durtng the half hours' recess the work of ifc-cparicK the chamber for thn funeral cere-mouiaa cere-mouiaa had been completed. A row of. in chairs was placed in the area in frout of the clerk's desk and on tha western side of the chamber, set aside for the occupancy of the members of the house of representatives. The public gallery had, in the mean time, become crowded to their utmost capacity, and even the halls aud corridors leading to them were packed with people seeking to gain admittance. Shortly before 1 o'clock President Harrison Harri-son and the cabinet officers and the assistant secretaries of the executive departments began be-gan to arrive and were shown to the president's presi-dent's room. Mrs. Harrison was escorted by Lieutenant Parker of tho navy and occu-pied occu-pied a seat in the reserved gallery. At 1:30 the speaker and the members of the house were announced. Tha speaker was escorted ta a seat ou tho right of the vice-president, and the members mem-bers took the scats assigned to them. Members of the diplomatio corps, some tweuty.flvo iii number, arrived aud woro shown to their seats in front of tho members of the house. They were followed by the chief justice and Justices of the supremo court, who took seats in frout ot the diplo. malic corps. At exactly 1 :30 Captain Bassatt announced tho president of the United .States and his cabinet. The senators and spectators stood up to do them honor. President Harrison aud members of tho cabinet were shown to arm chairs on tho right of the area. . General SehoUold and Commodore Ham sey preceded tho president and cabinet and had taken the two end chairs on tho same row. Tho house committee consisted of Fuuston and Broderick of Kansas, Gate and Peet of Arkansas, Youmans of Miehig-in, Post of Illinois, and Coggswell of Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. The floral offerings were numerous. At 1:45 the funeral committees of tho two houses escorting the body of tho dead senator sena-tor appeared at the main entrance, and, while all lu the chamber 6tood up, tho pro-cession pro-cession moved up the aisle, the chaplain reciting the opening sentences of the funeral service. Tho chaplain finished reading the funeral services and appropriate selections from the suriptui-es and closed with prayer. The body of the deceased senator sen-ator was then borne out to be taken to tho railroad station. The senate then adjourned until tomorrow. Following the remains came the senators and representatives who formed by twos with Vice-President Morton at the head and accompanied the body on foot to the station. The president aud.his cabinet and other des-tiugnished des-tiugnished persons wero ushered to their carriages and joined tho processiou. Mills is Still No I king. The Crisp-Mills correspondence has been made public. In a letter to Mills Friday, the speaker asked if it would be agreeable or acceptable to be appointed second on the committee on ways and means, aud iu addition, ad-dition, be appointed chairman of the comj niittee on commerce or postolllees, or some committee whose work was less laborous than those named. In his reply Mills, in part, says: "Having "Hav-ing been a member of the committee) on ways aud means ten years, and chairman in the Fiftieth congress, reasons which bare, in your Judgement, rendered my chalrmar.-ship chalrmar.-ship unwise, would disqualify me for ser-vieo ser-vieo in any other place on that committee, and it would not be sincere to say that it would be agreeable to accept your tender. I leave to you without any suggestion from me to mako such other arraugement as you, In the discharge, of your official duty, may determine." The "Blocks-of-FlTe" Again, The Vast yesterday morning published an interview with Senator Voorhees In which ho says that all the democratic senators sena-tors have agreed to assist him iu preventing tho contlrmaliou of Judge Woods of Indiana as circuit judge, on the ground that his action in the Dudley "block s-of-tive" case proved him unlit for a judicial position. |