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Show MISSISSIPPI WOULD HONOR JEFF DAVIS Special to Tho Tribune. WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 1. Senator Heyburn of Idaho, who protested so vlg-orously vlg-orously and alone in the senate against the acceptance by congress of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the gift of Virginia to Statuary hall, may find fresh causa for criticism In the expressed Intention of many Mississippi pcoplo to place a Mmm statue of Jefferson Davis, lato president of the Confederacy, in tho capltol as Mississippi's gift. It Is tho opinion of government officers that under Attorney General Wickcrsham's opinion as ap-proved ap-proved by President Taft no legal ob-Jectlou ob-Jectlou could be raised against such ac-tlon ac-tlon by Mississippi. |