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Show QUENCHING PATRIOTIC FLRES OF HEYBURN Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON. Jan. 24. Tho senate extinguisher Is at work on Senator Hoy-burn;, Hoy-burn;, slowly but surely It is setting down over his protests against the Robert E. Lee statuo and if the deft hands which aro pressing it do not lose their cunning, tho Hcyburn flame of patriotic fervor will shortly flicker and expire. The senator sen-ator Is saying little. Sonator Lodgo ahs expostulated with him and Senator Borah has urged him to "forget it" ln the interest of national solidarity. Secretary Sec-retary MacVeagh sent to tho senate today to-day information called for in the senator's sen-ator's resolution- passed last week. In re-gard re-gard to closing the Newport News cuh- torn houso on Loo'h birthday. Tho secretary sec-retary explained that Leo's anniversary Is a holiday In Virginia by law and that it lias always boon tho practico to closo custom houses on state holidays, and it has been done heretofore on Lee's birthday birth-day ln Virginia. |