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Show If BROKEN i MONUMENT hjjpATOH ffclHon-ifollar Structure WL Erected to Memory rAbraham Lincoln at M'Nalional Capital. jfcffiRNERS TAKE She LEADING PART & Senator Blackburn of Sidy First to Sink the 9 Into the Ground; Kky in Congress. SpKGTOX, Feb. 12. Kriofc swept across tlio Poto-the Poto-the Virginia hills, where BtIw mansion al Arlington, a Iihcrii. officer of the civil led the simple exercises breaking of the ground ilion of tho great white il the nation is to orecL incoln. This day, tho iry of Lincoln's birth, r the breaking of the :h the $2,000,000 struc-group struc-group gathered to wit cant event. Joseph C. ner .-enator from Ken-i Ken-i first to sink a spade 1 and thou with uncov-pokc uncov-pokc in high praise of tho president against t half a century ago. rial will show that Lin-nrded Lin-nrded as the greatest of Senator Blackburn t he is so hold by the is the north. Today wo- know that this great begun and will be ear-f ear-f until its completion.' ' s today it was a south-s south-s the motion to adjourn to the memory of Lin-iion Lin-iion was made without hy Senntor Overman ina, following the rcud-mer rcud-mer president's Gcttys-y Gcttys-y Seuator Bradley of was Senator Konyon of suggested that tho seu-pauso seu-pauso a moment to ob-iday ob-iday anniversary-, oo. paused in its delib-its delib-its respect to the mem-thc mem-thc memorial is on an !d more than a century I of which is the capitol. of the government, and nore than a mile to tho bingtou monument,, .to the west will be tho jal, whore it will have a oo capitol and the Wash-tit Wash-tit and will bo closely re-Q re-Q Arlington cemetorv, no fought for the union Is tlio work of Henry Wk arcliltccl. Ills idea lemorlal to Lincoln should I lour features a statue memorial of his Gettysburg Mai of his inaugural ad-mbol ad-mbol of the United States 'ed'i,Encl1 feature will Mb others by means of to a seated figure. Tho l yet been selected. Tho nlng tho statu.; will bo ,tEr wLca(: i. ille ot tho rou- 5r nf n ?yre address JZKmtr Ihe lnfl,1iral addross M' Btnt l- monumental tablets, fwm$"Z.MB IncIoBlnB these o? ihd aIloniHiclo form-iflK form-iflK i iM?11, yfl,:l1 column ttuftT"1 '.y-filx In nil rgKth. , o, lnS,at o time of Lin- 2ZtvVL "nervals by 5for S'ht memorial fes- ICfWB'l hlEher iB ,ts,', Will bo th! I,rcsent M1 tour lUi ,ou, cdE Sl')- wldo road- (IBVW wr10 Rn eminence ltdWp hn at th01 ,n 11,0 i1HB'M0ln Lu,nco,n frK-' nlv Iill'J,fi' Lincoln's SMI a '"'"3 Illl BROKEN FOB neon ifjiiffl (Continued from Page One.) appointed to flit tho vacancy left by tho death of Shelby M. Cullom; Joseph Q. Cannon, George PcaborJy Wetmoro, Samuel Walker McCall. Champ Clark and Thomna S. Martin. |