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Show HENRY U. MUDGE, president presi-dent of the Denver & Rio Grande, who yesterday voiced his objection to the proposed utilities bill. fgttimJzr8K! ft r - i r- 1 . q p - t yj J v r v I k r 1 1 if x 1 1 est" a, V1 '"."' Lid EULOGIZED " ILL OVERT! LAND Memorial Service in Washington; Wash-ington; Cannon Relates Reminiscences. CUMBERLAND GAP, Tenn., Feb. 12. The three days' celebration of Lincoln's birthday and the twentieth twenti-eth aniversary of the Lincoln Memorial university ended here tonight. to-night. Puesolutions were adopted pledging support to President Wilson Wil-son in the present international crisis. cri-sis. Male students of the university univer-sity also adopted resolutions to I enlist under the flag in the event , of war. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1?. Although congress continued in session throughout Lincoln's birthday, at work on the congested con-gested legislative programme, eulogies to the liberator were delivered In both senate sen-ate and house and many members attended at-tended a memorial service held tonight under the auspices of several patriotic societies. so-cieties. Senator Lewis, speaking in the senate, declared that in the present international crisis tiie issue involved is the same issue is-sue of liberty and justice which Lincoln gave to America. In the house tiie I Gettysburg address was read and Repre-! Repre-! sentatives Dill and Chipperfield made ! eulogistic addresses. At the meeting to-! to-! night former Speaker Cannon related his personal reminiscences of Lincoln. "Lincoln and America," .Senator Lewis predicted, would be the shrine to which the world would turn after the great war for a new dedication of society to the people of democracy. "Today, in the crisis pending between the fnited .States and lands of Europe," he said, "the issue hefore the world is the issue which Lincoln gave to America the right of man to exercise liberty of action, freedom of intercourse and to enjoy justice from all. "If in this day we hear civilization pleading in the name of God that the century now reeling in death grapple of Christianity with barbarism shall halt in Us crumbling of kingdoms and crushing crush-ing of empires, we in the republic of America and not without consolation In the presence of this world's caiastrophe. In this cataclysm we behold the coming transformation. It is to be the republican republi-can ideal of government the realized dream of the democracy of man." COH'MBLS. Ohio. Feb. 12. Standing on thp same rostrum on which Lincoln stood fifty-six- years ano tomorrow as he was on his way to Washington to be Inaugurated In-augurated president, former Governor-James Governor-James E- Campbell addressed a joint session ses-sion of the Ohio general assembly on the life of Abraham Lincoln. Tiie speaker cast his first vote for Lincoln. Referring to the present crisis. Mr. Campbell said the people of Ohio who do not stand behind the president now will he in as great contempt as were tories of '70 and the copperheads of '61. |