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Show GREAT OF U.S. OFFER TRIBUTE TO SEII. BORAH Solemn, Simple Service Conducted in Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UP) William E. Borah was given a statesman's funeral today in the chamber where he sat as senator from Idaho for 33 years. His senate colleagues. President Roosevelt, supreme court justices, cabinet members, diplomats and officials of-ficials assembled In tribute to the 74-year-old dean of the senate, who died Friday evening. His body rested In a gray steel casket in the well of the chamber. Around It flowers were banked high. Among them were a wreath of pink carnations from the White House, one of lilies and white carnations car-nations from the senate. Offer Final Homage While the nation's great and near-great offered their final homage, hom-age, Mrs. Borah, the senator's constant con-stant companion In the years when his fame spread around the world, waa not in the senate chamber. She had borne up bravely under the strain of her husband's sudden Illness and death, but her wish was not to witness the ceremony. She sat outside in the lobby at a place provided for her close to the office of Vice President John N. Garner. With her was Cora Rubin, the senator's sen-ator's secretary for 30 years. Each chair that could be placed in the senate was occupied, save one. This waa Borah's the place from which he rose to thunder against Wood row Wilson's plan for a League of Nations, against monopoly mo-nopoly and special privilege, against presidents from William Howard Taf t to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. His chair was vacant and covering the copper name plate on the desk was a single spray of red roses. Ne Oratory Today there was no oratory in the senate, only the solemn and simple Episcopal funeral service, beginning : "I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord." The Rev. James Shera Montgomery, Montgom-ery, chaplain of the house, opened the service. Senate Chaplain Ze Barney T. Phillips brought it to a conclusion. At either end of the casket stood a capitol policeman at attention. The chamber was crowded but hushed. Long before the services began the public galleries were crowded and long lines of men and women stood hopefully awaiting admittance. Trie senate assembled at noon. Then house members who had met separately In their chamber cham-ber marched into the senate, followed fol-lowed by the president's cabinet, supreme court justices and the president himself. Twe Hymns Sung Two hymns were sung during the services each a favorite of Borah's. They were "Lead, Kindly Kind-ly Light" and "Abide With Me." They were sung by Mrs. Henrietta Bagger Plum. The casket was left In the senate well after the services, but was not opened at any time. It will be placed aboard a train leaving Washington at :10 p. m. The cortege, cor-tege, accompanied by a senate committee of ten members, will arrive at Boise, Idaho, at 7:30 a. m. Thursday. The body will lie in state in the Idaho state capitol until 2:30 p. m., when a second funeral ceremony will be conducted. conduct-ed. Interment will be at .the Morris Mor-ris Hill cemetery, Boise. Mrs. Roosevelt, unaccompanied, sat in the front row of the diplomatic diplo-matic gallery. The president was escorted to the capitol by Stephen T. Early, White House secretary, and his naval and military aides. Captain Daniel J. Callaghan and Brigadier General i Edwin M. Watson. Mrs. Borah left the capitol on the arm of Borah's youthful colleague. col-league. Senator D. Worth Clark (D, Idaho), after stopping briefly In the office of Vice Prestd-nt Garner, who offered his condolences. |