Show r s' s PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION t S f 5 Publicly Announces Mr aflame's Death Death I and ami Calls Call Attention to Ills Ils S I Services Service S S c J matlou The Te President la Js issued ned the f following lowing procla procla- maton Executive Mansion i Washington WashIng on Jan Jau 27 1893 j f S.- S. It I j Is my Toy painful duty to t announce to t the f S people of the tha United States ELates the death ol 01 i James Elaine Blame BaIne which occurred in j- j this ll it city day to-day day t-day at For Por is a full tul generation this thi eminent citizen has lias occupied a conspicuous and D influential S position In the nat n. n His ls first public service service ser ser- ser vice was WI In the tho Ic legislature of ot hi his state stat Afterwards At Af- I S. S for fourteen years he lie was as a member r- r TI of the national House of ot Representatives and K was wa three times Umes chosen speaker In 1870 1878 he 5 was WI elected to the Senate Senat Ho le resigned his seat in that tat body in 1881 to t accept the tion ton of secretary secreta of ot state In the cabinet ol of f 5 President Garfield Garfeld Alter After the tho tragic death ol oj S hIs Ms chief he resigned from the cabinet and 5 S devoting himself himsel to t literary work ork gave to t the I j public In his hI Twenty Years in Congress a 8 most afloat valuable and enduring contribution to S our political literature In March 1839 be he 1 S again became secretary of state stat and con continS contin- contin tinT tin tin- S S T fled to t exercise this office until June 1892 f f His is devotion to t the e public Interests interest his hi hie S. S S remarkable ability and his exalted have won on for tor him bm the gratitude and S S of his countrymen and admiration of the theS 7 S world In the various pursuits pursuit of legislation le diplo- diplo S macy and literature his bIs genius has added new r S lustre to American citizenship S As a D repression of the national ap up appreciation I 5 5 predation o 0 teat eat public services and ol of J nu caused by his death S that will wll t rYS his Y-his Is funeral all nI theThis the theThis This end i ur nUh b of the of aCU Uton b I direct that tat on e 1 thelam of the executive b bra p. p S departmentS department government at Washington bo be closed a and d S that hat on all public throughout tile tae tileS al shall bo be dist dis- dis national flag die U United States the S S ltd t and that for tor n a period of played l at bait hal staff the department of state be ba draped dra c cj S thirty bIrty days te S j i In mourning BE aUL Dy Bv the President PresidentS S Joint JOHN W. W FOSTER FosTEn Secretary of State ate |