Show IV TODAY IS MADE MADEM A SPECIAL HOLIDAY I IL President resident Issues His His- Proclamation Pro Following the Joint R Resolution C tion By Congress FASHION Only in the District of Columbia Columbi and the Territories and Hawaii Is the Only One of the th Dependencies Depend Depend- D pend- pend J that lears Hears the Good New News I i Washington ton Feb 11 Never was wu 11 a national holiday P ed in ench l n i fashion as ns was uns the centennial n of tiu birth of Lincoln Time Tho law In creating It t pu today by Congress In tho 10 of n a Joint resolution A joint resolution In order to ho bo u a law Jaw and become opera l o sl b by time thc president of the the Speaker of tho a. a and tho ic President of the time United States rIho rub President was when tIit tnt resolution was passed late lato tills this afternoon and ito ho hits has or of cour courso not gued It actually 1 1 There could have b been en no notion proclamation tion unless unless the President had signed It ft and promptly at 6 5 o'clock a proclamation on declaring the anni anal annIversary anniversary turned up at the state depart depart- ment 1 and was waa signed by th the Pr Prest- Prest l- l dent It was was therefore th the marvelous marvelo s foresight of the tho President ent that the bill would pass Congress and that a proc pro would be necessary that evidently accounted for tor the smooth Procedure by b which tomorrow rr w w. w w so far faras faras faras as the District of ot Columbia and the tho territories are arc concerned is Is or will be a n. national holiday The proclamation tion as given out nt at the state depart depart- department mont ment is as follows BY TIm THE PRESIDENT OF TIlE TUB U UNITED STATES SPATES OF L AMERIO A 1 Proclamation Whereas by j Joint resolution of Congress it It Is provided d that the twelfth day of February nineteen hundred and arid nine th the same being the hc centennial anniversary of the tho birthday of Abraham Abrah m Lincoln be and the same hereby Is made maele a special legal holiday h in the District of Colum Columbia Colum- Colum bia bin and the territories territories' of ot the United States An And whereas by the tho eald said joint resolution the president Is authorized to issue a proclamation In accordance with the foregoing setting apart the tho twelfth day of February nineteen hundred 1 and tind nine as as a 0 special legal leeal holiday hollday Now No nw therefore I I. I y Theodore Roo Roose lIe lIe- veil velt vc t of t the United States i of America by virtue o of authority conferred con con- teTrad ferrod upon u-pon me oby the sold said Joint reso reso- lution do h apart the twelfth day oL of 1 nineteen n hundred 8 und and nine as DS s a iii rIn r- r In o o set m mj my hand and canard the seal of ot the tho United States to to e b fie affixed Done jit pt thc of Washington this eleventh dR day of ot February In fn the year of or our OUI Lord Lord- Lord nf nineteen t on hundred anti and 1 nine and nd of ot the Independence of ot the United States tho one hundred and anti Signed THEODORE ROOSEVELT By the President President- I Robert Bacon Secretary of ot State Honolulu Gets dots tho Xou-s. Xou At tho the state war and navy Y departments departments depart depart- ments there was wa's a vast Interest whon when 1 it t was reported Congress had taken Up the Joint re resolution for passage It was as thought the tho proclamation would be liberal enough so 80 that It could be bo cabled to Manila Guam Honolulu anti and to other places where wre Jt It was already about 5 6 o'clock tomorrow morning Metaphorically speaking the secretary of the navy had piped all hands on deck to read the proclamation but It was eventually o determined that It applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied officially to the pla places es named In the do document u ent Honolulu was therefore the only place that was cabled the good news All Alt the department people had practically gone home before they knew that tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow will be a Lincoln holiday hoUda I. I The President announced ed before leaving the White House that he would 1 sign the Joint resolution when he ho r re returned re turned to the elt city The Tho official prints of or all aU laws and Joint resol resolutions show tho the date upon which they were approved and at tho the Congress when hen lose close of tho ninth Fifty the President went to D tho the Capitol to sign belated measures not only was 39 the tho date Included but the hour and amid 30 minute noted when Con Con- Congress It was late as stated BUtted gress acted upon the t o Joint resolution useless 4 J absolutely but ut the delay deJay WAS WASL rile Senate believed beHaved It could compel the the- House to agree to a proposed surey survey survey sur sur- vey ey for a Lincoln way between which Washington and Gettysburg had iad been attached to the House Housa resolution reso rese- lution ution as a 0 rider Tho The House would not yield tho and atthe last minute minute- the resolution was caIl called d' d back and the Senate onate receded amendment in order that the holiday might be e de de- de dared lared S |