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Show U. S. Hopes to Avert Coal Strike II w & iiicro! I I Gives Message to People of U.S. Through House I and Senate. j I HOMAGE TO FIGHTERS .1 N Deeply Moved By Ex- 1 pressions From the j Nations Peoples. WASHINGTON. Oct. (By the II Associated rrcss ) King Albert of the Belgians paid homage In the house of representatives today to the Amer-I Amer-I ican army which he described ns "the derisive factor in determining the vlc- in an address to the senate few minuter earlier he had asserted that "nothiDg could bet i or characterize the jj Lrttfn of univedMfl detm cracy than ihe "friendship between his country and j iho United States mmm The addrese- of hi: nnjf tv nda 1 ere the longest and most iniportani "Sporvl has mad1 in America. They wore titan I Intended as messages to the entire na-E na-E tion and his sincerity In expressing bvl' ihe thinks of Belcium to Americans ate- for their aid was plainly evident, bjtfc Moved by Expressions, orj; ' palute," he said to the senate, tails I "not only the eminent men who re-Ee!r. re-Ee!r. reived me here during the da . but ert 1 I salute the memory of your great E. B predecessors who, during 130 years. Ihave sat in this place and given to the aetift world the example of hicbest civic e gjni '- r m i This -eleom of the senate nu ."eals tliat reception, so warm and so Jgda spontaneous t b-a' I have received every-where every-where during my Journoy across this Imagnificen' country I am deeply mov-A mov-A b. the- expressions of sympathy m ! n.inie of Bel ..n.u evokes from I 1 his noble American people. T . "Nothing could better characterize Jjg ; 'be reicn of universal democracy than that friendship which unites the Ifreat republic with its one hundred Mo J :.arl ton million citizen- and the realm 1 Bof which 1 am .he constitutional head, ' I i'- s. -.!! a r.'i ;i 'i.ilf million in- habitants. if there is nn equalit) of power and riches between them, there is equallij. in the love of liberty an. in aspirations towards social nrog-I nrog-I ft-' 1 Mi Ik. i li sabs i !. tlant ic the same ideal inspires us. The ex-ebange ex-ebange of ideals, the commercial -da- I lions, the vihlts to Belgium of eminent American citizens, of whom manv sit in this assembly, are so many means Vt tightening the bonds between the 111 : two naiior - i I "I hope with all m heart that these j relations v, ni. I. !,. . v ,,, ?ar j memory, which have l.e.-n fr.rlifi.-d I d'Jrinc the war aa well as by the ad-l ad-l JJirable asjtntanrc which .on rendered Helplum b; feeling h- r people and by wraternity in aims, will never cease '0 develop for t!.. -ti roo, ,,f tl,.-two tl,.-two peoples. Visit to the House, nil The v'sit to the senate of Kins Al-Jt Al-Jt and the Duke of Brabant, lasted loniv half an hour and tbev v..-nt im-Mlately im-Mlately to the houbo. 'in his ad-oresg ad-oresg ,hore hls majjJty sojd. .: ,.. 1 am 'iapp in be able to bear to ;nts chamber which embodies the liy-l liy-l H spirit of the American people the RTfetinss of Belgium, a democratic Parliamentarian stair created by "; P'.I.Mla. a,sembh of itn Wir'h Proclaimed the indepen ;'n,r oui provii r:-H It is a - ure t0 recall ,hat manv of hf prQ lion8 of our constitution were taken ' i your fun.l., mental (aw so that at H n!i' TV of lur rarcr''- Belgium was '-iriebted to v0,j n Hmage to Forces. M iril!iur n-opiej have fought and m Jjoiph.-'d to,-.,., her The in,,rvent,on mi i fini Anir'!',oan arm was the derisne li Itovl derminlng the victory. I C i ?y r,e,fpectful and sincere homage m0& tow. it0fIlclr8' th '"Idien? and rail- K m or t Uf Kuror'" and in ,h" 'Jl U W Df'i"ns whom these Cinat n PPd( ""' llberftte frci" the SZlTiUU ,0 lbp funded, in ON fccUong War trance our af-Eelgium af-Eelgium to those distin- guisbed American citizens who gave themselves with such a spirit of eac-rifice eac-rifice to the task of leghtening the sufferings of the Belgian people Hoover and Whitlock. "In thi. noble assembly I solemnly hunk the members of the commission for relief and the innumerable commutes com-mutes thai helped it In its admirable efforts I salute in particular the names, graven forever in our memories, memo-ries, of Herbert Hoover and Brand Whitlock. Mhv thi- splendid American nation so richly endowed by nature, so mag Inifieentiy served by Its people, pursue in ih" serenity of its power, its work I of achievement, of culture and of prog- I ress." Receive Officials. Despite a busy day ahead of htm Kins Albert varied his announced pro gram and accompanied by Queen Khz abetfa and the Duke of Brabant, called at the White House tbis morning, spending half an hour in an informal visit With Mr,-. Wil3on. The visit followed fol-lowed the reception of the staff of the Belgian legation by the royal party on his r. 'urn from the White House, King Albert received Vice President Marshall and Mrs. Marshall. Senator Cummins, president pro tempore if the senate, and Speaker Gillett. of the house. Members of President Wilson's Wil-son's cabinet also called to pay their respects to the king and queen. On their arrival at the capitol, King Albeit and his son were met by reception re-ception committee composed of Sena- I tors Lodge Harding, Warren, Hitch- 'cock. Bwanson and Underwood and escorted es-corted to the senate chamber. ' Senator Cummin3, president pro tempore, presided and Introduced King Albert, paving high tribute to the L-..1- llantry with which Belgium had met the first shock of the war, and barred I I he path of Germany. I "That one country," he said, "small in territory, weak comparatively in military strength, but incomparable in (loyalty to a Christian civilization and i human liberty, unsurpassed in bravery, brav-ery, inspired by the loftiest Ideals, stood In ihe path of this oncoming monster and In supreme sacrifiL ;. ed the world for freedom Wh'-n the sons and daughteis of our race, now or hereafter, forget this sacrifice or fail to remember it v ith reverence and gratitude, th world which Belclum saved will be unworthy of Its deliverance" |