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Show FINAL TRIBUTE PAID TO MANN Harding, His Cabinet and Congressmen Gather For Services. WASHINGTON, Doc. 2 In tho hall I of tli liouso, whrro tho host yoars I of his life were Bpenf, tho nation today to-day pohl final tribute tn HeproBt-nta- ; tlvo .lanios n. Mann of Illinois. Prealaenl Harding and his cabinet, j the senate and house, members of the I diplomatic corps, representatives of every branch of the Kovornnunt Mr. M.inn had served for upward of a quarter of a century, and muny of the humblest employes who hail known and reapecbed him etfc ided None of the colleagues of the fallen F'.opubllean lender spok- in pralBe of him at the funeral jjorvlres. Thai as Mr. Mnnn had wlahed. There waa only on-i funeral oration, by the Rev, .lames F. rrcemnn, rector of thw church tn Spphany, which Mr. Mann attended. With Its hushed sllen e and uml. r-tons r-tons or whlapered conversation, 1 i house presented Q strangS contract to the hubbub that prevailed in yearn BTone by, when Mann i' 1 1 L l n e. s wan ailed upon to step to the front and J bud the legions "j" his party In parll- i amentary battle. The casket Was plnre,j n the well of tin house several hours before the funeral The prealden and hit cabinet occupied occu-pied tho first row of seal.s on the left j sldo of the chamber and immediately behind them were members of the diplomatic dip-lomatic corps and ranking officers of the army and navy. On the rlht side j mi mbora of tho supreme court, head-' ed by Chief Justice Taft, Bat nearest ' the casket and the enrit occupied the -i . i i r i Immediately behind them. The Ind r of the chamber was occupied occu-pied by members of the house and rel-1 atives. no 1 |