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PRESIDENT AT LEWIS FUNERAL WASHINGTON, D. C, April 11. President Roosevelt will attend the state funeral for the late Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, to be held in the United States Senate chamber tomorrow, the White House announced today. Other notables at the funera will include justices of the Supreme Court, members of the Cabinet, high ranking of ficers of the army and navy and representatives of the diplomatic corps. Plans for the state funeral, highest tribute Congress can pay to a deceased member, were completed by Senate attaches today. Senator Lewis body will be laid to rest in a mausoleum in Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington.
