Engineers, of the several
regiments, and of the United States Corps of Cadets will be put in
mourning for a period of six months.

The date of the funeral will be communicated to department commanders by
telegraph, and by them to their subordinate commanders.

By command of Major-General Schofield:

R. WILLIAMS, _Adjutant-General_.

GENERAL ORDER No. 406.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, D.C., January 19, 1893_.

The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President
Rutherford B. Hayes in the following proclamation [order]:

[For order see preceding page.]

It is hereby directed, in pursuance of the instructions of the
President, that on the day of the funeral, where this order may be
received in time, otherwise on the day after its receipt, the ensign at
each naval station and of each of the vessels of the United States Navy
in commission be hoisted at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and at
each naval station and on board of flagships and vessels acting singly
a gun be fired at intervals of every half hour from sunrise to sunset.

The officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear the usual badge of
mourning attached to the sword hilt and on the left arm for a period of
thirty days.

JAMES R. SOLEY, _Acting Secretary of the Navy_.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 27, 1893_.

_To the People of the United States_:

It is my painful duty to announce to the people of the United States the
death of James Gillespie Blaine, which occurred in this city to-day at
11 o'clock.

For a full generation this eminent citizen has occupied a conspicuous
and influential position in the nation. His first public service was in
the legislature of his State. Afterwards for fourteen years he was a
member of the national House of Representatives, and was three times
chosen its Speaker. In 1876 he was elected to the Senate. He resigned
his seat in that body in 1881 to accept the position of Secretary of
State in the Cabinet of President Garfield. After the tragic death
of his chief he resigned from the Cabinet, and, devoting himself to
literary work, gave to the public in his Twenty Years of Congress a
most valuable and enduring contribution to our political literature.
In March, 1889, he again became Secretary of State, and continued to
exercise this office until June, 1892. His devotion to the public
interests, his marked ability, and his exalted patriotism have won for
him the gratitude an