The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-03-14
Gle ELAND.
While He Walks Into the White House
Ooorc, Chester A. Arthur With
Dignity. Steps Down
and Out.

After Twenty.four Years Of Continuous
Service, the Republican Party
Peacefully Resigns Its Trust
Into the Hands Of The
Democratic Party.
Inaugural Ceremonies of the New
President. o.,
The inaugural Address. a Magnificent
Pageaht.-Programmo of the
Procession. Etc,
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Grover Cleveland
is President. The solemn oath of Office, the
delivery of the inaugural, the boom of can.
mons, the waving of fings and banners, the
shouts of the multitude, the loud notes bt
martial music ami the marching of thohs-
nnds Of troops in long procession, attest
this Tho King is dcad-long live the King,
This morning at II 80 President Arthur rode
from the White House to the Capitol to lay
down the robes of Office. This afternoon at
tol to the white House, having taken them
up. so simple yet grand are the eerethbhies
which transfer from hhhd to hand and from
party to party the administration of the gov
ernment of the greatest nation on the earth.
The presence at the Capitol the solemn oath
OF Office, the lips reverently pressed upon
the book the address to the present thou
sands and listening millions, the return to
me me, Executive Mansion, and th9, thing is
hands that have beld it for twenty.four
ysats TO those that have been vainly
stretched toward 1t so long.
AT 10 O'Clock Senators Sherman and Ran
SON. who were to be the escort to President
Cleveland repaired to the Arlington Hotel,
where the President-elect was quartered, and
escorted him to the White House. Senator
Hawley Mt the same time visited Wizards
Hotel and escorted Vice Presidept-elect Hen
bricks to the white House. AfNer short
TIME spent there they took carriages for the
Capitol, being escorted thither by one divis-
ion of the procession, consisting OF. the Regu-
lar Army, Marine Corps and the District
Militia. Arriving at the Capitol, Presi-
where he found most of the members of
the Cabinet waiting to transact the last work
OF the administration, the discussion Of the
bills being passed by Congress III its expir-
of those that were thought worthy of APP
proval. The House and Senate were In ses-
sion, very busy, winding up the work of the
session, the officers and messengers hustling
40 two bodies with bills and reports of con-
ference committees, everything in hubbub
81 CONFUSION and hurry, yuts pa vvecdlng I'D
order. The President-elect was escorted to
the Vice Presidents room where he was fol-
lowed by Mr.. Hendricks and his escort, the
two remaining here until the moment should
arrive for their entrance to the Senate Cham
Der.
OF course not a 1.-THE of those who desired
to enter the Senate Chamber to witness the
reorganization of that body could be accom-
modated. Seats were provided for as many
as possible on the floor, and tickets were
issued to the members of the Senate and
House to be distributed, admitting to the
galleries as many as could be packed into
them. The doors of the galleries had been
opened earlier to those holding tickets of
admission, none not so holding tickets being
admitted. At ii o'clock the diplomates, who
were entitled to seats on the floor of the Sem
ate, began to arrive. They gathered in
the Marble Room adjoining the Senate
Chamber, and at l:15 marched into the Sen
ate Chamber and were given seats at the
right of the Chair They were followed by the
heads of departments, General of the Army,
the Admiral of the Navy the army officers
and others who have been thanked by Con-
gress by name for mer.torious services, Gov
errors and eX-GOvernorS of States, Judges
of the Supreme Court of the District and of
the Court of Alabama Claims the Commits
sioners of the District, the Assistant Secreta-
ries of the departments and Commissioner of
finally by the members of the House, all be-
ing given seats in chairs upon the floor of the
Senate Chamber. The galleries were of
course packed.
Shortly before IL the President and the
Presidenteect and Vice President-elect
entered the Senate Chamber and were
escorted to seats reserved for them.
Vice President Hendricks was sworn in as
Vice President of the United States and Pres
ident of the Senate, and proceeded to ad-
minister the oath of office to the newly elected
members of the Senate, thus, by
1ns simPo ,hot COMPLETING the
very brief space of time, and the Senate of
the Forty-eighth Congress passed away and
its place was filed, as if by magic, with the
Senate of the Forty-ninth Congress. The
cd for the purpose Of escorting the President
elect to the platform in fro;st of the Capitol,
where he was to be sworn in and deliver his
inaugural. 1t formed in the following order:
Marshal of the District of Columbia and Su-
preme Court
Justices of the Supreme Court
Sergeant farms of the Senate
Committee of Arrangements.
The President and Presidentelect
Vice President and Secretary of the Senate.
Members of the Senate.
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Heads of Departments
General of the Army and Admiral of Navy.
Those receiving the thanks of Congress.
Members and Members-elect of the House.
Governors and ex-GovernOrs of States.
Officers of House and Senate. Z.
All other persons admitted to the floor.
All persons admitted to the galleries.
This procession moved through the c ap-
tol, from the main door of the Senate Cham
her to the rotunda, and thence through the
main door at the east front of the Capitol
building to the great platform that had been
erected, upon which the oath of Office was to
be administered to President Cleveland. In
front of the Capitol as they emerged they
great space in front of the building
was packed with mass of peo-
Pile, thousands and thousands, from whose
throats came mighty shout as the process
sion and the President appeared. Marching
forward to the platform, upon which the
members of the press had already been seat
ed, the President and President-elect took
seats at the center, well in front, assigned
them by the committee, those following
them fling right and left to their seats as as
signed.
As the new President took bis seat there
was pressure forward by the great crowd,
hum of voices and a struggle to get sight
of the man who was then and there to as
sumo the duties of the greatest Office in the
gift of the greatest union on earth. Those
who were near enough to crafty this
desire saw in him a man whose face
seemed familiar by reason of the events of
the last six months, faultlessly attired in
black his familiar features a trif1e pale from
the suppressed agitation of the great part in
the drama in real life which he was to play.
After moments delay the inaugural ad-
dress was delivered, after which he was
sworn in the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court administering the oath of Office.
The inaugural Address.