Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-03-12

buildings and the tree-t0pS and boxes
along the avenue were called into re-
QUESTION. while the sidewalks were
packed with a moving, crowding mass
Of humanity, which it was difficult to
keep off the pavement at times. In
front of the White House huge stand
was erected at a cost of $500, covered,
provided with seats, and handsomely
decorated. from which the President
and several hundred invited gentlemen
and ladies' reviewed the procession.
Just opposite IL was another grand
stand crowded, of course, long before
the procession reached that part of the
route provided for it. 1t is estimated
that seats had been provided for 5000
persons, and that l00. 900 persons viewed
the procession as it passed down the
avenue after the Inauguration cere-
monies had taken place at the Capitol.
THE START.
AT 10 o'clock Senators Sherman and
Ransom, 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
at the same time visited Wizards Ho-
tel and escorted e-President-elect
Hendricks to the White House. After
a short time spent there, they took car
riages for the Capitol, being escorted
thither by one division of the. process
sion, consisting of the regular army,
the marine corps and the District mill
tia. Arriving at the Capitol, President
Arthur went to the Presidents room,
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 in its expiring hours, and the
approval by the President of those that
were thought worthy of approval. The
House and Senate were in session, very
busy, winding up the work of the ses-
sion. its officers and messengers hust-
ling back and forth between the chamb-
ers of the bodies with bills and reports
| of conference committees, everything
in hubbub of confusion and hurry,
yet proceeding in order. The Presi-
dent-elect was escorted to the Vice
Presidents room, where he was follow
the two remaining here until the mo-
ment should arrive for their entrance
to the Senate Chamber.
IN THE SENATE CHAMBER.
OF course not a tithe of those who
desired to enter the Senate Chamber
| to witness the reorganization of that
body could be accommodated. 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 OPEN
| ed earlier to those holding tickets of adj
mission, none not so holding tickets
being admitted. AT II O'Clock the diplO-
mates, who were entitled to seats on
the floor of the Senate, began to arrive.
| They gathered in the Marble Room, ad
| Joining the Senate Chamber, and march
ed into the Senate Chamber and were
given seats at the right of the chair.
They were followed by the heads of de-
partments, General of the army, the
Admiral of the navy, the army officers
and others who have been thanked by
Congress, by name, for meritorious
services: Governors and ex-GOvernors
of States, Judges of the Supreme Court
of the District and of the Court of Ala
bama Claims, the Commissioners of the
District, the Assistant Secretaries of
the departments, the Commissioner of
Agriculture and the Supreme Court.
The members of the House arrived dur
ing prayer and while the new Senate
was being sworn in, and with the ut
most difficulty made their way to the
seats assigned them inrear of all others
in the Senate. Many could notget seats
at all, and were mad as hornets. The
galleries were, of course, packed.
-, THE vICE-PREsIDENT SWORN IN.
Shortly before II the President and
| the PreSident-elect 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 President of the
| Senate, and proceeded to administer
the oath of office to the newly-elected
members of the Senate, thus by this
| simple process completing the reOrgan-
ization of that body in very brief
| space of time, and the Senate of the
Forty-eighth Congress passed away,
and it's place was filed, as if by magic,
with the Senate of the Forty-ninth
Congress. The new Senators sworn in,
the procession formed, for the purpose
of escorting the President-elect to the
platform in front of the Capitol, where
| he was to be sworn in and deliver his
| inaugural.
The procession moved through the
Capitol from the main door of the SEN
ate Chamber 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
| ,ah fhr> r>f TO 1a ,,l
| ministered to President Cleveland. In
front of the Capitol, as they emerged.
they found
| A SEA OF PEOPLE.
The great space in front of the
building was packed with mass OF
whose thrOatS came mighty shout as
appeared. Marching forward to the
the press had already been seated, the
PRESIDENT and Vice-President-elect
took seats in the center, well in front,
following filing right and left to their
seats as assigned. AS the new Presi-
dent took his 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 nation on
earth. Those who were near enough
to crafty this desire saw in him man
whose face seemed familiar by reason
of the events of the past six months,
faultlessly attired in black, his familiar
features a tritie pale from the sup