The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-03-07


president; the venerable Mr.. Scott, the father
Of Mrs. Harrison; Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee and
some other relatives, while Mrs. Morton, the
wife of the vice president. was escorted by
Mr.. MCCammon, the chairman Of the COIN
mittee on arrangements. ALI eyes were
turned in that direction. The lady who has
now become tho first lady Of the land and
mistress of the White House was at once
subjected to the critical examination of the
eyes of her own sex She bore the gaze ap-
parently we'll and without concern lu fact,
she had not long been in her seat before she
took out q note book and resting it upon the
marble railing IN front began to make some
memoranda. II was 115S by Mr.. BaseeIts
clock and 1915 actual time when the presi-
dental party entered the senate chamber.
Mr. Cleveland was escorted by Mr.. Crockrell,
OF the committee of arrangements, and con-
Quoted to the chair prepared for him. He
was followed for the last time officially by
the members of his cabinet There were
two changes IN the cabinet, which was present
in that senate chamber four years before:
Manning, then rotund and rosy, the strongest
man, it proved that Mr.. Cleveland hal
selected has Joined the majority; and
Lamar, deemed then chvalrous dreamer,
and not fitted for cabinet work, proved that
he as more successful as secretary of the
interior than some of the other senatorial
selections for the Cleveland cabinet, and
more fortunate than al the rest. He sat on
the other side of the aisle to- day, lodged
upon the supreme court for his life.
THERE WAS BAYARD,
heir to gentlemauly Journalism, political
prefermcnt and snug estate an aristocrat
,hoy 81, ~f y; rfx h,,f ,h.o
seems to have been the most unsuccessful
of all OF Clevelards cabinet advisers There
was Garland, whose reputation as lawyer
did not stand the test of time, and who was
another failure in Clevelands cabinet
There was Villas, the type of a tlourishing
Western physician, the most intense partisan
of the cabinet There was Fairchild. Man
ning's successor, Tilden's old law clerk, and
Whitney still looking young, alert, discreet,
who possesses the delightful faculty of al
ways looking the perfection of physical and
mental neatncss, and through whose glasses
pair OF keen but friendly eyes look out upon
u world which he has never had occasion to
regard as otherwise than as the best of
ali possible worlds And at the end of The
list but the first on any list of those who
wish to Judge the administration from the
standpoint of the sincerity of it's civil service
professions, was Mr.. Endicott, scholar
and idealiSt who has been nuer to his pro-
fessionS than his party was, and who lays
down the portfolio of the war department
respected bv all and admired ard honored
by his opponents He has made but two
changes in his departments; one Was to I'LL a
vacancy caused by death, and the other one
created by resignation. After that came the
routine OF the swearing in of the new SEN
ators They were brought TO the desk Of the
wee president in groups of four t. six;
escorted generally by colleagues from cher
own states
THE TABLEAU
on the east front, ordinarily 80 dramatic and
impressive in "ther years, had much less in
terest to-day. The president stood under IN
umbrella and shouted the terse sentences of
his inaugural in the teeth of the win d, many
of them, for that matter, directly into the
face of Grover Cleveland, who sat at his i'm
mediate right grim and massive, and into
that of Chief Justice Fuller, who sat at his
let5, almost as lmpassva as the man who
gave to him the hight So judicial honor in the
land A few hundred people gathered about
the president on the platform, but fully four
fifth of the seats were unoccupied. Those who
ventured into the chill air and the drenching
storm khivered under a canopy of dripping
and interlacng umbrellas The rest Of the
distinguished persons who were to have oc-
cupied the platform covered under the por-
cicos waited in the rotunda, peered through
the windows, or left the capitol as soon as the
inaugural party passed out of the senate
| chamber. The only scene at all worthy of the
day was within the four walls Of the sbnate
chamber. In the senate chamber itself the
solemn dignity and virile force of Senator
Ingalls, was emphasized by his imminent de-
parture from the chair he has SO graced. TIE
demeanor of the princiral personages
of the political drama played on this
Impressive stage gathered new
gravity from their surroundings President
| Cleveland bore himself with more dignity
than when sitting for the last time In his
cabinet, and the spectacle of Gen. Harrison
stepping gravely down the center aisle of the
senate chamber appealed much more strong
ly to the imagination than did that of the
same person an hour later battling with the
wind and rain in the endcavor to deliver his
inaugural outside
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON
has more physical presence than Gen. Harri-
son, but less personal force and impressive
ness H s voice seems weak, after Ingalls,
virile tones, aud his brief opening address
was read from notes The vice president
spoke as fol ows:
Senators: l shall enter on the discharge of the
delicate and lat t1mes) important duties of the
position to which have been called by the peo-
pie of the United States without experience as
presiding othcerj and therefore bespaak in ad-
vance the indulgent consideration which YOU
have been always ready to extend to the occu-
pant of the chair As presiding officer of the
senate it will be my effort to administer the
with fairness tn
| treat every senator with the courtesy and con-
sideraton due at all times to the representatives
of great states in Il legislative body. hope that
our official and personal relations will prove
mutually agreeable, and that our duties will be
discharged in manner to maintain the dignity
of the senate and to add to the prosperity and
happiness Of this great nation.
Nearly all present III that stately chamber
regretted that the ceremony could not have
been completed in the senate cha nber, with
| its dramatic surroundings and freedom from
the battle of the elements. Had the in
| augural address been delivered there, it
would have been completely heard by about
| 1000 selected persons, instead of in broken
fragments by few hundred out of the
| thousands outside who were near enough to
catch the words which came from the presi-
dents lips. Until the last moment it was not
| decided whether to finish the ceremonies
| in the chamber or to repair to the p!a form.
The latter course was taken in accordance
with the strong and directly expressed wish
of Gen. Harrsc n himself that he might take
the oath in the actual presence of the people
| and say'his iirsI words as the head of the re-
| public directly to them. To realize this SEN
timent, he risked pneumonia and spoiled the
dramatic effectiveness of his Inauguration,
but great many of the people to whose
| sympathies and support he was determined
directly to appeal will give him q little
warmer place in their hearts for ehershing
| it,
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| THE INAUGURAL PARADE,
Despite the Indictment Democratic
| Weather the Gaudy Troops March