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

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. MoCammon, the chairman of the COM
mittee on arrangements. All eyes were
turned in that direction. The lady who has
now become the 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 well and without concern In 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. IL was lbs by Mr.. Basse;t's
clock and 1915 actual time when the presi-
dentIal 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, tho strongest
man, it proved, that Mr.. Cleveland hal
selected, has Joined tho majority; and
Lamar, deemed then O chivalrous dreamer.
and not fitted for cabinet work. proved that
he was 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 gentlemanly Journalism, political
prefermcnt and snug estate, an aristocrat
who was the ideal of his party, but who
seems to have been the most unsuccessful
of all OF Cleveland's 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 tiourishing
Western physician, the most intense partisan
of the cabinet There was FaircEild, 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 neatness, and through whose glasses
pair OF keen but friendly eyes look out upon
q 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 its civil service
AID idealist who has been truer to his pro-
LESSONS than his party was, and who lays
down the portfolio of the war department
respected by all and admired and honored
by his opponents He has made but two
changes in his department; one Was to fill
vacancy caused by death, and the other one
created by resignation. After that came the
routine of the swearing in of the new SEN
stors They were brought TO the desk of the
vice president in groups of four t. six;
escorted generally by colleagues from Sher
own states.
THE TABLRAU
on the east front, ordinarily so dramatic and
impressive in ether years, had much less in
terest to-day. The president stood under an
umbrella and shouted the terse sentences of
his inaugural in the teeth of the wind, many
of them, for that matter, directly into the
face of Grover Cleveland, who sat at his i'm
mediate right grim and imrassive, and into
that of Chief Justice Fuller, who sat at his
lef5, almost as impressive as the man who
gave to him the highc Sc 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 shivered under a canopy of dripping
and interlacing umbrellas The rest Of the
distinguished persons who were to have oc-
cupied the platform covered under the pur-
ticos 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 PRINCIPAL 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 grayely down the center aisle of the
senate chamber appealed much more strong
~ TO the imagination than did that of the
wind and rain in the endeavor to deliver his
inaugural outside
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON
has more physical presence than Gen. Harri-
son, but less personal force and impressive
ness HIS voice seems weak after Ingalls,
virile tones, and his brief opening address
was read from notes. The vice president
spoke as follows:
Senators: shall enter on the discharge of the
delicate and lat timesl important duties of the
position to which have been called by the peo-
pie of the United States without experience as a
presiding officerj and therefore bespeak in adj
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
rules of procedure with entire fairness and to
| treat every senator with the courtesy and con-
sideration due at all times to the representatives
of great states in - 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 mber, 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 o 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 pla form.
| The latter course was taken in accordance
with the strong and directly expressed wish
of Gen. Harrise n himself that he might take
| the oath in the actual presence of the people
| and say.his firsd words as the head of the re-
public directly to them. To realizs this SEN
timent, he risked pneumonia and spoiled the
/ dramatic effectiveness of his Inauguration,
but u great many of the peonle to whose
| sympathies and support he was determined
directly to appel will give him q little
warmer place in their hearts for eherishing
it.
THE INAUGURAL PARADE,