Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-03-09

fully execute the once OF ITeSIUcue Va
The United States and will to the test OF
nv ability preserve, protect and defend
the constitution of the United States
A GIFT FROM HIS MOTHER.
The Bible d in the ceremony was
given President Cleveland by his mother
forty-nine years ago By his special
request it was, eight years ago, put to
the same service for which it was used
to-day.
THE MANNER OF THE ORATOR.
The characteristic feature about the
inaugural was the clear, steady and
excellent enunciation with which it was
delivered and the absolute absence of
anv gesture. Mr. Cleveland gave no
other emphasis to his remarks than that
derived from the emphatic tone and de-
termined nod of the head with which he
at times stated some OF the more forcible
passages OF his Grafton. He spoke with
ont notes and turned from one part OF
the assembled crowd to the other, some
times addressing the multitude in front
of the stand. and then again turning 10
the side and addressing himself more
particularly to the people on the stand.
In the confusion caused by the crowding,
lack of observance of the arrangements
made. and the wind, it was impossible
for persons within forty feet Of Mr..
Cleveland so follow his remarks from
beginning TO end. The people on the
plaza Immediately in front could hear
part of the salient features, ard when
ever they signified by cheers their appro-
val of special parts of it the demonstra-
tions we're taken up by persons further
removed, who were unaware OF exactly
what had been said. The reference to
the currency question provoked conside-
rable cheering. but the loudest approval
was given the tariff section. The Presi,
dent began the delivery of his address
about 1.3o o'clock and it occupied twenty
five minutes.
IN TIE SENATE CHAMBER.
vice-President Morton asked: IS the
Vice President elect now ready to take
and subscribe to the oath of Office?
When the Senate clock indicated ll.5o,
but when me actual time wcS l2.50, the
ice-President-elect was announced, and
MIR. Stevenson, escorted by Senator Nc
Pherson. took his chair to the right OF
Vice President Morton.
Immediately afterwards the President
of the United States and his Cabinet
were announced. and President Harrison
and the members of his Cabinet entered
the chamber. President Harrison was
escorted to one of the scarlet chairs
standing in front of the Clerks desk.
afterwards the President
elect was announced, ,cd Mr.. Cleveland,
escorted by Senator Ransom. too!s the
chair next to President Harrison. His
entrance into the chamber was greeted
with applause. Then Vice-President
Morton administered the oath OF office to
his successor and yielded to him the chair
of the presiding officer. The special ses-
sion of the Senate of the SD Congress
was then formally opened with prayer by
Chaplain Butler Vice-Presidcnt Steven
son rose and addressed the Senate. he
said:
VICE president sTEvENsoN's SPEECH.
Senator'S: Deeply impressed with a
sense of it's responsibility and of its dig
nifty now enter upon the discharge OF
the duties of the high Office to which
have been called. am not unmindful
of the fact that among the occupants OF
this chair during the one hundred and
four wears of our constitutional history
have been statesmen eminent alike for
their talents and their tireless devotion
to public duty. Adams, jefferson and
Calhoun honored its incumbency during
the early days of the Republic, while
Arthur, Hendricks and Norton have at
later period of our history shed lustre
upon the Office of President of the most
august deliberative assembly known to
men.
] assume the duties of the great trust
confded, to me with no feeling of self
confidence, but rather with that of grave
distrust of my ability satisfactorily to
meet its requirements. may be par
doned for saying that it shall be my earn
est endevor to discharge the important
duties which lie before me with no less
of impartiality and courtesy than of firm
ness and fidelity. Earnestly invoking the
cooperation, the forbearance, the char
ity of each of its members l now enter
upon my duties as presiding officer of the
Senate.
THE EXTRA SESSION.
AS he closed his remarks Mr.. Steven
son directed the Secretary of the Senate
to read the proclamation of the Presi-
dent convening the Senate in extraordi,
nary session. Secretary McCook read
the proclamation and then the Senator'S
newly elected, or reelected, were invited
by the Vice President to come farward
and take the oath of Office. They did so,
each escorted by his colleague, and the
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