The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02

President Cleveland The members of
the outgoing cabinet will be there
also, and Maior-General Miles and two
aides, clad in the brilliancy of their
best uniforms. Then the new cabinet
will arrive and a quarter of an hour
viii be spent in informal greetings.
Overcoats will be donned and then
the messenger will announce that the
carriage is at the door. This viii be
an open landau drawn by four of the
best horses in the chief executive :
stable. President Cleveland and Ma
jor Mckinley will walk out together,
and, according to precedent, the presi-
dent will enter the carriage first. Sit
ting on the right side. Major McKin-
ley will take the seat beside him, d
signal viii be given TO the negro coach
man and the horses will move away
at a gentle pace down the broad drive
way.
THE DRIVE TO THE CAPITOL.
At the entrance gate an escort of the
United States regulars will be drawn
up, and these will take positions in
front of and in the rear of the presi-
dental carriage. Further on will be
the Artillery band, and at the signal
| will play Hail to the chief" Stretch
ing out for some distance behind will
be the carriages containing the new
anu OlQ CdDlHGlS, IllG new NlCe-pTGSl-
! dent and the senatorial committees.
Slowly the small procession will
turn down Pennsylvania avenue. bril-
| liant with flags and bunting and
crowded with spectators from end to
end. Police Will keep the multitude
in line, but nothing will stifie the
cheering, which will smother the crash
of the band from one end of the ave-
nue. to the other. The two presidents
viii have little time for talk, for the
incoming executive will be kept busy
returning the salutations of the crowd.
The party will reach the capitol at
noon, the carriage driving up to the
senate wing. Elevators will convey
the members of the two cabinets and
the two presidents to the senate floor,
and here Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Cleve-
! land will be ushered into private
room.
Prior to the arrival of the party the
senate will be crowded with distin-
! gulshed gathering. Mrs. Mckinley and
| the ladies Of the new presidential party
! will occupy the front benches in one
of the galleries. The diplomatic corps.
resplenoent in gorgeous uniforms and
! led by Sir Julian Pauncefote as dean
| OF the corps, will march slowly III.
The outgoing senate will be there
and also the new members about to be
sworn in. Congressman and ex-con-
! SreSSmen VIII crowd the floor and the
/ supreme court justices, clad in their
/ long robes, Will occupy conspicuous
seats Vice-Presioent Stevenson will
! be seated at the presiding officers
desk for the last time, and one of the
attendants will see that the hands OF
/ the senate clock do not reach the hour
/ of u, although the correct time may
be half an hour later
| There will be a few minutes wait.
and then Mr.. Hobart win enter and be
a. Cd Nv.
10 Mr.. Stevenson. Then will come
President Cleveland and the members
on mas cabinet, the president taking a
seat in the open space near the presid-
ing officer. A minute later Mr.. McKirl-
ley and his cabinet will enter, the
president-elect taking the seat next to
Mr.. Cleveland.
SWEARING IN MR.. HOBART.
Mr.. Stevenson will then call the out
going senate TO order, and in a short
speech adjourn the Fifty-fourth con-
gress for all time. His next act will
be to swear in Mr.. Hobart as vice
president of the United States, and
then Mr.. Hobart viii make a brief in
ausural address of four or five hundred
words. The task of swearing in the
new senators will follow, and while
this is going on the two presidents viii
leave the chamber, arm in arm, fol-
ION tu ny the NnOlc aSSSmD1age-
They will make their way to the east
front of the capitol, where the great
inauguration platform has been erected
on & level with the first flight of steps |
One thousand chairs on the platform
VIII be occupied by distinguished per-
sons. while the open space upon which |
the stand fronts viii be damned by the |
multitude. Fifteen thousand people can |
squeeze into this space, but if it held |
ten times that number there would be |
no gaps. The law requires the presi- |
dent TO take the oath lin the presence
of the people," and this has been con- /
strued to mean in the open air
THE INAUGURATION ENCLOSURE.
A small Enclosure in the front and
directly in the middle of the platform
holding a small table. nine chairs, a
pitcher of ice water and a glass, and
decorated with the national colors, viii
be the traget of all eyes. Mr. Mckinley
and Mr.. Cleveland viii enter this in
closure. followed by Chief Justice Full
Ter of the Supreme court, Mr. Hobart,
Mr.. Stevenson and Secretary of State
Olney.
Without more ado Mr. Mckinley will
stand up and deliver his Inauguration
speech. 1t viii be short, consuming
about % or 80 minutes, and scarcely
one word of it viii be heard by the
IL the weather
be iaclement. Before the applause has
died away Chief Justice Fuller will be-
gin the reading of the oath by which
Mr.. Mckinley swears 70 defend the
of the United States
Heads win be barred, the majors right
hand will be raised in the air, and at
the conclusion he will kiss a Bible
which his mother has carried to church
for more than threescore years.
BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
The return to the White House will
follow Immediately. This time Mr.. Nc
Kinley will enter the four-horse car
riage first and sit on the right hand
side. with Mr.. Cleveland on the left,
and two members of the local commit
tee facing them The return to the
White House will be in the same order
as the departure couple of hours be-
fore, except that in the line of carriages
will be those of Mrs. Mckinley and the
ladies of the new administration.
Heretofore a midday luncheon has 1.
always been served in the executive
TO the outgoing and incoming
officials. but this year 1t will be aban-
doned because of the long procession
which must be reviewed On the re-