Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-11
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our regular correspondent
WARRINGTON, d. c.. March ( u

From our regular correspondent
wAsHISGroE. d. c.. March s. 1877
1t was great Inauguration dav
The crowd was the greatest ever in
Washington upon similar occasion.
The city was better and more gen.
| orally decorated than ever before
| The street parade was the best man.
aged and most enjoyable ever seen
in Washington, and words of praise
| for General Horace Porter, the chief
marshal, are heard on all sides. II
| every organization in the big parade
which deserved it was mentioned. il
would fill this paper, but none of
| them received more attention from
the spectators than troop A, of Cleve-
| land, O., with their fine black horses
and snowy uniforms, and the mem
bers of the Twenty third Ohio Vol
unteers. the Presidents old regiment
shared between them the honor of
being President McKinley's personal
escort. the former of which at the
close of the inaugural ceremonies
also escorted eX-President Cleveland
to the wharf, where he took a steamer
for a southern duck hunting trim
President McKinley's inaugural ad-
dress more than came up to eNpec-
tations. 1t was a scholarly. conser-
vative and statesmanlike announce
ment of what he hopes to do for the
country, with the aid of congress.
Vice President Hobart, who was
sworn in few minutes before the
close Of the tifty-fourth congress, and
before President Mckinley was
sworn in, in order that he might call
the extra session of the senate, acted
presiding officer.
One of the first things called to the
attention of the new postmaster gem
eral will be the charges filed against
the firm of John Wederburn d Co..
and the National Recorder, paper
issued by that firm. Wederburn Il
Co. are charged with conducting a
fraudulent business, by receiving
money under false pretenses, and
with violating the postal laws by
sending their paper through the
mails, and the postoffice department
is asked to put the firm and their pa
per on the fraud list
1t is stated upon apparently good
authority that President Mckinley
will not seriously consider the mat
ter of appointments, outside of the
diplomatic branch of the service, for
at least month to come.
One of Mr.. Cleveland's parting
shots at congress was his veto Of the
immigration bill. He held his veto
back as long as possible, although
the close vote by whice ii passed the
senate made it certain that it could
not be passed over the veto by the
senate. The house promptly passed
it over the veto.
Mr.. Olney kept up his obstinacy to
the last, by declining to furnish the
senate with copies of correspondence
concerning the case of DR.. Ruiz, an
American citizen killed in a Spanish
prison in Cuba, giving instead
statement Of his own. That sort of
tomfoolery is now happily over, and
Secretary sherman will see that SEN
ators and representatives are given
all the information they may desire
concerning the foreign relations Of
| this government.
1t is a coincidence that the mother
of the last Ohio president, the la
mented Garfield, saw her son inau-
gurated president of the United
states, just rs Mrs. Nancy Allison
| Mckinley saw her son take the oath
and heard him deliver his inaugural
address. Few mothers have the
privilege of enjoying such a proud
and happy hour.
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