The San Francisco call., 1897-03-05
MCKINLEY
|NAUGURATED
PRESIDENT
Continued from Second Page.

not hope to acquit myself to your satisfae ton
or with any degree of personal credit
1t shall be my highest aim to justify the
confidence the people have reposed in me by
discharging my duties in such a manner as to
tighten your labors secure your appreciation
of my honest effort to administer your rules
with an eye single to the public good and pro-
mote the pleasant and efficient transaction of
the public business. I trust that our official
and personal relations may be alike agree
able; that the friendships we may form here
may be genuine and lasting and that the
work of the Senate may rebound to the peace
and honor of the country and the prosperity
and happiness of all the people.
Then President Cleveland's proclama-
tion convening the Senate in session for
the 4th of March was read, and the Vice
President called upon the newly elected
Senators to come forward and be sworn.
Morrill, (R.) of Vermont had the dis
tinction conferred upon him, on account
of his age and long service, OF being sworn
first and alone at the clerks desk-the
oath being administered by Vice President
Hobart.
All the newly elected Senators who were
present, as we'll as the old ones, were then
sworn in in patches of four at time and
subscribed to the oath of Office.
Each Senator, as he came forward to
take the oath, was escorted by his col.
league so that Sherman performed, per-
haps, his last official act in the Senate
cham Der by escorting Foraker, Brice' s
successor.
The only exception to the rule was in
the case of Kyle of South Dakota, who was
escorted, not by his colleague, Pettigrew,
but by the Populist Senator from Nebraska,
Allen.
The ceremony came to a close at los
P. NJ, when the order of exit and the pro-
cession to the inaugural platform was put
into execution.
1t was lis o'clock when the floor OF the
Senate cham Der was once more deserted,
and then the spectators in the galleries
We're permitted 10 join in the procession.
BY II o'clock the diplomatic gallery be-
gan to fill up. The wife of the Chinese
Minister. Nine. Yang Yu. occupied the
front seat to the extreme left, and behind
her sat Mr.. SEE, one of the attaches. Both
wore their native costumes, the lady being
attired in bright silk, with large red
flowers in her toque.
She appeared to take lively interest in
the scene, occasionally leaning over the
balustrade and peering down upon the
assemblage. Many of the other occupants
of the diplomatic galleries were ladies and
families of the Ministers and attaches.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani came into the
diplomatic gallery at 11:30 o'clock, fol.
lowed by her secretary. Mr.. Palmer, but
they took seats three rows back of Nine.
Yang Yu.
At Has the. assistant doorkeeper an
nounced "The ambassadors from foreign
countries"
The Vice-President, Senators and spec.
tators arose and remained standing while
the EN- mbassadors walked down .the main
aisle, made profound bows to the Vice
President and took the seats reserved for
them, adjoining those reserved for the
President and Vice-President-e elect.
That was Immediately followed by the
announcement, ''The Ministers of foreign
countries" and the same ceremony was
observed as the Ministers entered and
took seats behind the chairs reserved for
the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of
the United States. The EN- mbassadors and
Ministers were resplendent in their uni
forms, sashes and decorations.
The next to enter were the Chief Justice
and Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States in their black
silk robes. They occupied chairs within
the arena in front and to the right of the
Vice-PresIdeDt's desk. They were at
tended by the clerk of the court, who held
splendidly bound and gilt copy of the
Bible, in quarto size, on which the oath of
Office was to be administered to the new
President.
Exactly on the stroke of II o'clock the
Speaker and members OF the House OF
Representatives were announced and the
same ceremony vas observed toward that
body.
The whole assemblage arose as Speaker
Reed and the members in his train were
taking their seats, in the right hand Sec
ton of the hall. Speaker Reed took his
seat beside and to the left of the Vice.
President.
By this time the floor and galleries of
the Senate chamber were completely
filed, and hundreds who could not get
seats crowded up against the walls and
blocked the doorways.
At 1915 Hoar reported that the CON-
mittee to wait on the President had per-
formed that duty and had been requested
by the President to extend his congratu-
lations TO Congress and to say that he had
no further com munication to make.
As soon as that report was made the
Vice-PresideEt-elect was announced, and
all stood up while Mr.. Hobart walked
down the aisle. TO the ice-President's 8
desk and took chair there reserved for
him to the right of the Vice Preside ent. At
1923 the President and President-elect