The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-20
ODD FEATURES OF
NEXT INAUGURATION

United States Will be his own fIlaTusf1i-
aye. successor It IS point that lends
picturesque interest to the con1ine in
uguration, the last occasion on which
s1ch thing occurred having been in
1917, when General Grant began his
second term. In all probability. this
celebration VIII be much more spectac-
ular than the last lust as was the case
when the hero of Appomattox was in
stalled In the White House. The Re
puDicans are likely to make it a day
OF special triumph and iubilation in
hohor or their recent Overwhelming
victory, and already it is proposed to
erect a building for the ball at a cost
OF $4,000, instead of using the pension
Office for that purpose.
MIR Mckinley viii ride from the
White House to the capitol alone to de-
HNef ms inaugural address, thing
which has not happened since 1872. 1t
occurred also in 1868, but that was be-
cause Andrew Johnson was unfriendIv
10 Grant, and refused to accompany
MIN, just as John Adams would not go
with Jefferson under similar circum-
stances and for the same reason. Be
ing at once the outgoing and the in
coming chief executive of the nation
MI Mckinley viii occupy alone the
rear seat OF a carriage drawn by four
hofseS, and viii thus be ena bled more
conveniently TO distribute right and Iefr
MS BOWS of acknowledgment for the
plaudits of the enthusiastic multitude.
AT aDQut 1880 on the morning of
March 4Athe Republican leader on the
floor of The house will rise and move
that a committee be appointed to wait
upon the president and inform him thai
congress has completed it's work and is
ABOUT to adjourn. incidentally inquir-
ing whether he has anything further
70 communicate to the national Iegis-
latlVe body The motion being carried
the speaker viii name five members for
TINS purpose, and, like step having
Deen taken at the other end of the
capitol. the ten selected representa- lives
and senators win proceed to the eXecu-
tive mansion IN carriages. On their re-
turn they VIII report that they saw the
president, and that he stated that
Whlie having no communication to
make, ne desired TO convey to the con-
gTess his thanks and congratulations
on the work accomplished BY it.
This IS the regular formal routine
prescribed by official etiquette but il
Is worth mentioning that on March 4
1881, Wnen Mr. DalZell of Pennsylvania
was made chairman OF the house com
mlttee appointed to wait upon the
president IN this way, he reported on
coming back that the committee had
been unable to perform the duty as
signed to it, for the reason that Rfr
Cleveland had already left the white
House This, most people considered !
was not very polite on Mr.. CleVeIand's
part.
Mckinley, on his way 60 the capitol
with him, would have sat on his right
occupying the place of honor as the de
facto president, but, having reIinquish-
ed his office, he would have sat on the
left when coming back. being then a !
mere private citizen. This is what will
happen on March Z, 1905, when a new
ch1et magistrate IS inauguTated, and
then the latter viii do all the bowling /
Mr.. Mckinley not even removing his |
d d
soch circumstances that the plaudits /
are addressed exclusively to the execu-
tive that is to be.
or course a great parade, including
many thousands of troops, will escort
Mr.. Mckinley to and from the capjtOI
1t viii be abOminally cold and very I
likely raining Eat all events, it usually /
is such weather in Washington on /
March - and the president viii take d
nasty luncheon with q few friends in /
the private dining room at the White
House before going out and exposing /
himself to the hazard of pneumonia on !
the temporary grand stand in front /
Whereon ne reviews the procession.
Roosevelt, beng the only new thing.
or pretty near il. in the administratio ton. !
viii be an object of much interest nee !
esSaTily. Mr.. Hobart if he were alive /
would make a valedictOry speech in /
the senate, winding up by handing over |
the gavel to Teddy who would re- /
spond with "a few appropriate words"
Circumstances being what they are
the president pro TEN. Of the upper 1
house viii introduce the new vice pres !
ident, and the latter viii then make /
his remarks-the last he will have a !
chance to utter, by the way, before 1
that body for four long years. When J
he relinquishes the Office in 1904 he viii /
have another chance to deliver a brief /
Grafton, custom granting him that OPP /
pOrtunity, though the retiring presi- /
dent of the United States plays only 4
thinking part in the inaugural per- /
Torrance, not opening his liDs.
People are puzzled to image how
Roosevelt, who seems so keenIy 10 en- /
JOY being in the public eye. will be I
able TO resign himself 10 the relative i
Obscurity into which a vice president !
almost necessarily sinks. The only /
way in which a man holding that office I
can be conspicuous is by cutting a wide 4
swath socially, and to do that in Wash /
ington costs d great deal of money. The i
vice president-elect has only mOder-
ate private fOrtune-by To means SUI 4
fCient to enable him TO make what is 4
salary of $4,000 a year will hardly do !
more than pay the rent of a house /
suitable to the dignity of his position. !
The pay of a vice president ought to be
S25 GOO per annum, but congress has
never been able to see the matter in /
LndL lfSuL, ana. therefore HODOuL VINO !
is not very rich can really afford to
hold the position.
Mr. Hobart was a millionaire. but
he did not do much entertaining,
though he occupied a fine house, in /
which Senator Don Cameron formerly
lived, opposite Lafayette square. Con-
sequently, he was by no means a con-
spicuOus figure in Washington. His
immediate predecessor, Adlai Steven
son, was a poor man and lived in a
suite OF rooms on the third floor OF a
hotel. Levi p. Morton was the only
vice president within the memory Of
the present generation who was prom
inent at the capital, and this he accom-
plished by the lavish use of his enOrm-
Gus wealth He bought a paiatial
on Scott Circle. added an an
rex for a bail room and made the es-
ia blishment the chief center of fashion |
during the Harrison administration.
Each New Years day he gave a recep-
ton, which. while attended by less In
discriminate crowd. wed in popular in
terest with that at the White House.
Roosevelt cannot do these things and
must be content with a passive OBJ
security that may chafe his strenuous
soul He VIII occupy a place in the
which John Adams once de-
scribed as the most insignificant Office /
that ever the invention of man con-
trived." Not being a member of the /
senate he viii have no influence in
the appointing of committees, and he
will not even be admitted to the eau
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