Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-03-07
WASHINGTON.


for adjournment: the credentials of w
A. Clark of Montana were read an'
placed on file and some small bills passed
In the House the galleries were crowd
ed and dozen unimportant bills were
passed, Saturday, and the House took
recess until 9 p. NJ of Sunday. when il
reconvened for an all night session the
theory being that the session of Mar.
continued until noon of Mar. 4, for the
minute Congress discovers that 1t 1:
March the presiding officer must de
clare sine-die adjournment. In par
liamentary usage day lasts from noon
to noon, unless, perchance, the sittings
should extend beyond the noon hour.
Then the day lasts as long as Congress
chooses Twenty-four years ago, during
the continuance of the disputed election
Congress sat for 35 calendar days with
out adjournment. The Congressionai
Record on Monday will read: Wash
lngton, March , March A. 1901, show
Ing that, while the legislative day Of
March was still in existence when all
the events chronicled therein took place,
the calendar calculation made the time
March f.
Special trains bearing visitors began
arriving early that morning, and before
evening half dozen Governors and
the members of their staffs were in town.
Some of the trains also brought military
bodies. Gov. Roosevelt and family ar
rived and went to the home Of his sister
Mrs. Commander Cloves. The Porto
Rican battalion landed at Norfolk and
reached Washington late Saturday
night.
The vast court of the Pension Build
ing was decorated with flowers, plants
and bunting and was ready for the In
augural ball and all arrangements for
the great parade on Monday were being
completed.
At o'clock Monday morning Con-
gress had passed all the appropriation
bills except the river and harbor and
sundry civil bills. Conference reports
upon them had been rejected in both
House and Senate and both houses were
still in session
In the Senate Mr.. Carter, of Mon
tana began talking on the River and
Harbor bill, and kept on talking till
near noon, or till preparations for the
Inaugural began. He talked for thirteen
hours and killed the bill. During the
morning a vote Of thanks was given
Speaker Henderson TO which he re-
sponded, and then the House adjourned.
sine die and focked over to the Senate
chamber to see the Inaugural ceremonies
there.
The INAUGURATION.
Before noon the Senate chamber was
packed with Senators, Governors, Army
and Navy officers, foreign Ambassa-
dors, ETC., and the galleries with women
of all the civilized nations of the earth.
in flowing robes and glittering diamonds.
Vice President Roosevelt entered and
was sworn in by Senator Frye and then
the President, who had been sitting in
one of the small rooms, signing bills en-
tered and the procession, headed by the
President and Chief Justice, formed and
marched out upon the platform, where
Mckinley took the oath Of Office and
made his address during a drenching
rain The day had opened bright and
fair, but towards noon it began raining
and rained the rest Of the day A
crowd of about forty thousand people
stood in the rain around the Capitol to
see the President take the oath from the
Chief Justice and afterwards along
Penn'a avenue to see the military pa
rade.
After making his address, Mckinley
aud Roosevelt entered a carriage and
headed the procession of carriages and
military organizations down Penn
sylvania avenue, to the White House,
when the President and his party en-
tered the stand erected there, and re-
VleWeu bne procession.
That night everybody (who had a
ticket went to the great ball in the
Pension building, there were some fire.
works at the Monument and the day
was over.
The ADDRESS.
THE feature of national significance
in the parade and festivities of the day
is the forecast of national policy and ex-
ecutive purpose given in the Inaugural
address. The Presidents second in
augural address is therefore the really
important part of the occasion for the
people at large. President Mckinley
opened his second inaugural by con-
trasting the condition of the currency
question four years ago with that of the
present, and dwelling on the revival of
Industry, the improved state of the
revenues and the marked reversal of
all the features which characterized the
finances and industry of the Nation
when his first term began. This is a
legitimate cause for pride and congrat-
ulation. 1t constitutes the strength of
the Administration and vas the factor
which above all others determined the
last election.
Passing from this topic the Presi-
dent took mp the other great public
question, the relation of the U~ited
States with Cuba and the Philippines
His refrence TO the attitude of those op-
posing the Republican policy might
have been fairer in the statement of
their position; but this political fault
will be generally overlooked in view of
the repeated determination to make
good the pledge with regard to Cuba
and to give the Philippines 'self-go
ernment as fast as they can be made
ready for it," The surest way to dis
arm opposition and to crown the policy
of the Administration with the unani-
nous public approval is to make good
those words The President is now
clothed with power to carry out these
purposes. He has heretofore been linn
tied by the theory that he was acting
only as COMMANDMENTS Chief in holding
the possessions by military occupancy.
But having now received an extra