The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-03-07
ROOSEYELTSWORNIN IN
Impressive Exercises Occur On
Floor of Senate.
VICE PRESIDENT TAKES OATH
Ceremony Was Witnessed BY An
Immense Concourse of Promi-
nent Officials and Civilians.

Standing on a spot hallowed by his
tory and in the presence Of brilliant
and distinguished assemblage on the
floor of the senate, Colonel Roosevelt,
of New York, was inducted into
the office of vice president of the
United States.
The oath was administered by Sen
ator VIM. P. Frye, of Maine, president
pro tenn. of the United State senate.
The ceremony was thoroughly dem
ocratic, yet it was simplicity pro-
foundly impressive.
The scene on the floor of the cham
Der, intent upon the ceremony, were
men whose names are household words
in every city.
The senate was in session, construc-
lively, having been so since II o'clock
Saturday morning although recesses
taken OF intervals had rendered the
mental and physical strain the more
endurable.
Upon the floor of the senate the
proceedings were in accordance with a
definite program from which there
was no deviation.
As the assembly was seated the new
vice president ascended to his desk to
deliver his Inaugural address.
Before the delivery of the speech the
venerable chaplain of the senate, Rev.
DR.. ". H. Milburn, invoked the
divine blessing upon the assemblage
and the ceremonies.
The inaugural address was brief and
was listened to with utmost attention.
The proclamation of the president
calling the senate into extraordinary
session was then read by the clerk,
the direction for the reading being
the first official order of the new vice
president.
At the conclusion of the reading the
vice president requested the new sem
ators to present themselves at the
desk to take the oath of Office. The
clerk called the names Of the senators
in groups of four, and as they ad-
vanced to the left of the vice presi-
dents desk to take the oath they were
greeted with cordial applause from
the galleries.
The inaugural address of Vice Presi-
dent Roosevelt, in full, was as followa:
''The history of free government is
in large part the history of those re-
public legislative bodies in which,
from the earliest times, free govern
ment has found its loftiest expression.
They must ever hold a peculiar and
exalted position in the record which
tells how the great nations of the
world have endeavored to achieve and
preserve orderly freedom.
"No man can render to his fellows
greater service than is rendered by
him who, with fearlessness and
honesty, with sanity and disinterested-
ness, does his life work as member
of such body. Especially is this
the case when the legislature in which
the service is rendered is vital part
in the governmental machinery of one
of those world powers to whose hands,
in the course of the ages, is entrusted
leading part in shaping the destinies
of mankind. For veal or for woe, for
good or for evil, this is true of our
own mighty nation. Great privileges
and great powers are ours, and heavy
are the responsibilities that go with
these privileges and these powers.
Accordingly as we do we'll or i'll 30
shall mankind in the future be raised
or cast down. We belong to young
nation, already of great strength, yet
whose present strength is but a fore
cast of the power that is to come. We
stand supreme in a continent, in q
hemisphere. East and west we look
across the two great oceans toward the
larger world life in which, whether we
will or not, we must take an ever-in-
creasing share. And as, keen.eyed,
we look into the coming years, duties
new and old rise thick and fast to con-
front us from within and without.
"There is every reason why we should
face these duties with sober appreci-
alton alike of their Importance and OF
their difficulty. But there is also ev-
cry reason for facing them with high.
hearted resolution and eager and con-
fdent faith in our capacity to do them
Alright.
ga great work lies ready to the
hand of this generation. It should
count itself happy, indeed, that to it
is given the privilege of doing such a
work. A leading part therein must
be taken by this, the august and pow
erful Legislative body over which I
have been called to preside. Most
deeply do T appreciate the privilege of
my position, for high, indeed, is the
honor of presiding over the American
senate at the outset Of jhe twentieth
century,"