Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-02-06
LAYING The
CORNER Stone.
A Resolution Outlining
the Program
has BEEN PROMULGATED.
Ceremonies to Be Arranged by the
Members of the Commission.
CHIEF JUSTICE A. II. WHITFIELD
And Bishop Chas. B. Galloway will
Be the Orators of the Day.
Special to the Daily Progress.


Jackson, Feb. 6.-At the meeting
of the capitol commission last even
ing the following resolutions outlin-
ing the program for the laying of the
corner stone Of the new million-dollar
state house on the Sd day of June was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, that the ceremonies of
LAYING the corner stone of the new
capitol on the Sd of June shall be ar
ranged by committee of the mem
bers of this commission, Of which the
governor shall be chairman, and said
committee shall have full power in
the premises. 1t shall invite all the
citizens of the state and the people
generally to attend, but a special in
yitation is hereby extended to all
persons who were present at the lay
ing of the corner stone of the old
capitol to be present at the laying of
the corner stone of the new one.
Said committee is instructed to use
its best energies to learn and enroll
the names of such persons to whom
this special invitation is extended.
1T is suggested to the committee
that the Masonic fraternity be re-
uuested to lay the corner stone, as IS
usual with the order, and that all
other benevolent and like orders be re-
uuested to participate therein.
1.-THE confederate veterans are
earnestly invited to participate in the
ceremonies of the occasion, and to
take such part in the ceremonies as
they shall see proper, and as will
meet with the approval Of said COM
mittee. And the same invitation
is extended to all veterans of the late
war. and also to the sons of veterans,
the daughters of the confederacy,
and similar organizations, as we'll
as to the state national guard.
Resolved further, that the gov
ernor be and he is hereby requested
to deliver an address such as he
shall deem proper at such hour and
place in the capitol as the committee
shall determine, and that the two
distinguished orators, citizens of
this state, shall be selected by this
commission to deliver orations on said
day under the direction of the COM
mittee as to hour and place.
''Said committee is instructed not
only to arrange for ceremonies during
the day, but also to arrange for a
reception in the evening in the new
capitol. The said reception is to be
given by the commission and its
officers, the architect and the super
intendent, and the contractor, and all
the state officers, and the wives and
daughters of all of them.
1.-THE committee will arrange all
details, and are instructed to procure
if possible reduced transpor tation on
all the roads in the state, and the
running OF, excursion trains and gen.
orally do whatsoever can be done
the attendance on the occasion, and
make it decidedly state affair, and
worthy of statewide significance.
And the committee is requested to
give due prominence and considera-
tion and attention TO the people
. who were present at the laying OF the
corner stone of the old capitol, and
whose presence may be obtained OF
this occasion The said committee
shall also extend special invitation tC
all distinguished persons of othel
states as they may deem proper. =
Upon the adoption of the above
resolution Governor Longino nomi
mated Chief Justice Albert HI. Whit
field of the supreme court, AM
Bishop Charles B. Galloway of th
Methodist church, as the orators TO
the ocesaion, and they We're unani
mously chosen.
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