Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-01-05
CITIZENS COMMITTEE HAS PLANS
COMPLETED.
ARE LENGTHY
Begin Monday Morning With Recep-
tions by Retiring Officers and Con-
cIude in Tuesdays Wee Sma' Hours
With Close of Elaborate Ball
Abandon Idea of Parade.
Madison, Dec 80.

guratio1 met yesterday afternoon and
completed the program or the cere-
monies The event will be character
lied with dignity and stately formality,
but here will be the utmost freedom
from pomp and undesirable ostenta-
ton. Governor La Toilette asked the
committee to avoid display and make
the ceremonies simple and thoroughly
democratic.
The exercises will begin early in the
morning of Wednesday, January 5,
with receptions in the various offices
of the capitol by the retiring officials
and will conclude early in the morn
ing of Tuesday, when the last strains
of the orchestral music announce the
close of the ball.
While the actual Inauguration, the
taking of the oaths, will occupy only
a few minutes at noon in the assembly
chamber, the side functions which
have been arranged will occupy in all
some 16 hours.
There will be no military parade.
This feature had been contemplated
by part of the citizens committee.
Mayor Groves was enthusiastic over it.
He desired to bring to Madison a num-
Der of companies of the Madison Ma
tional Guard, place the governor, Of
ficers and their escorts in carriages
and parade around the capitol square
with martial music. A following OF
citizen marchers was also suggested
and the mayor said that delegation
of admirers of the officers might be
obtained which would march through
the cold and snow no matter if the lat
ter were feet deep. A representation
to the effect that this would be too
great q departure from the custom
previously followed caused the mayor
to consent to the omission Of the
parade.
Betimes in the morning the present
state officers will hold their last re-
ceptions in their various department
rooms The officers elect will call, re-
spectiveIy, and at 1880 all will repair
to the Office Of the governor. In the
supreme court chambers at the same
time will gather Justices Cassoday,
Marshall, Winslow, Bardeen and Dodge
of the supreme court and Judge Bum
of the United States district court, ac
companied by their escorts.
simultaneously from the court room
and the executive office will start pro
cessions of dignitaries toward the as
sembly chamber The judges will ar
rive first and will have occupied their
seats when the governor and his train
will reach the hall. Promptly at the
stroke of II Chief Justice Cassoday
will administer the oath of Office to
the governor, and then in turn to the
seven other officers in the following
order:
Lieutenant governor, secretary OF
state, treasurer, attorney general, SUI
perintendent of public instruction, rail
road commissioner and insurance com
! missioner. Each retiring state officer
| will act as the escort to the new in
cumbent. The escort of the governor
has not yet been determined, but it
may be a former governor or other
prominent citizen Of the state.
| After the formalities in the assembly
| chamber a recess will be taken for
luncheon and from to o'clock in the
afternoon the new state officers will
hold receptions in their several depart
ments. The second regiment military
| I>ood IF NEorip MOTTO will 1,Iox II, fbo rO
| tunda of the capital during the morn
ing and again in the same place during
| the reception hours in the afternoon.
! Each of the officers will be assisted
! in receiving by a number of leading
! citizens.
! In the executive chambers Governor
La Toilette and Lieutenant Governor
| Davidson will hold a joint reception
and assisting them will be former Gov
ernor George w. Peck of Milwaukee,
! ex-senator R. M. Bashford, Superin-
tendent of Public Property Gen.
| George E, Bryant, Mayor Groves and
/ A. e. PrOudfft.
Across the hall Secretary Of State
I Houser will receive, assisted by former
Congressman Burr w. Jones and w. r.
| Bagley. Treasurer Kempf will receive
| in his Office toward the north end Of
the corridor. He will be assisted by
John NJ WinterbOtham and former
Mayor John CorscOt. Attorney Gen
| eral Sturdevant will be assisted in his
reception by Judge Donovan and AS
! semblyman-eIectM M. S. DudgeOn. The
attorneys department is in the ex-
IRENE north end of the building and
on the opposite side of the corridor is
the suite Of the insurance commission
er, where Commissioner Host will wei
come visitors, being assisted by James
E. COnkIin and H. B. HObbins.
In the east wing, in their respective
| offices across the hall from each othe-,
will be the receptions of Railroad
Commissioner Thomas and School SUI
perintendent Cary Commissioner