Bisbee daily review., 1905-03-05

| Fently IalllnS to appreciate that an act
 of sacred national import was beins performed.
 With the oath concluded, the two
 leading participants shook hands cor
 dially, and MT. Frye spoke a few hur.
 ried words of congratulation. With
 a last positive thump of the gavel. the
 Maine Senator relinquished his posi-.
 tion as President Protempore by an.
 nouncing the final adjournment of the
 Fifty-Eighth Congress. Without a
 look backward, he vacated the seat he
 had occupied for almost four years
 stepped from the presiding officers
 platform to the Senate floor, and
 there took his seat to listen with other | Senators to the address of the new
 Vice President.
 Mir. Fairbanks had no difficulty in being heard. He spoke deliberately
 and distinctly, his voice, so well tried
 during the past campaign, easily
 reaching all parts of the chamber.
 The address received careful atten. tion, and at it's conclusion the Vice President instructed the Secretary of
 the Senate to read the Presidents call
 for an extraordinary session of the
 Senate. The reading accomplished,
 and the Senate os the Twenty-Ninth | Congress thus installed, Doctor Ed
 ward Everett Hale, the venerable
 Chaplain of the Senate, came forward
 to deliver the opening prayer of the
 first session. In response to a quiet
 signal from the chair, the Senate and
 it's guests rose and stood while Doc
 tor Hale, in his usual impressive man.
 ner. uttered the invocation.
 The organization of the Senate was
 then completed by the swearing in of
 Senators elected to serve for the next | six years. They appeared in plat toons of four. in alphabetical order at i the desk of the Vice-President, each being accompanied by his colleague. | The oath was administered by Mir. ! Fairbanks, and in each case was i'm
 mediately followed by signing the ! Senate roll of membership. This ceremony concluded the days session, and the Senate adjourned to the out side platform to witness with others the inauguration of President Roose- welt.
 The official guests left the cham Der in order the reverse of that in which they had entered, and were closely followed by the visitors in the galleries. The arrangement for ex- 1t was excellently contrived, the de parture was without confusion and disorder, and only few minutes were required to clear the hali.
 Washington, March 4.-President Roosevelt took the oath of office be fore a vast gathering of the people he has been elected to serve. The attendant scenes were not unusual. Inaugurations from the time the east front of the capitol first became the setting for the ceremony have been
 much the same. Many of the central figures have officiated in like capacity n other occasions when presidents have acceded to the highest office in
 the gift of the American people. Chief
 Justice Fuller. in administering the oath, repeated a solemn function he mas performed four times-tOday his last. Yet, with all this repetition, [ nothing was jaded and everything ap- peared new.
 The great crowd assembled for the
 crowning event of day full of feat ures, cannot be estimated even by . comparison. It extended far beyond , the reach of the voice, and was so i deHsely packed as to carry the stage out of the sight of many. The capi- tol plaza, resourceful in accommodate . ing the thousands eager to view the |, ceremony, was completely filled. Peo- pie came by it's numerous streets and avenues, which, like so many yawn- l ing, ravenous maws, greedily swallow
 ed the throng until every coign of
 vantage was occupied. The trees, barren of foliage, carried their human burdens on limbs capable of bearing
 the weight of man or boy, and so far away as the marble steps of the Li- brary of Congress, thousands stood.
 Hours before the ceremony could be
 expected to take place the people sought the most advantageous posi-
 tions. They came by every means of conveyance, carriages discharging their occupants blocks away, and cars I in steady stream unloading their pas
 sengers within the prescribed area from which the unlicensed vehicles
 were excluded. The number of con veyances of all kinds was totally in-
 adequate to meet the demands of the public.
 The scene was one of remarkable animation. Those who sought places maintained a running fire of raillery, and pushed and jostled each other, | the sound of their voices mlngling ! with the shuffling of feet on the as phalted plaza. It was a cosmopolitan public, varied and inclusive. taking in 1 those who from force of circumstances
 and lack of opportunity were unable
 to gain desirable places to view the grand procession that was to follow.
 Although the ceremony differed lit
 tie from those that have preceded it.
 in the great sea of spectators probably
 there was a larger number of repre-
 sentative Americans than any inaug
 uration has brought to Washington The eastern states were rivalled in
 r,oinf of attendance hv roasou ,,, rrroc