The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-04

ing his Cabinet and ushered to his
seat of honor to the right of the
presiding Off GERS desk by the COM
mittee of Senators and officers of
the Senate, the President, frock-
coated and stocky, bowed to the
assembly which had risen to greet
him before taking his place.
At noon Senator Frye, President
pro tenn, hammered the marble
desk, and announced in set formula
that the Senate of the Fifty-eighth
Congress was adjourned sine die;
then he Immediately called the ex-
traordinary session of the Senate
of the Fifty ninth Congress to Or
der.
Mr.. Fairbanks was forthwith ush-
cred into the chamber, the Senate
members of the Inaugural Commit
tee acting as his escort. He pro-
ceeded to the rostrum, where Sen
ator Frye administered the usual
oath. The new Presidents
first official act was to call upon
the Senate's chaplain, the Rev. DR..
Edward Everett Hale, to pray.
Mr.. Fairbanks then delivered his
inaugural address, and, at it's con-
clusion, he instructed the Secre-
tary to read the Presidents procla-
nation converting the extraordin-
airy session of the Senate. Next
the new Senators were called to
the Secreatry's desk and took the
oath. This somewhat tedious bus
mess finished, the Vice-President
announced:
1.-The Sergeant-at-Ar will exc
cute the order for the inauguration
ceremonies"
President Roosevelt was then es-
corted back to the Executive
chamber. adjoining the marble
room, preparatory to going to the
east portico. himself to take the
oath of office. The other distin-
guished visitors filed out of the
chamber In the order of official
precedence, and went to the seats
assigned them for the Presidential
ceremony.
Those who gathered in the Sen
dlc Coulu hot WCll hC pl hui ~
ing back to previous ceremonials
therein. A little more than a year
ago many who witnessed today's
function assembled in the same
place to do honor to the earthly
remains of Senator Marcus A. Han
ma, who four years ago today sat
at the right hand of William Nc
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President a second time. On that
occasion both Mckinley and Han
ma saw Theodore Roosevelt take
the oath of office as Vice-President
Today Roosevelt occupied the same
seat Mckinley held four years ago.
PARADE.
With standards waving. guidons
whipping in the breeze. and regi-
mental colors colors Haunting, in
fantry, cavalry, and artillery tram
ped, pranced. and rumbled this aft
ernoon through historic Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
The somewhat mediocre build
ings which for the most part line
tlllS OahNot III tlt
country were hidden by tri-colored
bunting that fluttered and billowed
from roof to pavement all the way
from the Peace Monument to Sew
enteenth street. The sidewalks
were damned. Every window on
the avenue. many rented for the
day at prices ranging from $40 to
500 apiece. framed eager faces.
Balconies held perilously crowded
parties, and from end to end Of the
route of march the roofs competed
with the pavements In accommo-
dating men and women willing to
risk fatal misstep to watch the
When Captain L'Enfant, the
French military engineer. mapped
out Washington city. he must have
had Pennsylvania avenue In mind
for the accommodation of such
pageants as today's. The diagonal
intersections of cross-streets make