Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-08
BY Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, March Am the
presence of as many of his fellow cit
liens as could be crowded into the
senate chamber, Charles Warren Fair
banks was at high noon today indicted
into the Office of vice president of the
United States. The ceremony was
quickly followed by the final adjourn
ment of the senate of the 5Sth con-
gIess, the beginning of special ses-
sion, an address by the vice president
and the swearing into Office of almost
a third of the membership of the SEN
ate. All these official acts took place
in the chamber Just before the inaug
uration of the president aud we're in
reality, while themselves of great i'm
port, the prelude of the more impor-
tant event. The installation OF the
new vice president was severely sim
ply, and as brief as simple. 1t con-
sisted of a promise, solemnly made
with uplifted hand and bowed head, to
perform the duties of the office and to
support and defend the constitution
of the United States. This was the
oath of office, and it was administered
by Senator Frye as president pro tenn
pore of the senate. The two officials
stood confronting each other on the
elevated platform on which rests the
lesk of the presiding officer of the
senate, practically on the same spot
on which all the incoming vice presi
dents for the past fifty years have
stood, and where a majority of Ameri-
can freeman have decreed that Mr..
Fairbanks shall preside for the four
years to come. Plain and democratic
though the ceremony was, it attracted
to the senate a gathering of notable
people, many of them of such impoI'
lance that, in accordance with time
honored custom, their appearance was
heralded with pomp and platitude
sufficient to atone for the simplicity
of the official acts of the occasion, If
not to quite overshadow them.
Practically all the variety of hue
and vivacity of scene came from the
galleries, for aside from the decora-
tions worn by the foreign representa-
tives and the gold lace with which
the uniforms of the few army and
navy officers present we're decorated,
there was a dull level of black and
brown on the first floor. The section
of the gallery usually devoted to the
private use of senators was today en-
tirely surrendered to what may be
called the executive party, and was
occupied by the families and Immedi-
ate friends of the president and the
the supreme court and the cabinet. !
The front row of seats on one side of
this section was filled by the members
of,the presidents household, and the
corresponding row on the other side !
by those of the vice president, Mrs. |
Roosevelt and the wife and mother of
Vice President Fairbanks being prom |
inent among them. The diplomatic /
gallery, which is rarely occupied by
more than two OF three persons at a /
time was crowded today by the wives
of representatives of the various for
eign embassies and legations, all man
ifesting much eageTness to witness
what they evidently considered an ex-
ceptional ceremony. i
Gradually the hall was filled, and |
the scene had become more and more |
animated, until for the last time in /
connection with the occasion, the |
doors were opened to admit a guest.
He was the guests of guests-the pres
ident and the president elect, TheO
dore Roosevelt.
1.-THE President and his Cabinet
proclaimed Sergeant-at-arms Rams
dell in we'll modulated phrase.
The two official time pieces we're
agreed in procIaiming the hour of y,
when according to the requirements
made and provided, the 5Sth congress
must come to a close, the 59th con
gress be started on its career, aud the
new presiding officer introduced and
installed.
In an instant all we're on their
feet, and again was attention sharply
fixed. In the entire assemblage there