Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-06

| :,dmiring comment.
| Events followed quickly. From this
time until Senator Fairbanks began ms
,1dr,..s the Senators and their visitors
| ara kent quite constantly engaged in
| rising To receive newcomers. The
ministers were sharply followed by the
supreme court, officially soWlied III
hong MonkiSh robes ana "lih Chief
| Justice Fuller, distinguished i'll APP
| ne;ir:lnrc leading the van. The
| judiciary was in turn succeeded by Adj
urjr;n Dewey and his aid, and they, by
| | i,utcnant General Chaiire, Chief Of
! staff and his and, who were separately
| announced as the representatives OF
| the TWO Wdrlike arms Of the govern
| ncnt.
| Gradually the hail WAS filled, and tie
scene had become more and more ami
mated. until for the last time iii con-
nectiun with the occasion, the doors
were opened to admit Il guest He
Was The guest of gucsts-th President
ana the President-elect, Theodore
Roosevelt. "The President and his
Cabinet" proclaimed Scrgeant-it-
Arms I:ansdell i'll well nodulated
phrase.
Again all We're ON their feet. ana
again WAS attention sharply fixed. In
| the entire assemblage there We're COM
,arativtly few who could not boast
| personal acquaintance With tn" chief
| Executive. but this fact did not prevent
| Il general cr2ninS o: EeckS - noStr""
| him ON tins, the GROWING occasion III
| his career. MI eyes were turned upon
| bis as. accompanied by the Congress
| Siuual committee and the members oi
the official household, he walked down
| the center aisle OF the chamber in Tie
| wake of the conveying Ser%rant-at-
arms. who placed him in Il big red
| leather chair Immediately in front of
the presiding officers desk, where. him
| self an Interested spectator. and still
tinked by the committee on arrange
| netts. hc sat facing the other srectt-
| tors He had gone directly to his seat
| looking scarcely to tn" right or To the
| 4 IT, but evidently never unmindtul of
The splendid scene about him. He hl5
once before been Il participant III an
| Inaugural ceremony, but th"u only as
| the recipient q second hnnurs. II"
WAS ti.pre nuW rs the head u The pAn-
| le Of HE nttiutl. ard ~ right d their
| choice. His manner was That ot a man
| who appreciates responsibilities and 1T
| the SAME time feels capable of assum-
ing them self conscious and self roll
ant. til" ouiect OF all observation and
alive to all surroundings.
| I;ul tie chief Executive had v,ly lit
tie time for reflection. Iittug.uatiC!r
time had arrived. The man VINO had
shared with him the hnnurs of the last
election had been ushcr"d in III the per-
son of Senator Fairbanks. ana was
even now standing where on the Fourth
lof March. 1901. Mr.. Roosevelt himself
lad stood. to TAXI. the oath oi the Vice
| / resi- tentai "lIcr. Senator Fairbanks
l:nd been escorted 10y tie committee on
"rrar gemtnIs /" the platform on which
sat President pro temporc Frye and
Speaker Cannon, The former Of whom
| was on the eve of performing the last
act of his present term III that office by
| administering the oath which would
! .nakn Mr.. Fairbanks not only vice
president. but also the permanent pre-
siding officer of the Senate.
| Senator Frye does all things with
lromrtness and decision. The two
| official time pieces were agreed in pro-
| claiming the hour of T. when Accord
ing to the requirements made and pro-
Nidei. the "<th Congress must come To
Il close. the 59th Congress he started on
its career, and the new presiding officer
introduced and installed. Mr.. Frye
had already said farewell: the visitors
We're in their seats. Not Il moment
| was lost. Rising in front of the sl.n-
der but towering form of his successor.
the President pro tempore repeated to
ilm in the form Of an official oath the
Few impressive words which trans
| '0rmed the indiana leader from the p,..
$ltIon of a senator to that of Vice Pres
ldent of the United States. The tcrc-
mony did not consume to exceed two
minutes Of time, but ii was conducted
with such dignity and solcmnity as to
make u lasting impression on aH pres
mt. Profound stiffness characterized
| Tie delI>e aSSemblage while il WAS in
progress. none present apparently fail
"l% to appreciate that an act Of sacred
national import was being performed.
ihe oath concluded. the two leading
Participants shook HANDS cordially. and
Mr. Frye spoke a few hurried words Of
congratulations. With a last positive
thnmr of tle gavtI. the Maine Senator
rtiinGuSh"d his position as president
m" tcinp"rc IN Announcing thu final
"dJ"uuimcut of the SSH Congress.
Without a lo"ll backward, he vacated
ne seat p" had occupied for almost
our years, stopped from the presidinc
"'1lcers platform 10 the Senate floor
ana th"r' took his seat to listen with