Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-05-18
FAlRBANKS WILL OPEN FAIR,
Coming to Portland as Represen.
tative of Presid ent.

aeuIugIou, May 1o.-Vlco-fre6l
dent Fairbanks intended to leave for hi.
Indiana home last night to spend the
next two months with his family, bu
he received word that the President
wanted to see him, and called at the
White House at II 80 today. The
President told him of his deep interest
in the Lewis and Clark Exposition and
his regret that he himself could not at
tend the opening of it. He said, how
ever, that the Administrat ton should be
represented, and to his mind nothing
would be more appropriate than that
the second official of the Nation should
represent the president on that ooca-
sion. Mr.. airbanks promptly fell in
with the Presidents suggestion, and
expressed his thorough willingness to
6, to Portland, and has now changed
his plans SO as to reach Portland the
last week in May. He and Mrs. Fair.
banks will be present to participate in
the opening ceremonies. The Vice.
President will make the principal
speech of the occasion.
Being unable to get to Portland either
at the opening of the Exposition or later
in the summer. the President has ac-
cepted the invitation extended to him
by President Goode to press the button
which be the signal for the formal open-
ing of the Exposition, at | O'Clock on
the afternoon of June that is l
O'Clock Portland time, O'Clock Wash
ington time. A special through tele.
graph wire will be run from the East
Room of the White House into the Ex-
position grounds at Portland. At the
Washington end will be the same gold !
noy "Hioh ieelueuJ hoOSeVelC uSeu TO |
open the st. Louis Exposition last year,
and which former Presidents used to
open the Chicago, Buffalo and other
expositions of times past.
There will be considerable ceremony
attending the opening of the Exposition
rom Washington. Members of the
Corps, members of the Cab
net and Army aud Navy officers Will be
invited to the White House, and the
President will press the key which will
,et in motion the machinery at Port
and, and the Lewis and Clark Exposi-
ion will be in fu swing.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw called
IN the President inst before luncheon
md stated that he had appointed As
'istant Secretary H. A. Taylor to sue
,eed the late w. H. Hills as the Z cas-
Try representative on the Government
Board. Mr.. Taylor ranks the other
members and the President promptly
designated him to also succeed Mr..
Hills as chairman
No member of the Cabinet will be
Ible to attend the opening of the Port
and Exposition, though almost every
apartment will be represented. Chair
nan TAYLOR and the following members
" the Government Board expect to be
present: Michael, State Departments;
War Department; Clay, De-
'artment of Justice; Chance, Postoffice
Department; Peters, Navy Department;
3urch, Agricultural Department; First
Assistant Postmaster. General Hitch
ock, representing the Department of
Commerce and Labor; True, Smithson-
an Institution, and Chief Clerk Geddes.
'f the board. Secretary Wilson, of the
agricultural Department, expects TO
isit the Fair during the Summer. and
o do Secretary MetcaIfe, of the Depart
nent of Commerce and Labor. and
'ostmaster Gene, al Cortelyou.