Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04
ONLY FOUR WEEKS OFF
Preparations Advancing for
Roosevelt Inaugural.
COM M ITTEE NAMED
TO HAVE COMPLETE CHARGE OF
EXERCISES AT CAPITOL.
Navy Department to Furnish Flags fog
Decorative Purposes-The Marine
Band Controversy.
COM MITTEE NAMED

Four weeks from today and President
Roosevelt Will have been inaugurated to
the highest office in the gift of the people.
He will have relinqushed the presidency
to which he attained through succession.
and Will have assumed the presidency to
which he was SO overwhelmingly elected
last November.
The congressional committee which will
have complete charge of the arrangements
and ceremony at the Capitol was announc-
ed today as follows: Senator Spooner
chairman; Senators Aldrich and Bacon.
Representatives. Dalzell. Crumpacker and
John Sharp Williams. This committee will
escort the President from the White House
to the Capitol will conduct him to the
Presidents room and to the stand at the
east front of the Capitol. where the oath
of office will be administered.
General Wilson, chairman of the inaug-
ural committee, received a letter today
from the Secretary of the Navy stating
that the bureau of equipment had been
ordered to prepare and have in readiness
all flags now stored at the various navy
yards on the Atlantic coast as may be
suitable for decorative purposes. and TO
hold the same for the order of the inaug-
ural committee.
Troops From Eastern Department.
Brigadier General Grant, commanding
the Department of the East, has desg-
mated the following troops in his depart
ment to take part in the inaugural parade:
From the Washington barracks, I'd Bat
talon of Engineers and band; from Fort
Myer, Virginia. I'd Battery, Fiel' Artillery
1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry, and band, and
Company b, Signal Corps: from Fort Mon
roe. Virginia, two battalions of artillery
and the 4th Artillery Band: from the artil-
lery district Of Maryland and the Potomac.
each two companies of Coast Artillery;
from Fort McHenry, Maryland one COM
pany Of the Sth Infantry; from San Juan
and Henry barracks, one battalion of the
Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of In
fantry; from Fort Hamilton, New York.
the 5th Artillery Band; from Fort JAY
New York, the I'd Battalion, Sth Infantry
and Band; from Fort Slocum, New York.
three companies of the Sth Infantry, and
from Plattsburg barracks. New York, one
battalion of the Sta Infantry.
Morton Not to Interfere.
Secretary Morton has declined to inter-
fere in the arrangements made by the in
augural committee with the Marine Band
for music during the inauguration cere-
monies He gave a hearing yesterday to
the parties in interest, including Mr.. Reg
nald de Koven. director of the Washing
ton Symphony Orchestra and Mr.. w. J.
Kerngood, president of the local union of
the American Federation of Musicians.
Secretary Morton today announced his
dressed to Mr.. Kerngood. In that letter
he calls attention to the fact that the
Navy Department could have ordered the
Marine Band to do all the musical work
covered by the Inauguration ceremonies, in
the regular line of duty, free of charge,
and the American Federation of Musicians
or anybody else could not have found any
fault with the department II 1t had taken
such action.
The Secretary said that he thoroughly ap-
preciated the advantages the enlisted men
have in great many ways and that it is
not the intention of the department to have
these advantages used to the detriment of
civilian musicians or anybody else. 1t
seemed to him, however, he said, that the
inauguration ceremonies which come only
once in four years, would be very incom-
plete without the participation of the Ma
rine Band. Therefore, If the executive COM
mittee in charge sees fit to compensate the
band for its services at the ball and else
where, ii is, in Secretary Morton's opinion.
matter entirely between the inaugural
committee and the band, and not a matter
for any action on his part. He added that
the inaugural committee evidently did not
feel like asking the band to play for moth
ing through an order by the Navy Depart
for It's services. In closing his letter Sec
retary Morton said that he did not feel
under the circumstances that the Navy De
partment should prohibit the band from
keeping its engagements with the Inaugural
ton committee, but that If Mr.. Kerngood
cared to say anything more on the subject
he would be pleased to hear him.
Contract for Fireworks.
The contract for the fireworks was signed
today by General Wilson with the Pain
Fireworks Company Of New York. The
price is 5000, with bond of 5000 for the
carrying out of the contract as per speciff-
cations.
Major Carmody vice chairman of the
committee medals and badges, called at
headquarters today and informed General
Wilson that good progress is being made
toward the completion of the medals and
badges which will be worn by every MEM
ber of a committee or subcommittee.
Mr.. l.. S. Brown of the Southern railway
called to ask what accommodations could
be guaranteed the battalion of 30 cadets
from the Virginia Military Institute, which
will come here from Lexington, Va, for the
inaugural parade.
Applications were received today from the
Monday Marching Club (colored) of VIII
mngton, Del, and the Elizabeth city
County Republican Club of Virginia. Both
organizations want to join the parade.
Col. James E. Barnett of the 10th Penn
sylvania Regiment, p n. G., has formally
advised Mr.. Weller, chairman of the COM
mittee on public comfort, that Pennsyl-
vana will send about 2GO0 troops, and asks
that they be given 10000 square feet of
space in the vacant buildings on the site
of the proposed Senate office building. If
Mr.. Weller allows as much room as this
for the Pennsylvania delegation he says the
other national guards would have to camp
in the street. 1t is his intention, however,
to allow as much space per regiment al
possible and there will be no overcrowding.
The trip to Washington at inauguration
time Is a sort of camping expedition,
anyway, and Mr.. Weller says he doesn't
think the men should expect to sleep two
in a room, with single beds and other com
forts. The men can roll their blankets out
on the floor and sleep within fifteen square
feet of space per man, which will enable
Mr.. Weller to dispose of 10000 troops in all
the vacant houses In the block.
Mr. Weller has had many applications
from organizations of militia for assign
.nents to specific buildings for quarters. but
he will not arrange these details until he
is assured of just how many troops are
coming. Then he will be able to apportion
the space equally and no organization will
have ground for complaint
Illinois Cadets Uncertain.
Word was received from the Decatur
Cadets. of Decatur, H.. who had intended
coming to Washington for the inaugura-
ton that because OF the fact that the rail-