The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-05
DR.. Shops Restorative

permitted to enter any time thereafter.
They found more of the star performers
in their assigned places, If senators may
be excepted, but the wait was not long,
and In the meantime the gallery visitors
easily devised entertainment among
themselves. The senator's many of them
showing fatigue as the result of recent
long hours of labor. were grouped to-
gether compactly on the republican side
of the chamber, an arrangement neces-
sary to make room for other digntaries.
First of Special Guests Arrive.
The two big round-faced gold clocks
which front with solemn mien and in
stately service from the north and south
walls of the Senate chamber, had meas
ured the time up to II AS when the first
of the special guests arrived. These were
the members of the House of Represen-
tatives. They had marched over IN a
body to the quarters of the Senate
through the long corridor from their own
hall at the other end of the capitol,
headed by their redoubtable leader,
Speaker Cannon, with all the assurance
of an invading army, and when the
south doors of the Senate chamber
swung open and Assistant Sergeant-at-
Arms Layton announced THE Speaker
and the House of Representatives, they
walked proudly u the seats assigned
them on the democratic side of the
chamber accepting ss their due the
honor done them when, upon the stroke
of the gavel of the president pro tempore
the Senate and its visitors rose as one
person to welcome them.
The speaker had scarcely taken his
seat at the side Of the presiding officer
and senators and guests had not more
| than resumed their chairs, when the
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art. also assistant sergenant-at-arins'
heralded in genuine feudal style the APP
proach of the diplomats headed by
| Count Cassini dean of the corps.
"'rhe ambassadors and ministers plen-
! tinotentiarv." he said in ringing tones,
upon the fall of the gaval. all came TO
standing posture, while Sergeant-a'-
Arms Ransdall escorted the foreign dig
nitaries to their places fronting the pre-
siding officer. The foreigners attracted
much attention and the brilliancy of their
dress and the distinction of the gen.
tlemen themselves. We're the subjects OF
much admiring comment.
Receive Many Newcomers.
Events followed quickly. From this
time until Senator Fairbanks began ms
address the senator's and their visitors
were kept quite constantly engaged III
rising to receive newcomers. The minis
ters were sharply followed by the SUI
preme court. officially gowned in long
monkish robes and with Chief Justice
Fuller. distinguished in appearance leau-
ing the van. The judiciary was in turn
succeeded by Admiral Dewey and his
aid and thee by Lieutenant General
Chaffee chief of staff, and his aid VINO
were separately announced as the repre-
sentatives of the two warlike arms OF
the government.
Gradually the hall was filled. and the
scene had become more and more AMI
mated, until for the last time in connec-
tion with the occasion, the doors were
opened to admit guest. He was the
guest of guests-the President ana the
president-eleet Theodore Roosevelt.
"rhe President and his cabinet pro-
claimed sergeant-at-Arms Ransdell In
well modulated phrase.
Rise to Cree President.
Again all were on their feet, and again
was attention sharply fixed. In the en-
fire assemblage there were comparatively
few who could not boast personal ac-
ouaintance with the chief executive, but
this fact did not prevent a general cram
ing of neeks to observe him on this, the
browning occasion in his career. All eyes
were turned upon him as, accompanied
bv the congressional committee and the
members of the Official nouseholu, nc
walked down the center aisle of the cham
her In the wake of the conveying SER
geant-at arms. who placed him in big
red leather chair Immediately in front OF
the presiding officers desk. where him
self an interested spectator and stlil
fanked by the committee on arrange
ments. he sat facing the other spectators
He had gone directly to his seat, look
| ing scarcely to the right or to the LETT.
but evidently unmindful of the splendid
scene about him. He has once bel re
been a participant in an inaugural cerc.
mony. but then only, as the reeipien, >t
second honors. He was there now as the
head of the people of the nation, a ;d ny
right of their choice His mannef "as
that of a man who appreciates respunsi-
| bilities and at the same ttrle feels capable
of assuming thenl-self-cnas IONS and self
| reliant the object of all observation anu
| alive to all surroundings.
But the chief executive had very little
| time fer reflection. Inauguration time had
! arrived The man who had shared with
him the honors Of the last election had