Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-04-21
LAYING CORNERSTONE At The
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
President Roosevelt Took Prominent
Part as Well as Leading Citizens of
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Speech Very
Impressive-Masonic Fraternity Act
i've Participants.

assemblage, with the president of the
United States taking prominent part
with the supreme court and the senate,
the house and diplomatic corps as
spectators, and before a large con-
course of people, the cornerstone OF
the Office building for the representa-
tives was laid with impressive cere-
monies Saturday afternoon. The ad-
dress of the day was made by the
president, who spoke on THE Man
With the Muck Rake"
Today, with impressive ceremonial,
the cornerstone of the largest office
building in the world solemnly devoted
to the primary purposes of legislation
and the comfort of its legislators, was
laid with the Masonic fraternity as the
active participants assisted by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who, like Presidents
Washington and Fillmore, is a Mason,
and who, following immemorial GUS
tom, delivered the principal address.
In commemoratiOn of tOday's event,
the Masonic fraternity of the District
of Columbia had been ordered into
line, and, with the grand lodge of Ma
sons, escorted by the several cOmman-
deries of Knights Templars marched
to the building. In the northeast sec
ton of the building. according to Ma
sonic usage, the cornerstone was plac-
ed. Work on that section had been
held back pending the ceremonies, but
the construction of the outer part OF
the rest of the edifice has progressed
up to the second story. Previous to
the ceremonies a copper box two and
half feet long and IS inches wide was
placed in the stone in the presence OF
the grand treasurer of the grand
lodge The box contains many rare
and unusual articles, together with
the coins of the United States and the
series of postage stamps now in use.
Unlike other boxes used for similar
occasions, this box, which was made
by one of the employees of the capitol,
has a series of small compartments ar
ranged, so that envelopes containing
the articles many stand uprls... in
stead of lying fiat, as has been the
!, custom heretofore. This box was her
metically sealed and in position when
the grand master of Mesons began the
ancient ceremony of placing the cor.
, nerstone in position.
The building dedicated will be elias
| sic in design. 1t suggests in genera
division, the Garde Heuble, on the
Place de la Concorde, in Paris, while
the pavilions are modelled on those OF
5 the Colonna de Louvre. Architectur
ally. the front is divided into two
parts. the lower corresponding to the
! first story of the building, constitut
4 ing "a rusticated" base, on which, ex
e tending through the second and thirt
n stories, is the colonnade, surmountet
= by it's entablature and balustre. Some
= ing frontages:
:. On B street, 476 feet; on New Jer
j sey avenue, 470 feet; on First street
452 feet and c street, 348 feet, making
a a total frontage of 1740 feet, or ap
J. proximately one-third of mile. Tn
l. building will contain 410 rooms TO
g members, together with a multiplicit
). of caucus rooms, audience rooms, post
q Office restaurant and other features o
Y modern Office building in any larg
d city The long unbroken cornice O
the building leading up naturally t
e the capitol building and thence to tn
e great dome, the browning and domiI
d ating unit in the group OF building
now on Capitol plaza, are calculate
t. by its designers to conduce to the d.
It sired effect of the making the capitt
h building more imposing and enectiv'
+ Address by President.
mo good whatever will come frol
the warped and mock morality whic
:. denounces the misdeeds of men {
wealth and forgets the misdeeds pra
- ticed at their expense; which d
- nounces bribery, but blinds itself
blackmail; which foams with rage if
corporation secures favors by impro
- err methods and merely leers with la
% eous mirth If the corporation is itse
wronged.
~ THE only public servant who ca
't be trusted honestly to protect til
rights of the public against the mi
deeds of a corporation is that publ
man who will just as surely prote'
the corporation itself from wrongf
We aggression. If public man is willir
ct to yield to popular clamor and
s; wrong to the men of wealth or
". rich corporations, it may be set dow
S. as certain that if the opportunl
1T comes he will secretly and furtively
wrong to the public in the interest
rk a corporation. But in addition to no
he esty we need sanity. No honesty wi