The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-04-20
LAYING Cornerstone AT The
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
President Roosevelt Took Prominent
Part as Well as Leading Citizens of
the Nation-Presdents Speech Very
Impressive-Masonic Fraternity Act
i've Participants.

| WIN the supreme COuIl anu tie SeudlS
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 it's 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 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 series of small compartments ar
| ranged, so that envelopes containing
the articles many stand uprIsA. 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 Masons began the
ancient ceremony of placing the cor
nerstOne in position.
The building dedicated will be clas-
sic in design. 1t suggests in ger eral
division, the Garde Heuble. On the
Place de la COncorde, in Paris. while
the pavilions are modelled on thos Of
the Colonna de Louvre. Architel tur-
ally. the front is divided into two
parts. the lower corresponding to the
first story of the building, coI.stitut-
ing "a rusticated" base, On which, ex-
terling through the second and third
stories, is the colonnade, surmounted
by its entablature and balustre. Some
idea of it's size is given by the follow
ing frOntages:
On B street, ATS feet; on New Jer-
sey avenue, 40 feet; On First street,
ASP feet, and c street, 348 feet, making
a total frontage of 1740 feet, or ap-
proximately one-third of a mile. The
building will contain 41O rooms for
members, together with a multiplicity
of caucus rooms, audience rooms, post
Office, restaurant and other features Of
a modern Office building in any large
city. The long unbroken cornice OF
the building leading up naturally to
the capitol building and thence to the
great dome, the GROWING and domin-
ating unit in the group of buildings
now on Capitol plaza, are calculated
by it's designers to conduce to the de-
sired effect of the making the capitol
building more imposing and effective.
Address by President.
mo good whatever will come from
the warped and mock morality which
denounces the misdeeds of men of
wealth and forgets the misdeeds prac-
ticed at their expense; which de-
nounces bribery. but blinds itself to
blackmail; which foams with rage if a
corporation secures favors by improp-
er methods and merely leers with lid
eous mirth if the corporation is itself
wrOnged.
"The only public servant who can
be trusted honestly to protect the
rights of the public against the mis-
deeds of corporation is that public
man who will just as surely protect
the corporation itself from wrongful
aggression. If public man is willing
to yield to popular clamor and do
wrong to the men of wealth or to
rich corporations, it may be set down
as certain that if the opportunity
comes he will secretly and furtively do
wrong to the public in the interest of
a corporation. But in addition to hon
esty we need sanity. No honesty will
make public man useful if that man
is timid or foolish, if he is a hothead-
ed zealot or an impracticable vision
airy. AS we strive for reform we find
that it is not all merely the case of
long uphill pull. On the contrary,
| there is almost as much of breeding
work as Of collar work; to depend on
ly on traces means that there will
| soon be runaway and an upset.
THE men of wealth who today are
| trying to prevent the regulation and
| control of their business in the inter
est of the public by proper govern
ment authorities will not succeed, in
nv Judgment in chockinp tno Droorosc