Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-21
INAUGURAL OF
TAFT WILL Be
GREAT EVENT
Citizens of Washington Are
Already Preparing to Make
1t the Most Notable OF All
the Others.
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WASHINGTON, ,Soy. 20.-Aiready
the citizens of Washington are laying
plans to make the inauguration of
William H. TAFT the most notable CT
all inaugurals. They want the iargess
crowd here next 4tA of March the cap
ital has ever seen. and they realize
that something newell and striking n
the way Sf inaugural ceremoniHs is
necessary in order 10 attract the peo.
pie OF course. here would be big
crowd in any eveps, but II is record
breaking crowd traI is wanted so
there must be record breaking in
augural.
Just what the novel features will be
has not been determined. In fact,
ideas have been discussed in only the
most tentative way. Nothing definite
can be accomplished until the inaugu-
raj committee has been appointed and
gets down to work. The chairman of
the inaugural committee will be des-
ignated by National Chairman HitcD
Geek. The selection appears to lie be-
tween Cuno Fl. Rudolph, a prominent
local merchant and banker and Lieu
tenant General Henry =. Corbin, U.
IS. A., retired, with chances fayoring
the latter. The Inaugural chairman
viii select a large committee of
Washington citizens and there will be
two or three months of the hardest
kind of preliminary work.
1t costs lot of money TO inaugu-
rate a president of the United States,
ana, contrary to widespread belief,
the money is raised here in Washing
ton by popular subscription, congress
appropriating not one cent toward de-
fraying the expense. There Is COR
siderable sentiment this year In favor
of asking congress to make an appro-
priation for inaugural purposes, but
nothing is likely to come Of il. In
the past, before il would grant use Of
the pension Office building for the In
augural ball, congress mas required a
real estate bond to cover any possf-
BILE damage to the property. The at
.titude of congress has always been
that as the inaugural brought thou
sands of people to the city to the large
profit of Washington residents, they
ought to finance the ceremonies. and
any request for an appropriation is
likely to meet with scant considera-
ton. The inaugural features which
involve an outlay of money are no
part of the necessary ceremony of in
ducting a president into Office, and d.
the show is gotten up by Washington
and for the benefit of Washington,
congress will say, 1t is entirely proper
that Washington SHOULD foot the bill.
The inaugural ball is a feature that
Is going to give the committee
great deal of trouble. Not only is
this a highly popular feature of the
ir augural ceremonies. but the ball 10
the money for reimbur ing citizens
who subscribed to the inaugural fund.
w thout bali there wou's be meagre
chance of paying back more than a
fraction of the subscriptions, and sub
scriDtions with this prospect in view
would be mighty hard to get.
The lobby of the pension office has
been the only place in the city ade-
quate for the ball. Holding the ball
there necessitates suspending the
work of the bureau for at least
week. The last two or three times
congress has granted tie use of the
building under protest, and four years
ago it did so only after the most
positive assurance that by the time
of another Inauguration a suitable
( structure would he erected. These as