Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
Tickets Issued Exceed Capacity Of
Assembly Chamber.
UNUSUAL DEMANDS FOR SEATS
Governor Only State Officer to Sue
coed Observation-Disclosures
Guests on the Platform.

tickets issued was far In excess of the
capacity of the assembly chamber, where
the exercises were held. The chamber
was deliberately decorated for the occa-
sion and places on the platform were as
signed to many distinguished guests.
OF the state officers who assume their
duties today for term of two years,
Gov. Hughes is the only one to succeed
| himself Lieut.. Gov. Chanler is succeed
ed by Horace White of Syracuse, the re-
firing secretary of state, John S. Whalen,
Is succeeded by Samuel S. Koenig of New
york; Controller Glynn yields office to
Charles S. Gaus of Albany and State
treasurer julius Hauser turns over his
office to Thomas b. Dunn of Rochester
The other new men are Edward r. OMal-
ley of Buffalo, attorney general and
Frank Nj. Williams of Madison. state en-
| Slneer and surveyor, who succeed Will
liam 5. Jackson of Buffalo and Frederick
Skene of Long Island City.
Arrangements for Exercises.
The arrangements for the inaugural ex-
ercises were completed several days ago.
Adjt. Gen. Henry issued the necessary
orders providing for the governors es-
cort last week. All the other arrange
ments were in charge of Secretary Of
State Whalen. He. with Col George
Curtis Treadwell, the governors military
secretary. went over the details Tuesday.
invitations to seats on the platform were
issued to all the newly elected state off,
GERS, the retiring officers. judges of the
court OF appeals, the military and men,
bers of Gov. Hughes family. The
latter included his father Rev. David E.
Hughes of New York as we'll as Mrs.
Hughes and her sons and daughters.
Invitations to the Inauguration also had
been sent, as is customary, to President
Roosevelt and the members of the cabinet
AT Washington
The demand for the seats for the in
auguration this year far exceeded the
eau two years ago. Mr.. Whalen said to-
day that If the seating capacity of the
capitol had been 10000 the applicants
would have more than filled it,
Address by Gov. Hughes.
Gov. Hughes said he entered upon his
second term of office with keener
sense Of its responsibilities and of his
own limitations. But he has an intense
desire to render loyal service to the
people, he added, and congratulated the
other officers who today assume official
privileges and wished them the high
est degree of success in the discharge
OF their new responsibilities.
At the outset of his remarks Gov
Hughes said the state of New York
with its composite population and it's
varied interests, presents difficult gov
ernmental problems, and yet by virtue
of the acumen and public spirit of it's
citizens 1t should stand as an exemplar
of just and efficient administration
Here should be found the most ap-
proved methods of state government
within it's proper sphere he continued.
Our forests should be preserved and
nurtured with scientific care Our wa
ter powers should be developed for the
suitable expansion of industry. Inn
menting our steel roads, should link
our important ports and interior mar
kets; and network of highways, we'll
planned. well constructed and properly
maintained, should unite our cities and
villages throughout the state and ia
cilitate the carriage of our farm prod
uctS. Agriculture should be encouraged
by apt provision for diffusing the teach
ingS of experience. Our streams should
be free from pollution and the public
health safeguarded by all practicable
precautions.
Public education should take due ac-
count of necessary preparation for use
full living. Labor should be employed un-
der fair conditions assuring due regard
for health and safety. Our charities, our
hospitals, our prisons should reflect the
counse.s of wise philanthropy and exhibit
the most lntetlytTt eIIOTIS LOT cuStOuldi
care, cure and reformation Our processes
for the settlement of disputes and the
punishment of crime should display the
least possible delays and the fewest tech
meal distractions consistent with Oppor-
tunity for fair hearing and proper DELHI
Grafton. Our laws far as possible
should be general and not special. The
charters of our cities should establish
Ioca; responsibility for the details of adj
ministration. thus making each municipal
OF civic spirit. Our electoral machinery
should be carefully safesuarded to as
sure interrupted expression of the pop
ular will. And the supremacy of public
right and the just exercise of public priv
ilege should ever be enforced to the end
that individual liberty should have its
proper scope and that the common inter-
est upon which the liberties of all ulti-
mately depend should be secure against
exploitation.
the gains which have been made and
may devote ourselves to these impor-
tant tasks inspired by the work of the
long line of faithful servants who, through
the generations have striven for the pub
lie good and have made possible our
present attachments.
People Free to Administer.
within the limits of the federal Con-
stitution the people of the state may have
the government they desire. IheSe linn
its leave the people free 10 administer
their state affairs the care of which has
not been committed to the federal gov
eminent, long they maintain re-
publican institutions and the common
privileges of citizenship and act in ac-
cordance with the essential principles OIL
justice embraced in the concept of due
process of law. They are not subject
to federal restraint in perfecting state
administration.
But they must act in accordance with
their own funda mental rules. The people
of the state have established their own
constitution. which defines the sphere
within which all public officers must act
Cnhesitating obedience to it's mandates
and loyal recognition of it's restrictions is
the first law of our political being Con-
Stitutional rule is the rule of the people,
for the Constitution is the fundamental
and direct expression of the peoples will
1t is not only check upon representa-
tiYeS, but is an act of self-renunciation,
the voluntary pledge Of Il salutary con-
scrvatism. If they desire, the people may
change it; but the change must be made
in the prescribed manner. and until so
changed the Constitution binds the peo-
pie themselves and their official repre-
sentatives as expressive of the deliberate
policy which they have deemed it wise to
protect from hasty alteration even at
their own hands"
Classification of Powers.
The governor then spoke of the cIassifi-
ga of the mowers of the