The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-03-12
ana remain standing until the person
announced Is seated.
Mr.. Fairbanks vaIediotory.

announced is seated
Mr.. Fairbanks VaIedictory.
When all the dignitaries have ar
rived the vice president will deliver
his valedictory and will then call to
the rostrum James S. Sherman, to
whom he will administer the oath Of
the vice president IF the United States,
after which he will declare the senate
adjourned without day. Having been
sworn, Mr.. Sherman will ascend the
rostrum and, taking the gavel, will call
the senate to order for the new session
and will ask that new members of the
senate come forward and take the
oath of Office. Presumably there will
be sixteen new faces in the senate.
Each new senator, accompanied by his
colleague, will step forward and take
the oath. This done, the entire assem-
blage will proceed to the inaugural
stand.
The sergeants-at-arms of the senate
and the house will lead the stately
procession. This is an innovation, as
heretofore it has been led by the mar
shals of the supreme court and of the
District of Columbia. Those present In
the senate chamber will fall into line
In the same order in which they en-
tered the senate, and the err ire com
pany will march to the inaugural
stand.
The troops gathered In front Of the
stand will present arms as the presi-
dent and the president elect appear at
the main door of the capitol, and when
they have arrived at the front Of the
stand Chief Justice Fuller will step
forward and administer to Mr.. Taft
the oath of office, following which the
new president will deliver his inau-
gural address. which is understood to
be unusually brief. From the stand
the president will descend fight of
steps to his carriage and drive imme-
diately to the White House, where he
may snatch a brief luncheon before
taking his place in the stand.
There will be a slight change this
year in the order of the progress OF the
president, the president elect and the
vice president and the vice president
elect to the capitol. In view of the close
relations of Senator Lodge to the pres
Ident he will ride in the carriage with
the president and the president elect |
as will also Senator Knox, who as |
chairman of the committee on ar |
is the personal escort OF |
the executive. The vice president will
have as escort Senator Bacon and Rep |
Burke and Gaines, while
The vice president elect will be accom-
panied by Senator Frye, the president
,ro tempore of the senate, and Repre-
sentative Young. Heretofore only one
senator has accompanied the two chief
igures In the ceremonies.
Ball a National Function.
Always a pleasing and picturesque
eature, it is proposed to make the in
lugural ball of 1909 something more
great national function of supreme
interest and significance 1t will take
he form of a reception by President
Taft and Vice President Sherman to
he country at large. Each state In
he Union will be officially represented
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ons. whose mission II will be to CO.
perate officially in the presentation of
he visitors from here, there and ev-
rywhere to the great men of the ma
ion who will be in attendance
Gist Blair, whose father, Montgom-
ry Blair, was postmaster general III
be cabinet of President Lincoln, is
hartman of the committee in charge
f the inaugural ball and has so plan
led the event as to bring the entire
Union through the fOrty-six states into
irect and active participation in the
JUNCTION.
washington is a national city, a
fly belonging to the country" Chair
nan Blair said in discussing the ball
ut is our desire that
II who come to the inauguration-and
here promises to be the biggest at
enhance in the history of these af-
airs-should feel that I'm coming to
ne national capital they are coming TO
heir own city
1.-THE ball will be essentially and dis
nctively national. A representative
'om each state has been designated
5 member of the inaugural ball
These gentlemen will
now many of the people who come
'om their respective states and will
se that they are properly introduced
} the statesmen and their wives and
her distinguished visitors Thus It /
hoped to bring the forty-six states s
Ito close touch with the national cap
al on this memorable occasion" [