The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-02-25
and remain standing until the person
announced Is seated.
Mr.. Fairbanks Vaiedictory.

and remain standing until the person
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 Of 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 viii
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 II 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 entire COM
pany will march TO the inaugural
stand.
The troops gathered In front OF the
stand will present arms rs the presl-
dent and the president elect appear at
the main door of the capitol. and when
they have arrived ut the front OF the
stand Chief Justice Fuller will step
forward and administer to Mr.. Tart
the oath Of office, following which the
new president will deliver his lhau-
gural address. which is understood to
he unusually brief. From the stand
] the president viii descend Il flight OF
steps to his carriage and drive imme-
diatcly 10 the White House. where he
may snatch a brief luncheon before
taking his place in the stand.
There will be n slight change this
year In the order of the progress OF the
president. the president elect ana the
vice president and the vice president
elect TO the capitol. In view of the close
relations of Senator Lodge to the pres
I Idont 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
rangements is the personal escort OF
the executive. The vice president VIII
have as escort Senator Bacon ana KEEP
rcsentativcS Burke and Gaines, While
the vice president elect will bc accom-
panied by Senator Frye, the president
pro tempore Of the senate. and Repre-
sentative Young. Heretofore only n
senator has accompanied the two chief
figures IN the ceremonies.
Ball a National Function.
Always Il pleasing and picturesque
feature. il IS proposed 10 make the III
augural bah of 1909 something more
a great national function Of supreme
interest and significance. 1t will take
the form of Il reception by President
Taft and Vice President Sherman to
tho country at large. Each state In
the Union will be officially represented
on the floor by one of its distinguished
sons, whose mission il will be to CO.
operate officially in the presentation OF
the visitors from here, there n ev-
crywhcrc IL the great men Of the ma
ton who will be in attendance.
Gist Blair, whose father, Montgom-
cry Blair. was postmaster general IN
the cabinet of President Lincoln, is
chairman of the committee in charge
Of the inaugural ball and has so plan
ned the event as to bring the entire
Union through the ~forty-siy states into
direct and active participation in the
function.
washington is n national city. a
city belonging to the country Chair
man Blair said In discussing the ball
arrangements. 1T is our desire that
all who come to the inauguration-and
there promises to be the biggest at
tendance In the history Of these af-
fairs should feel that in coming to
the national capital they are coming to
! their own city.
THE ball will be essentially and dis
~tinctively national. A representative
from each state has been designated
as a member Of the inaugural ball
committee. These gentlemen Will
know many Of the people who come
from their respective states and will
see that they are properly introduced
to the statesmen and their wives and
other distinguished visitors. Thus II
Is hoped to bring the forty-six states
into close touch with the national cap
ital on this memorable OCCASION"