Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-03-04
STORM MARS
INAUGURATION
Taft Ceremonies Take Place In
Senate--PaFade Pulled OF
in Snow and Slush
INAUGURAL PROGRAM.

INAUGURAL PROGRAM. !"
10 A. M.-President Roose-
: welt and President-elect Taft :
leave White House for Capitol.
1890 A. M---President Roose- >
welt and President-elect Taft
reach Capitol and go to the
Presidents Room in the rear Of :
the Senate Chamber, where
President Roosevelt signs the i"
the last bills passed by the Six
tieth Congress. >
11.55 A. MP dent
Roosevelt and President-elect .
Taft enter Senate Chamber. >
IL Noon -Vice-President
Fairbanks administers oath of
office to Vice-President-elect
Sherman, who delivers his in
augural address. I"
1890 p. M.-Pres dent :"
Roosevelt, President-elect Taft, :"
and entire assemblage in Senate
Chamber, where Mr.. Taft takes
the oath of Office from Chief
Justice Fuller and delivers his
inaugural address. :"
1870 P. M.-President Taft :
starts back toward the White
!" House at the head of the inaug- "
ural parade, and ex-President
Roosevelt proceeds to Union
Station to take train for Oyster
Bay. !"
$3.50 p. M.-President Taft
begins review of Inaugural Pa
rade from stand in front of
White House. :"
1880 P. Inflammation of "
City and display of fireworks "
on the ellipse south of the
White House.
9 P. M.-Inaugural Ball in
Pension Building.
Introduction.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Wil-
liam Howard Taft, of Ohio, today
became the twenty-seventh President
of the United States, and Theodore
Roosevelt of New York. who had held
the exalted Office for seven and a half
years, at the same instant was trans
formed into the Nations most dis
tinguished private citizen.
Half an hour before Mr. Taft re-
peated the solemn oath of office,
James Schoolcraft Sherman, of New
York, was sworn in as Vice-President,
succeeding Charles Warren Fair
banks, of Indiana who had presided
over the Senate Chamber, in which
the ceremony took place. for one
term of four years.
Taft took the oath of office in the
senate chamber at 1885. and con-
cluded his inaugural address at / 80
O'Clock. Owing to the fact that
blizzard had ragged all through the
night most of the morning exercises
were not held in front of the
capitol building, but this was the
only change in the program. AS
President Roosevelt left the senate
chamber for the parade down Penn
sylyania avenue he shouted, good
by. good luck" and then he entered
the carriage with his successor, VIM.
H. Taft, who was smiling and nod
ding, but said nothing. Roosevelt
wore a light weight overeoat. and
Taft fur coat from Russia. Mrs.
Taft and Mrs. Roosevelt remained
at the White House while their hus-
bands were taken to the senate
chamber. After the Inauguration
services were over Mrs. Roosevelt
surrendered the keys to the White
House to Mrs. Taft and then went
directly to the depot where she
boarded the train for her home at
Oyster Bay. Mrs. Taft was accom-
panied to the capitol building by Mrs.
Knox and Mrs. Lodge.
Roosevelt was the first to congrat-
nlate Taft as president. Taft deIiv-
cred his address with a clear voice.
President Taft, from his long years
on the bench. has learned to weigh
well his words and shape his decis-
ions from all the evidence obtain
able; Ex-President Roosevelt weighs
not his words at alt. and his actions
spring from his heart regardless Of
evidence. President Taft is patient:
Ex-President Roosevelt scarcely
knows the meaning Of the word.