The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-03

and reluain Standing chtii the person
ANNOUNCED Is seated.
Mr.. Fairbanks VaIedietory.
When all the dignitaries have ar
rived the vice president will deliver
his valedictory and viii then call to
the rostrum James S. Sherman, to
whom lie will administer the oath CT
the vice president of the United States.
after which he will declare the senate
adjourned without day. Having been
sworn. MIR 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
henate 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 entipe 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 il 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
many 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.. Tart
the oath Of office. following which the
new president will deliver his inau-
rural 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 Il brief luncheon before
taking his place in the stand.
There will be slight change this
year i'm 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
rangements is the personal escort OF
the executive. The vice president Will
have as escort Senator Bacon and Rep
resentatives Burke and Gaines, while
the vice president elect will be accom-
panied by Senator Frye, the president
pro tempore of the senate, and Repre-
sentative Young. Heretofore only one
/ senator has accompanied the two chief
+ figures In the ceremonies.
! Ball a National Function.
| Always IL pleasing and picturesque
feature. 1t is proposed to make the i'll
augural ball of 1909 something more
/ great national function of supreme
| interest and Significance. 1t will take
the form of Il reception by President
Taft and Vice President Sherman to
the country at large. Each state i'll
the Union will be officially represented
ON. the floor by one of its distinguished
SONS. whose mission it will be to CO.
operate officially in the presentation of
the visitors from here. there and ev-
crywhere to the great men of the ma
ton who will he In attendance.
Gist Blair whose father, MOntgom-
cry Blair. was postmaster general i'll
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-siX states into
direct and active participation in the
function.
washington is national city. ::
city belonging to the country" Chair
man Blair said In discussing the ball
arrangements. st 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
tlnctively national. A representative
from each state has been designated
as 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
rther distinguished visitors. Thus 1t
Is h0ped to bring the forty-SiX states