The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03

prominent leader of the party who eX- presses any doubt as to the result in 1912.
 Suburban association, are rapidly receiv- The plans for a change in the conduct of inauguration week, which have been formulated by the Citizens Northwest ing the indorsement of the civic and bus mess organizations of the city.
 The plans provide for a weeks cele- bration instead of the customary sin gle day of festivities. It Is pointed out
 that inaug uguration day is frequently in- element, and that thousands of per sons are kept from visiting the na- tional capital on that gala day for fear | of meeting with unfaVorable weather. | If the time were extended to week, adm attractive entertainments were guaranteed it is believed that at least 500,000 people would cheerfully come to this city.
 The inaugural celebration as planned will be a magnificent display. It is planned for the first day to have the formal inauguration of the President
 According to the plans. the President
 will be escorted from the White House
 to the capitol and return by the in
 augural committee and a limited num-
 Der of picked troops. At night there
 will be a grand ball to the President
 and musical concerts in various sec
 tions of the city.
 On the second day there will be a
 parade of the West Point cadets and
 the military and political clubs, re-
 viewed by the President and vice pres ident. At night there will be a grand
 ball to the vice president with musical concerts to entertain the overflow from the ball. A parade of the naval ce- dets, the marine corps, and fraternal organizations. reviewed by the Presi- h I,A11 fl1 att-1 .lnx
 followed at night by a grand ball and operas. On the fourth day there will be a parade of historical and al- legorical floats and commercial organ izations, to be held in the afternoon and allegorical floats and commercial or there will be grand ball and operas. Similar programmes will Le arranged for two more days. It is planned for the people of Washing ton to proclaim general holiday dur ing the entire week, so that the guests of the national capital may be properly entertained.
 It is unfortunate for the Manchu dynasty that Yuan Shi Kai was not summoned to the aid of the government before the revolution started, in the opinion of Chun Seen Chan of Mukden, director of the Manchurian experiment station, who is now here
 Had Yuan been invited back a few months ago he probably would have been able to save the dynasty and have prevented bloodshed,' said MT. Chun. He may be able yet to bring about a situation whereby the present dynasty will survive, under some sort of con- stitutional monarchy that will be as sured to the people. The difficulty of this lies in the fact that the govern ment has broken so many promises.
 nf nir.n I have great confidence in him and so have all the people of the nation Flo. several years he served as viceroy of Corea, and later as the viceroy of Chill province. He was grand secretary of the present government until ignomin- iously dismissed, for which dismissal lne government was censured through out the kingdom.
 Perhaps Yuan may be able yet to pre- serve the dynasty, but I doubt it. l look, however, for d united China. and not d country of states dissevered.' It may take the form of republic.
 q am confident that out of all this | trouble will come some sort of central | and that China will not be | divided against itself. If 1t were, what | would become of the nation? What would | we do with the foreign loans and the | It is impossible, it seems to me. that there will be any dsntegration of the country into independent govern 
 Mir. Chun is here to visit the United | States department of agriculture. He spent several years in the United States and has been the pioneer of Manchrria in | the movement to improve the condition of | the farmers.
 President Taft has announced that he | will not fill the vacancy on the United i states supreme court or any of the other | ju@ic'a.'' vacancies until after the first of | the year. < ~ GEl1
 M -Sussing the bench apponi..-. , with friends today, the President made it clear that he has before him scores of names for consideration z It is said that more than a dozen names for the supreme court vacancy were be- fore the President, and that the friends | of practically every United States circuit | judge in the United States were urging the promotions of these officials
 There are Judiciary vacancies in Illinois, New York, and in number of the states
 The President has declared positively that he will fill all the vacancies at one