The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
INAUGURATION DAY
 PROGRAM COMPLETE
Ceremonies Will Mark MT,
 Brewers Inauguration
RECEPTION AT NIGHT
Executive Contingent Fund Commit tee Makes Yoluminous Report, Touching Upon Every Fund
 Handled by Yardaman

Jackson, Miss, January 14.-tspecial)- house and the board of trade have com pleted the programme for inauguration day, including the parade headed by cordon of police. brass band and officials in autos as follows:
 First, Governor Noel and Governor-elect Brewer; second auto chief justices of the supreme court: third. Lieutenant Gov ernors Manship and Bllbo, Speaker Quin and Presidents Pro Tenn Hebron and An derson: fourth. Mayor Crowder, Senator elect Vardaman. President Remington of the board of trade and Senator Donald. These are to be followed by five car riages in which will be members of the committee and of the two houses charged with the arrangements. and next will come the governors staff, ladies mount ed, mounted aides Knights Templars, stu dent delegation with band military under Col. E. E. Baker. citizens in autos and carriages and scores of mounted citizens bringing up the rear.
 From to 10 p. m. there will be re- ception at the capitol, where Governor | score of friends from out of town-Judge and Mrs. Robert Powell making the pres entations of callers. Following the recep- l ton comes a grand ball at the Stag club
 rooms, to which the public is invited
 The parade ends at the capitol at noon
 when the oath of office will be admin istered by Chief Justice Mayes, after
 which Governor Brewer will address the multitude-the speaking being in front
 of the building if tho weather permits;
 if not In representatives hall
 l The most interesting feature of the leg
 islative day was the report of the exec utive contingent fund committee, of which
 Senator Frank Burxitt was chairman, and all the other members understood
 to be stanch Vardamanites. The report
 created no surprise, but was received with
 shouts of satisfaction by the followers of | Vardaman.
 The report is a volumnius document, covering three newspaper columns and
 touching upon every fund Vardaman han 'dled while governor, and according to some of his friends, going out of their
 way to lug in matters they were not in-
 structed to look after, and which caused
 the only dissention in the adoption of l the report. This was the explanation given by the committee of the deal by
 which Governor Vardaman borrowed s2Oo,- | GOO from a big insurance company on | ante-dated notes. The committee took the position the money could not have been secured any other way, and as 1 Governor Vardaman received none of the
 interests or commissions, the transaction
 was all right, and the dismissal of the suit to recover the si5o0 interest from the bank was demanded.
 | On the contingent fund proper the com I mittee had examined Accountant Moore, Secretaries Edwards and Buck, and ar
 rived at the conclusion that all the vouch- | CTS were in the office of the governor
 when Governor Noel took charge and | checked up correctly save for an item of
 BIO for stamps, which was later discov-
 cred, and for these and other reasons the | committee "unhesitatingly acquits the governor of any and all charges of pecu- lation in connection with the executive | contingent fund"
 ] In conclusion the committee offered the l following resolution, which was adopted l in both houses:
 | Resolved That the report of the joint
 committee on executive contingent funds
 be approved, and that James K. Varda- l man is, and of right should be, exon | erated by this legislature as he has been | by an unprecedented majority of the peo- l pie at the polls, from any and all charges
 of misappropriation of public trust funds
 of any character handled by him while l governor of Mississippi.
 l. Resolved further That this report be spread upon the journals of the senate and house, and that copy be forwarded l to Senator John Sharp Williams, with | instructions to request that it be printed | in the Congressional Record
 | This last paragraph was objected to | by some of the members, but they were I forced to swallow it, and there Is a good
 deal of speculation as to what Senator 1 Williams will say and do when he gets | his copy for the Congressional Record. | Strange as it may seem, the house | heartily cheered Governor Noel today for
 the first time, and doubtless for the last.
 His private secretary announced that the
 governor had signed the act appropriat- 1 ing money for pay of per diem and mile age. The applause was really liberal and | no doubt genuine.