The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-09
PRESIDENT GOES
BEFORE CONGRESS
TO READ MESSAGE
l0Cohtinued FROM F1rst Pago)
con In the White House. ready for
the business OF the afternoon
Cabinet Members on Floor.

the business OF the afternoon
cabinet Members on Floor.
Seated among the Senators in the
front rows of the House chamber
Postma ster- General Burleson. Secretary
War Garrison and Attorney General
McReynolds listened attentively TO tho
Presidents words.
of tho House had subsidized Represen-
tstive Underwood secured unanimous
consent to print $500 copies OF the new
tariff bill for the use Of membcrs of
the House. The great crowd that hW
filed the galleries during the Prcsi
dents visit began to thin out.
Mr. Underwood moved that whom the
House adjourned to-day IL adjourn I'M
I'll next Thursday. This was carried.
and at 1:2o the House adjourned.
Dewey Uses Privilege.
For the first time in his life Admiral
George Dewey awaited himself OF his
privilege to sit in the hall OF the House
OF Representatives IIo is entitled to
this. having received the thanks OF
Congress.
Also. for tho first time In the lives
of many members, they were TO be
seen quietly sitting in the House an
hour and half before the gravel fell.
Under the new rule Of first come iirst
served in the way OF seats. they want
ed to be in the front row.
For every person who was admitted
TO the galleries of tho House OF Rep
rcsentntives TO SEQ the appearance OF
a President Of the United States eX-
ercising himself OF the constitutional |
right 10 deliver his own message to a
new Congress, there must have been
hundreds, perhaps thousands turn
cd away. Washington made the event
gala occasion, hut it was only the
privileged few who saw this long
used custom revived by n Democratic
President, before n Democratic Senate
and House in joint session.
Women Plead Nntnly.
Women pleaded vainly with tho
triple guards Of policemen and door
Keepers. who had been stationed at
every ineress To the capitol Building. /
Women were in tho majority every
where They were Al the doors of the |
Capitol before . O'Clock in tho morn !
ing. armed with the ordinary con /
Crcssional gallery cards which to-day /
wore Q. 10 MORE use than a laundry /
ticket. They were there without ,
tickets. hoping to convince the guards ,
that their congressman would make |
It all right" Some Of them smiled
sweetly. hoping 10 melt the granite
hearts OF the policemen: some OF them
scold4d some OF them were naughty; !
All OF them were insistent.
Women in costly gowns and splen
did hats tried VaiMly at every one OF \
the dozens of doors. damaging their 1
pride and exercising their wits but /
if they did not bear the little special |
blue cards issued for the day only, they |
were not admitted Ia the galleries. and .
some Of them We're not admitted TO
the Capitol at all. Those who had
the blue cards could w.. told by the
smiles OF satisfaction AMI the air of
comfortable superiority.
blue Cards Supreme.
Their less fortunate sisters cast
longing eyes upon then as they We're
admitted to the corridors which led TO Z
tho galleries for not only were the /
galleries reserved. but no mere Amer |
lean citizens who simply wanted To /
see their President We're allowed to
get anywhere near the four corridors I
which surround the hall OF the House .
the Capitol to-day rcigned supreme
hy hook or crook dozens of people
managed to get somewhere near
Speaker Clark's office they were per
sonal friends or uear-friends. Many
Of them wanted 10 soc the Speaker
just 10 shake hauds-but watchfu
doorkeepcrs scented - request for
tickets and headed many Of them liz
another direction. The Speaker him
self was wealthy FOR the day FOR he
had been granted ten blue tickets by
Joseph Sinnott, doorkecpcr He could
have used Twenty-Five times that num-
her
Gnncrlcs.. irc."Tn>ed.
Two tickets 10 each Senator and two
10 each Representative had been given. .i
and AT that the rather stiney galleries
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