Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-11
ate as whole can be power for
good or evil.
Gore May Be Promoted.


a promotion. The question is how far
they will care to go in their rejection
o. the claims of seniority OF service.
Senator Newlands of Nevada and Sen
aror Clarke of Arkansas rank Mr..
Gore in the Democratic membership
o. the present interstate commerce
committee.
| The Democrats are going to con-
slider long and deeply before they set
tie the question of the interstate com
nlerce craftsmanship. The present
| chairman of the committee is Moses
r. Clapp. progressive-R Republican, OF
Minnesota. Holding membership with
him are two progressive Republicans,
Albert B. Cummins of Iowa and ROB
elt NJ. La Toilette of Wisconsin If
these three members OF the present
| Republican majority on the commit
tee retain their membership in the
committee as minority representatives
when the Democrats are in control
the feeling is that the progressive
Democracy in attempting interstate
commerce legislation may count upon
the support of the progressive Repub-
leans whose records in the senate
show that they have been for ad-
vanced laws in all matters pertaining
to traffic between the states.
Inauguration Gossip.
President-elect Wilson's decree that
] there shall be no inaugural ball
puts the Inauguration ceremonies
on an almost strictly official basis.
There is no chance now that there
will be as much as a reception
| in the capitol in the evening, and 1t is
! virtually certain that there will be
no reception at the White House.
which is not large enough to accom-
modate the thousands of people who
certainly would throng to the place
to shake the hand of the incoming
chieftain.
1t must not be understood that the
opposition to the reception in the
capitol which developed in congress
was at all a partisan affair. 1t was
not based on wish to belittle the In
augural affair, but it came from the
belief that the new president would
find himself a victim, rather than a
hero, before midnight of March 4, If
strenuous reception ceremonies were
forced upon him after his hard work
of speechmaking and parade-review-
ing during the daylight hours.
No visitor who had intended to
come to Washington for the inaugural
|
stay away because there Is to be no
ball, and probably no reception. The
chances are that this will be the
scene of spectacular doings enough to
make up for all that has been left
out of the program. 1t must not be
forgotten that tcere is to be huge
woman suffrage parade on March 8,
and it IS definitely known that II the
weather is at all favorable this pa
rade will overshadow In it's human
interest the display that the men are
to get up the next day.
Weathsr Won't Stop Women.
The women are hoping Cor bright
skies and dry pavements on March 3,
but the promise of their militant lead.
ers is that no matter what the wealth.
er, their followers will show the cCur.
age of their convictions, and wsN
march in snow, sleet and rain just as
they would in sunshine. 1t is under,
stood that every woman who marches
will be given a distinctive garment to
wear, weather-proof and warm. In a
way this will make the affair a uni.
formly uniformed" one, but If the day
be warm these garments will be
thrown aside, and the women will ap
pear each after her own manner OF
interpreting the fashions of the day
1t is probable that congress before
long will take up the matter of the
inaugurations of the future and make
some kind of definite provision for
them.
Washington Memorial Hall.
Already there is In congress a bill
looking to the erection In this city
of huge and beautiful marble build.
ing to be known as the George Wash
ington Memorial Congress is not go
ing to appropriate money for this
structure, but 1t already has granted
a site upon which 1t may be erect.
ed The George Washington Memo
rial hall project originated in Massa-
chusetts, and Henry Cabot Lodge be-
came it's spokesman. The idea is for
the people of each state to contribute
| a sum of money in order that the me-
mortal may be entirely national. The
movement has grown and 1t seems
likely that before long something will
become of 1t.
The site which congress has set
aside for the memorial building is
that once occupied by the old Pennsyl-
vania railroad station just south of
Pennsylvania avenue near Sixth
street The proposal is to use the
building for inaugural balls, for func-
| tons of patriotic societies and for
any other use which seems suitable.
With the ball eliminated and with
the reception also done for" the
probable attempt of the committee In
charge of the Inauguration will be to
make the parade unusually great and
unusually brilliant. Definite orders
| already have been issued for troops
to come here from the outlying gov
eminent posts, and some of the states
already have signified their intention
to send organizations of the National
Guard. 1t is known that 1000 Prince
ton graduates and several hundreds OF
under graduates viii appear ia the
parade probably II ac.de mic gowns
| and mortar boards