Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-06

ICoICihS IL SpuIIcu tuSlI uoI SoS lllO
canter. Thus the cavalry galloped u
lcapitol hill. While the crowd alon
the route was demonstrative it wa
respectful, and orderly. The carriage
and their escorts whirled up to tn
main entrance Of the capitol to tn
greetings of the massed multitude
the stands and the less fortunate VIII
were perched on every point {
vantage or packed into all availabl
spaces.
President Taft and Mr.. Wilson wer
at once escorted to the president
room where Mr. Taft took up the wor
of signing bills.
Mr.. Marshall went to the vice pres
dents room accompanied by member
of the committee and was met b
President Protempore Gallinger. TIL
two parties remained in these room
until congress had done up the las
bit Of it's work and was ready for tn
beginning of the scenes of the inaue
uration Of the vice president in tn
senate chamber
Shows Wilson His Room.
When President Taft and Mr.. Wi
son approached the presidents room
! Mr.. Taft turned to the president-elec
and said:
| well. Mr.. President, here's you
| ROOM"
; The two men passed inside as the,
! did 50 Mr.. Taft spied Mr.. Bryan out
side in the corridor and invited him tt
enter
4 don't know whether l can come
in there or not" said Mr.. Bryan. "Pn
mot president, you know"
Well I'm still president" returned
Mr.. Taft, land I invite you in"
Mr.. Bryan entered.
When Mr.. Marshall entered his room
he found an immense bouquet oil
American beauties on his desk, sent by
the Indiana democratic club.
Mrs. Wilson and her daughters mean
while entered the spaces reserved for
them in the general gallery and were
wore tan cloth dress with brown
ribbed silk coat and a small hat to
match. Miss Margaret Wilson wore
blue silk poplin, Miss Jessie Wilson
lavender broadcloth and Miss Eleanor
Wilson a bright blue cloth dress.
Members Bid Taft Good Bye.
At 11.30 O'Clock committees from
the house and senate waited on Presi.
dent Taft in the marble room and gave
formal notification that congress was
ready to adjourn. Meanwhile those
members of the cabinet who did not
ride in the procession to the capitol
gathered in the presidents room and
said good bye to Mr.. Taft and were
introduced to Mr.. Wilson.
Neither Mrs. Taft nor any other
member of the presidents family &C.
cupied the space reserved for them in
the senate galleries or on the stand
at the east front. Mrs. Taft and her
daughter went to the home of Miss
Mabel Boardman to await the coming
of Mr.. Taft after the Inauguration
ceremonies when they all depart for
Ga.
At Has o'clock Vice President Mar
shall. accompanied by the congress
sional committee was ushered into the
senate chamber and given seat in the
front row facing the presiding. officer
Mrs. Marshall. from her place in one
of the galleries, accompanied by Mss
Caroline Rowland of indianapolis,
waved to her husband as he came on
the senate floor. but after stay OF
Mr.. Marshall and the commit
tee returned to the vice presidents
room while Senator Fall continued his
flibuster on the Indian bill.
New Cabinet Take Seats.
All eyes were upon the ten chairs
on the senate floor which were allot-
ted to President Wilson's cabinet.
Josephus Daniels and William G. Nc
Adoo were the first to take seats there.
William J. Bryan and Franklin X.
Lane then held brief reception and
then each took chair in the cab
met row." Representative : Redf1eld
entered the chamber moment later
and took his place with the other cab.
met appointees.
President Taft meanwhile continued
to sign the appropriation bills until all
had been approved with the exception
of the sundry civil bill, which he had
vetoed. He let it be known that he
would exercise the pocket veto on the
seamen's involuntary servitude bill.
The senate was not ready to adjourn
at noon, the hour set for the beginning
of the ceremonies of Inauguration Of
the vice president and the clock was
set, back to Hips a. m.
Some Of the officials for whom
places had been reserved en- the floor
of the senate chamber began filing in
before the senate had adjourned. The
commerce commission was
the first to enter and among the com.
missioners was Franklin K. Lane who
will be secretary Of the interior.
tho firct hills 11oe
signed were the rivers and harbors,
public building, agriculture and gen.
eral deficiency.
The delay in the senate's adjourn.
ment set the inauguration of Mr..
Marshall back full half an hour and de.
layed Mr.. Wilson's as much. While the
senate was working on the sundry
civil bill, the presidential party waited
for the word to enter the chamber.
Senator Poindexter delayed the adj
journment of the senate to make a
speech calling attention to disorderly
scenes which attended the suffragist
a 1yoctnr MI nd oyY fyr.