Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-05
WILSON AND MARSHALL ARE
INAUGURATEO FOR SECOND
TERMS As HEADS OF NATION
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| the assembly chambers of the worlds
rarlaments, and illuminated the dig
nifed, impressive, even dramatic, and
yet simple, ceremony about to be en-
acted on the floor.
While the senate was assembling
for its special session, the first of the
Sixty Fifth congress, the diplomatic
CO. ps was arriving and assembling In
the marble ROOM to be escorted into
the chamber Gorgeous in the colors
abd gold of their court uniforms, the
COZ ps entered headed by its dean, the
ambassador OF France, Jules J. JUS
herand. One figure which had been
! familiar at other inaugural ceremon-
les was missing 1t was that of the
German ambassador, Count Johann II.
Won Bernstorff with whose country
the United States has severed diplo-
matte relations. The other diplomats
entered by precedents in order OF the
time they have been accredited to this
country, the ambassadors coming first
anG the ministers last. They were
sJ!own to seats reserved for them near
the center aisle and Immediately be-
hind the space reserved for the presi.
dnt's cabinet.
Then came the chief justice and the
associate justices of the supreme court
in the sombre black silk gowns of Of
fee moving in body with slow dig
nifty to the places reserved for them
in large chairs placed in the front
row facing the vice president and at
his right.
Immediately afterword the retiring
members of the House of Representa-
tives and the members-elect were an
nouncd. They had been forming mean
while in two lines down the long cor
ridor reaching toward the house wing
of the capitol The house, unlike the
senate was not in session. Some re"
firing members had departed for their
homes without waiting for the cere-
monies. A smaller attendance of rep
resentatives than usual, however, made
for the comfort of those in the small
senate chamber.
Clark Seated on R0Strum.
A seat had been placed on the ros-
trum for Speaker Clark at the left OF
Senator Salisbury, president pro tenn
pore of the senate. The representa-
tives and former representatives filed
through the chamber to places reserV-
ed for them on the west side of the
chamber while the senators were seat
&c on the east. A few other places
were set apart on the floor for high
officers of the army and navy and per-
sons who by name have received the
thanks of congress With so much Of
tie party assembled everything was in
readiness for the first ceremony, the
Inauguration of the vice president.
President Wilson, escorted by the
committee on arrangements, entered
the senate chamber at the main door
and was escorted to seat on the
floor on the right hand side of the
3 main aisle and facing the rostrum.
Vice President Marshall was escorted
toa seat on the rostrum.
From that stage the ceremonies
moved along rapidly. The senate
chaplain, the Rev ]. Forrest Pretty
man. offered prayer and the senate Of
the Sixty-Fifth congress was called t.
order by the president pro tempore,
Senator Salisbury.
AS silence settled over the chamber,
Vice President Marshall stood beside
Senator Salisbury. Both men raised
their right hands; the president pro-
tempore slowly spoke the vice presi-
dents oath; the vice president repeat
ed the words. Brief and simple, the
ceremony quickly was over and the
Ithirty-two new senators were sworn
! into Office.
New Senators and Representatives
The new senators were:
Il Democrats: Josiah c. Wolcott
| Delaware: Park Trammell, Florida;
A. A. Jones. New Mexico; Peter Goelet
Gerry. Rhode Island; Kenneth D. Nc
Kellar, Tennessee; William H. King
Utah. John B. Kendrick, Wyoming.
Republicans Hiram W. Johnson
California; Harry S. New, Indiana,
Frederick Hale, Maine; Joseph =
France. Maryland; Frank b. Kellogg
Minnesota; Joseph S Freelinghuysen
New Jersey; william NJ. Calder,
New York; Philander C. Knox, Penn
sylvania: Henry Sutherland, West Vir'
ginia
Reelected senators who took the
oath were:
Democrats. Henry F. Ashurst, Ari
IONA; Charles A. Culberson, Texas
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, Nebraska; Hen
nv l., Myers. Montana: Key Pittman