The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-04
LEAVING WHITE HOUSE

LEAVING WHITE HOUSE About Il o'clock, if the programme is carried out according to arrangements,
 the presidential party will be ready to
 leave the White House for the capitol. the Second cavalry troopers will head the procession; then will come the President and Mrs Wilson, accompanied by Sena- tor Overman and Representative Fucker. Next will be the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall, with Senator Smith and Sena- tor Warren. The vice presidents escort will be the black horse troop from the Culver Military academy. Tn third conveyance will be Representa- atives Gar rett and Mckinley and Chairman Harper | of the local inaugural committee It will | be the first time within the memory Of l local officials that vice presidents wife has accompanied him in an inaugural pro- cession The precedent by which Presl- dents wife accompanied him was created by Mrs Taft in 1909. At President Will sons first inauguration the Essex, N. J., troop acted as his escort This time the President declined all offers and selected troop of regular cavalry.
 Although the streets generally are lined with sghtseers at that early hour, the march to the capitol generally is unevent- l ful and takes about 12 to 15 minutes. While the President is on his way to the captol the remainder of the in- augural party will be assembling there. The capacity of the galleries in the Senate chamber is not great and for that reason only two tickets Of admission have been issued to each of the senators and senators-elect and only one to each representative or rep resentative- elect. These same tickets l entitle the holders to seats on the in augural stand outside The Senate re- 1 served gallery on the east side of the chamber will be set aside for invited | guests of the President, vice president, | president pro tempores of the Senate, speaker of the House, justices of tho supreme court, members of the cabinet and senators. The diplomatic gallery will be reserved. as usual, for fam lilies of members of the corps The doors for those holding cards of ad- mission to the galleries will be opened at 10 o'clock and an hour later the doors of the Senate chamber will be opened to those entitled to seats on l the floor.
 | When the President arrives at the | capitol he goes to his room and awaits | the hour for beginning the ceremonies REPRESENTATIVES, ASSEMBLE Representative and representatives, l elect will assemble in the House cham | Der and march over to the Senate cham 1 ber entering at the south door Mean | while the diplomatic corps, resplend. ent in full regalia, will be assembling l in the marble room and when the party | is complete will be announced and l escorted to places on the Senate floor. | All others entitled to admission to the
 floor will meanwhile be entering
 through the bronze door.
 l When all this party has been seated the supreme court will be announced and will be followed by retiring sen
 ators and representatives Members Of | the ca binet and high officers of the
 army and navy will have seats re- | served for them. 1 Then President Wilson will be es- l corted to the chamber and seated di- | rectly in front of the vice presidents desk. The committee on arrangements will take seats to his right and left. | The vice president will be escorted | into the chamber and after the presi- l dent pro tempore has called the Sem | ate to order in extraordinary session l the oath of office will be administered
 10 the vice president, who then vii.
 deliver his inaugural address. Follow | ing that he will administer the paths 1 of office to incoming senators. | SENATORS TO TAKE OATH Thirty senators take the oath of of
 flee. Sixteen have been reelected. Cf ! tile 10 new AhcIHptlS HiIc are TtpuD-
 licans and seven are democrats. New senators to be sworn in are:
 | Democrats: Josiah o. Wolcott, Della 1 ware Park Trammel, Florida; A. A. Jones, New Mexico; Peter Goelet Ger | ry, Rhode Island Kenneth D. McKel- l lar, Tennessee; William H. King, Utah; | John B. Kendrick, Wyoming.
 Republicans: Hiram w Johnson, Cal ] fornia; Harry 8. New, Indiana; Fred l erick Hale, Maine; Joseph I. France Maryland; Frank B, Kellogg Minne- | sota; Joseph s. Frelinghuysen. New
 Jersey; William M. Calder New York; 1 Philander c. Knox, Pennsylvania 1 Howard Sutherland, West Virginia. Reelected senators who take the | oath are:
 l. Democrats: Henry F. Ashurst. Ari- zona; Charles A. Culberson, Texas; Gilbert M. Hitchcock. Nebraska; Henry
 l. Myers, Montana; Key Pittman, Ne- vada; Atlee Pomerene. Ohio; James A. Reed, Missouri; Claude A. Swanson, Virginia; John Sharp Williams, Mis- sissipp @
 Republicans: Robert M IAFolette Wisconsin; Henry Cabot Lodge Massa- chusetts Porter J. McCumber North Dakota George P. Mclean. Connecti- cut, Carroll s. Page. Vermont Miles Poindexter, Washington; Charles F. Townsend. Michigan.
 Senators who retire with the end of
 the Sixty-fourth Congress are:
 Democrats: Nathan F. Bryan, Flor