New Britain herald., 1917-03-05
LaFollette, Bitter and Glum, Glowers from Chair, Un- able to Deliver His Great Speech ~ Jeered When He Mentions Conscience.

Washington. March 5.-Woodrow
 Wilson was inaugurated at four min-
 ntes past noon yesterday by the ad- Aflnlstratfon of the oath in his off, fiai. room in the capitol. just back 'of the senate chamber. The, real i'm auguration lasted less, than a minute
 The oath was administered by Chief Justice White. and tho audience con- sisted of Mrs. Wilson. the members of the cabinet. two or three of the , presidents friends, and such public
 officials as happened to be in the room transacting official business when the hour of noon arrived.
 Four minutes elapsed between the end Of his first administration and
 his induction into his second one. It might be argued more or less plaus- tbly that there were four minutes in which the United States was without nreftdent The reason was that the president and the Chief Justice were Tn close contamination, and that Clerk James D. Maher of the supreme court
 did not want to interrupt them as he finally did. with the words :"Par- don me. MT. Chief Justice. but 1t is n12 o'clock
 This was the real inauguration, for
 matters not how many times the president may repeat the oath-taking now .and whether in public or pri- vafe. His second term began at noon yesterday, and there never has been an Inauguration like 1t.
 While La Toilette Ravcti.
 He came to the capitol at 1o:45 o'clock. and for an hour and a quar- ter he worked there in his room few fleet and a single wall iron, where the bitter wrathful senate was wrangling and storming out the last hours of tho ixty-fourth congress and of the first Wilson administra- uon. As he came rapidly in. fianked by; Secret Service men, he himself stepping along with his quick, light gait. and recognizing those about him with his characteristic immo- bile smile La Toilette was fiinginS himself about the senate chamber shouting his rage In q voice cracked with sieeplessress and hard usage because Senator Hoke Smith has just Sid that he was uttcring a false hood. and the concluding words of ,hfs protest were being drowned in 4jeer.nE snarl from the whole dem- 0cratfc side. soRlnning all along the back of the seNate cham6ef there Is a carpetetl 6A1l, across which senator steps in k8ing to the. reception room beyond N see his visitors. At one side of the recertion room Is an office set apas.t for the President of the United Staten when he may visit the capitol. Mir. Wilson was the first president to nyake any use of this room and he uses 1t very often. The carpeted hall is about fourteen feet wide. and that measures the distance of the presi- de1it's room from the chamber in which the bitterest passions that have . been aroused in his Whole adminis- >6tation were finding vent as the sixty fourth congress died.
 Smnll Escort Present.
 He came in with Mrs. Wilson. Colonel House. Secretary Tumulty and some members of the White House staff. threw of his overcoat And began work at once. As he did . So. La Toilette on the other side of the wall that stood fourteen feet 1 away. threw himself on his chair with eSHrowl as the immovable> Hitchcock declined for the tenth time to let him have the floor. and shouted. leaning over to the stenographers: II have a 1 light to be heard. Get that down." Hitchcock, outwardly nnruffled, went ! on at the same slow pace of speech : to deliver the address which had for iss one object the throttling of La FOllette's great oration. for which tho : Wisconsin man had been preparing for days: La Toilette sat watching Aim. with a red face and furious eyes. ! And back of the wall the president vegan signing bills. Over at the