New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-01-21


the Out-Of-tOwn visitors. As the peo
pie already know probably, thes'
didOs are to be in the nature of 1
so-called Mardi Gras.
A semi-Official announcement from
the White House has it that Presi
dent Wilson now feels strong enough
TO admit of his making a promise tt
take the regulation part of an out
going President in the Inauguration
ceremonies. This mean hat Presi.
dent Wilson will accompany Presi'
dent-elect Harding from the White
the great stand east of the big build.
ing while the P~resident-elect takes
the oath of Office and makes his In
augural address. Inasmuch as the
inaugural address lasts ordinarily
about forty minutes and the speech is
made outdoors while the cold March
winds are blowing, the ordeal through
which Mr.. Wilson mist pass can be
understood.
May Be Driven In Doors Again.
Early on the morning of March 4.
P~resident-elect Harding will go to
the White House where he will enter
an automobile with President Wilson.
Mr.. Harding will sit on Mr.. Wilson's
left on the drive to the Capitol, be.
cause the right, which is the place of
rank. will belong to the man who still
is President of the United States. On
the way back to the White House
from the Capitol Mr.. Harding will
sit on the right and Mr.. Wilson, as
ex-President, will sit on the left. A
few words spoken by the chief justice
Of the United States in the form of
an oath-giving and the response which
Mr.. Harding will make, mark the
passing from n man to another OF
the privilege of 'sitting on the right"
If the weather of March 4 be in
clement, the ceremony Of Inauguration
will take place, as 1t did In 1909 when
Mr.. Taft was inaugurated, In the
senate chamber. Everybody remem-
bers probably the weather conditions
which beset the ceremonies attending
Mr.. Taft's induction into office. One
of the worst billiards. Of the season
set In on the night of March 3. and
continued until 2 o'clock on the after
o o of March 4.
The pension building, which has n
huge ground floor rOOm with magnif-
cent pillars at its four corners, prob
ably Is to be given Over for the in
augural ball. This will necessltate
the closing down of most of the pen
sion activities for at least two weeks.
The lower floor Is used for records
which must all be moved to upper
stories and then be moved back again.
The pension building, however, Is the
only structure in Washington except
the Capitol, suitable for a ball, and
so congress probably will allow the
Three May Quit Supreme Bench.
Men of both parties in Washington,
looking into the near future, c
at least three vacancies on the
United States, and believe that Presi-
dent-elect Harding will have three
vacated seats to fill in that always au-
gust assembly.
Gossip connects the names of Chief
Justice Edward Douglass White and
of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes and Joseph McKenna with
an intention to retire within the next
six months. The Oldest judge on the
bench is Mr.. Holmes, who was born
in Boston, Mass, March s, 1S41, and
who therefore will reach the age OF
years just four days after
P~resident-elect Harding is inaug-
Justice McKenna Is next In age TO
Justice Holmes. having been born Au-
gust 10. 1S43. He was se~venty-seven
years old last August.
Chief Justice White was seventy
five years old in November last. The
age at which any judge voluntarily
may retire from the Supreme bench
Is seventy years, provided he has
ten years On the bench OF the
tribunal.
Justice William II. Day reached the
voluntary retiring age a year and a
half ago., but he is not generally as
In the minds of politicians
here with the intention of early retire.
nent.
OF the three justices who. 1t is
may yield TO the temptation
o return to private life, two are Re
Dublicans and one, Mr.. White, Is a
Hughes and Taft Suggested.
Two names most closely associated
With P~resident-clect Harding's inten-
ions in the matter Of appointments to
he Supreme bench. provided there are
'acancies, are Charles Evans Hughes
md William Howard Taft. Washing
seems to be about equally divided
n opinion as to whether Mr.. Hughes
5 to go into the cabinet or on the
,ench. As for Mr.. Taft's appointment
o a judicial position. the talk largely
hus far Is Of the nature of simple
Chief Justice White will administer
oath of Office to P~resident-elect
Iarding on the platform built out
rom the east porticO Of the White
louise at noon on March 4. The oath
,robably will be given on the little
bible which is In the possession of the
court Of the United States,
nd on which a considerable number
f Presidents have laid their right
ands and sworn to uphold the Con.
titution Of the United States.
1t may be, however, that Warren G.
Iarding. as a few other Presidents