New Britain herald., 1925-01-07

ny ihe AsSoclated Press.
 Hartford, Jan. 7.--Hiram Bing- ham, lieut.-governor, was inaugur- ated as the sixty-eighth governor Of Connecticut in succession to John Haynes, first colonial governor, this afternoon. He will be chief execu- tive of the state for but a day when, upon resignation, he will be suc- ceeded by John H. TrumbulI of Plainville, who took the oath of of flee as lieut.-governor only a short time before Mir. Bingham was sworn in.
 Will Resign Tomorrow
 Late tomorrow, as the plans now are Mir. Bingham will be 8 private citizen, and he will hurry to Wash- ington to become a junior United States senator from the constitution state to fill the vacancy created when Senator Frank B. Brandegee died.
 The inauguration of Col. Bingham. late Yale university professor. ex plorer, world, war officer of distine- tion, as a ceremony was not unlike the many which have preceded 1t with other distinguished citizens of the chief part. It fulfilled the re- quirements set by precedent while the incidents which were attached to it themselves established new pre- cidents. There was the military pageants through Hartford's streets escorting the retiring governor, Charles A. Templeton, the incoming governor, Hiram Bingham and the newly elected lieut.-governor and governor-to-be, John H. Trumbull from downtown to the capitol on the hill, with the military staffs of the governors and the state officers, in automobiles preceded by the First and Second companies of Governors Foot Guards, and the advance guard of Troops B and c first squadron of cavalry.
 Precedents Established
 Apart from it's ceremonial side the occasion provided precedents to pc duly recorded in political history oi
 the state. Col. Bingham is the sec
 ond lieut.. governor since 1907 to be elected governor by popular vote while yet in the former office. II was Governor Templeton's good for tune to be immediately promoted the first instance since the days oi Governor Woodruff. In the interim
 former Lieut.. Everett J. Lake walt ed ten years before he sat in tho governors chair and could compare if with the Charter Oak chair in . the senate chamber. Lieut.. Cover nor Frank B. Weeks became gov l ernor through the death of Cover
 nor George L. Lilley. In all the = years of Connecticut history no'
 many governors arrived at that sta
 ton by the way of the lieut.. goyer
 norship.
 !, When Governor Bingham resign' ! he will be the second governor t '' do so to take another office but n . other Connecticut governor resigne' | to become U. s. senatr, and neVe y before has a Connecticut governor V elect been nominated and elected
 senator. And so far Governo '. Bingham will be the only executiV = whose sole relation to the genera a assembly which met in joint con
 vention to induct him into offic !. will he to read to it a message a F. to the affairs of the state.
 Times Have Changed D. In former days and for a Ion r. neriod of years 1t was customary fe o- inc Foot Guards to call at the Ally al House for the governor-elect wh as was met by the retiring grernor. d. those days also there was an opf carriage with four prancing steeo
 Now. automobiles carry the part yo which waits al the Hartford club Y or Foot Guards which are drawn up on Prospnct street Tn the parade | ar day the first company was in ,v b,ue uniforms with bearskin shak he and the second company was in oli ral drab with busbies. all guardsm' of wearing their great-coats.
 The first carriage held Govern
 Templeton and Col. Bingham a
 Captain McCook, retiring executi W. secretary and Edward L. Kelly " ,rd will be secretary to both GovernC jet Bingham and Trumbull. Lie ed Governor-Elect Trumbull and Br
 General Cole. the adjutant gener
 and Assistant Quartermaster Gs
 eral Norris B. Payne. The mtlits ate staffs were in four other machii the and then came the state oifics