Evening star., 1928-12-26
HOOVER WILL HEAR
INAUGURAL PLANS
Grant viii Present Outline to
President-EIect Upon Ar.
rival January 7.

A complete skeleton plan of the in
augural ceremonies will be ready for
President-elect Hoover when he arrives
in the Capital January Z. Lieut.. Col
u. S. Grant, Sd, chairman of the in
augural committee, today called for the
afternoon of Thursday, January 8, a
meeting of the chairmen of the various
committees of the inaugural commit
tee, from whose reports the general
plan will be drawn up to be ready for
submission to MIR. Hoover four days
later.
Col. Grant is delighted that the
President-elect will arrive in Washing
ton early in January, when the skeleton
plan can be submitted to him here in
stead of in Florida, where Mr.. Hoover
had originally planned to land on JAM
uary z. Inasmuch as the date of his
arrival in Washington Is the same as
that on which he would have landed In
Florida under his original plan, Col.
Grant is proceeding as If there had
been no change in the plans OF the
President-elect. Col. Grant has kept
augural, consequently he feels speed
ing-up process is not necessary.
Meanwhile the work of the COM
mittee chairman is going forward and
the plans of some have reached the
point where tentative arrangements
have been virtually completed. The
work of Gen. Anton Stephan, chair
man of the committee on parade,
which will be the most spectacular
part of the Inauguration ceremony, Is
we'll under way, although many de-
tails remain to be worked out. Gen.
Stephan has been promised the full
cooperation of the Army by Maj. Gen.
Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff,
but is in doubt as to what to do about
participation by the cadets from the
military academy at West Point and
the Naval Academy at Annapolis in
the parade. Figures submitted to Gen.
Stephan indicate it would cost about
military academy to Washington, and
another $4,000 to bring the Naval
Academy students here, total of
$4,000. Expenditure of such an
amount from the fund of 100000 to be
raised for general expenses of the
inaugural committee, would be i'm
practical he said, and he considers it
unlikely that Congress would authorize
an appropriation in the amount suf-
ficient TO cover the necessary expenses.
Stephan's Task.
Gen. Stephan is faced with another
delicate situation in his letters to State
governors suggesting that they furnish
floats and military detachments for the
parade. In several of the States, he
said, new governors will be inducted
into Office during the Winter and he
feels that he cannot urged upon the
present governors certain plans which
their successors might change.
Gen. Stephan's present plan is to
limit the parade, including all floats
| and detachments, to a number which
will permit it to pass given point in
three hours. He started his apportion-
ment of State delegations with theory
that marchers from the States would
be apportioned in the ratio of one man
to each 10000 population in the State,
according to the 1920 census. But when
| he figured this out, he found the num-
ber would be entirely too many. so he
cut the quota to one marcher to each
! 10000 population, with a minimum OF
IS. The order of precedence of the
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