Evening star., 1941-01-19
Many Noted Guests
To Attend Electoral
College Banquet
Dinner at MoyfIower
Tonight Is Special
inaugural Feature

Half the members Of the Elec-
toral College who cast the ofhcla!
votes for President Roosevelt that
make possible tomorroW's inaugu-
ration of the first American third
term President will hold their third
quadrennial banquet at O'Clock
tonight at the Mayflower Hotel.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the Vice Presi-
dent-elect and Mrs. Wallace are to
be present. The President plans to
send message.
Michael Francis Doyle. chairman
of the Electoral College, will pre-
side at the dinner The speakers
are Attorney General Jackson.
Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to
Mexico; Edward J. Flynn, chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee. and Mrs. Emma Guffey
Miller, an elector from Pennsyl-
vania.
Fifteen hundred guests are ex-
pected The Supreme Court. the
cabinet, the Capitol and the Army.
Navy and Marine Corps are to be
well represented.
Once Voted as They Pleased.
The festive arrangements tonight
bring to public notice an institution
about whose functions a large por-
ton of the populace is vague
The Electoral College is composed
now simply of agents of the people,
but once its members voted as they
wished in presidential elections
They perform now, perfunctorily. a
duty set by the Constitution. but
the system Of vote casting they rep
resent-presidentia election accord
ing to vote by States rather than
vote by populace-is as binding now
as it was in 1889.
Tomorrow the electors will occupy
special seats at the Capitol TO watch
the ceremony for the third RooSe-
welt inaugural They have been
assigned to special seats near the
White House to watch the inaugural
parade and at 4:45 pm. tomorrow
they will be guests at White House
tea and reception.
Among them are six Democratic
electors who voted three times for
Mr.. RooSevelt-Charles L. Culbert.
California; N. A. Morris. Georgia ::
John A. Logan, Illinois; John F.
Fitzgerald Massachusetts,: Oliver
Ash, Missouri, and William O.
Dapping, New York
Both Parties Represented.
Although the victory they have
come to see belongs to a Democrat,
the members of the electoral COL
lege participating in todays and
tomorroWs functions are both Re-
publican and Democratic electors
This marks the first time the BIZ
party electors have gathered for
mally in one group for one purpose
after they have recorded the votes
of their States.
The honor guests who will 81,
tonight at the head table with Mrs
Roosevelt and the Wallaces include
Justice Harlan F. Stone and Mrs
Stone. Justice and Mrs William o
Douglas. Justice and Mrs Felly
Frankfurter, Justice Hugo BLACK
and Justice Frank Murphy.
From the cabinet the honor
guests include Postmaster General
and Mrs. Frank Walker, Secretary
Of Agriculture and Mrs. Claude
Wickard. Secretary of Commerce
and Mrs. Jesse Jones and the Secre-
tary of Labor, Miss Frances Perkins
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles and Mrs. Welles will sit a,
the head table and from the Capito
will be Speaker Rayburn and his
sister. Miss Lucinda Ravburn.
The three branches of the mill
tary service will be represented al
the head table by Gen George c.
Marshall, u S. A.. chief of staff
Rear Admiral Chester w. Nimitz
U. S. N. chief of the Bureau OF
Navigation. and Mai. Gen. Thoma
Holcomb. commandant of the U. S
Marine Corps.
Others at Head Table.
Others at the head table will be:
Joseph E. Davies. chairman OF