New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1917, Page 9

¢ geit, ‘and recognizing those | " 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- utes past-noon vesterday by the ad- | ministration of the oath in his of- #lal. room in the -capitol, just back Jof the senate chamber. The real in- auguration lasted less than a minute. The oath was administered by Chief Jastice White, and the audience con- sisted' of : Mrs. Wiison, the ‘members of the cabinet, two or three of the ‘President’s friends, and such public officials as happened to be in the room transacting official - business When the hour of noon arrived. Four minutes elapsed bet the snd of his first administration and is induction into his second one. It might be argued more or less plaus- I!ily that there were four minutes in :Which the United Stntes was without LS pident. The reason was that the #dent and ‘the Chief Justice were In close contabulation, and that Clerk James D. Maher of the supreme court did not,'want to Interr: them, as he finally did. with the words :“Par- don me, Mr. Chief 'Justice. but it is 2 o’clocl = This was the real inauguration, for matters not how many times the resident may repeat the oath-taking now ,and whether in public ‘or pri- vate. second term began at noon _¥esterday, and there never has been ,8n tnauguration like it. While La Follette Raved. He came to the .capitol at = 10:45 @*clock, and for an hour and a quar- ter he worked. there in his room a few feet and a single wall - fron. " where the bitter, wrathful senate was wrangling and storming out the last Rours of the Sixty-fourth congress -and of ‘the first Wilson administra- As he came rapidly in, flanked X cret’ Service mcn, he ' himseif stepping along with. his quick, light about Bim with his characteristi¢c immo- bile: smile. La. Follette was flinging imsélf . about the senate chaniber ting his rage in a voice cracked th sleeplessness - and hard usage ciuse Senator Hoke Smith has just &lla that he was uttering a false- hood, and the concluding words of _protest were ‘being drowned in L g snarl from.the whole dem- s‘t,c' side: % *“Ruuning ‘all”along the back of the dfe chamher “there 14 ‘a ‘ carpeted L, across which' a senator steps in ding’ to the 'reception room beyond # sce’his visitors. At one side of He ‘recention room is an office set att ror the President of the United tery'when he may’ visit the capitol. { Mr, Wilson was the first president to fhake aby’ use of this room. and he uses ft Very often. ' The carpeted hall is about fourteen feet wide, and that .Mmeasures: the distance of the presi- denit’s ‘room from the chamber In ‘which thoe bittérest pasgions that have _beén arotised”in his Swation were finding vent as the fourth congress died. Smnll Escort Present. He came in with Mrs. Wilson, folonel House, Secretary Tumulty ‘and’ some members of the White uSe staff, threw off his overcoat Afid began work at once. As he did . La Follette. on the other side of the wall that stood fourteen feet awdy. thréw himself on his chair with e¥growl as the immovable, Hitchcoci ; @gclined for the tenth tifme to let him " fiave the floor, and shouted, leaning s 0%er fo the stenographers have a Ufight to' be heard. Get that down.” SHjtchdock, outwardly nnruffled, went “on at the same slow pace of speech #to: déliver the address which had for Ui one object the throttling of La llette’s great oration, for which tho Wisconsin man had been preparing r days: La Follette sat watching fm, with a red face and furious eves. 4 And back of the wall the president gan” signjg bills. Over at the wa WOMEN We Have a Remedy That Wil ’m Cost You Nothing If It Does 3 Not Help You. fh'sw Britain women will please Alize that we mean just what we v-in the above heading. 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WILSON SWORN IN DURING /" STORM SCENE IN SENATE ‘|invited to attend House wing, on the other side of the building, they were singing *The’ftar Spangled Banner,” while a ‘woman unfurled a great flag. 'The house had done all its work and was waiting for the end. The house had passed the Ship Defense bill, 403 to 13, and was well satisfied with itself; the sen- ate would pass it, if it could get a vote, by 76 to 11, but La Follette and 'his little band of filibusterers had it by the throat. So the senate of the Sixty-fourth congress was pass- ing out in anger and hatred, amid scenes almost of violence while house was - tranquilly anticipating popular approval. In less than an hour now the man who had brought about these situa- tions by his demand for the support of congress in protecting American ships and lives was to enter on his second term. The senate had been ‘| storming along all night, its members were exhausted, their nerves were on edge. . 1t had been recognized since midnight that there was no chance for a vote on the Ship Defensé bill. La Folette's filibusterers were to take the floor one after the other, and he was to wind up the weck with a great speech occupying the last hour or two of the life of this congress. He was |to hola the floor as noon struck, and then, with La Folette’s voice the last sound of the administration, the pres- ident waiting behind the wall was to be inaugurated on the heels of a de- feat. ; | Filibuster Exposed. Senator Hitchcock, who had charge of the Ship Defense bill, labored with a bitter patience all night and all morning to break up this plan and Ipln:e the responsibility for the failure to protect American lives on the shoulders of the La Follette filibuster- ers. Beginning at 6:30 Saturday night when La Follette’'s democratic ally, Stone, had but recently finished his speech, Hitchcock offered at regular Intervals an agreement.to reach a vote at some hour before, adjournment. Now it would be 1 a. m., now 3; now 10 or 11, or even 11:30. He . would ask the filibusters if they would be willing, after having had their say, to consent to this agreement. Al night they evaded a direct refusal; admis- slon that they did not want a vote and were insincere in their claim that they wanted only free discussion was Just what Hitchcock was trying to force from them. It was not until Just after the president came in that La Follette, goaded to fury, roared out after Hitchcock had asked the question for perhaps the twentieth time, that he would not consent to any vote—the admission Hitchcock had hoen seeking for the Record. In the course of the night the ad- jvocates of the Ship Defense. bill cir~ culcated a manifesto showing that the’ i senate, if allowed to vote, would pass i the measure by a tremendous major- ity. Seventy-five senators signed the , manifesto, and just after the pres- ident arrived Senator Tillman 'an- nounced that he was for it, 'and that Immle the seventy-sixth. Eleven sen- i ators refused to sign it. If, there-: : fore, the president chooses to exercise i the authority which he believes he has, to defend the 'ships whether con- . Bress so authorizes him or, not, he can polnt to a vote of 403 'to 13 in the house, and to a vote in the sen- ate of 76 to 11 which would have been his if La Follette and his ten follow- ers had allowed the vote to he taken. The reading into the record of this manifesto at about 4 a. m. produced & riotous sceme. Senator Jones of { Washington denounced Senator Rob- ! inson of Arkansas for reading it, and ! Robinson rushed over to him, waving | his fists and shouting. Jones and La i Follette 'stood together, and Robin- son waved his arms around both of ;hem, while La Follette laughed in his ace. La Folicttc Loses Temper. From that time on the temper of ,the senate grew shorter and shorter. At last came the climax. , ministration leaders had determined 1that La Follette should not deliver his speech, and when, at about 10 o’clock, he rose to make it, Senator ; Saulsbury, in the chair, recognized, inot him but Hitchcock. La Follette's temper, already badly strained, broke. He tried to get the floor on a par- i Hamentary inquiry; Robinson made a point of order against him, and the two men stood yelling deflance at each other. Thereafter La Follette repeatedly tricd to break in; each time Hitch- cock would offer him the floor on condition that he consent to &' vote before noon. Each time La Follette would try to evade, and each time Robinson would promptly force him to his seat by calling for the regu- jlar order; then Hitchcock would re- sume in the same even tone as before pillorying those who were depriving { Americans of their right to protection lin the face of a senatorial mafority of 76 to 11. He stood like a plece of granite, his face never changing a ]mulcle. while La Follette grew wilder and wilder as the hands of the clock moved on. Toward 11 o'clock La Follette seemed beside himself; he wore a fixed smile, and his eyes were blazing, while his round face had turned to a deep red. His voice was high and harsh and screaming and he would bounce out of his seat and thrust his under jaw forward as he yelled at Hitchcock in an effort to drown the Nebraskan's even, tranquil voice; and then he would hurl himself into his seat as Robinson's inexorable de- mand for the regular order forced him to stop. Then he would laugh In a discordant, provocative volce and call over to the stenographers some sentence which he wanted them to take down, though Hitchcock was still imperturbably talking away.” It was at such a moment as this ‘that the president came, briskly step- Ping into the room just back of the chamber. 'His manner was chipper ind lvely, and' he vigor and swing. the | full = ot ‘saemed. e fi/m NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, coming into his room to tell him of the progress of the fight on the floor and get his opinion or advice. = Be- tween visits he would sign bills, Hall & dozen Secret Service men blocked the narrow doorway and admitted no one ‘except this trickling stream of senators and the few who had been the inauguration. Asnide ' from: members of the cabinet, who can hardly be put altogether in the class of invited guests, since most of them were there on business, the only men who came in this class were Collector Malone of New York and Dr. Cary Grayson. There were not many bills to sign, and ‘most of the president's time was spent in seeing those who came in on business. He talked to them stand- ing up and sometimes walked about the room with one of his visitors, or paused with his hand on the visitor's shoulder. Mrs. Wilson, wno did not take off her hat, coat, or veil, sat by a window and talked with Chief Jus- tice Whige. The president, active and lively as was his manner seemed to have all his faculties concentrated on what was beforé him, for his smile, | though ready, was always brief and | mechanical, 'and his face was grave even when he smiled. He wore an alert, intent Jook. Neither did he sit i down, except when a bill'came to his table for signature. Lie is Passed. As senator after senator came across the fourteen feet of carpet to | tell him of the progress of the fight,. the situation on the other side of the ; Other side of the wall grew tenser. La Follette was again breaking in with | demands to be heard. Hitchcock again, with the same immovable face, and the same inflexible voice, offered him the floor if he would agree to a vote at 11:30. It was then that, as La Follette declared his only desire was for free discussion, Senator Hoke Smith rapped out, “That isn’t true? and La Follette, apringing from his seat with a flaming face shouted that Smith was uttering a falsehood., A moment after the president had re- ceived this information another sen- ator brought the news that La Fol- lette had at last been forced into the open and had admitted that he would not consent to a vote. The president received the news without 'any surprise. 'He had long known that there was no chance of his measure coming to a vote and that the only abject of the fight at this late hour was to force La Follette into this admission and to keep him from delivering the great speech .on which his heart was set, the speech that should become historic as the climax of the sixty-fourth congress. He smiled his usual' quick, short smile Wwhen the news came, but with no great relish. Senate Ridicules La Follctte. Secretary Daniels, who was busy sand looked tired, ame out of the president’s room just after this. He had been in the gallery until 4 in the morning and:-was'up again at 8; and ;he was dows thére now to make sure jof the fate of the bon& bill. As he icame out, the swinging door of the Ssenate chamber opened, and through the doorway came the sound of a furious, jeering chorus of voices, without the formation of a single word. It was the senate uniting in a sort of wardless howl of derision as La Follette, in another vain effort to break ih on the imperturable Hitch- cock, shouted out that he could not “conscientiously’” consent to a - vote without free discussion. The nolse began (at the word ‘“conscientious] and drowned La Follette’s last word: which were that If the president wanted a vote he could convene the senate in extra session. A few minutes later Willlam Alden Smith got the floor for a second to back up La Follette with the ' an- nouncement that he, too, would talk if he got a chance. For the first time a smile flickered across Hitchcock’s grave face as Smith demanded with some pathos to know whether he, a member of the forelgn affairs com- mittee, was not to be allowed to in- form the senate of his views, “I certainly admit,” said Hitchcock, with a smile that became grimmer as he went on, “that as a member of the committee the senator has a better right to be heard than some others, however, distinguished they may be,” and, without even a glance to see how La Follette took this subtlety, he went traveling on with his speech in the same even, unvarying tone. Smith flushed, and a moment later swung through the door and went across the hall to see the president, wha received him with neither cold- ness nor unusual cordiality. It was now past 11:30, and the hands of the clock were moving rap- idly around to the moment that would end the history of the first Wilson ad- ministration. The stream of visi- tors in the president's room 'was be- coming thinner. Just outside the door a crowd of people who had be- come aware of the president's pres- ence was being held back by the forces of the sevgeant-at-arms. Till- man was announcing his desire that his name be added to the seventy-five signatures to the manifesto, making seventy-six out of eighty-seven reach- able senators who would vote for ths bill it La Follette's eleven men would let them. La Follette gave a short, loud, mirthless laugh and threw a scorntul look at the old Carolinian. Back in the president’s room there ‘was a lull, and the president was chat- ting with the big chief justice. It was 11:43. Hitchcock was about. 1o launch a peroration. Before reach- ing it he paused and for the last time made his request for an agreement that a vote be taken. La Follette for the last time shouted his objection. Hitchcock had seventeen minutes left, and he devoted them to amplitying what he had said an hour before— that “even if an enemy were at our gates” the eleven filibusters could hold up the necessary measures of defense. There were no more interruptions. La Foliette, in the front row of seats, sat -with his short, thick bedy thrown back in his chair and one leg pro- truding in the aisle, his' whole as- was talking with Chief Justice White, who wore a broad, contented smile. Father Time Intervenes. Suddenly four sharp rings sounded out from the chamber. They meant that 12 o’clock had arrived, that the seunate stood adjourned, and that both the Wilson administration and its his- tory-making congress were at an end. They meant, too, that the second Wil- son administration was about to be- &in. Clerk Maher stood hovering about the president and the chief _justice with an open Bible in his hands; and his fingers resting on the forty-sixth psalm, But the president and the chief justice had béen too much in- terested in their conversation to notice the four rings, and Maher did not like to interrupt them. He let four minutes go by, and then he broke in with his admonition to the chiet justice that it was 12 o'clock, and that the hour was at hand. Mr. Wilson and Mr. White Maher standing - between them, and the president took the open Bible from his hand. his fingers resting on the words :“The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted. Mrs. Wilson stood just behind the president; the crowd at the door, held back by the Secret Service men and the force of the sergeant-at-arms, looked in and saw the heads of two of the three departments of govern- ment standing behind a long desk, ith large windows, just behind them opening above the rainswept terrace and Capitol Hill, while behind them stood a smiling, graclous-looking wonian and at a dfstance a little group of friends and publié officials. The president is a tall man, but he did not look big beside the tremen- dous form of the chief justice. Four veai's ago Mr. White administered the oath to him at the east front of the capitol hefore 20,000 people. He was then beginning an - administration without a cloud in’its sky, and foreign | complications or dangers to the re- public were the last things people were thinking of. It was a bright, sunny day ,and the multitudes that saw him called it a good omen for his administration, an .administra. tion elected on domestic issues and to deal with domestic problems. To- rose, |aay he took the oath before the same chief justice in a room with perhaps thirty people in {it, while outside the rain came down in a heavy, steady, incessant ' pour, and the Washington streets were swept bare of anything like what used to be regarded as an “inauguration crowd.” Friends Read His Thoughts. ) The momen he had taken the oath the president sat down, without any ceremony of hand-shaking or con- gratulation from those in the room, and went- on with what little re- mained of his work, while the Secret Service men began clearing a path for the president’s subsequent emer- gence. He had shaken hands with Mr. White and Mr. Maher; but it Is really astonishing how people that know Mr. Wilson well became able to grasp his wishes and his mood in a telepathic sort of way. He had not said a word about it, but everybody, from Colonel House and Mr. Malone to the clerks, was perfectly aware that he did not wish any formalities of congratulation and wanted the whole thing to be business-like and in- formal as possible; so there was no movement forward from the group at the other side of the room. It is characteristic of him, too, that five minutes before the oath was taken no one knew whether he in- tended to let the people at the door see 1t or wished to take it in absolute privacy, and equally characteristic that nobody asked him about it.. At 11:55 the Secret Service men allowed these people to step forward and get as near as they could to the door; but up to that moment not a single Secret Service man knew that he was going to do it, nor did anybody else. These things are Wilsonian and unique. The first thing the president did was to exchange a few smiling sen- tences with his wife, and then he and the chief justice signed their names to the oath, which had been copied on the flyleaf of the Bible that had been used. This done, he presented it to Mrs. Wilson, who tucked it under her arm. At the same moment Senator La ' Follette dashed rapidly through the hall outside on_ his way out, his large round face in a flame. The senators and cabinet members and others present came up and shook hands with the president as he was butting on his overcoat after finishing the odds and ends of work that re- mained, and then he and his smiling wife walked out along the corridors, with the detachment of Secret Service men all around and ahead of them, clearing a way for them through the crowd. The spectators applauded until they had entered the elevator, from which they stepped into an au- tomobile and started for the White House, The inauguration was over; and there never has been an inauguration anything like it in the history of the United States. A RAW, SORE THROAT Eases Quickly When You Apply a Little Musterole And Musterole won't blister like the old-fashioned mustard plaster. spread it on with your fingers. It pene- trates to the sore spot with a gentle tingle, loosens the congestion and draws out the soreness and pain. Musterole is a clean, white ointment made with oil of mustard. It is fine for quick relief for sore throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis, crawp, stiff neck, asthma, neu- -algia, headache, congestion, = pleurisy, “heumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of :he back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, oruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds on the chest (it often prevents pneumonia). Nothing like Musterole for croupy chil. dren, Keep it handy for instant: L B mma Ssinl pect denoting bitter disappointment | and angér. Across the fourteen-foot “the chamber, the Dres quigk .nimble Just | MARCH 5, M017. - ' A o Intensely Exact in All Private and Public Affairs ‘Washington, March 6.—Oldest at- taches of the White House regard President Wilson as the most meth- odical, systematic, time-saving chief executive within their memories. From the very first of his admin- istration, the Mexican difficulties and the European war have added im- measurably to the duties of the pres- ident, but he has managed to main- tain a strict schedule for his working hours; he never has been known through personal fault to be late with an engagement and has religiously conserved his time. A White House caller, booked for a five minutes interview with many a president often got an hour. If one arranges a five minute interview with Mr. Wilson, one gets exactly five minutes—no more—and the way is l.cleared for the next caller. Although during his first adminis- tration the president took no real va- catioh, he managed to maintain a regular program of physical recrea- tion necessary to conserve his health. He never has been out of touch with the nation’s business. When at the Summer White House at Cornish, N. H,, or Long Branch, N. J.,, a staff of secretaries was close at hand. All during his first term the president was not away from the White House more than two weeks at a time on trips traveling about the country and he never has gone further west than Topeka, Kansas. Friends of Mr. Wilson say he dis- likes the idea of going into the coun- try but enjoys himself when he does &o. Many word pictures of the presi- dent at work and at play have been written, but those closest to him say that his every day life is a natural one for a man who never has been weal- thy and has grown up in an atmos- phere of regularity and natural liv- ing. Belicves in Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Wilson does many things per- sonally that could easily be done for him by others. Frequently he walks from the executive offices to the ‘White House to get a baok or letter when he could more easily press & button and have someone bring it to him. His liking for directness of action explains why on more than one occasion he has walked to dif- ferent government departments to see cabinet members instead of sum- moning them to the White House. He has never allowed precedent to in- terfere with the -course he thought the most direct. THe time the president's working day begins depends upon the season of the year. Ordinarily, in winter he gets up between 7 and 7:30 o’clock, but in summer he usually arises ear- lier—sometimes at 5 or 5:30. He be- lieves in daylight saving whenever possible. When he first came to the Wkite House he attended to most of his offi- cial work in the morning, and.played golf in the afternoon, but this win- ter, he reversed his program, and played golf in the warm morning hours, and worked in the afternoon. He goes golfing either with Mrs. Wil- son and Dr. Grayson soon after break- fast, and works on his mail from aoon to 1 o’clock. In the afternoon he sees callers and signs officlal papers, ex- cept on Tuesdays and Fridays, when the cabinet meets. Ordinarily an hour on Monday, Wednesday aud Thursday afternoons is set aside for the reception of members of congress. After dinner, generally about 7 o'clock the president does no work unless it is absolutely necessary. He either reads, plays billlards or goes to a theater. Detective stories, poems and autobiographles are his favorite literature. It is more.or less of an open secret that his preference is for thrilling old time detective .. stories. Often he gathers his- family about him and reads poems. - he steals away to a gallery to view some paintings. The president’s insistence on promptness contrasts with- the more or less carefree habits of some of his predecessors. ‘When the cabinet meets the president’s .advisers are frequently early, but are seldom late. | The president, now sixty years old, is very healthy, and his only weak- nesses are.of the stomach and eyes. | Because of attacks of indigestion he is more or less on a diet most of the time, but is as regular in his meals as in all his other habits. No Love for Soclety. Society has no charm .for Mr. Wil- son and for Society with a capital S8 he has a positive aversion. On more than one occasion his failure to hide his feelings has been noticeable. He avoids all social . functions whenever possible. ' As a breaker of precedents Mr. Wil- son set official Washington agasp even before he came iInto office by an- nouncing that he did not desire the ‘usual inaugural ball. He followed that by declining membership in some so-called exclusive clubs which always had claimed the membership of pres- idents. 5 One of his first acts was to greatly decrease the number of army and navy. officers assigned to. the White House as aldes, until less than a half dozen remained. Mr. 'Wilson abol- ished the motor cycle guard which used to surround the president's car when he went out on the streets, say- ing he wished to go about just as any other citizen. When he began the custom of de- livering his addresses to congress in person he revived a custom which had died with Washington, and Adams, No president since Jefferson had ad- dressed the congress personally and 4 on affairs as on dtd nis-celebrated peace mnote. His Frequently | fondness for directness of action has led to the shattering of many other precedents. Oftentimes, when he wants to con® fer with a cabinet officer quickly he walks to his office. He goes to the bank in person to deposit his salary, and when he needs goes shopping like anyone else, If he wishes to confer with a senator, and the sen- ator is spending a qulet evening at home, the president goes to the sen- ator's house.: Precedent always has decreed that the senator must come at the call of the president. Mr. Wilson uses the telephone very much on the theory that ‘it shortens conversations and keeps the parties to the conversation to the subject in- tended. Never has the president relaxed any of the customs which make for respect and honor for the high office but he has shattered many precedents in the interests of direct action. CAPITAL BURIED N * NATIONAL GOLORS American Flag Keystone o In- angaral Decorations ‘Washington, March 5.—The red, white/and ‘blue displaced all other colors™in the scheme of decorations for President Wilson’s inaugural The green and white, and the mixture of gay colors of other years were entirely submerged in the display of national- colors. From every stand they fluttered, from every public butiding. The folds of the flag rippled from the crowded stands along the lne of march if in answer to the salute of the same col- ors borne by the marchers. The flag. swung or drooped from balcony, win- dow and housetop. It fluttered in the hands of thousands. On the line of march and off the line of march, everywhere, the city displayed the The court of honor at the White House where the president reviewed the marching army of celebration was smothered in the tri-color. It was the decoration, the only one, in Pres- ident Wilson's second inaugural. In choosing the flag as the ‘only decoration, ‘the committee is under- stood to have had in mind the in- ternational situation as well as the president's wish for dignity and simplicity in any color scheme which might have been considered. As in previous vears the court 'of honor extended two blocks on Penn- sylvania avenue, from Fifteenth street to Seventeenth, directly in front of the White House and between the treasury and the state ,war and navy buildings. * The president's atand, seating about 2,500 persons was en the south side of the avenue while opposite, the length of Lafayette Square, was a reviewing stand for others. ¥ ‘The court itself was a colonnade outside the curb on each side of the avenue for the length of the two blocks. At intervals of sixty feet the columns were relieved by pylons, dec- orated with evergreens and sur- mounted with Americans flags, the whole composition being: tied to- gether with festoons of evergreens. At each end of the court the pylons were elaborated and topped by tri- pods. Arches of imposing proportions gave passageway for vehicles and formed a termination for reviewing stands. The center of each stand was marked by a pediment. President Wilson's stand, marked by the seal of the United States in color, followed the lines of the por- tico at the front of the White House with its fluted columns, and was much more elaborate than any other. Each great white column of the colonnade was surmounted by an en- tablature, above which projected 'a staff with the flag fiying. In thé center of the columns were small cedar trees and connecting the col- umns and pylons were double fes- toons of evergreens and single loops of electric lights, As in the last inauguration the court of honor was designed to pre- serve the severe lines of the portico of Montitello, home of Thomas Jef- ferson. Within the president’s stand was built the glass enclosure for the president, officials and guests. At points along Pennsylvania avenue, the decorative features were height- ened by “courts of state,” oconsisting of somewhat smaller columns and pylons connected with festoons of evergreens. Tonight these courts will be illuminated by festoons of electric lights. FORTUNE PAID TO SEE BIG PARADE Seats Along Route of: March Cost More Than $200,000—Stands Ac- ‘Washington, - March 5. ‘mated that more than $200,000 was spent for seats from which to view the inaugural procession. Provision was made for seating 50,000 persons along the line of March in spectally constructed grand stands. Many thousands of others took places in windows, on roofs, in trees, perched on poles and various other polnts of vantage. More than two million feet of lumber was used for the conmstruc- tion of stands which were occupled only a few hours. Seats were sold to the public on sll the reviewing stands, except the pres- ident’s stand in front of the ~ White | House and the officlal stand at the capitol on which the inaugural cer- emonties take place. Employes of the various executve departments banded together to erect the stands in front of the various pub- 1i¢ buildings, In order that they might have the preference of buying seats upon them, and the seats remaining were suapped up at general sale at FEW: SENATORS TIE PRESIDENT'S HAN Wison, Hay Not Be Able to ‘Hecessary Measures Washington, Mareh - §.—The lowing'~ statement. was issued night for the president: “The termination of'the last sion of the Sixty-fourth con constitutional limitation disclo situation unparalleled in the of the country, perhaps un in the history of any modern go ment. In the imimediate presence a crisis fraught with more subtle far-reaching posibilities of natit danger than any other - the go ment has known within the wl history of its international relatig the congress has been:: unable either to safeguard. the country or| vindicate the elementary rights of' citizens. More than 500 of the i members of the two: houses’ | ready to act; the house of repry atives had acted, by an overwhil ing majority; but in the senaté unable to act because a little of eleven senators had detersal that it should not. ¢ “The senate has no rules by debate can be limited or brough an end, no rules by which dilate tactics of any kind can be preven A single member can stand in - way of action, it he have but the sical endurance. The result in cage is a complete paralysis alike | the legislative and of the . execul branches of the government. o “This inability of the has rendered some of thm sary legislation of the session . Possible at'a time when the n it was most pressing -and most 4 dent. The bill which would have g mitted such combinations of and, of organization in the export 1 import trade of the country as 3 cumstances of international tition have made imperaty Which the business judgment & whole country approved an manded, has falled. The op of one . or two senators has m impossible to increase the mem! of the interstate commerce ¢ sion to give it the altered o necessary for its efMolency. servation bill, should leased for ' use. the resources which are still locked g the public lands, now that their. lease is more than ever, and the bill which have made the unused water § of the country immediately availa for industry have both fatled, tHmey they. have bsen under oons throughout the sessions of gresses and have been twice by the house of representatives. appropriations for the . failed, along with the appro) for the civil establishmeat of government;: the' app the military academy at é and the general deficiency bill proved imposeible to e powers of the shipping board t the special needs of the new tions into which our commerce been forced or ta increase the reserve of our national baal system to meet the unusual cl stances.of the existing financlal tion. . “It would not cure the diffioultyi call the Sixty-fifth congress in exti . ordinary session. The paralysis & the senate ;would 'remain. The ‘pose and the spirit of action are lacking now. '‘The congress is ' definitely united in thought and pose at this moment, I venture say, than it has been within the ory of any men now in its me: ship. ‘There is not only the ° united patriotic purpose, but the Jects members have in view are P fectly clear and definite. But . senate canndt act unless its leadel can obtain unanimous consent. I majority is powerless, helpless. i} the midst of a crisis of extraording peril, when only definite and decl action can make the nation safe 08 shield it from war itself by the gression of others action is impok sible. “Although ag a matter of fact nation and the representatives gf nation stand back of the with unprecedented unanimity n spirit; the lm’mh . made will, of course, beé that'it is and that other gover: nts may. as they pleasé without fear that.i government can do. anything at ‘We cannot explain. The n is incredible. The senate of the United States is the only legisiative body in the world which cannot 'act when its| majority is ready for action. A Ilittle group of wilful men, representing noj opinion but their own, have rende the great government of the Uni States helpless and contemptible, “The remedy? There is but o remedy. The only remedy is that rules of the senate shall be so altered | that it can act. The country can relied upon to draw the moral. I be- lieve that the senate can be relied on to supply the means of action save the country from disaster.” At the same time the president thorized the further statement ‘what rendered the situation more grave than it had been posed that it was, was'the disco that, while the president under general constitutional powers could. much of what he had asked the gress to empower Mm to do, it been found that there were 17 & o and may nullity “his power, prices ranging from $1 to 35 ag ing to location. Sheltered and balconies of hotels' and private: buildings dbrought much hi prices. Rooms fronting on Ponnsylvania ave- - nue with windows commaunding a view of the procession brought as high as $100 cach.