Show cj iNAUGURATIN EXPEN E hf Senate Pays the Bills Which Are Nominal TICKETS OF INVITATION There Is Always a Scramble for Scats in lie Galleries t The President Beccives Twentylive Tick etjj Senators ITivo and n Congressman Congress-man TwoOrder of Precedence In Leaving the Senate WASHINGTON March 2Special corre pondencc of TH HERALD The inauguration inaug-uration of a presid nt is not a very expensive ex-pensive affair The inauguration cost the Senate of the United States about 2500 It would probably cost the people peo-ple of England 250000 to inaugurate Queen Victorias successor i she took i into her head to vacate the throne or if she should die The actual expenses of the inauguration are paid by the secretary secre-tary of the Senate out of the contingent fund Of course these are not the expenses ex-penses of tho inaugural ball or of the parade which accompanies the inauguration inaugura-tion Whilo these are attractive features of the ceremony they do not k belong to the inauguration itself The procession and ball are paid for by the business men of the district dis-trict lust as the expenses of a convention are paid by the business men of the citv in which it ts held The only exception j St a C 1 II I I I ji II 5 t < r t 1 l l fr r 1l i S J tl S t = q J oS U l 4 1 L = 1 i f 1 1 r11 1 I I J t q f J w J Cl 1t 11 I r I 9 t 4 I l r I j Q i IF14 > < > 6 I r f t 1 1 1 i 4e2 g k t 4 > 1 ej j Ct I 1 1 I f Ic J j ft itl1 iii O i o 1 f u to this that I know was in the entertainment entertain-ment of the Grand Army of the Republic here last fall when Congress made an appropriation ap-propriation out of the district funds towards to-wards the entertainment expenses I The secretary of the Senate has very little tie to do with the inauguration of a president presi-dent beyond paying the bills The active officer in making preparations for the b ceremony and in carrying them out is the T sergeantatarms He prepares the plans makes contracts issues the invitations arranges the seats on the floor of the Senate and on the inauguration platform employs a special force of policemen to preserve order and acts as the presidents advance guard on the march to the inaugural inau-gural platform Four years ago Mr Canaday who was then sergeantatarms of the Senate held an umbrella over the head of President Harrison while he read his inaugural address Mr Canaday had a pretty stiff arm when the address was concluded The Senate has charge of the inauguration inaugura-tion of a president because when he is inaugurated there is no House of Representatives I Repre-sentatives The Senate is a continuing body I never goes out of existence About onethird of the senators go out of office or succeed themselves on the 4th of March every other year but another third has two years still to serve and the remaining members have four years of service before them The president who is about to retire from office always calls the Senate meet inspecial session at noon DU the 4th of March After that hour there is no president and no House of Representatives So the Senate very appropriately ap-propriately has charge of the arrangements arrange-ments for the inauguration and carries The active in the them out agent ceremony cere-mony of swearing in the president is the chief justice of the Supreme Court There is always a great scramble for seats in the galleries of the Senate and on the inaugural platform to witness the inauguration Usually there are seats to be had for a price Four years ago I saw men standing about the capitol and on Pennsylvania avenue hawking tickets of admission to the galleries They are usually advertised for sale in the daily newspapers of Washington for several days before the 4th of March There lOt not many of these caes of misplaced confidence t con-fidence for the tickets are supposed to be entirely complimentary and the Senate would be justified in taking up any ticket that had been bought by the man who it presented The scarcity of the tickets will be readily read-ily understood when the proportion in which they are distributed is known Each senator receives only five tickets and each member of the House of Representatives Representa-tives only two There are very few members mem-bers of the House who ha7e not at least two members of their families who wish lo see the inaugural ceremony The president pres-ident receives about twentyfive tickets and the presidentelect the vicepresident I and the vicepresidentelect receive an equal number The members of the Supreme Su-preme Court receive forty tickets About 150 are issued to the members of the diplomatic dip-lomatic corps and 160 to the press representatives repre-sentatives Of course the senators and members of the House as well as the justices I tices of the Supreme Court the members of the diplomatic corps and others oth-ers who are t be seated on the floor require no tickets Senatorselect receive re-ceive the same consideration as senator each of them has five tickets allotted to him but representativeselect not only get no tickets for their friends but have to depend on the courtesy of others for their own admission to the galleries The new congressman is not so great a person at a presidential inauguration as a plain everyday newspaper correspondent corres-pondent Only the members of the diplomatic corps and the newspaper men have reserved re-served for them on the inauguration the galleries to which they are entitled during dur-ing the ordinary sessions of the Senate I The diplomatic corps do not occupy their gallery in person rhey are always seated on the floor of the Senate a1ay din d-In full court costume But there are so 6 many attaches of the legations and distinguished j dis-tinguished foreigners in the city that not only the small diplomatic gallery opposite posite the vicepresidents chair but the reserved gallery on the west side of the chamber is reserved for them The newspaper menthe regular corps of 1 Washington correspondents and the special spe-cial representatives whom the great dail ies of the country send to Washington for this occasion occupy the big gallery which overhangs the chair of the residing resid-ing officer I is the most interesting place above the floor of the Senate during the ceremonies in the Senate chamber for facing it are all the actors in the ceremony cere-mony to follow the president the presi dentelect the Supreme Court justices the diplomatic corps the members of the presidents cabinet the Senate and the House and all the lesser dignitaries who are merely onlookers like those who sit above them The general arrangement of the Senate galleries is entirely changed for the inauguration with the two exceptions excep-tions named Partitions are removed from one place and temporary partitions are erected in another One space to the left of the diplomatic gallery is reserved re-served tor the family and friends of the presidentelect Another space is reserved re-served for the family of the retiring president pres-ident There are places to which the tickets of senators give admittance and other places for those who hold tickets from the members of The House of Representatives Repre-sentatives The different kinds of tickets are of different colors and the most rigid system is enforced in seating the ticket holders It is a part of the system of the sergeantatarms that no one shall be admitted ad-mitted to the building who has not a ticket admitting him to one of the galleries galler-ies so in theory everyone isprovided with a seat But doorkeers are only mortal and it happens sometimes that a man who I has no ticket passes the outer portal He is almost as badly off though within the building as he would be without As he has no ticket of admission to the galleries he is compelled to cool his heels in the corridors and possibly catch a glimpse of the presidential party on the way from the Senate to the inauguration platform at the east front of the capitol The invitations as I have said are issued I is-sued by the sergeantatarms but he has very little option in the distribution of I them In point of fact the sergeantat arms will receive but one ticket to the inauguration in-auguration ceremony on the 4th of next March and assistant sergeantatarms I i Charles B Reade will have but one The I others are issued t officials who are entitled I en-titled to them The invitation is engraved on a heavy card It is a very fine piece of work and is done by Uncle Sams own engravers at the bureau of engraving and printing I is printed on a white card while the engraved I en-graved tickets which accompany it range through shades of blue red and yellow I These invitations are not sent unsolicited to any except t the officials whom I have I named They are not issued to the governors gov-ernors of states unless application is made for them I there was an expresident living other than Mr Cleveland himself Ian I-an invitatian would be sent to him I there was an exvicepresident living he I would receive an invitation Exsenators are entitled t the privileges of the floor I and they need no invitations Distinguished Distin-guished visitors and there is always a number of themare usually remembered through the courtesy of some senator though a number of tickets are held in reserve re-serve for the benefit of those people if they should appear at the last moment The order of precedence adopted by the Senate many yearsago is rigidly followed when the inaugural party leaves the Senate chamber to go to the inaugural platform Until the people on the floor of the chamber have been ushered out no one permitted to leave the galleries The next to go are the press representatives tives and then the crowd of spectators The order of precedence in leaving the Senate chamber is as follows The Marshal of the District of Columbia and the Marshal of the Supreme Court The Chief Justices and Associate Justices The SergeantatArms of the Senate The Senate Committee on Arrangements The President and the PresidentElect The VicePresident and the Secretary of the Senate The Member ot the Senate Two by Two The Members of the Dinlomatic Corps The Heads of Departments The Generals of the Army and the Admiral of the Navy The Members of theLate House of Representatives Represent-atives Led by the Speaker and the Clerk Distinguished Guests of the Senate The members of the committee of arrangements ar-rangements are representatives of the political po-litical parties in the Senate the party of which the presidentelect is a member being be-ing in the majority The arrangements for the inauguration are supposed to be in the hands of this committee and the sergeantatnrms is its chief executive I officer As a mat r of fact the chief part of these senators in the exercises is to act as escort to the president the president elect and the vicepresidentelect from the White House to the capitol They call for the presidentelect the Arlington hotel which is on Lafayette square opposite the White House and they escort him to the executive mansion Then they ride with president the presidentelect and the vicepresidentelect in two fourhorse carriages to the capitol These carriages are the only feature of the inaugural parade pa-rade for which the Senate i expected to pay Possibly the Senate will not be called upon to pay for them this year A local liveryman has offered to furnish them free Four years ago they cost 75 each Tho liveryman is one of the patriotic patri-otic citizens of Washington who loses nothing by the inauguration The most formidable of the expenses for the inauguration is the building of the platform at the east door of the capitol Here is where the president takes the oath looking out over the broad plaza where 10000 people are cheering themselves them-selves hoarse The platform cost 1400 four years ago Then there is the rent of chairs the employment of special policemen I police-men and the extra labor But the inauguration in-auguration of President Cleveland will i not cost Uncle Sam more than 2500 In the meantime the citizens of the district will spend 40000 on an inaugural ball and parade The bal is selfsupporting for the tickets to it are sold at5 each This includes a supper Thewrent of the ball room costs nothing for the big pension pen-sion building is used The decorations this year cost 8000 out of which there is probably 0 profit t some one But then what would the inaugural committee commit-tee do with a surplus GEORGE GRANTHAH BAIN |