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Show WILSON TAKES ATM OF OFFICE II THEGAPITOL Chief Justice White Officiates Offici-ates and Extends Congratulations Congrat-ulations to Executive in Broken Voice. CROWDS ARRIVE FOR THE INAUGURATION Usual Custom Will Be Followed Fol-lowed and Parade Will Include In-clude Many Distinguished Men of the Land. WASHINGTON, March 4. President Wilson took the oath of offico for his second term at noon today in his room at the capitol and will be formally inaugurated in-augurated tomorrow 'with public ceremonies. cere-monies. Before a desk piled with executive business laid before him in the closing J hours of congress, and surrounded by ; members of his official family, the presi- ; dont reaffirmed with, uplifted hand and grave features his promise to uphold the constitution in whatever crisis may confront the nation in the momentous four years before it. After he bad repeated solemnly the oath taken first by Washington a century cen-tury and a quarter ago he kissed the Bible at the passage reading, "The Lord is our refuge; a very present help in time of trouble." White Administers Oath. Chief Justice White administered the oath and was the first to extend his congratulations. Wringing the president presi-dent 's hands, the chief justice looked fervently into his face for a moment and said brokenly: "Mr. President, I am very, very happy. " Members' of the cabinet then crowded up with expressions of regard. Mr. Wilson received fchera with a smile and then turned back to his desk to complete com-plete his interrupted task. Vice President Marshall did not take the oath today. He will be sworn in for his second term tomorrow at the special session of the new senate with the u&ual vice presidential inauguration ceremony. Usual Crowds on Hand. Tonight the capital was filled with thousands of persons who came from the four quarters of the nation for the quadrennial event. Although the inaugural inau-gural was planned under the president's direction to be as simple as the circumstances circum-stances would permit, it will not bo different dif-ferent in general character from the usual ceremony. As customary, the president, n.fter he has taken the bath and delivered his inaugural in-augural address in an open air stand before the capitol, will ride back to the White House at the head of a parade of many thousands, including the distinguished dis-tinguished of the land, military and naval organizations and a long line of delegations of private citizens. Then he will 'review the marchers from a stand before the White House grounds. One "feature, however, will retlect divert di-vert iv the gravity of the international situation. Down Pennsylvania avenue the pa rade will pass between lines of national guardsmen chosen from the New York rrgimcnts, forming a. military mili-tary barrier on cither side of the line of Mandi. Not since Lincoln's second inauguration during the civil war have troops been stationed to keep spectators specta-tors back from an inaugural parade May Speaks HLs Mind. II has 1'fpn rx peeled that recent de-vplopmenl de-vplopmenl in the interna t ional si I nation will have a laree place In the president's inouiiiiral address and loniulit it was hr-lieved hr-lieved that the sena te's failure to reaeh a vole on the armed neutrality bill mi'-rht be one of the points on v.-hirh he will dwell in outlining his policies for the cmninpr administration. Hundreds turned nut tn see t lie suffrage demonstration at tho "White House, but ffV-' had a peep at the murh rarer sr-ene. Passing the'presidont's room at the rnpl-tol rnpl-tol just at noon a handful of sightseers found the d"or upen and -vnicht a glimpse of 1 lie president, himself -within. Then thev saw him rise and qrcet a. larze, dis-t dis-t incuished featured man. who had come down the corridor a few minutes before :utd hesitated at the entranep like an ut- ter su-Miv-rer approaching the presence -of the rhief executive. Tt was the chief justice, ami the hltle qroup of visitors were treated to ibe spee-tarle spee-tarle of a president taking his oalh of Cnntiauei on Pase Two.y PRESIDENT MAY LACK AUTHORITY TO ACT (Continued from Page One.) the whole country approved and demanded de-manded has failed. The opposition of one or two sena- tors has made It Impossible to increase in-crease the membership of the inter- 1 state commerce commission or to give it the altered organisation necessary for. its efficiency. Conservation Bill Killed. The conservation biil which should have released for immediate use fno mineral resources which are still locked up in t he public lands, now that their release i-i more iinpera-ti iinpera-ti vfcly iic-essary than ever, and the bill which would ha ve made t he unused un-used water power of the country immediately im-mediately available for Industry, ha.ve both failed, though they have been under consideration throughout the sessions of the two congresses and have been twice passed by the house of representatives. The appropriations for the army ha e failed, along with the appropriations appropria-tions for the civil establishment of the government, the. appropriations for the military academy a t West Point and the general deficiency bill. Tt has proved impossible to extend the powers of the shipping boaiM to meet the special needs of the new situation, sit-uation, into which our commerce has j been forced or to increase the gold reserve of our national banking system sys-tem to meet the unusual circumstances circum-stances of the existing financial situation. sit-uation. Extra Session No Cure. Tt would not cure the difficulty to call the Six I y-fifth congress in extraordinary' session. The paralysis of the sena I e would remain. The-purpose The-purpose and the spirit of action are not lacking now. The congress is more definitely united in thought and purpose at this moment. T venture to say, than it has been within the memory mem-ory of any man now in Its membership. member-ship. There is not only the most united patriotic purpose, but tha ohjects members have in view are perfect If clear and definite. But the senate cannot fu-t unless its leader? can obtain ob-tain unanimous consenL Its majority major-ity is powerless, helpless. In the midst of a crisis of ex Ira ordinary peril, when only definite and derided action can make the nation safe or shield it from war itself by the ag-grespion ag-grespion of o there, action is impossible. impos-sible. Although as a matter of fact the nation a.nd the representatives of ! the nation stand hacU of the executive execu-tive with unprecedented unanimity and spirit, the impression made ahroa.fi will, or" course, be that it is not so and that other governments ma.y act as they plea.se wtihout fear that this government can do anything any-thing a.t all. We cannot explain. The explanation is incredible. The sena te of t he T'nited States is the only legislative body in Uir world which cannot act. when Hp majority is ready for action. A little group of wilful men, representing no opinion opin-ion but their ow n. have rendered the great government of the United t'lales helpless and contemptible. , The remedy? There is but one rem- i edy, The nly remedy is that tiie I rules of the senate shall be so altered that it can art. The country can be relied upon to draw the moral. I believe that the sena le can be relied re-lied on to supply the means of a c lion a nd save the country from disaster. At the same time the president au-Ihorizei au-Ihorizei the further statement that what rendered i lie situation even more stave tha n it had been supposed tha t it was, was the discovery that, while t he president presi-dent under his general constitutional powers, could do 'much of what lie had psked ihp consreps to empower him to do. it bad been found that there were certain old statutes as yet unrepealed which may raise insuperable practical obstacles ob-stacles and may nullify his power. The old law referred to by the president presi-dent was adopted by congress In 1 SI 0 and referred to the resistance of Amer-ir;m Amer-ir;m merchantmen a.galnsf Hie attacks of privateers and pirates, hut excluded from vessels which mitrht be so attacked "a public armed vessel of a nation in amity with the United States." Technically, (iermany is not at v ar wit h the I'nited S'ta.ies and submarines are "public armed vessels" of ;prmany. The. president's statement followed a conference at t he White. House between Mr. Wilson, Secretary McAdoo, Postmaster Postmast-er General Burleson, Colonel K. M. 1 louse, Vance C. jMcCoriniek. chairman of the Democratic national committee, ami Secretary Sec-retary Tumulty. May Prolong Session. The senate has been called by the president presi-dent to meet in special session tomorrow in accordance with the custom of having such sessions at the beginning of each ad minis trai ion to install the vice president presi-dent and confirm nominations. There, ha.s been much discussion of late of continuing t lie session this time to consider changing the senate rules. A persistent fiht has been waged tor years for some form of cloture, and opposition to it has dwindled in spite of the powerful power-ful tendency to resist any tampering will) ' traditions of the senate. Debate has been 1 unlimited in the senate. |