Show Tie IMtCtltATKIt or vrn hlnsloii rlmt Pmfclrnl ormtmoUle trsersote WASmnfiTOW Dec ILIn per pr suance fl n resolution adopted by Congress in February 1Io bouts met in the Hall of Representative t hold centennial exercises In commemoration com-memoration of the inauguration or the first President I t was liteal1y a gathering of naUoiis Of the Itga lions resident in Washington al were officially represented and added to these were the delegates from Central and South America republics to the PanAmerican Con gross and the members of the Ma one Conference There were also prrttut the governors of twenty btates drawn hither for a conilta Lion with regard tomcmorializin Congress for the erection of 1 con tcnnia memorial building at Piilla dclphla Tbcgalleries er packed Shortly before 1 oclock the House Representatives notiCed the Senate r ci ate Jr was In newton In a few minute Senate priccded liy the Pnsldcntand VicoPresidentmem lI l of the diplomatic cor Band justices jus-tices of the Supreme Court of the I United States entered Uie hall of lie House and wen escorted toccata in front of the Spcakern desk IIe PresIdent Morton took the Speakers clmalr1 andatl oclock called the two louses to order oner J G Butler the Senate chaplain opened Uie exercises with prayer Ciilri I jcCTicn FlIttER of the Supreme Court of the United States Uien delivered an oration on he America progifa merIn Washlng ton tile orator fold bttl K < come first In war not so much by hU vlctorits over thu enemy or by his success in otwhse ln I I 1llmh nf lit ronstanoj wlneli no reverse no nrdship no Incompetemy no treachery could shako or overcome He had hmo the first in the hearts of his countrymen Kcnuo tile iiooplo comprehendeil tlo great ne of their leader and recognized In him the entire absence ofptrona mbltlon and the absolute love of couutr > of tildIliEdivOfi and of man kind He had become first In peace hy bringing to the charge of tle iractical working of the system head he-ad participated in creating ou be mlfof the people who > c Independ uee lie had achieved tho same erencjudgmeut tile same Fagacit I lhe faniu intieuce the flU sense of I duty Uio same farsighted compre tension of the end t attained that marked his career from the he intilng Jveferrmg to the HAH OV AKIllTILVn IX1WLR In resiled to the Presidential elliot ulkrsaid But no fear no jeal usy could b entertained of him who had indIgnantly repelled the uggistion of a bestowal of kilmgiy loner l-oner who had unsheathed his word with reluctance and laid I down with joy who had nevir 3URlit officIal position batacctrteti public cfllce as 1 public trust in deference to so unanimous a tle nand for his cervices n 10 ionvinre lint of the ucccstit who patriot Ism embraced thevvholi count the future grandeur c whkh his prescience pre-science foresaw Fuller sjwke of tho PanAmerican Congress anti the lasting form of urirovininunt ittt closed l willi a lil t rilliant ivruradun retlicung a grand future for this nation Rev W H Milliurn the IIiu c ChaplaIn delivered thelieiiedictlon anti whilethe Marine Band pbyitl itrsed atioual air the n assemblage dIn |