F 198 .W352 Copy 2 ARRANGEMENTS VOK THE IlSr A^XJaXJR A^TIOISf <>I^ THK On tlie 4tli of March, 1869. WASHINGTON: ci ( > V :•■> K N ^r k n t printing o f f i (^ k . 18 6 9. "^^ U)552 ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE Inauguration of the l^resident of the United States on the Uh of Marc h^ 1869. The doors of tlie Senate Chamber will be opened at 10 o'clock a. m. for the admission of Senators and others who by the arrangement of the Committee are entitled to admission, as follows : Ex-Presidents and Vice Presidents. The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court; the Diplomatic CorpS; Heads of Departments, ex-Membeis of either branch of Congress, and Members of Congress elect. Otticers of the Army and Navy who by name have received the thanks of Congress. Governors of States and Territories of the Union* and ex-Governors of States. Assistant Secretaries of Departments and the Assistant Postmaster General; the Assistant Attorney General and the Judge Advocate General ; the Comptrollers, Auditors, and Registers of the Treasury ; the Solicitors of the several Departments ; Treasurer, Commissioners, Judges of the Federal Courts and of the Supreme Courts of the several States. The Mayors of Washington and Georgetown and the reporters in the Senate. All of whom will be admitted at the east door of the north wing of the Capitol. Tlie families of the President, President elect. Vice President pro tern., Vice President elect, Senators, Diplomatic Corps, Heads of Departments, and Federal Judges will enter at the noyth door of the Senate wing; all othei'S will enter at the main eastern door. All the galleries, except those for the reporters and the families of the Diplomatic Corps, will be open to those holding tickets. Seats will be placed in front of the Secretary's table for the Presi- dent of the United States, the President elect, and the Committee of Arrangements. OCT 6 1908 D. orOi V J^ n! Ex-Presidents and Vice Presidents, the Chief Justice and Asso- ciate Justices of the Supreme Court will have seats on the right of the Chair. The Diplomatic Corps will occupy seats on the right of the Chair, next to the Supreme Court Heads of Departments will occupy seats on the left of the Chair. Officers of the Army and I^avy, Governors of States and Territo- ries of the Union, ex-Governors of States, Assistant Secretaries of the Departments, the Assistant Postmaster General, the Assistants Attorney General, and the Judge Advocate General, Comptrollers, Auditors, and Eegister of the Treasury, Solicitors of the several Departments, Commissioners, Treasurers, Judges, and the Mayors of Washington and Georgetovcn, will occupy seats on the right and left of the main entrance. Members of Congress and Members elect will enter the Senate Chamber by the main entrance, and will occupy seats on the left of the Chair. The rotunda shall be closed, and the passages leading thereto kept clear. The other doors and entrances to the Capitol, except those to be ' open under this arrangement, will be kept closed. At 11 o'clock the President of the United States and the President elect, each accompanied by members of the Committee of Arrange- ments, will proceed in carriages to the east door of the Senate wing of the Capitol, and, entering there, will be conducted to the rooms assigned them. The A^ice President elect* will be accompanied to the Capitol by a member of the Committee of Arrangements, and conducted to the Vice President's room, and afterwards into the Senate Chamber, w^iere the oath of office will be administered to him by the Vice President j)'i'0 tern. The Diplomatic Corps and the Justices of the Supreme Court will enter the Senate Chamber a few minutes before the President elect. The Senate will asisemble at 12 o'clock. The Senate being ready, the President of the United States and the President elect will be introduced by the Committee of Arrange- ments to the seats prepared for them in the Senate Chamber. After completing the organization of the Senate, those assembled in the chamber wnll proceed to the platform on the central portico of the Capitol in the following order : The Marshal of the Supreme Court. Ex-Presidents and ex- Vice Presidents. The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. The Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS nil I 014 369 607 8 The President elect, with members of the Committee of Airaiiffe- meiits. The President of the United States, with members of the Com- mittee of Arrangements. The Vice President and the Secretary of the Senate. The members of the Senate. The Diplomatic Corps. Ex-Members of the House of Representatives, and Members elect to the Forty-first Congress. Heads of Departments. Governors of States and Territories. Officers of the Army and Navy, and all other persons who have been admitted to the floor of the Senate. On reaching the front of the platform, the Presidentelect will take the seat provided for him ; the Sergeant-at-arras of the Senate (in charge of the ceremonies) on his right, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on his left. The President and the Committee of Arrangements will occupy a position in the rear of the President elect. Next in the rear, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court will occupy the seats on the left, and the Vice President, Secretary, and Members of the Senate those on the right. The Diplomatic Corps will occupy the seats next in the rear of the Supreme Court. Heads of Departments, Governors and ex-Governors of States and Territories, and ex-Members of the Senate, ex-Members and Members elect of the Plouse of Representatives, in the rear of the Members of the Senate. Such other persons as are included in the preceding arrangements ^^ ill occupy the steps and the residue of the portico. All being in readiness, the oath of office will be administered to the President elect by the Chief Justice ; and on the conclusion of the President's address, the members of the Senate, preceded by the Sergeant-at-arms, Vice President, and Secretary-, will return to the Senate Chamber, and the President, accompanied by the Committee of Arraiigemonts, proceed to the President's House. The Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate is charged with the execution of these arrangements. All horses and carriages will be excluded from the Capitol Square. Should the weather prove unfavorable, the ceremony cf the inau- guration will take place in the Senate Chamber. RICHARD YATES, A. H. CRAGIN, T. C. McCREERY, Committee.