Chapter XVIII: Part 18

As the presidential carriage turned into Jackson Street at half-past 1 o'clock nearly 10,000 school children welcomed the Chief Magistrate with a fusillade of bouquets. The crowd was so great the President was unable to reach the reviewing stand, where Mr. Wanamaker awaited him. Making the best of the situation, Mayor Chapman arose in the carriage and formally welcomed the President on behalf of the citizens.

President Harrison, speaking from the same carriage, responded as follows:

_Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--I am glad to meet you all, and
I assure you I appreciate this magnificent demonstration. I must
congratulate you upon your fine institutions, and particularly your
streets, which, I believe, are the best in the country. I thank you
for this reception most heartily. I regret that your enthusiasm and
the vast size of this assembly has somewhat disconcerted the programme
marked out, but I can speak as well from here as from the stand, which
seems to be inaccessible. I return my sincere thanks for your welcome
and express the interest and gratification I have felt this morning
in riding through some of the streets of your beautiful city. I thank
you most sincerely for your friendliness and bid you good-by. [Great
cheering.]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.

_Union League Reception._

Immediately on returning from his arduous trip to Sacramento and Oakland the President attended a reception in his honor tendered by members of the Union League at their club-house. The affair was one of the most notable of any in which the presidential guests participated during their visit to the golden West, and was conducted under the direction of the following committee: A. E. Castle, Joseph S. Spear, Jr., F. S. Chadbourne, W. H. Chamberlain, T. H. Minor, J. H. Hegler, Frank J. French, J. T. Giesting, William Macdonald, J. S. Mumaugh, R. D. Laidlaw, S. K. Thornton, W. D. Sanborn, Joseph Simonson, J. M. Litchfield, and L. H. Clement.

The President entered upon the arm of Wendell Easton, President of the Union League Club, followed by the first lady of the land, escorted by Governor Markham. The Reception Committee comprised: Senator Stanford, General Dimond, M. H. de Young, Judge Estee, I. C. Stump, W. C. Van Fleet, C. J. Bandmann, W. E. Dargie, N. P. Chipman, Lewis Gerstle, F. A. Vail, Col. W. R. Shafter, Mrs. Leland Stanford, Mrs. R. D. Laidlaw, Mrs. W. H. Chamberlain, Mrs. Joseph S. Spear, Jr., Mrs. W. W. Morrow, Mrs. F. L. Castle, Mrs. M. H. de Young, Mrs. N. P. Chipman, Mrs. C. J. Bandmann, Miss Emma Spreckels, Miss Thornton, Mrs. Wendell Easton, Mrs. S. W. Backus, Mrs. G. H. Sanderson, Mrs. W. E. Dargie, Miss Stump, Miss Reed, and others prominent in society.

After the long and brilliant column had passed before the presidential line Samuel M. Shortridge stepped before the President and in an eloquent address in behalf of the Union League Club presented him with a fac-simile, in gold, of the invitation issued to the reception.

General Harrison, in accepting the beautiful souvenir, said:

California is full of ambuscades, not of a hostile sort, but with
all embarrassments that attend surprise. In a hasty drive this
afternoon, when I thought I was to visit Oakland, I was suddenly
drawn up in front of a college and asked to make an address, and in a
moment afterward before an asylum for the deaf, dumb, and blind, the
character of which I did not know until the carriage stopped in front
of it. All this taxes the ingenuity as your kindness moves the heart
of one who is making a hurried journey through California. I do not
need such souvenirs as this to keep fresh in my heart this visit to
your State. It will be pleasant, however, to show to others who have
not participated in this enjoyment the record of a trip that has been
very eventful and one of perpetual sunshine and happiness. I do not
think I could have endured the labor and toil of travel unless I had
been borne up by the inspiriting and hearty good-will of your people.
I do not know what collapse is in store for me when it is withdrawn.
I fear I shall need a vigorous tonic to keep up to the high level of
enjoyment and inspiration which your kind treatment has given me. I
thank you for this pleasant social enjoyment and this souvenir of it.
[Applause.]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 3.

_Farewell._

Sunday evening the President and his party, after passing a restful day at the Palace Hotel, quietly took their leave of San Francisco and repaired to their palatial train. Mayor Sanderson and his secretary, Mr. Steppacher, Col. Charles F. Crocker and Colonel Andrews, of the Reception Committee, escorted the party to their train. The President personally thanked these gentlemen for their kind and unremitting attentions during their visit. Shortly before the train resumed its long journey, at a quarter past midnight, the President gave out the following card of thanks to the people of California:

I desire, for myself and for the ladies of our party, to give
an expression of our thanks for many individual acts of courtesy,
which, but for the pressure upon our time, would have been specially
acknowledged. Friends who have been so kind will not, I am sure,
impute to us any lack of appreciation or intended neglect. The very
excess of their kindness has made any adequate, and much more, any
particular, return impossible. You will all believe that there has
been no purposed neglect of any locality or individual. We leave you
with all good wishes for the State of California and all her people.

BENJ. HARRISON.

RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.

Monday morning, May 4, found the presidential train rolling through Northern California. A short stop was made at Tehama, where the President shook hands with the crowd in the rain. Red Bluff, the county seat of Tehama County, was reached at 8:30 o'clock, and several thousand people greeted the President, among them D. D. Dodson and Capt. J. T. Matlock, the latter an old army friend who served in General Harrison's regiment.

On being presented to the assemblage by his former comrade the President spoke as follows:

_My Friends_--It is very pleasant to meet here an old comrade of
the Seventieth Indiana Volunteers. Your fellow citizen, Captain
Matlock, who has spoken for you, commanded one of the companies of my
regiment, and is, therefore, a very old and very dear friend. Once
before in California I had a like surprise. The other day a glee club
began to sing a song that was familiar to me, and I said to those
standing about me. "Why, that song was written by a lieutenant in my
old regiment, and I have not heard it since the war." Presently the
leader of the glee club turned his face toward me and I found he was
the identical lieutenant and the composer of the song, singing it
for my benefit. All along I have met old Indiana acquaintances, and
I am glad to see them, whether they were of my old command or from
other regiments of the great war. They all seem to be prosperous and
happy. Captain Matlock was about the same size during the war that he
is now. I very well remember, according to his own account, that at
Resaca he undertook to make a breastwork of some "down timber," but he
found, after looking about, that it was insufficient cover, and took a
standing tree. [Laughter.]

Seriously, my friends, you have a most beautiful State, capable of
promoting the comfort of your citizens in a very high degree, and
although already occupying a high place in the galaxy of States, it
will, I am sure, take a much higher one. It is pleasant to see how the
American spirit prevails among all your people, the love for the flag
and the Constitution, those settled and permanent things that live
whether men go or come. They came to us from our fathers and will pass
down to our children. You are blessed with a genial climate and a most
productive soil. I see you have in this northern part of California
what I have seen elsewhere--a well-ordered community, with churches
and school-houses, which indicates that you are not giving all your
thoughts to material things, but thinking of those things that qualify
the soul for the hereafter. We have been treated to another surprise
this morning in the first shower we have seen in California. I
congratulate you that it rains here. May all blessings fall upon you,
like the gentle rain. [Cheers.]

REDDING, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.

At Redding, Shasta County, the distinguished travellers were welcomed by several hundred school children, marshalled by William Jackson. Mayor Brigman and the members of the City Council, with W. P. England, L. H. Alexander, B. F. Roberts, Mrs. E. A. Reid, and other prominent residents, participated in the reception. Judge C. C. Bush, through whose exertions the visit was secured, delivered an address of welcome and introduced the President, who spoke as follows:

_My Fellow-citizens_--It is very pleasant, as we near the northern
line of California, after having traversed the valleys of the
south, and are soon to leave the State in which we have had so much
pleasurable intercourse with its people, to see here, as I have seen
elsewhere, multitudes of contented, prosperous, and happy people. I
am assured you are here a homogeneous people, all Americans, all by
birth or by free choice lovers of one flag and one Constitution. It
seems to me as I look into the faces of these California audiences
that life must be easier here than it is in the old States. I see
absolutely no evidences of want. Every one seems to be well nourished.
Your appearance gives evidence that the family board is well supplied,
and from the gladness on your faces it is evident that in your social
relations everything is quiet, orderly, and hopeful. I thank you
for your friendly demonstrations. I wish it were possible for me to
do more in exchange for all your great kindness than simply to say
thank you; but I do profoundly thank you, and shall carry away from
your State the very happiest impressions and very pleasant memories.
[Cheers.]

SISSON, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.

A brief stop was made at Dunsmuir, where the President shook hands with and thanked the people for their greeting, remarking that he was glad to find that even on the hilltops of California they found something profitable to do.

Sisson, at the foot of Mount Shasta, was reached at 3 o'clock; it was the last stopping-point in California, and the entire population turned out in honor of the visitors. The Committee of Reception was Asa Persons, Hugh B. Andrews, Oliver E. Moors, T. J. Sullivan, Frank B. Moors, and the veterans of Mount Shasta Post, G. A. R.

President Harrison, addressing the assemblage, said:

_My Friends_--I have been talking now over a trip of 6,000 miles and
feel pretty well talked out; but I can always say, as I say to you
now, that it is ever a very great pleasure to me to see these kindly
faces turned toward me. We have received in South California, in their
orange groves, a very hearty welcome, and it is very pleasant to come
now to this fine scenery among these snow-capped mountains. I have no
doubt that you find here in this high altitude an inspiration for all
good things. I thank you again for your cordial greeting.

ASHLAND, OREGON, MAY 4.

The first stop in Oregon was at Ashland, at 8 P.M., in a drizzling rain. An escort committee from the Oregon Legislature and the Portland Board of Trade, headed by Hon. Joseph Simon, President of the Senate, met the Chief Executive at this point. The local Reception Committee comprised Mayor G. M. Grainger, Hon. J. M. McCall, D. R. Mills, Dr. J. Hall, and Col. J. T. Bowditch, Judge Advocate General O. N. G.

Responding to the greeting of the Legislative Committee the President said:

_Mr. Simon and Gentlemen of the Committee_--I esteem it an honor
that the Legislature of the State of Oregon has taken this notice of
my visit, and I receive with pleasure this welcome you have extended
to me. I am very glad to greet you, and it will give me pleasure to
see you further before leaving the State.

The President then appeared on the platform, and was presented to the citizens by the Mayor, and spoke briefly, saying:

_My Friends_--This cordial welcome, under the infelicitous
circumstances, is very gratifying to us as we enter the great State of
Oregon. In the State of California we had sunshine, and it was perhaps
to be expected that the favorable weather conditions should draw about
our platform a large concourse of people, but you have evidenced your
interest in the Government and the flag and your friendly interest
in us by turning out on this inclement night to bid us welcome to
your State. I thank you most sincerely, and wish for you and yours
all good, and for your State a continued career of development and
prosperity.

MEDFORD, OREGON, MAY 4.

The President's visit to Medford at 10 P.M. was acknowledged by a general illumination. The veterans of Chester A. Arthur Post, G. A. R., J. R. Erford, Commander, and J. H. Faris, Adjutant, were out _en masse_. Mayor G. W. Howard made a brief address and introduced the President, who said:

_Comrades and Fellow-citizens_--It gives me great pleasure to see
you to-night, especially these old comrades, to whom I am glad to
give a comrade's greeting. I would have you think of me as a comrade.
I recall those army scenes which are fresh in your minds as well as
mine, the scenes of privation, suffering, and battle, and I am glad to
see that the old flag you took to the field and brought home in honor
is still held in honor among you. It is a beautiful emblem of a great
Government. We ought to teach our children to love it and to regard
it as a sacred thing, a thing for which men have died and for which
men will die. It symbolizes the government of the States under one
Constitution, for while you are all Oregonians as I am an Indianian,
and each has his pride in State institutions and all that properly
pertains to our State Government, we have a larger and greater pride
in the fact that we are citizens of a Nation, of a Union of States,
having a common Constitution. [Cheers.]

It is this flag that represents us on the sea and in foreign
countries, it is under this flag that our navies sail and our armies
march. I thank you for this cordial greeting. I hope you have found
in this State comfortable homes, and that in the years that remain to
you God will follow you with those blessings which your courage and
patriotism and sacrifices have so well merited. [Cheers.]

ALBANY, OREGON, MAY 5.

The presidential party arrived at the thriving city of Albany, in the Willamette Valley, at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 5th, and were received by 5,000 people. Mayor J. L. Cowan headed the Committee of Reception, consisting of J. W. Cusick, Judge L. Flinn, W. C. Tweedale, J. R. Whitney, L. E. Blain, M. Sternberg, G. F. Simpson, Dr. D. M. Jones, A. Hackleman, and Thomas Monteith. McPherson Post, G. A. R., J. F. Whiting, Commander, and Company F, O. N. G., Capt. Geo. E. Chamberlain, together with 200 students from the State Agricultural College at Corvallis, under Prof. J. D. Letcher, participated in the reception. Mayor Cowan delivered the address of welcome.

President Harrison, in response, said:

_My Fellow-citizens_--It gives me great pleasure to see you, and
to have the testimony of your presence here this wet morning to the
interest you take in this little party of strangers who are pausing
only for a moment with you. We do not need any assurance, as we
look over an American audience like this, that upon some things,
at least, we are of one mind. One of these things is that we have a
Union indissoluble; that we have a flag we all honor, and that shall
suffer no dishonor from any quarter. While I regret the inclemency of
the morning, I have been thinking that after all there was a sort of
instructive moral force in the uncertainty of the weather, which our
friends in Southern California do not enjoy. How can a boy or young
woman be well trained in self-denial and resignation who does not
know what it is to have a picnic or picnic dress spoiled by a shower,
or some fishing excursion by a storm? I thank you for this welcome.
[Cheers.]

SALEM, OREGON, MAY 5.

Salem, the capital of Oregon, was reached at 9 A.M. The local militia and several thousand citizens assembled to greet the President, including Governor Pennoyer, Mayor P. H. D'Arcy, Charles Morris, E. M. Waite, A. N. Gilbert, William Brown, and other prominent citizens; also, the Legislative Reception Committee, headed by Hon. Joseph Simon, President of the Senate, and Hon. T. T. Geer, Speaker of the House. _En route_ from the depot to the State House thousands of people lined the sidewalks and several hundred school children, bearing flags, waved a cordial greeting. Arriving at the Assembly Chamber, Mayor D'Arcy presided and welcomed the President in the name of the city; he was followed by Governor Pennoyer, who extended "a generous, heartfelt welcome on behalf of the people of Oregon."

With marked earnestness President Harrison responded as follows:

_Governor Pennoyer, Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--It is very
pleasant to be assured by these kindly words which have been spoken
by the Governor of this State and by the chief officer of this
municipality that we are welcome to the State of Oregon and to the
city of Salem. I find here, as I found elsewhere, that these cordial
words of welcome are repeated with increased emphasis by the kindly
faces of those who assemble to greet us. I am glad that here as
elsewhere we look into the faces of happy, prosperous, contented,
liberty-loving, patriotic American citizens. Our birthright, the
wise anticipation of those who framed our Government, our national
and constitutional organization, which has repeated itself in all
the States of the Union, this wholesome and just division of power
between the three great independent, co-ordinate branches of the
Government--the executive, the legislative, and the judicial--has
already demonstrated that what seems to the nations of Europe to be
a complicated and jangling system produces in fact the most perfect
harmony, and the most complete and satisfactory organization for
social order and for national strength.

We stand here to-day in one of these halls set apart to the
law-making body of your State. Those who assemble here are chosen by
your suffrages. They come here as representatives to enact into laws
those views of public questions which have met the sanction of the
majority of your people, expressed in an orderly and honest way at
the ballot-box. I hope it may be always found to be true of Oregon
that your legislative body is a representative body; that coming
from the people, its service is consecrated to the people, and the
purpose of its creation is attained by giving to the well-ordered
and well-disposed the largest liberty, by curbing, by wholesome
laws, the ill-disposed and the lawless, and providing by economical
methods for the public needs. The judiciary, that comes next in our
system, to interpret and apply the public statutes, has been in our
country a safe refuge for all who are oppressed. It is greatly to our
credit as a Nation that with rare exceptions those who have worn the
judicial ermine in the highest tribunals of the country, and notably
in the Supreme Court of the United States, have continued to retain
the confidence of the people of the whole country. The duty of the
Executive is to administer the law; the military power is lodged with
him under constitutional limitations. He does not frame statutes,
though in most States, and under our national Government, a veto
power is lodged in him with a view to secure reconsideration of any
particular measure.

But a public executive officer has one plain duty: it is to enforce
the law with kindness and forbearance, but with promptness and
inexorable decision. He may not choose what laws he will enforce any
more than the citizen may choose what laws he will obey. We have here
but one king: it is the law, passed by those constitutional methods
which are necessary to make it binding upon the people, and to that
king all men must bow. It is my great pleasure to find so generally
everywhere a disposition to obey the law. I have but one message for
the North and for the South, for the East and the West, as I journey
through this land. It is to hold up the law, and to say everywhere
that every man owes allegiance to it, and that all law-breakers
must be left to the deliberate and safe judgment of an established
tribunal. You are justly proud of your great State. Its capabilities
are enormous; its adaptation to comfortable life is peculiar and fine.
The years will bring you increased population and increased wealth.
I hope they will bring with it, marching in this stately progress of
material things, those finer things--piety, pure homes, and orderly
communities. But above all this State pride, over all our rejoicings
in the advantages which are about us in our respective States, we look
with greater pride to that great arch of government that unites these
States and makes of them all one great Union. But, my fellow-citizens,
the difficulties that I see interposed between us and the train which
is scheduled to depart very soon warn me to bring these remarks
to a speedy close. I beg again, most profoundly, to thank you for
this evidence of your respect, this evidence of your love for the
institutions of our common country. [Cheers.]

CHEMAWA, OREGON, MAY 5.

At Chemawa, the seat of an Indian training-school, the President reviewed the pupils and, in response to calls for a speech, addressed them as follows:

_My Young Friends_--It gives me great pleasure to stop for a moment
to see these evidences of the good work the Government is doing for
you and the good work you are doing for yourselves. All the purposes
of the Government toward you and your people are benevolent and
friendly. It is our wish that you may become such people as your
neighbors are--industrious, kindly, peaceful, and self-respecting.
Everything that I can do to promote this end will be gladly done.
I hope your instructors and all those who are brought close to you
will in every way express and carry out the benevolent and kindly
intentions of the Government.

OREGON CITY, OREGON, MAY 5.

A cordial greeting was accorded the President at Oregon City by the pioneers and army veterans. The Committee of Reception was Hon. J. T. Apperson, Hon. H. E. Cross, Hon. T. W. Sullivan, and T. Rands. From beneath a triumphal floral arch near the station the Mayor delivered a welcoming address, closing with three cheers.

The President, in response, said:

_Fellow-citizens_--This is a very pleasant morning reception. The
heartiness and genuineness of your greeting is unmistakable, and I
beg to assure you that we most heartily appreciate and return your
kindly thoughts. You have here a most important State, one of those
bordering on the Pacific, completing the autonomy of our great
country, and giving us a seaboard on the Pacific as well as upon the
Atlantic which was essential to our completeness and separateness as
a people. The interesting story of the early settlement of Oregon, of
the international contest which for some time threatened international
war, is fresh in the minds of these pioneers, and I am sure is taught
to these children of your public schools. The work of those who set up
the American flag here, and who secured to us this fertile region, is
worthy of mention and of honorable commemoration by this generation,
which is entering into their labors. Your State has added another
to that succession of kindly greetings which began when we left the
national capital. We have come out of the land of irrigation and
roses into this land where the Lord takes care of the crops; and this
dependence upon the seasons is not without its instructive and moral
influences. Nature seems to have made a fresh, white toilet for us as
we have come down the banks of this beautiful river. To the pioneers,
to those who have entered in with less labor to the inheritance left
to them, to these children and to these comrades of the Grand Army, I
give my most hearty greeting.

PORTLAND, OREGON, MAY 5.

Tuesday, at noon, found the President and his party at Portland, where they received an enthusiastic greeting. Ten thousand people were present, notwithstanding the rainy weather. The President was welcomed at the station by Mayor Van B. De Lashmutt and wife, Chief-Justice R. S. Strahan, Supreme Judges W. P. Lord and R. S. Bean, Federal Judge M. P. Deady, Hon. Joseph Simon, President of the Senate; Hon. T. T. Geer, Speaker of the House; ex-Atty.-Gen. Geo. H. Williams, Hon. T. F. Osborn, President Chamber of Commerce; Hon. E. B. McElroy, Gen. O. Summers, Gen. Wm. Kapus, Hon. M. C. George, Hon. Henry Failing, Hon. C. A. Dolph, Hon. P. L. Willis, Hon. F. V. Drake, Hon. G. L. Story, Hon. J. C. Moreland, Hon. J. C. Fullerton, Hon. H. B. Miller, Philip Metschan, and Mrs. Rosa F. Burrell; also W. F. Matlock, J. H. McClung, and S. B. Eakin, Jr., of Eugene City.

The parade was a brilliant affair. The veterans of the several G. A. R. posts acted as the guard of honor. The great column was directed by Col. T. M. Anderson, U. S. A., aided by O. F. Paxton, Chief of Staff; C. M. Idleman, D. S. Tuthill, Dr. Henry E. Jones, J. G. Woodworth, R. W. Mitchell, F. K. Arnold, L. A. Lewis, E. C. Michenor, C. R. Holcomb, Charles E. Dodd, J. C. Courtney, J. A. Sladden, John Gwilt, G. A. Harding, Gen. C. S. Wright, Gen. C. P. Holloway, Col. R. S. Greenleaf, Col. D. H. Turner, N. S. Pierce, G. E. Caukin, A. E. Borthwick, Col. H. H. Northup, Col. R. T. Chamberlain, G. H. Durham, H. C. Allen, E. A. Weed, M. J. Morse, Geo. C. Sears, F. R. Neal, Dr. W. H. Saylor, Capt. J. E. Lombard, C. E. Dubois, H. P. Wilson, and M. G. Steffen.

Conspicuous in the procession were the following staff officers of the Department of the Columbia: Maj. C. A. Wikoff, Maj. W. H. Nash, Maj. J. C. Muhlenberg, Maj. J. G. C. Lee, and Captains C. McClure and C. H. Ingalls; also Hon. R. P. Earhart, Geo. A. Steel, F. P. Mays, E. T. Hatch, J. T. Stewart, Mayor of East Portland; D. M. McLauchlin, Mayor of Albina; A. M. Crawford, of Roseburg, and the French, Russian, and Danish vice-consuls.

In the evening five companies of the First Regiment, O. N. G., commanded by Col. Charles F. Beebe, escorted the President, Secretary Rusk, and Postmaster-General Wanamaker to the Exposition Building, where an audience of 15,000 greeted them. Mayor De Lashmutt delivered an eloquent address of welcome.

President Harrison was tendered an ovation as he arose to respond. He said:

_Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--No more brilliant or inspiring
scene than this has been presented to our eyes in this wonderful
series of receptions which have been extended to us on our journey.
You have been filled with regret to-day that your weeping skies did
not present to us the fair spectacle which you had hoped; and yet this
very discouragement has but added to the glory of this magnificent
reception. [Cheers.] To stand in the bright sunshine of a genial day
and to wave a welcome is not so strong a proof of the affectionate
interest of a people as you have given to-day standing in this
down-pouring rain [Cheers.] In the presence of a multitude like this,
in a scene made brilliant by these decorations, I stand inadequate to
any suitable expression of the gratitude that fills my heart. [Cheers.]

I was quite inclined to stand by the Superintendent of the Census
in the count which he made of the States; but I am afraid if I had
witnessed this scene, pending your application for a recount, that it
would have been granted. [Laughter and great cheering.] I am sorry
that it could not have been made as the people turned out to give us
this welcome; I am sure no one would have been missed. [Laughter and
cheers.]

This State is interesting in its history. The establishment of the
authority of the United States over this region was an important event
in our national history. The possession of the Columbia and of Puget
Sound was essential to the completeness and the roundness of our
empire. We have here in this belt of States, reaching from the Gulf
of California to the Straits of Fuca, a magnificent possession which
we could not have dispensed with at all. [Cheers.] The remoteness
of Oregon from the older settled States, the peril and privation
which attended the steps of the pioneer as he came hither, delayed
the development of this great country. You are now but beginning to
realize the advantage of closer and easier communications. You are but
now beginning to receive from an impartial and beneficent Government
that attention which you well deserve. [Cheers.]

That this river of yours should be made safe and deep, so that
waiting commerce may come without obstruction to your wharf, is to be
desired. [Cheers.] It should receive those appropriations which are
necessary to make the work accomplish the purpose in view. [Cheers.] I
believe that you may anticipate a largely increased commerce. Looking
out as you do toward the regions across the Pacific, it would be but
natural that this important centre should draw from them and exchange
with them a great and increasing commerce. [Cheers.] I am in entire
sympathy with the suggestion of the Mayor that it is important that
this commerce should be carried in American ships. [Cheers.] A few
days ago, when I sailed in the harbor of San Francisco, I saw three
great deep water ships come into that port. One carried the flag of
Hawaii and two the English flag. None bore at the masthead the Stars
and Stripes. I believe it is the duty of the national Government
to take such steps as will restore the American merchant marine.
[Cheers.] Why shall we not have our share in the great commerce of
the world? I cannot but believe--and such inspiring presences as this
but kindle and confirm my belief--that we are come to a time when
this Nation should look to the future and step forward bravely and
courageously in new lines of enterprise. [Cheers.]

The Nicaragua Canal should be completed. [Cheers.] Our harbors
should have adequate defence. [Cheers.] We should have upon the sea a
navy of first-class ships. [Cheers.] We are here in the most kindly
relations to these South American and Central American countries. We
have been content that Europe should do the commerce of these nations.
We have not availed ourselves of the advantages of neighborhood
and of friendly kindred republican institutions to develop our
commerce with those people. We have, fortunately, as a result of the
great conference of American nations, set on foot measures that I
confidently hope will bring to us speedily our just share of this
great commerce. [Cheers.]

I am glad to know that we are here to-night as American citizens,
lovers of the one flag and the one Constitution. [Enthusiastic
cheering.] Proud of Oregon! Yes, you may well be proud of Oregon.
But, my countrymen, above all, crowning all, greater than all, is our
American citizenship. [Great cheering.] What would one of these States
be without the other? What is it that gives us prestige abroad and
power at home? It is that we have formed a government of the people,
that we have one flag and speak with one voice to all the nations
of the earth. [Enthusiastic cheering.] I hope that narrow sentiment
that regards the authority of the United States or its officers as
alien or strange has once and forever been extinguished in this land
of ours. [Great cheering.] My countrymen, I am profoundly grateful
for this magnificent demonstration. I accept it as a tribute to your
institutions and to your country. No man is worthy of it; he can
only return for it a fresh consecration of himself to the duties of
public office and private citizenship. [Great cheering.] Again I
assure you that you have given us to-day what is to my mind, under the
conditions, taking into account the population of your city, the most
splendid demonstration we have seen on the whole journey. [Prolonged
and enthusiastic cheering.]

At the conclusion of the President's address the great assemblage began calling for Postmaster-General Wanamaker. After a few moments' hesitation the distinguished Philadelphian came forward and was the recipient of an ovation. He said:

_Fellow-countrymen_--I am proud to be present at this magnificent
demonstration. I am especially pleased at the address the President
has delivered. Instead of having it printed for Congress he has
reserved it for the people of Oregon, and personally brought you his
message. [Cheers.] What you have done to-day has certainly touched
his heart; and no man would be human who did not feel moved at this
wonderful welcome that you have prepared for your President. I think
you had him in mind all the time, and wanted to show that your loyalty
and affection would wash. [Laughter and cheers.]

I am proud to be an American citizen, and to see how the people
rally round the flag and the chief standard-bearer, the President of
the United States. [Cheers.] From the day he started from home his
pathway has been strewn with garlands, and many times our way has lain
through a path knee-deep with flowers. They have been scattered all
the way from Virginia to Oregon; but above all is the hearty, loving,
loyal welcome that has been extended to us at every stop we have made.
On the boundary of your State, at the little town of Salem [laughter],
I think, a welcome was spoken most beautifully and heartily by your
Governor. [Tremendous cheering.] But you have about 60,000 majority
over Salem. [Cheers.]

How can any one thank you for it except to go back to Washington and
do the very best in his power for your good and the good of the whole
people? Some of us Eastern people are doing now what Columbus did 400
years ago--we are discovering America. [Cheers.] If what you have done
for us here to-night and what you have done to-day is a true index to
your energy and determination, what is there you will not grasp and do
when you get at it? [Cheers.] I am sure you will find one opportunity
in aiding in the postal telegraph. We are going to have penny postage
all the country over. [Cheers.] But before that time comes let us go
out into the new States as the villages and hamlets build up and let
us give them the mail with the freest intercourse and the fullest
facility. I will now make way for the next man, for the largest
Secretary of all is still to come. [Cheers and laughter.]

Secretary Rusk also received a hearty welcome. His remarks about the Weather Bureau had a peculiar zest because of the presence of Gen. A. W. Greely, chief signal officer. He said:

_Ladies and Gentlemen_--It is with great pleasure that I meet you
here to-night. I would not have a heart if I did not say that I have
been touched by this demonstration and the demonstration on your
streets to-day. [Cheers.] I account for this in a different way from
those who have preceded me. I saw on your streets to-day more ladies
than I saw in any city which we have visited since we left Washington.
And the beautiful children! While we have had more flowers in other
States, we have not met more beautiful women and lovely children. I
tell you, in order to raise anything sweetly and beautifully you must
have rain. [Cheers.] Congress has passed a law providing that the
Weather Bureau be turned over to me July 1, and if I can control the
weather and another President comes here I will see that you have a
flood. [Cheers and laughter.] I will endeavor, however, after July 1
to give you thirteen months' rain every year. I have been touched to
the heart in many ways since I came to your beautiful city. I have
met friends who were my boyhood's friends away back in Wisconsin, and
comrades who served with me in battle and in camp. [Cheers.] I would
fail to do my duty if I did not say that I am glad to see you all.
God bless them and may the future deal kindly with you all. [Great
cheering.]

CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.

Early on the morning of the 6th the presidential train crossed the State line and entered the new State of Washington, stopping a moment at Chehalis, and reaching Centralia at 7 o'clock. Here the President was received with a national salute, and notwithstanding the rain several thousand people were present. Mayor D. B. Rees and the following prominent residents welcomed the Chief Magistrate: J. H. Corwin, H. J. Miller, W. H. Bachtall, H. L. Meade, Geo. Miller, E. R. Butherworth, Charles Johnson, Henry Shield, N. B. Kelsey, A. J. Wright, and Geo. H. Ellsbury.

The President said:

_My Fellow-citizens_--It is very kind of you to turn out so early
in the morning. I can count among my pleasantest experiences in the
Northwest this very early rising. I am a good deal of a Daniel Webster
as to early risings. [Laughter.] It gives me great pleasure to notice
the evidence of increased population as contrasted with what I saw
six years ago as I passed through this country. I was so unfortunate
then as to find it enveloped in smoke, so that the mountain tops were
invisible. I am afraid we are to have this experience repeated on this
visit on account of the fog. I suppose this is because the beauties
of your country are so great that they have to be shaded to the eyes
of a stranger. Seriously, however, you have a great commonwealth.
I do not doubt that your future is to be one of great development
and great increase in population, and that you are to found here a
very contented, prosperous, and happy people. Fortunately you have a
capacity for great agricultural development after you have cleared
away the forests; and that, after all, is the permanent foundation
of every American city. It is well enough to have trees on the land
and mines in the earth; but trees will be cut down and mines be dug
out, and the only thing that lasts is good soil in the hands of good
husbandmen. I thank you most sincerely. [Cheers.]

TACOMA, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.

Ten thousand cheers greeted the arrival of the President at Tacoma Wednesday morning. Gov. Elisha P. Ferry, Mayor Geo. B. Kandle, and Judge Wm. H. Calkins, at the head of the following Committee of Reception, met the party: Gen. John W. Sprague, Samuel Collyer, Colonel Garretson, Judge Allyn, Hon. M. Hill, Mrs. Frank Allyn, W. D. Tyler, Mrs. Derrickson, Thomas Carroll, Dr. Munson, Judge John Beverly, Judge Applegate, H. C. Wallace, Senator John B. Allen and wife, Mrs. Galusha Parsons, Charles Hale, George Reed, Charles Catlin, S. C. Slaughter, Thomas Sloane, L. E. Post, Nelson Bennett, F. F. Jacobs, I. W. Anderson, A. C. Mason, C. W. Griggs, G. W. Holmes, E. M. Hunt, John D. Hills, L. R. Manning, Hon. Thomas Carroll, Col. Charles Reichenbach, Atty.-Gen. Jones, State Treasurer Lindsley, J. D. Hogue, C. B. Zabriskie, and Fred T. Taylor.

The decorations were upon an elaborate scale. Chief among the attractions of this order were five mammoth arches spanning Pacific Avenue, constructed from products typifying the principal industries of the State, to wit: the timber arch, coal arch, iron arch, grain arch, and shingle arch. Notwithstanding the rain the parade, under Chief Marshal C. W. Griggs, was a brilliant success.

A noteworthy incident was the special reception tendered to Mrs. Harrison and the other ladies of the presidential party by the ladies of Tacoma at the Opera House. Fully 5,000 paid their respects. Mrs. S. C. Slaughter, on behalf of the ladies of Tacoma, presented to Mrs. Harrison a beautiful painting of Mt. Tacoma by the artist Rollins. Accompanying the picture was an illustrated copy of Mrs. Bernice E. Wewell's poem on "Mt. Tacoma," also a gold engraved spoon, the latter for the President's grandson. In acknowledging the receipt of these souvenirs Mrs. Harrison made perhaps her first public speech on the trip. She said:

_Ladies_--I cannot thank you enough for all your kindness. I shall
take your gifts home and treasure them all my life as mementos of a
most enjoyable visit to your beautiful city. [Applause.]

After the review of the procession Governor Ferry, in the presence of many thousands, formally welcomed President Harrison to the State of Washington. The distinguished veteran General Sprague made the address on behalf of the citizens of Tacoma.

The President responded as follows:

_My Fellow-citizens_--I feel that it would be cruel to prolong
this exposure which you are enduring in the inclement weather of the
day. I visited your city and the region of Puget Sound six years
ago. I found this country then enveloped in smoke, so that these
grand mountain-tops, of which mention has been made in the address
of welcome, were hidden from our view. I come again and the smoke is
replaced by fog, and we are still, I suppose, to take the existence of
these snow-clad peaks on faith. [Laughter and applause.] I don't know
but there is a benevolent provision for your comfort in the fact that
this magnificent scenery, this unmatched body of water are frequently
hidden from the eye of the traveller. If every one who journeys hither
could see it all everybody would want to live here, and there wouldn't
be room. [Laughter and cheers.] I congratulate you, citizens of
Tacoma, upon the magnificent, almost magical, transformation which has
been wrought here in these six years since I first saw your city. It
has been amazing: it is a tribute to the energy and the enterprise and
courage of your people that will endure and increase and attract in a
yet higher degree the attention of the whole country.

A harbor like this, so safe and commodious and deep, upon Puget
Sound, should be made to bear a commerce that is but yet in its
infancy. I would like to see the prows of some of these great
steamship lines entering your ports and carrying the American flag
at the masthead. [Cheers.] I believe we have come to the time in our
development as a people when we must step forward with bold progress,
or we will lose the advantage we have already attained. We have within
ourselves the resources, and a market of which the world is envious.
We have been content, in the years gone by, to allow other nations
to do the carrying trade of the world. We have been content to see
the markets of these American republics lying south of us mastered
and controlled by European nations. I think the period of discontent
with these things has now come to our people, and I believe the time
is auspicious for the enlargement of our commerce with these friendly
republics lying to the south of us. I believe the time is propitious
for re-establishing upon the sea the American merchant marine, that
shall do its share of the carrying trade of the world. [Applause.]

My friends, I desire to again express to you my regret that to give
us this magnificent welcome, under circumstances so inauspicious, you
have been exposed to so much wet. I especially regretted, as I passed
those long lines of dear school children, that they should have been
exposed in order to do us honor. I will not detain you longer. For
your city, for this magnificent young State that we have received
into the great sisterhood of the Union, of which you are a glorious
part, we give our aspirations, our prayers, and our best endeavors.
[Applause.]

_On Steamer "City of Seattle," Puget Sound._

At 11:30 A.M. the President and his party left Tacoma, embarking on the steamer _City of Seattle_ for the Queen City of the Northwest. There was a great outpouring at Tacoma to witness the departure, and the presidential convoy was escorted down the sound by all the steamers in the bay. As the President came aboard he was met by Mayor and Mrs. Harry White at the head of the following committee of prominent citizens of Seattle: Jacob Furth, John H. McGraw, A. W. Bash, Postmaster Griffith Davies, A. M. Brookes, A. A. Denny, L. S. J. Hunt, W. E. Bailey, F. J. Grant, President and Mrs. G. W. Hall, President and Mrs. R. W. Jones, Maj. J. R. Hayden, Mr. and Mrs. E. Brainerd, Mrs. George H. Heilbron, Mrs. J. C. Haines, Mrs. R. C. Washburn, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Holman, Mrs. E. L. Terry, Mrs. J. F. McNaught, Mrs. A. B. Stewart, Mrs. James A. Panting, Mrs. H. F. Jackson and daughter, Mrs. Charles F. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bentley, Miss Ina Jameson, Miss Annie Longfellow, Miss Millie Longfellow, Walter F. Cushing, Col. G. G. Lyon, Dr. Young, D. B. Ward, Colonel Langley, J. T. Ronald, John Wiley, C. M. Ogden, Colonel Street, Judge Roger S. Greene, Mr. John Collins, Capt. W. A. Snyder, ex-Atty.-Gen. J. B. Metcalfe, Lieut. A. B. Wyckoff, and Dr. Whyte Fredrick.

When the convoy and her noisy consorts had passed out of Commencement Bay and entered Puget Sound the Reception Committee assembled on deck, and Mayor White in an address cordially welcomed the President, who, in response, said:

_Mr. Mayor_--I accept with great gratification these words of
welcome on behalf of the citizens of Seattle. It will give me great
pleasure to contrast my observations of your State in 1885 with what
I shall see to-day. I have not lost track of the progress of Seattle,
but have, through friends, been advised of the marvellous development
which you have made, and how you have repeated in the substantial
character of your edifices the story of the Chicago fire, coming as
you have out of what seemed a disaster with increased magnificence,
and finding in it really an advantage. I will defer until I am in the
presence of your people any further acknowledgment of your courtesies,
and will now only thank you, as you are repeating here what we have
observed on our whole trip, namely, the unification of all our people
and the absolute oneness of sentiment in devotion to our institutions
and the flag.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.

The steamer bearing the presidential party, followed by a great flotilla that had come out to greet them, arrived at Seattle at 1:30 P.M., and fully 40,000 people witnessed the disembarking. The city was profusely decorated. On Pioneer Place stood a triumphal arch bearing the ensigns of all nations. Ranged at its entrance were the Sons of Veterans in uniform and 75 school-girls. As the President's carriage entered the great arch the choir-girls greeted him with a song of welcome, composed for the occasion by Prof. L. A. Darling. Near the arch, on a platform, sat the shrivelled form of Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle, the last of the race of royal barbarians who once ruled in the bays and forests of the sound. She was an object of great interest to the President and his party. After visiting Lake Washington on the cable cars the President was escorted to the University campus by Stevens, Miller, and Cushing posts, G. A. R., M. M. Holmes and J. St. Clair, commanders. Thirty thousand people were assembled on the campus; officials were present from every part of the State, also from British Columbia. Opposite the speakers' stand were 2,000 school children, each waving a flag. Governor Ferry, Senator John B. Allen, Hon. John H. McGraw, Jacob Furth, and numerous other prominent men were on the platform with the President, Secretary Rusk, and Mr. Wanamaker. Rev. G. A. Tewksbury pronounced the invocation. Judge Thomas Burke then delivered the welcoming address on behalf of the citizens.

President Harrison replied:

_Judge Burke and Fellow-citizens_--I am sure you have too much
kindness in your heart to ask me to make an address to you this
afternoon. This chilly air, this drizzling rain, the long exposure
during the day which you and these precious children have suffered,
warn me, on your account as well as my own, that I should say but a
few words in recognition of this magnificent welcome. Six years ago
I visited your beautiful city, and the distinguished gentleman who
has been your spokesman to-day was one of a hospitable committee that
pointed out to me the beauties of this location. You were then largely
a prospective city. Some substantial and promising improvements
had been begun, but it was a period of expectancy rather than of
realization. I am glad to come to-day and to see how fully and
perfectly the large expectations then entertained by your enterprising
people have been realized. It is a matter of amazement to look upon
these towering substantial granite and iron structures in which the
great business of your city is transacted. That disaster, as it seemed
to you, which swept away a large portion of the business part of your
city was like the afflictions that come to the saints, a blessing in
disguise. [Cheers.] You have done what Chicago did. You have improved
the disaster by rearing structures and completing edifices that were
unthought of before. Those who were not enterprising or liberal have
been compelled to be liberal and enterprising in order that they might
realize rents for their property made vacant by fire. [Cheers.]

I fully appreciate the importance of this great body of water upon
which your city is situated. This sound, this inland sea, must be in
the future the highway, the _entrepot_, of a great commerce. I do most
sincerely believe that we are entering now upon a new development
that will put the American flag upon the seas and bring to our ports
in American bottoms a largely increased share of the commerce of
the world. [Cheers.] As I have said in other places, for one I am
thoroughly discontented with the present condition of things. We
may differ as to methods, but I believe the great patriotic heart
of our people is stirred, and that they are bent upon recovering
that share of the world's commerce which we once happily enjoyed.
Your demonstration to day under these unfavorable environments has
been most creditable to your city. We have certainly seen nothing
in a journey characterized by great demonstrations to surpass this
magnificent scene. [Cheers.] I realize what your spokesman has said,
that in all this there is a patriotic expression of the love of our
people for the flag and for the Constitution. [Cheers.] And now, my
friends, thanking you for all you have done for me, humbly confessing
my inability to repay you, pledging to you my best efforts to
promote the good of all our people, and that I will have a watchful
observation of the needs of your State, of your harbors, for defence,
improvement, and security, I bid you good by. [Cheers.]

After the President's address an effort was made to present the veterans individually, but the inclement weather forbade it. Turning to those about him President Harrison said:

I leave you very reluctantly, and I shall always be sorry that
my time was so limited here that I could not do justice to your
hospitality. [Great cheering.]

At 5 o'clock the party boarded their train, but a great crowd had assembled and called repeatedly for the President, who responded and said:

I can only thank you once more; you have given me a royal welcome,
and I carry away with me the most grateful memory of your kindness.
I was up until past midnight last night, making a speech, and had
to be up at 6 o'clock this morning to speak to some friends in
Oregon. I leave you with the best wishes for your city and the State.
[Enthusiastic cheers.]

As the President concluded there were loud calls for Postmaster-General Wanamaker, who waved his hand toward the children and said: