Invitations to President Coolidge's inauguration were sent to the Governors of all the states. The first "regret" to be received was from Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, the only Northern state which did not give its electoral vote to Mr. Coolidge.

Emile Daeschner (see Page 1), new French Ambassador at Washington, found he could not take up residence in the French Embassy. M. Jusserand, retiring after 22 years of service, had carried away most of the furniture, which was his own. M. Daeschner went to a hotel and Premier Herriot promised he would receive "fine French furniture of the antique style."

James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S., recently published a second edition of his book on the U. S. Constitution bearing an introduction by Calvin Coolidge and a dedication, to "the Masters of the Bench of Gray's Inn [London]". A previous edition had been dedicated to "the Honorable Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney-General of the United States, a true and loyal friend, a fair and chivalrous foe.''

Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor Senator, defeated for reelection in Minnesota last November prepared to contest the election of his victorious opponent Thomas D. Schall, now a Representative from Minnesota. It was understood that the chief accusation was to be that Mr. Schall, who is blind, was supported by a slush fund of $80,000 raised by bootleggers.

The State Department sent word to the Mexican Government that barring objection, it would send Major Goldman of the Biological Survey to investigate the winter homes of migratory birds in Mexico. A treaty for the protection of such birds was also proposed.

In Tennessee, the House of Representatives voted 71 to 5 to pass a bill prohibiting the teaching of Evolution in common schools.

William M. Butler, ex-Republican Campaign manager, new Senator from Massachusetts, made his first important public speech since taking office at a dinner in Boston, declaring that the election of 1924 was the greatest "thinking election" since 1896. Through cold and winter weather, Chauncey M. Depew, nearly 91, went to the Pilgrim's banquet in Manhattan, spoke, saying: "What's the matter with Congress? Well, you have to be in Congress to understandd," was reflected President of the society with Elihu Root, John W. Davis, in his corps of officers.

The cream-colored; limestone sarcophagus in a recess in the south wall of Bethlehem Chapel in Washington Cathedral was put in place. On the sarcophagus was carved a crusader's cross and the inscription: "Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924."

Aroused because some newspapers printed accounts of an executive (secret) session of the Senate, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania proposed a resolution to exclude from the Senate press gallery the representatives of any paper doing such a thing.

Roy Asa Haynes, Prohibition Commissioner, received a temperance medal bearing a temperance certificate signed by James Madison, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams in 1834. It was sent from Los Angeles by President Jackson's great-grandson, Andrew Jackson IV, who asked a job in the Prohibition Unit.

Members of Congress and other Washingtonians received a royal proclamation inviting them to join the "Chivalric citizenry" of the "Royal and Beneficent Domain" of the "Knights of the Flaming Sword," a rival of the Ku Klux Klan now being advanced by William J. Simmons, one-time promoter of the Klan.