do some celebrating," writes Sen ator A Willis Robertson this week in his column of Congressional Comment. Senator Robertson points out an interesting political turn of events in showing that no Re publican member of the Senate has previously served under a Republican President, and that applies likewise to most House members (he discloses. Pointing to the contrast with earlier days, lie writes of the innuguartion: "All this was in sharp contrast with early inaugu rations. When George Washing ton was inaugurated his Secretary of State. Alexander Hamilton, handsome and well dressed as well as possessing a brilliant in tellect, wanted the occasion to be a brilliant affair. But Washing ton. desiring to encourage our infant textile industry, took the oath of office in a brown suit made in a small domestic mill. Nobody attepipted to make Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural a brilliant affair because they knew it was useless He rode iiis favorite saddlehorse from the White House to the Capitoi. practicing extreme simplicity and Remand ing it of all connected with the event. "The scene at Washington this week reflected the difference be tween thirteen small States in the days of Washington, which had but recently won their free dom from a great world power, and forty-eight States in 1953 which have become, from the standpoint of wealth and capacity to produce, tlie greatest power in the world There was probably more money represented in Washington on Inauguration Day than this or any other Capital of the world has ever known "

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