. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . nowing the Ropes—Catching the Speakers Eye — An Indignant Congressman—Catching the Measles, the Whooping-Cough, and the Influenza — The Frank-ing Privilege — Providing for the Comforts of Members — Shaves,Hair-cuts, and Baths at Uncle Sams Expense — Barbers as SkilledLaborers — Working
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . nowing the Ropes—Catching the Speakers Eye — An Indignant Congressman—Catching the Measles, the Whooping-Cough, and the Influenza — The Frank-ing Privilege — Providing for the Comforts of Members — Shaves,Hair-cuts, and Baths at Uncle Sams Expense — Barbers as SkilledLaborers — Working a Committee. jE have observed the Capitol as a monument ofthe peoples history and patriotism, but toknow it as it is, we must see it as the work-shop of Congress, and enter into the spirit andunderstanding of its manifold operations. In itsvarious and conflicting architectural conceptions wehave noted both the weakness and the strength of humannature and ability; we have yet to observe that samehuman nature in its daily activity in both legislative hallsof the Congress. These grand paintings, these famousstatues and costly bronzes, these wonderful corridors, thismighty dome, all bring up a past — a history that is made;but the life of the Capitol is an affair always of to-day — (109). 110 THE HOUSE IN SESSION. history which is being made, and which is ever runningback into our glorious past. We can see no halo about thepresent; that comes with time. All this active, storminglife in the great Capitol is the motion of the mightiestengine of the government — the legislative machine. Thereis nothing in all the world like it; no legislative machinethat can do and has done so much. Entering the Senate wing and beholding this machineon one side, it seems to be proceeding so calmly, so noise-lessly and serenely, as to be hardly moving at all. WhenAve visit the House wing and view the other side, we beholdsuch utter confusion, such an apparently woful lack ofatten
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