Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . endered tangledand cramped by a too narrow space. It commemoratesan occurrence which took place in the year 1773. This,as well as the landing of the Pilgrims, was executed byCausici, another pupil of Can ova. Over the northerndoor of the rotunda we have William Penn standing un-der an elm, in the act of presenting a treaty to the Indi-ans. Penn is dressed as a Quaker, and looks as benevolentas the crude stone out of which he is made will let panel was executed by a Frenchman named Genelot. We pas
Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . endered tangledand cramped by a too narrow space. It commemoratesan occurrence which took place in the year 1773. This,as well as the landing of the Pilgrims, was executed byCausici, another pupil of Can ova. Over the northerndoor of the rotunda we have William Penn standing un-der an elm, in the act of presenting a treaty to the Indi-ans. Penn is dressed as a Quaker, and looks as benevolentas the crude stone out of which he is made will let panel was executed by a Frenchman named Genelot. We pass through the noblest room of the Capitol, theold Hall of Representatives and through the open cor-ridor directly into the new Hall of Eepresentatives. Itoccupies the precise place in the s6uth wing which theSenate Chamber does in the northern wing. Like the Sen-ate room, the light of day comes to it but dimly throughthe stained glass roof overhead. Like that, also, it is en-tire, encircled by a corridor opening into smoking apart-ments, committee rooms, the Speakers room, etc., which. THE HALL OF THE CAPITOL.—WASHINGTON. WHERE OUR LAWS ARE MADE. 101 monopolize all the out of door air, and every out of doorview. The air of the central chamber is pumped into itby a tremendous engine at work in the depths of theCapitol and admitted through ventilators one under eachdesk. You see these are covered with shining brassplates which by a touch of the foot can be adjusted to ad-mit a current of fresh air, or shut it off, according to thewish of the occupant of the chair above it. In formertimes these ventilators were uncovered, and then wereused to such an extent as spittoons by the honorable gen-tlemen above them, and filled to such a depth with to-bacco quids and the stumps of cigars that the odor fromthem became unbearable and they had to be covered up. The Hall of Representatives is 139 feet long, 93 feetwide and 30 feet high with a gallery running entirelya
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