. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. unger Adams, Calhoun, Randolph, Cass,Burges, Wise, Forsyth, Corwin, Wright, and many others won reputationfor statesmanship, and made the walls ring with their fiery were many fierce and bitter wrangles over vexed questions—?urbulent scenes, displays of sectional feeling; and here also was muchlegislative action which has gone into history as wise and beneficial. It was in this hall that ex-President John Quincy Adams,then a Representative for Massachusetts, was prostrated athis desk, on February 21, 1848, by paralysis,
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. unger Adams, Calhoun, Randolph, Cass,Burges, Wise, Forsyth, Corwin, Wright, and many others won reputationfor statesmanship, and made the walls ring with their fiery were many fierce and bitter wrangles over vexed questions—?urbulent scenes, displays of sectional feeling; and here also was muchlegislative action which has gone into history as wise and beneficial. It was in this hall that ex-President John Quincy Adams,then a Representative for Massachusetts, was prostrated athis desk, on February 21, 1848, by paralysis, resulting in hisdeath two days later. A star set in the floor marks the positionof his desk. The present use of this room as a hall of memorial statuaryis due to a suggestion from the late Senator Justin S. Morrill,when he was a Representative from Vennont, which resultedin an invitation by Congress, in 1864, to each vState to sendmarble or bronze statues of two of her most illustrious sons forpermanent preservation. 160 RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE. Washington at Yorktown Legislative Hall of House of Representatives Page 165 As a beginning certain statues and busts owned by theFederal Government were collected here. They includeHubbards plaster copy of Houdons statue of Washington,the face of which was modeled from a plaster cast taken byHoudon himself at Mount Vernon in 1785, and Mrs. FisherAmes bust of Lincoln, upon a pedestal of Aberdeen granite (agift), for which $2,000 was paid. Here also will be found amarble bust of Senator J. J. Crittenden (17S7-1863) of Ken-tucky, author of the Crittenden Compromise measure andHarrisons Attorney-General, by Joel T. Hart; and a portraitof Joshua R. Giddings (i795-1864), by Miss C. L. Ransom. Jean Antoine Houdon, who was a cultivated Frenchsculptor (i741-1828), educated in Paris and Rome, wasemployed by the State of Virginia to make a statue of Wash-ington. He came and studied his subject, resided for severalweeks with the family at
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