Behind the scenes in Washington . BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON. 89 although it was not delivered under favorable circum-stances of health. He exhibited considerable physicalweakness, and had to resort to stimulants to sustainhimself. There were present three persons who attended thelaying of the corner-stone of the Capitol by Washing-ton, fifty-eight years before the present ceremonies,namely: George Washington Parke Custis, Z. Walker,of Maryland, and Lewis Machen, a clerk in the officeof the Senate of the United States. The work on the extension was pushed forward asrapidly as possible. By
Behind the scenes in Washington . BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON. 89 although it was not delivered under favorable circum-stances of health. He exhibited considerable physicalweakness, and had to resort to stimulants to sustainhimself. There were present three persons who attended thelaying of the corner-stone of the Capitol by Washing-ton, fifty-eight years before the present ceremonies,namely: George Washington Parke Custis, Z. Walker,of Maryland, and Lewis Machen, a clerk in the officeof the Senate of the United States. The work on the extension was pushed forward asrapidly as possible. By the early part of the sessionof 1858-59, the new halls were sufficiently preparedfor the reception of the Senate and House of Represen-tatives, and were taken possession of by those were made even more memorable than the oldhalls by the exciting scenes which preceded the out-break of the Rebellion, and by those events of the greatstruggle in which Congress figured. The work of com-pleting the extension went on with s
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