. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. use inthe First Congress, and has been in use eversince. When it is placed on its pedestal, itsignifies that the House is in session and underthe Speakers authority; when it is placed on the floor, that the Houseis in committee of the whole. The mace is a bundle of black rods fast-ened with transverse bands of silver, like the Roman fasces. On itstop is a silver globe surmounted by a silver eagle. When the sergeant-at-arms is executing the commands of the Speaker, he is required to bearaloft the mace in his hands. When a division of th
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. use inthe First Congress, and has been in use eversince. When it is placed on its pedestal, itsignifies that the House is in session and underthe Speakers authority; when it is placed on the floor, that the Houseis in committee of the whole. The mace is a bundle of black rods fast-ened with transverse bands of silver, like the Roman fasces. On itstop is a silver globe surmounted by a silver eagle. When the sergeant-at-arms is executing the commands of the Speaker, he is required to bearaloft the mace in his hands. When a division of the House takes place, all come down theside aisles into the space in front of the clerks desk and passout up the central aisle between counting-tellers. Over theSpeakers head is the press gallery, and doors lead to the lobbyand retiring-rooms in the rear. Beneath the galleries, in rearof the Representatives desks, are Cloakrooms— smallapartments where the members not only hang up their hatsand overcoats, but smoke and talk beyond the hubbub of Alexander Hamilton Rotunda of Capitol Page 158 RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON CxUIDE 165 The galleries (reached from the nextfloor) are divided into sections, some ofwhich are devoted to ladies and othersreserved for diplomats, friends of Con-gressmen, etc. The doorkeepers will giveanyone who asks for it a plan of the Houseshowing where the Representatives areseated. Twelve hundred persons may becrowded into these galleries. At the right of the chair hangs a full-length portrait of Washington as presi-dent, by John Vanderlyn, ordered byCongress in 1832, to signalize the hun-dredth anniversary of Washingtons birth,and delivered in 1834, at the price of$2,500. On the left is Ary Scheffersportrait of Lafayette, painted in 1822,and presented by Congress to that artistin 1824. The panel at the right of theWashington is taken by Bierstadtspainting of the Settlement of California,while occupying the corresponding panelon the west, adjoining
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