The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-03
REOPENING Gf CONGRESS.
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opening of a session of Congress falls
+! Generals Gates and Burgoyne, Stark,
Phillips. Riedesel. Putnam Schuyler,
Glover, aid WhippIe, and Colonies Crea-
ton, Scammell, Wilkinson, Prescott.
Morgan, and Brooks, and Majors Lithgow,
Huii, stevens, Haskell. Armstrong, and
ClaThSon, and several officers of inferior
rank beamed from the big canvas just as
proudly as when General Washington's
/ secretary painted them there
ne ed familiar faces in the Surrender
OF CORVALLIS led many thoughts back
! into another century. There we're the
faces Of Lafayette, Count de Grasse. Count
! Roenambeau. Baron Steuben Deuxponts
Damas, Fiomenil Montmorency. and
Lsuzun Among he Americans repre-
scented, the visitors to the Capitol saw
/ the delineations OF Generals Washington
/ Lincoln Stevens, C>bs, Wayne. Hand
AuGlenbeTg, and CAST, Col. Alexander
Hamilton, Col Timothy Pickering. Col
Nicnolas Fish. and Thomas Nelson then
/ Governor OF Virginia.
Inc paintings Of Washington resigninq
ms commission al Annapolis December %
ItoS' did not fail to receive its share of
attention from the American crowds that
walked and loiteFed in the rotunda. Ed
ridge Gerry. Jefferson, Monroe. and Ma{ii-
! son appeared jus as fresh as they did
many years ago
Strangers with religious sentiments and
especially those from New England. ling
ered before. The Embarkation 81 the Pill
sTlIns and there they saw John Carver.
niies standish, Pastor Robinson, Elder
Brewster, and others
Crowds IN the Rotanda.
To the punches of people that stood here
and there the guides pointed to historic
stones IN the floor of the rotunda. These
| guides we're saying:
Ihere is where Russell Jarvis assault
ca JohR Adams the secretary of John
quincy Adams, in April, 1928; above that
| stone the remains of Abraham Lincoln
. lay IN state from April Ig to AuriI p
1860; the bier OF Thaddeus Stevens rested
there on the 18th of august, 1865; the body
OF Charles sumner lay there March l3
1874; the remains OF Fice President VIII
son were over there in las; Garfeid's
! body was there in Septembe~. 1881. and
! John 4. Logan's remains were pIaeed here
on December 30. 1885
Scores of people roamed through the
newest part Of the building at the west
/ front, where the Library Of Congress vas
until July 81, 1897, and they streamed in
and cut of the Supreme Court room ave
seemed TO come over most of the peo1Ie
as they stood II that solemn chamber
where Chief Justice John Marshall ad-
Inlnlstered the oath OF Office of President
TO Thomas jefferson; where the treaty
with Napoleon / for the cession OF the
louisiana Territory vas ratified; where
the wars with Great Britain and Mexico
we're declared; where the Monroe Doc
tFl3e vas first enuneiated: where the
great lmpeaeA ment trials Of John Picker
ms, Judge of the district court Of the dis
trict Of New Hampshire, and of Samuel
| Chase, Associate Justice OF the Supreme
Court, were held. and where Webster.
z a lau- ffsffh
the issues OF their day Close against the
dark columns of Potomac marble the
/ guides pointed their patrons to where the
bodies OF John c Calhoun and Henry Clay
had lain 1T was over there. they we're
told that Senator Foote drew loaded
pistol upon Senator Benton on April II,
1888, and another spot was pointed out
where Representative Brooks OF South
! Carolina. assaulted Ssnator Sumner on
/ May q 1896.
/ Nest Americans feel reverent when they
stand in this still DID chamber and the
/ crowds today did as crowds always do
when theTe-speak in whispers aud walk
softly
There is one Of the Capitol treasures
which the Congressional pilgrims did not
lock upon. It is a rare portrait OF John
Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court which hangs in
the robing room of the justices.
NJ as Hail.
Statuary Hall, or the old Hall Of Rep
resentauves, was as full Of people as it
is of echoes and ghost1y sounds During
the day thousands of pilgrims shufIIed
across the floor which was occupied BY
/ American legislators from 1857 til The
building was sacked and piilaged BY the
/ English in 1914 AID then again from the
/ time of the restorati on Of the hall III
sz-F,a EIe.--T,
/ ready for occupancy. People drew them
selves in circles about tie disc of metal
/ which marks the S5lot 6ifsTe Andrew John
/ sons desk stood md at which John
/ Quincy Adams was stricken on February
IS. 1917, during the discussion OF The
! Three Million Dollar sill Many eyes
! peered curicusly mo the Office now occu-
/ pied by Alexander Mcdowell, Clerk Of the
{ House. where Adar1s expired SIghtseers
/ stood on the spots where Madison took
/ the oath as President in his second term
/ where Monroe IVES insugufated in 1921
( and where MiIlard Fillmore was sworn
! into the Presidential Office
Both the House AM Senate extensions
were congeSted with visitors On the Sen
! ate side the marble stairways were block
I ed and the baI1stTades on the gallery floor
were burdened with spectators of che
! pultepec" and Lake Erie. - They checked the
corridors around Cornelia Fassstt's paint
/ Recall of Columbus" Before the Senate
met crowds wound in and out Of The
Vice Presidents room. where Henry VIII
son died, and where the oath Of Office was
administered to President Chester A. Ar
thur. The galleries 5Fere denseIy crowd
ed, and the thoughts OF some men went
| back TO other days when the same cham
Der was crowded almosta$o suffoeatIon-
when Col. z. D. Baker made his memo
rable reply to John c. Breckenridge. and
when the impeachment proceedings
against Andrew Johnson, in 1858, and ".
W. BeIknap in 1876 were in progress
Members Lobby ConEested-
One Of the most thiekly crowded parts
of the House extension was the members
lobby. Men and women seemed to swarm
there. while as many as could settled on
the red and brown ieather-covered
lounges. The walls of this corridor on
the south Of the House Of Representatives
are lined with the portraits Of ex-
speakers. Thousands Of strangers looked
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