The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-11-29

on the District of Columbia. The
room for the President of the United
States is set apart for the use of the
pre- ddent on his visit to the Capito
and is one to which he comes in tol
closing hours of the session to sign
the last bills before adjournment. 1t
is decorated, by Brumldi, with por-
traits of President Washington and
his cabinet, Jefferson, Hamilton,
Knox, Randolph and Osgood, with al
legories of Liberty, Religion, Legisla-
ton and Executive Authority: and
portraits of Columbus, with emblems
of discovery: Americas Vespucius, ex-
ploration: William Brewster, Reiig-
ion, and Benjamin Franklin. history.
The Public Reception room is a richly
furnished apartment, decorated in oils
and frescoes, by Brandt. On the
south wall is a painting of President
Washington in consultation with
Thomas Jefferson, his Secretary Of
State, and Alexander Hamilton. his
Secretary of the Treasury. The vault
ed ceiling is all aglow with the ale
gories Of War, Peace, Liberty, Plenty,
Power, Temperance, Prudence and
Justice.
MARBLE ROOM.
The Senator's room, kno w as the
Marble room, because constructed
wholly of that material, has stately
e. rinthian columns OF Italian marble,
pa Il walls of Tennessee marble,
and c ing OF marble from Vermont.
The wal @ set with mirrors. The
room Of tn Vice President of the
United States, who is President OF the
Senate, contains Rembrandt Peale's
portrait of Washington. a marble
bust OF Vice President Henry S. Will
son, whose tragic death occurred in
this room November %. 1875, and a
portrait of Lafayette S. Foster, acting
vice President in Andrew Johnson 5
term.
The room of the committee on the
District of Columbia, originally de-
signed for the Senate library, has in
the vaulted ceiling Brumidi frescoes
of history, geography. science and
the telegraph, cane and tobacco. The
columns of the Senate vestibule have
Latrobe's (sometimes called JefTer-
sons cornstalk columns. with capi-
tails OF corn in the husk are at the
front of the East stairway lnear the
supreme Court ROOM leading to the
basement. They have been ingenious
ly termed the American order" OF
architecture. From the Senate vesti-
bule the east door opens upon the por-
tico. This is the Crawford Bronze door
designed by the American sculptor
Thomas Crawford, and cast at Chi
copee, Mass. From the east and west
corridor stairways lead TO the Senate
galleries. The east stairway, of Ten.
nessee marble, is lighted by "A richly
stained sky light over the landing.
At the foot of the stairs is Hiram
Powers's statue OF Benjamin Frank
lin here our guide told us to note the
inimitable shredness of theexpression
aud on the wall of the landing hangs
w. IL. Pnwell's spirited painting of
the Battle of Lake Erie, September -,
1913. 1t pictures the gallant exploit
of Commodore Perry, transferring his
colors from the disabled flagship
Lawrence to the Niagara in the face
of a terrific cannonading. IL was after
the victory won here that Perry dis
patched the famous message: ave
have met the enemy and they are
ours" There are so many paintings
that it would make it too long to name
all. In the ante-room of the ladies
gallery are two historical paintings
Halsali's First Fight of the IrOnclads
Monitor aud Merrimac, Hampton
Roads, Va, March o, 1862, and Mrs.
G. A. Fassetts Flordio case before
the Electoral Commission in the
Senate Chamber, February >, 1877. J
The last contains a vast number of
portraits OF the public men of the
ayes-Tilden period: "A key TO the
picture hangs near the window in the
east corridor OF the Senate. There is
preserved here the famous gilt
mirror which vice president John
Adams purchased for the room, and
which congress consented to pay for,
only after Il three days stormy de-
bate and much eloquent denunciation
OF the purchase as piece of eXtrava-
gance. Its cost was S36. On the walls
are portraits in MOSAIC of Abraham
Lincoln and James A. Garfield and in
oil of Charles Sumner by Ingalls, J
and General John A. LeiX by Muir
rell). The stars and stripes of the
Dix portrait are put here in comment
GRAFTON OF the historic dispatch sent
sent by him as secretary of the Treas
ury to VIM Hemphill Jones in New
Orleans, January %, 1861: IF any
one attempts TO haul down tho Ameri-
can flag shoot him on the spot"
At the base of the white marble west
stairway is Story's marble statue of
John Hancock, whose name is first in
the list of signatures OF the Declara-
ton of Independence The pedestal is
inscribed: "EIe wrote his name where
all Nations should behold it and all
time should not deface it," On the
wall of the landing is James Walkers
storming of the Chaipultepec, one of
the defenses of the City of Mexico, by
the American army under General
Scott Sept. II lS47. In the upper cor
ridor is Charles Wilson Peale's Wash.
ington. Peale was an officer in the
patriot army and while i'm camp en-
plOyed his leisure hours in painting.
He began the picture of Washington
at Valley Forge, obtained the final
sitting from the commander-in-chie
day or two after the battle OF Mon
mouth and finished the picture at
Princeton. The sword worn by Wash
ington is the one now preserved in the
library of the State department. The
portrait in vice president room by
Rem brandt peale son Of Cha lae