Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-27

and they then refer to the old Capitol
| Prison" much as tourists ailudc to n
| fashionable hotel.
| This structure was occupied by Con.
cress from December. 1878. until tS1o. 1t
/ was bore tina, senator's Of Indiana. Mis-
sissIppi and Illinois first took their seats,
on the admission of these States TO the
I'rion. Henry clay was the Speaker Of
the House all this time. John j. crit
| tonden began his career here rs sen
ator from Kentucky. lie lived to be the
! author of famous compromise In 1860.
intended to avert the civil War. and to
So. tho scene Of his first senatorial scr
his unsuccessful efort.
! In rebuilding the real Capitol some
| changes were made In the chambers Of
the senate and of the House of Representa-.
! lives from the old plan, but these did not
AFFECT the external appearance of the build.
ing The two wings. when completed In
| 1919. as the old prints show. looked like
two almost separate rectangular struct-
ures In peculiar relation Of formal neigh
borlincss. The Hail Of the House. this
time finished In the form of a Greek thea
trc. has since been made tho Statunry
Hall. where each State has n privilege Of
of two Of her famous sons. The new Sen
Of VITO OF her famous sons. The new Sen
ate chamber, like the earlier one, was in
our present supreme Court space. except
that the floor level was not established in
It's present plane. There were no changes
in the exterior in this restoration aside
/ from the removal of an OCCASIONAL damaged
stone
NWAYS GROWING. BIT NEVER cont
I1.l"TE.
II took ten years more of work on tho
central part oi the structure to make n
completed building. In 1S2o the country
FAR t,p tttle ir,g, I a hnn
ton looked upon finished legislative cdi.
hcc. II vas during the period which fui
lowed that Rufus thuate said We have
built NO tempt" bat the Capitol" We con.
suit no common oracle but the Con~titu-
ton Occupants Of the Capitol were co!ri-
portable ana it's appearance was ngniiicd.
Its central rotunda was sui1uountcd by 4
modest hut respcctabic dome.
4 l;v the year which marked the middle Of
ih" nineteenth century. however. the ma
ton hnd "utgr0wn in many directions the
lines marked out by the founders. and this
expansion reelected itself in tho capitol.
Congress accordingly invited all the archi-
I tccis TO compete for what they called ali
+ "cNtonsiun." and at the same tim" 1t gave
tn" President the authority. through an
appropriation bill. to appoint an architect
to begin the work Mr. Fillmore, upon
whom the duty then devolved threw ont
all the competitive plans. which were very
crude. and asked Thomas I. Walter. an
eminent Philadelphia architect. 10 under
! INK, thc work 10 had inst ,omnleicd tho
main building At Grard College, which is
still standing and is TO this day much ad-
mircd.
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liam Thornton. the architect of the orig
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