The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-09-14
WHY coNGREssMEN LIKE
THEIR JOBS.
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member will then have a stately
Office, fitted with new mahogany
furniture, costly rugs and paint
ings. There will be 40 of these
offices In the House palace, and
the Senate palace will contain so
suites of two rooms each. A Sena.
tors Office will be 16x25 feet, with
high ceiling, and his secretary will
struggle along in a room 1925
feet in size. The dining room in
the Senate building will be thirty
feet wide and sixty.fve feet long,
two stories in height, with an or
nate elliptical ceiling. The House
dining room will be the same size.
on the second floor, with ceiling
two stories high. This dining room
will be finished in ornamental
plaster, with paintings and sculp-
ture. 1t will overlook the library
of Congress.
In each building will be a great
rotunda, not as large as the capitol
rotunda, but more richly designed,
with columns of pure white mar
BILE, appropriate statuary, and mu-
raj decorations. Heavy marble
intramural stairways will add rich
ness to the effect, and twelve ele-
yators will be provided.
From the House palace to the
capitol, and thence to the Senate
palace, will be cut a subway, with
a complete electric tramway sys-
tenn, supplied with luxurious little
cars for the use of lawmakers. |
The careworn member from Po-
dunk, if he wishes to escape the
opportunities of his constituents,
can descend in an elevator, step
into an upholstered car. and be
whisked across to the capitol or to
the Senate palace. There he can
in another elevator nearly
4 quarter of a mile away from his
The public at large
will, of course, be excluded from
he tramway. The subway will
% richly tiled, ventilated and
warmed by the same power that
,ropels the trans, and brilliantly
lighted.
A new power house, designed to
'entilate, light and heat the capt.
oil and the two Legislative palaces
$ now being constructed several
quares distant, at a cost of two
million dollars. All the applian- {
es will be underground. With ,
be new power house completed,
be capitol will be overhauled and
new ventilating system installed,
,hich will heat each room inde-
evidently. Automatic thermostats
ill keep the temperature con-
tant, and in warm weather cool :
ir will be forced into the myriad
f rooms. The same system will
Q installed, of course, in the Sem
te and House buildings.
When the weather becomes hct
awards the end of long session
T Congress, Apollinaris lemonade
enormous quantities is prepared
y the culinary department in
ither end of the capitol. This
average is prepared without re-
ard to expense, and dispensed {
18th a lavish hand. If tired
ember wishes a stick in it, he
rs merely to turn to his little
rivate cabinet, where rare old /,
rye, Scotch, and various
quors are nestled. Sometimes :
Iebein beer is preferred, and it is !
ways forthcoming. The sale of
toxicating liquor is prohibited
9TH in the Senate and House
ings, but this does not prevent
legislator from obtaining the in
,iration necessary to make elo-
lent speeches and prepare wise
WIS for billion.dollar nation.
Is it not a billion. dollar Con-
'essg Shall the OK be mnzzled
at treads out the corng Shall
g patient ass of Legislation be
'nled his bundle of thistlesg Nay,
w. saws the member from Po-