Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04

The question of expansion faces our congressman at Washington, and this without going outside of the city it. self, and one may at once set his mind at rest for it is not an issue of annexing more territory but has to do with the annexing of the new con gressional buildings to the capitol building. There has been in course of construction for several years now two new structures for use of the members of the house of representa-. tives, and senators, and now the pro. ject is on foot to extend the front of the capitol building and connect these two structures which stand on either side. The material used would be marble to match the face of the pres. ent capitol building and would make of the capitol building vast and magnificent structure far beyond the dreams of the designers of the orig inal structure.
 The two apartment buildings, as they are called, for the house and senate members, are splendid struc. lures, and when completed will have cost $2,500,000 apiece. They flank the capitol on either side several hundred feet distant, and this space 1t is pro posed to fill up by extending the capi tol structure itself.
 These wings already are for the ex elusive use of congressman, and will be devoted wholly to the personal con venience and comfort of their legis lative occupants, who will be sur rounded by every imaginable luxury In effect, they will be huge hotels each of them occupying more ground than the Waldorf.Astoria in New York, though not so tall; and the din ing rooms will be on great scale and very handsome-though guests" will be at liberty to have their meals serv ed in their rooms, by messengers on the government payroll and in uni form. if they so desire. Also. there will be magnificent barber shops; and indeed, the only regular hotel feature lacking will be bedrooms, all of the apartments being intended for day time use merely--a fact which, never theless, will not bar occupants from utilizing their quarters for sleeping purposes if they wish.
 The two buildings. which are ol white marble. are exactly alike in re spect to their exterior. and will no, differ much SO far as their interior is concerned. Thanking the capitol al either end, they form with the latter an harmonious architectural whole the great dome dominating the grour as the central feature. It would suf flee, then, to give a description of one in order to convey satisfactory ides of both-save for one or two differ ences relating particularly to the mum Der of rooms. In the southern fat allotted to the lower house. there will be 40 rooms-one for each represen tative. On the other hand. in tho northern flats the same amount o space (comprising the whole of ths three foors) will be occupied by 9! apartments.
 Now. at the present time there ar, in the house 3s1 members and dele gates; so that 19 rooms will be lef over for a future margin. In the sen ate there are s0-so that quarters fol eight additional senators from possibl, future states will be available. But 1t will be observed, the smaller mum Der of senators makes 1t practicabl, to supply them with much more com modious quarters; and. so. while eacl representative will have only on, room, there will be for each senatol an apartment. in the proper sense O the word comprising a room for him self. . slightly smaller room for hi secretary. and bathroom.
 These senatorial apartments. O course. will be very handsomely dec orated and furnished. A small arm, of uniformed messengers will be a hand to furnish the requisite service and. with private staircases and pri vate elevators for the exclusive use O the vearers of the tosa. the who'll outfit will be of the most comfortabl not to say luxurious. description 1 furnished private apartment in white marble palace. with rent and al sorts of incidentals paid for by tn government. Is not by any means L be sneezed at. 90 to speak
 A pretty fair notion Of the masni tude of the structures h question I conveyed ey the statement that eacl Of them occupies an entire block. an on Its four s.des has total frontag