Evening star., 1949-07-01
Temporary Quarters
Will Be Occupied by
Congress Next Week

Congress Next Week
The Senate and House were be-
ing pressed by moving men today
as members gathered in the vener-
able chambers which they will not
be able to use again until next
year.
Little business was scheduled for
today. When the two bodies as
semble again Tuesday, after the
holiday recess. they will be in tenn
porary quarters. And they have
taken pains, by formal resolution,
to notify each other of their new
addresses.
The first six-month stage of re-
modelling work on the two cham
bers is the reason for the shift.
The roofs are to be replaced and
a general refurbishing will be con-
Quoted, down to the gallery floors.
New Seats to Be Installed.
Then, beginning next July /,
another six months will be used
in redecorating the interiors of
the legislative halls. including
installation of new seats. Between
January l and July /. 1850, the
Senate and House will sit in their
usual places.
But, beginning Tuesday. the
Senate will be squeezed into the
old Supreme Court chamber.
where the first Senate to sit in
the Capitol met in 1900.
The House will take over the
more spacious Ways and Means
Committee room in the New
House Office Building.
The changes will mean drastic
in working conditions
for the legislators and the con-
gressional staffs, as we'll as for
covering Congress. Be-
cause of space limitations. the
public will be excluded from ses-
Sions during the remodeling Pc
riod.
Meanwhile dissatisfaction with
the redecoration plans sprouted in
the Senate.
Baldwin Prepares Resolution.
Senator Baldwin. Republican. of
Connecticut. said he has prepared
a resolution which will ask the
special committee in charge of the
to reconsider the
plans in order that the traditional
aspect of the chamber may be
preserved.
Senator Baldwin took this step
after joining with Senator Lodge,
of Massachusetts,, in
an attack against the renovation
plan yesterday on the Senate
floor.
I'VE ought to look into this
project further and more seri-
ously,' Senator Baldwin said. Ito
see if we have the right plan" He
expressed doubt that some of the
changes and moderniZation to be
made in the interior redecoration
would meet approval of the entire
Senate.
Delay OverruIed
Senator Baldwin supported Sen
ator Lodge in two unsuccessful at
tempts to hold up the program by
amendments to a pending appro-
priation measure. The amend
ments would have denied funds
for carrying out the big job, for
which a contract already has peen
let.
Vice President Barkley ruled the
amendments were not germane to
the supply measure and upheld a
point of order raised by Chairman
McKellar of the Senate Appro-
pristions Committee.
Senator Lodge warned that his
toric old skylights and architec-
ture of the chambers interior were
to be removed. and a new deco
rative scheme introduced.
The program was stoutly de-
Tended by Senator McKellar. Dem
ocrat, of Tennessee; Senator Cha
vez, Democrat, of New Mexico,
head of the special committee now
in charge of the renovation pro-
gram, and by Chairman Hayden
of the Senate Rules and Admin
istration Committee.
Authorized First in 1910.
They denied Senator Lodges
charge that the renovation pro-
gram had not received full atten-
ton of regular committees of the
Senate and the entire Senate.
They quoted from both legislative
and appropriation bill documents
to show the project had been au-
thorized first in 1910, and had
received several appropriations
since, in various measures ap-
proved by the Senate. The plan
also had been approved by the
Fine Arts Commission, it was
pointed out.
The contract for putting new
roofs over both House and Senate
chambers and reconditioning both
chambers has been let to the Con-
solidated Engineering Co. of Bal
timore, which already has done
preliminary work.
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