Chapter II: A Genius from France 4

III. The Capitol Building 12

IV. Interior of the Capitol 17

V. The Rotunda 21

VI. Concerning Some of the Art at the Capitol 26

VII. The Senate Chamber 33

VIII. The House of Representatives 40

IX. Concerning Representatives 46

X. The Supreme Court Room 53

XI. Incidents Concerning Members of the Supreme Court of the 58
United States

XII. Teaching Patriotism in the Capitol 67

XIII. People in the Departments 73

XIV. Incidents In and Out of the Departments 80

XV. Treasury Department 84

XVI. Secret Service Department of the Treasury of the United 92
States

XVII. Post-Office Department 100

XVIII. Department of Agriculture 105

XIX. Department of Chemistry on Pure Foods 109

XX. Department of the Interior 114

XXI. Branches of the Department of the Interior 121

XXII. Bureau of Indian Affairs 126

XXIII. The Library of Congress 131

XXIV. The Pension Office 138

XXV. State, War, and Navy Departments 146

XXVI. State, War, and Navy Departments (_Cont'd_) 155

XXVII. Department of Commerce 161

XXVIII. The Executive Mansion 166

XXIX. Interests in Washington Which Can Not Here be Fully 179
Described

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

President Taft _Frontispiece_

Bird's-eye View of Washington, Looking East _Between_ 4 _and_ 5
from the Monument

Bird's-eye View of Washington, Looking Down _Between_ 8 _and_ 9
the Potomac from the Monument

The Capitol _Between_ 12 _and_ 13

Plan of the Principal Floor of the Capitol 15

Brumidi Frieze in Rotunda 22

Brumidi Frieze in Rotunda 23

The First Reading of the Emancipation 27
Proclamation

The Mace 41

The Speaker's Room 42

GROUP I _Between_ 48 _and_ 49

Statuary Hall

"Westward Ho!"

Washington Declining Overtures from
Cornwallis

The Senate Chamber

Some Prominent Senators

The House of Representatives in Session

Some Prominent Representatives

New House Office Building

Seating Plan of the Supreme Court Chamber 54

GROUP II _Between_ 80 _and_ 81

Justices of the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Room

The Treasury Building

New Municipal Building

Government Printing Office

New Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Union
Station

The Smithsonian Institution

The New National Museum

Macerating $10,000,000 of Money 88

The Patent Office 114

GROUP III _Between_ 128 _and_ 129

The Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Congressional Library

Grand Stairway of the Congressional
Library

The Rotunda (Reading-room) of the
Congressional Library

The Pension Office

The State, War, and Navy Departments

The German Embassy

The British Embassy

The New French Embassy

The Russian Embassy

One of the Bronze Doors of the Congressional 133
Library

The Declaration of Independence 148

Fish Commission Building 163

Mrs William H. Taft 166

GROUP IV _Between_ 176 _and_ 177

The President and Cabinet

Entrance to the White House

New Wing of the White House

South Front of the White House

North Front of the White House

Grand Corridor—White House

State Dining-room—White House

Mount Vernon—From South Lawn

Tomb of Washington—Mount Vernon

Home of General Lee

Monument to the Unknown Dead, Arlington
National Cemetery

The Washington Monument

Charlotte Corday 181

WASHINGTON

_ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS_