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Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. 105 for $100,000, and deposited in the library. These collections ofbooks, pamphlets, prints, etc., pertaining to early American history,have no equal in the world. They were accumulated during manyyears of earnest and enthusiastic antiquarian labor. In 1866 thelibrary of the Smithsonian Institution was added to the Library ofCongress. The law department contains nearly 60,000 volumes, and is con-sidered very complete. Every volume of American, English, Irish,and Scotch court reports is to be found here, together with the stat-utes of all countries, from 1649 to the present time. From 4,000 to5,000 volumes are added yearly.
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CHAPTER VI. THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES —ITS FIRST SESSION IN THE CAPITALCITY —THE OLD HALLS OF LEGISLATION— QUAINT CUSTOMS OF BY-GONEDAYS —GREAT STATESMEN AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS —ANECDOTES ANDPERSONALITIES —THE PRESENT HOUSES OF CONGRESS —SENATE AND HOUSEEXTENSIONS OF THE CAPITOL. THE First Congress of the United States, under the Constitu-tion, began its session in New York on the 4th of March,1789. In 1790 Congress removed to Philadelphia, and forten years thereafter held its sessions in that city. On No-vember 17, 1800, the Sixth Congress convened in Washington in theunfinished Capitol, and on the 22d of that month President JohnAdams appeared before both houses, in joint session in the SenateChamber, and made the customary annual speech. Vice-Pres-ident Thomas Jefferson presided over the Senate, and the Hon.Theodore Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, was the Speaker of the Houseof Representatives. When Congress began its sessions in Washington, only the northwing

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