2Q4 48 U43 'py 1 •CEREMONIES- ADI906 OFFICE BUILDING HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mm .feji^u^jf 4 > 2 3 S "a - W M n "St." b t. ^ t£4 iS PROGRAMME OF CEREMONIES ATTENDING THK LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE • • OFFICE BUILDING HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 14th, 1906 I 70t THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER Oh ! say, can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd ! were so gallantly streaming ! And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air. Gave proof thro' the night, that our flag was still there. Oh ! say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave. O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep. Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep. As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of- tlie morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream. 'Tis the star-spangled banner; O! long may it wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. And where is the band who so vauntiugly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave — And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. O ! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand. Between their loved home and the war's desolation ; Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust !" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. IVIA.S 7 1921 ORDER OF EXERCISES y Star-Spangled Banner, ]\Iarine Band. ,^ Laying Corner-Stone, Grand Lodge of Masons of the District of ' ' Columbia. Walter A. Brown, Grand Master. Cornet Solo, Walter F. Smith, of the Marine Band. Address, The Speaker of the House of Representatives. Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Chairman. Building Commission. Selection, Engineers' Band. Address, Hon. William P. Hepburn, Member, Building Commission. election, Marine Band. ddress, Hon. James D. Richardson, Member, Building Com- mission. election. Engineers Band. ddress, The President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. The Gavel used in this Ceremony is the one that President Washington used in laying the Corner Stone of the Capitol Building September i8th, 1793 The Trowel used today was donated by the District of Columbia Society Sons of the American Revolution MUSIC United States Marine Band Engineers' Band Lieut. Wm. H. Santelman. Conductor Serg't. Kempter, Conductor Washington Barracks MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE 1 My country ! 'tis of thee, Sweet land of Liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died ; Land of the pilgrim's pride; From every mountain side, Let freedom ring. 2 My native country ! thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills, My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. 3 Let music swell the breeze. And ring among the trees Sweet Freedorn's song ; Let mortal tongues awake, Let all that breathe partake. Let rocks their silence break. The sound prolong. 4 Our father's God ! to thee, Author of liberty; To thee we sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light, Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King! The Commission for the Office Building House of Representatives Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Illinois Hon. William P. Hepburn, Iowa Hon. James D. Richardson, Tenn. James C. Courts, Secretary Elliott Woods, Superintendent United States Capitol Building and Grounds and Superintendent of Construction Thomas Hastings Consulting Architect ^ Preparations for the Ceremony, Designs and Decorations under the directions of ELLIOTT WOODS by Frederick D. Owen and Chairman of Committee of Ushers from District of Columbia Society Sons of the American Revolution THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERS Aclieson, Ernest F. Adams, Henry C. Adams, Robert Adamson, William C. Aiken, Wyatt Alexander, D. S. Allen, Amos L. Allen, Henry C. Ames, Butler Andrus, John E. Babcock, Joseph W. Bankhead, John H. Barchfeld, A. I. Bartholdt, Richard Bartlett, Charles L. Bates, Arthur L. Beall, Jack Bede, J. Adam Beidler. Jacob A. Bell, Thomas M. Bennet, William S. Bennett, Joseph B. Bingham, Henry H. Birdsall, Benjamin P. Bishop, Roswell P. Blackburn, E. Spencer Bonynge, Robert W. Boutell, Henry S. Bowers, Eaton J. Bowersock, Justin D. Tiowie, Sidney J. liradley, Thomas W. Brantley, William G. Brick. Abraham L. Broocks, INIoses L. Brooks, Franklin E. Broussard, Robert F. Brown, Webster E. Brownlow, Walter P. Brundlidge, Stephen, Jr. Buckman, Clarence B. Burgess, George F; Burke, James F. Burleigh, Edwin C. Burleson, Albert S. Burnett, John L. Burton, Hiram R. Burton, Theodore E. Butler, Mounce G. Butler, Thomas S. Byrd, Adam M. Calder, William M. Calderhead, William A. Campbell, Philip P. Campbell, William W. Candler, Ezekiel S., Jr. Cannon, Joseph G. Capron, Adin B. Cassel, H. Burd Castor, George A. Chaney, John C. Chapman, Pleasant T. Clark, Champ Clark, Frank Clayton, Henry D. Cockran, W. Bourke Cocks. William W. Cole, Ralph D. Conner, James P. Cooper, Allen F. Cooper, Henry A. Cousins, Robert G. Cromer, George W. Crumpackef, Edgar D. Currier, Frank D. Curtis, Charles Cushman. Francis W. Dale, Thomas H. Dalzell. John Darragh. Archibald B. Davey, Robert C. Davidson, James H. Davis, Charles R. Davis, Thomas B. Dawes, Beman G. Dawson, Albert F. De Armond, David A. Deemer, Elias Denby, Edwin Dickson, Frank S. Dixon, Joseph M. Dixon, Lincoln Dovener, Blackburn B. Draper, William H. Dresser, Solomon R. Driscoll, Michael E. Dunwell, Charles T. Dwight. John W. Edwards. Don C. Ellebe, James E. Ellis, Edgar C. Esch, John J. Fassett, J. Sloat Finley, David E. Fitzgerald, John J. Flack, William H. Fletcher. Loren Flood, Henry D. Floyd, John C. Fordney. Joseph W. Foss, George E. Foster, David J. Foster, John J. Fowler, Charles N. French. Burton L. Fulkerson Frank B. Fuller, Charles E. Gaines, John W. Gaines, Joseph H. Garber, Harvey C. Gardner, Augustus P. Gardner, John J. Gardner, Washington Garner, John N. Garrett, Finis I. Gilbert, George C. Gilbert, Newton W. Gill, John, Jr. Gillespie, Oscar W. Gillett, Frederick H. Gillett, James N. Glass, Carter Goebel, Herman P. Goldfogle, Henry M. Goulden, Joseph A. Graff, Joseph V. Graham, William H. Granger, Daniel L. D. Greene, W^illiam S. Gregg, Alexander W. > Griggs, James M. ' Gronna, Asle J. Grosvenor, Charles H. Gudger, James M. Jr. Hale, Nathan W. Hamilton, Edward L. Hardwick, Thomas W. \ Haskins, Kittredge Haugen, Gilbert N. Hay, James Hayes, Everis A. Hearst, William R. Hedge, Thomas Heflin, J. Thomas Henry, E. Stevens Henry, Robert L. Hepburn, William P. Herman, Binger Higgins, Edwin W. Hill, Ebenezer J. Hill, Wilson S. Hinshaw, Edmund H. Hitt, Robert R. Hoar, Rockwood Hogg, Herschel M. HoUidaj', Elias S. Hopkins, Frank A. Houston, William C. Howard, Willliam M. Howell, Benjamin F. Howell, Joseph Hubbard, Elbert H. Huff, George F. Hughes, James A. Hull, John A. T. Humphrey William E. Humphreys, Benj. G. Hunt, John T. James, Ollie M. Jenkins, John J. Johnson, Joseph T. Jones, Wesley L. Jones, William A. Kahn, Julius A. Keifer, J. Warren Keliher, John A. Kenned}', James Kennedy, John L. Ketcham, John H. Kinkaid, Moses P. Kitchin, Claude Kitchin, William W. Klepper, Frank B. Kline, Marcus C. L. Knapp, Charles L. Knopf, Philip Knowland, Joseph R. Lacey, John F. Lafean, Daniel F. Lamar, William B. Lamb, John Landis, Charles B. Landis, Frederick Law, Charles B. Lawrence, George P. Lee, Gordon Le Fevre, Frank B. Legare, George S. Lester, Rufus E. Lever, Asbury F. Lewis, Elijah B. Lilley, George L. Lilley, Mial E. Lindsay, George H. Littauer, Lucius N. Little, John S. Littlefield, Charles E. Livingston, Leonidas F. Lloyd, James T. Longworth, Nicholas Lorimer, William Loud, Geo. A. Loudenslager, Henry C. Lovering, William C. McCall, Samuel W. McCarthy, John J. McCleary, James T. McCreary, George D. McDermott, Allen L. McGavin, Charles McKinlay, Duncan E. McKinley, William B. McKinney, James McLachlan, James McLain, Frank A. McMorran, Henry McNary, William' S. Macon, Robert B. Madden, Martin B. Mahon, Thaddeus M. Mann, James R. Marshall. Thomas F. Martin, Eben W. Majnard, Harry L. Meyer, Adolph Michalek, Anthony Miller, James M. Minor, Edwards S. Mondell, Frank W. Moon, John A. Moon, Reuben O. Moore, John M. Morrell, Edward de V. Mouser, Grant E. Mudd, Sydney E. Murdock, Victor Murphy, Arthur P. Needham. James C. Nevin, Robert M. Norris, George W. Olcott, J. Van Vechte Olmsted, Martin E. Otjen, Theobold Overstreet, Jesse Padgett. Lemuel P. Page, Robert N. Palmer, Henry W. Parker, R. Wayne Parsons, Herbert Patterson, Geo. R. Patterson, Gilbert B. Patterson, James O. Patterson, Malcom R. Payne, Sereno E. Pearre, George A. Perkins, James B. Pollard, Ernest M. Pou, Edward W. Powers, Llewellyn Prince, George W^. Pujo, Arsene P. Rainey, Henry T. Randell, Choice B. Ransdell, Joseph E. Reeder, William A. Reid, Charles C. Reynolds, John M. Rhinock, Joseph L. Rhodes. Marion E. Richardson, James M. Richardson, WilHam Rives, Zeno J. Rixey, John F. Roberts, Ernest W. Robertson, Samuel M. Robinson, Joseph T. Rodenberg, WiUiam A. Rucker, William W. Ruppert, Jacob A. Russell, Gordon Ryan, William H. Samuel, Edmund W. Schneebeli, Gustav A. Scott, Charles F. Scroggy, Thomas E. Shackleford, Dorsey W. Shartel, Cassius M. Sheppard, Morris Sherley, Swagar Sherman, James S. Sibley, Joseph C. Sims, Thetus W. Slayden, James L. Slemp, Campbell Small, John H. Smith, David H. Smith, George W. Smith, Samuel W. Smith. Sylvester C. Smith, Thomas A. Smith, Walter L Smith, William Alden Smith William O. Smith, William R. Smyser, Martin L. Snapp, Howard M. Southall, Robert G. Southard, James H. Southwick, George N. Sparkman, Stephen M. Sperry, Nehemiah D. Spight, Thomas Stafford, William H. Stanley, Augustus O. Steenerson, Halvor Stephens, John H. Sterling, John A. Stevens, Fred C. Sullivan, John A. Sullivan, Timothy D. Sullovvay, Cyrus A. Sulzer, William Swanson, Claude A. Talbott, J. Frederick Tawney, James A. Taylor, George W. Thomas, Charles R. Thomas, W. Aubrey Tirrell, Charles Q. Towne, Charles A. Townsend, Charles E. Trimble, South Tyndall, William T. Underwood, Oscar W. Van Duzer, Clarence D. Van Winkle, Marshall Volstead, Andrews J. Vreeland, Edward B. Watcher, Frank C. Wadsworth, James W. Waldo, George E. Wallace, Robert M. Wanger, Irving P. Watkins, John T. Watson, James E. Webb, Edwin Y. Webber, Amos R. Weeks, John W. Weems, Capcll L. Weisse, Charles H. Welborn, John Wharton, Charles S. Wilev, Ariosto A. Wiley, William H. Williams, John S. Williamson, John N. Wilson, William W. Wood, Ernest E. Wood, Ira W. Woodyard, Harry C. Young, H. Olin Zenor, William T. OFFICE BUILDING, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Office Building for the House of Representatives is to be a structure for purposes incident solely to the legislative functions of that body of Congress. It will provide offices for the membership of that body, the necessity of which has been apparent for some time, due to the tremendous increase in the business of Congress and the arduous individual service at present required of members. The law authorizing its construction was initiated in the House of Representatives on the tenth day of February; 1903, being presented to that body by Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, the present Speaker of the House of Representatives. The limit of cost of the building, exclusive of the site, was placed at three million one hundred thousand dollars. A Commission of the House of Representatives was selected to acquire a site for the building and supervise its erection. This Commission is at present composed of Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives ; Hon. William P. Hepburn, of the State of Iowa, and Hon. James D. Richardson, of the State of Tennessee. The clerk to this Com- mission is Mr. James C. Courts, Clerk to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. The enacting law placed the actual construction of the building in the hands of the Superintendent United States Capitol Building and Grounds, the present Superintendent being Mr. Elliott Woods. The site selected by the Commission is designated as Square 690, City of Washington, and is located adjacent to the Capitol Grounds, and directly southeast of the Capitol Building. As at present designed, the building will have a frontage on B Street Southeast of 476 feet, 2 inches ; on New Jersey Avenue Southeast, 470 feet, I inch ; on First Street Southeast, 452 feet, 6 inches ; and on C Street South- east, 348 feet, 9 inches ; a total frontage of 1747 feet, 6 inches, or approx- imately one-third of a mile. The architecture is classic, of the Roman Doric order, and the building will show but three stories above ground, in order to conform to its situation adjacent to the Capitol Building. Arrangements are made for not less than four hundred and ten individual offices, exclusive of all other rooms and spaces, the average size of each office being twenty-three and one-half feet by sixteen and one-half feet. Arrangements, within reasonable limits, have also been made for the future increase of the membership of the House of Representatives. The principal architectural feature within the building will be the rotunda in the principal entrance. This rotunda will extend from the ground floor through the entire height of the building, terminating with a dome under the roof, and supported on eighteen columns standing in a circular arcade, all of which will be enclosed in a circular wall or shell. On the line of the columns the diameter of the rotunda is fifty-seven feet, four inches, while the diameter of the encircling wall is seventy-five feet, six inches. The height from the first floor to the crown or "eye" of the paneled dome is sixty-eight feet. The next feature of importance is to be the Caucus room, flanked by its attending offices. This room is to be monumental in character, the architecture being of the Corinthian order. Spacious stairways, halls and elevators are provided at the four corners of the building; and other accommodations necessary for the uses to which the building is to be put are provided. The Superintendent, with the approval of the House Commission, selected as Consulting Architect, Mr Thomas Hastings, of New York Citv, a member of the firm of Carrere & Hastings, Architects, who is responsible for the architectural details of the building. HOWARD, PR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 369 183 4 i$ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS II"' II" 11! II' 111"" "' "ii#ii||i!ll |i| 014 369 183 4 *