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1G nAND-BOOIC OF WASHINGTON. In further describing the Capitol we shall speak of its various leading features separately, and in the following order: The new Senate Chamber, the new Hall of Representatives, the Rotunda, the Congressional Library, the Chamber of the Supreme Court (old Senate Chamber), the Court of Claims, the old Ilall of Representatives, the new Home, together with the Capitol grounds. THE NEW IIALL OF REPRESENTATIVES. The new Hall of Representatives is 139 feet long, 93 feet wide, and 36 feet high. It is in form a parallelogram, with galleries on cither side, affording room for 1200 persons, comfortably seated. Upon the floor are seats for 2G0 Representatives, arranged upon a semicircu lar plan, the scat and desk of the Speaker of the House being at the center of the semicircle, and in the middle of the south side of the Hall, which is one of the longer sides of the room. The ceiling is of cast iron, with large skylights. The skylights arc glazed with an ornamented glass, having in the center of each skylight the arms of a State or Territory, emblazoned in colored glass. The room is lighted at night by means of about