The Sights and Secrets of the National CapitalBoD – Books on Demand, 22. 9. 2020 - Počet stran: 556 Reprint of the original, first published in 1869. |
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GOING TO WASHINGTON | 21 |
II | 27 |
The Federal City | 38 |
The City Burned by the British | 46 |
The Streets | 52 |
The New Capitol | 59 |
The Old Building | 65 |
Brumidis Allegorical Picture | 72 |
The Diplomatio Bureau | 278 |
XI | 286 |
The Treasurer | 290 |
The Treasury Building | 295 |
XII | 299 |
XIV | 319 |
The JudgeAdvocate General | 322 |
The Bureau of Orduance | 328 |
The North Wing | 81 |
The Post Office of the Senate | 87 |
The Upper Corridor | 91 |
The North Corridor | 102 |
The Library of the House | 108 |
The Basement | 111 |
The Committee Rooms | 113 |
The Senate | 119 |
Senator Morton | 125 |
John Sherman | 131 |
Senator Morgan | 137 |
Senator Yates | 138 |
Party Discipline | 146 |
Congressional Buncombo | 154 |
The BoySpeaker | 160 |
Horace Maynard | 166 |
Fernando Wood | 172 |
Perquisites | 179 |
THE LOBBY | 183 |
Congressional Lobbying | 189 |
The Result | 199 |
VI | 203 |
Congress and the Ring | 210 |
VII | 216 |
What it Costs the President to Live | 224 |
The Interior of the White House | 229 |
The Red Room | 230 |
Etiquette | 237 |
Importinent Gossip | 246 |
IX | 252 |
The Chief Justice 0 | 259 |
ChicfJustice Taney | 266 |
Salaries | 273 |
90 | 329 |
XVII | 335 |
The Cornmissioner of Pensions | 337 |
Benjamin Franklins Press | 342 |
Washingtons Commission | 348 |
XX | 357 |
The Inspection Office | 361 |
The DeadLetter Office | 362 |
91 | 364 |
The PostOffice Building | 368 |
Are Public Offices for Sale ? | 374 |
XXII | 383 |
The Institution | 390 |
The Fire of 1865 | 396 |
XXIV | 399 |
SecondClass Houses | 405 |
XXV | 412 |
Society ToDay | 420 |
The Receptions | 431 |
XXVII | 438 |
XXVIII | 442 |
XXX | 451 |
XXXII | 457 |
The Grave of John Wilkes Booth | 463 |
XXXIV | 466 |
XXXV | 472 |
The Bullock Press | 478 |
XXXVII | 485 |
XXXVIII | 494 |
XXXIX | 501 |
The Statue of Lincoln | 502 |
Public Grounds | 509 |
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