Il Campidoglio nazionale, la sua architettura, l'arte e la storia. LL. E 'stato primo occupatodalla Corte Suprema nel mese di dicembre, i860. Questa camera semi-circolare è 75 fetetina lunghezza, 45 piedi di larghezza e l'altezza della samein. La piccola galleria ad est, che fu l'unica conservatedopo la rimozione del Senato, è sostenuta da colonne di marmo nero variegatedPotomac, i cui capitelli ionici, modellati secondo quelli del Templeof Minerva, sono cesellati da blocchi italiani. Era Latrobes design inoltre, dice Watterston, per sostenere una delle gallerie del Senatechamber con le figure emblematiche del

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The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . ll. It was first occupiedby the Supreme Court in December, i860.This semi-circular chamber is 75 feetin length, 45 feet in width and the samein height. The small gallery to the east, which was the only one preservedafter the removal of the Senate, is supported by columns of dark, variegatedPotomac marble, whose Ionic capitals, modeled after those in the Templeof Minerva, are chiseled from Italian blocks. It was Latrobes design moreover, says Watterston, to support one of the galleries of the Senatechamber with emblematic figures of the old Thirteen States, decorated withtheir peculiar insignia, and the models were actually prepared by one of theItalian artists whom he had engaged to come to this country; but a neglector refusal on the part of Congress to make the necessary appropriationsdefeated his designs, and the plaster models were afterwards thrown asideand destroyed. Beneath the gallery are four mantles, white marble, are carved in bas-relief, idea that in union there is strength.. The two in the center, which are ofThey are designed to illustrate theOn the one mantle, Hercules tries in The National Capitol 141 vain to break a bundle of fasces bound in bonds of harmony; on the other, laughing children snap in twain the single rods unbound. In cold weather, logs burn brightly in the fire-places to the north and south. Behind the darkred draperies, during each session, the justices, one at a time, are served witha light repast. They sit upon the bench before the Ionic pillars. LordChief Justice Coleridge of England, who visited this country in 1883, is theonly person remembered to have been honored with the courtesy of a seatwith the Court. Mr. Justice Miller, the senior associate justice, vacated hischair in favor of the learned visitor. The ceremony of opening the Court is impressive from its very simplicity.As the justices enter, the crier announces : The Honorable the Chief Justiceand the associate justic

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