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Show Even Scroll Work Goes Sen. Lodge Fights Futile Battle To Save'Cheery Old Capitol By Frederick C Othmaa WASHINGTON This day X have spent dodging red-hot rivets riv-ets in a little roofing Job. A little $9,000,000 Job, that la, on the U. S. capitoL It'a coming along fine, too, under the expert ex-pert ministrations of two shifts of steelworkers, who get $4 per day when they work overtime. I don't think the place la going to leak when they get through; neither is It ever going to be the same. And aa for the snuff boxes, which have been causing senators to sneese ever since 1&3S, I don't know what's going to happen to them. Neither does Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Mass., who Is patrolling thee precindts and sadly shaking bis need. The Irreverent ones, aays the old-fashioned gentleman from Mass., claim the remodeled senate sen-ate chamber will look like a cocktail lounge de luxe. He disagrees. dis-agrees. The marble wainscot-Ing, wainscot-Ing, the stainless steel celling (painted a neat cream color, of 1 course), the lack of daylight, and the stone columns are going to turn the cheery old place, he says, into a replica of a first national bank. Cold, clammy, and lacking In human warmth. I'm afraid I must agree. 4 Vale Fight - Sen. Lodgvmade a vain fight to keep the senate the way it was, by all means fix the roof, he cried, but leave the p re-Civil war Pullman decor Intact. What was wrong, he demanded, de-manded, with a rug of parlor-car parlor-car green, wookwork of mahogany mahog-any brown, and walls th. shade , of fresh putty ? Why throw away the cockroaches that fumlgators have been killing them off aa they emerged from the gilded picture frames. I don't suppose there Is sny better way to tell how the historic his-toric chamber la going to look than to quote from the continuing con-tinuing debate between Sen. Lodge and Sen. Carl Haydea of Arts.,- chairman of the rules committee. Sen. Haydea explained that the gallery walls would have a wtnacotlng -of marble four feet high and that tha doors sad wood trim would be replaced. Ivea Door Frames "Are those nice old door frames with the scroll work on them going to go?" asked Ben, Lodge. "Exactly," aaid Sen. Hayden. "That is a great pity," said Sen. Lodge. Sen. Hayden said the treatment treat-ment of the celling contemplated contem-plated a series ot decorative coffers. Sea. Lodge said what were coffers and why did anybody any-body want to put 'em on th roof? Sen. Hayden aaid he waa no architect; he did not know. "And in the center of the celling cell-ing there will be Introduced aa ornamental rosette," he continued. con-tinued. "A what?" roared Sen. Lodge. "A rosette, the field ot which will be a carved glass," replied Sen. H. "Air conditioning will be introduced through perforations perfora-tions In the stainless steel celling cell-ing . . ." Sen. Lodge subsided unhappily. unhap-pily. Wharwas the use? Copyright United Feature Syndicate uie wonaenuuy quaint glass panels la the celling? "There seems," he - moaned, "to be a desire amounting almost to a mania to dehminate all traces of by-gone architectural atyle and artiatle effects so that the whole of Washington will have a dreary, bone-yard classical classi-cal uniformity." Sen Lodge continued his battle bat-tle to reteia the senate as architect archi-tect Thomas U. Walter designed it nearly a century ago, but -his fellow lawgivers were unimpressed. un-impressed. By some )e assistive assis-tive abaca da bra, they managed eiot even to vote on the senator1, plea. . Now it'a too late. The glass la the ceiling with the stste seals hss gone. Air hammers have chipped down the plaster In the galleries to the ancient red brick. A duct to carry off excess rain water at the moment mo-ment is threading through the press galleries. The continued rattlsdebang has so stirred up |