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Show J CONGRESSMAN SEES WASHINGTON The day after congress adjourned Ed Keating of Colorado entered on what-rconsiderlng that he is a con-gressnian--was an odd form oT vacation. vaca-tion. Accompanied by his wife, Keating Keat-ing became a Washington tourist. '"Well. I suppose the first thing ! we ought to see,"; suggested the congressman con-gressman to his wife, "is the eapitol.",. "The wh-a-a-t!" 'The eapitol," repeated Keating. "I've been in it. of course, several hundred hun-dred times, but have always bad something some-thing on my mind. Many's the time 'hen I've seen guides pointing out the historic fiintings to tourists that I had cursity to know what they were abo' but I always figured that I could j.ist as well wait until I wasn't quite S" busy." S' they hired a guide and were show., about the eapitol. Then they climbed aboard a big rubber-neck 'agon an, listened to the megaphone man as he nointed out the homes of a: " y - the Nation's great men. After that thev went up in the Wash ng -went. Keating had seen it a thousand times or saw it irom me i bis h.Hel room, but never before had he been up close to 1 i. , Oh, they took in everything-the tomb of a'?' Vernon, the Lee mansion at Arlington, the bureau ' n n, I Blon bureau, because Keating is on the pension committee fce ry Wte they paused to buy souvenir postcards to send home to friends. |