Transport: Restful Shuttle

For almost 30 years pampered U. S. Senators have ridden 750 feet underground from the Senate office buildings to the Capitol, first in two rickety storage-battery cars, since 1913 by two monorail electric trolleys. All this time Representatives, who outnumber Senators 435 to 96 and are therefore a traffic problem, have had to walk through their tunnel from the old House offices to the Capitol. Last week, as Representatives were looking feebler than usual after rejecting Reorganization, they learned that Assistant Capitol Architect Horace D. Rouzer had told a House Appropriations subcommittee that Representatives might rest their legs as well as...

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