of newiam henry seward york, henry clay of kentucky, stephen douglas of illinois, hannibal hamlin ofaine, daniel webster of massachusetts who was cast from michigan, john c. calhoun of south carolina and john huston of texas and that is just the beginning. this was the very apex of the golden age of the senate. visitor goes into that chamber, everything is clean and fresh-smelling. if you were to bring back a senator from the 1830's they would probably double over in laughter. like the floor of the stock market merchandise exchange before the closing bell. it is the only place where people had a place to work. there was paper everywhere. epicenter's desk in the senate chamber was his office. there was no other place to go. noimagine, no electricity, heating or air conditioning. there were spittoons here as well. >> those pristine, cleaned new carpets would not have looked like that for very long. looking at those spittoon sitting in the senate chamber tells you a lot for every senator had a spittoon. every senator proudly disregarded trying to get the spittoon so there were patterns

. >> william henry seward of new york come a henry clay of kentucky, stephen douglas of illinois, hannibalof maine, daniel webster of massachusetts, john c calhoun of south carolina, and sam houston texas -- that is just the beginning. this was the very apex of the golden age of the senate. when a modern visitor goes into the chamber, everything is gleaming and clean. if you were to bring back a senator from the 18 -- 1830 period, they would probably double over in laughter. wasn't like that at all. this was like the floor of the stock market merchandise exchange just before the closing bell. it is the only place where people had a place to work for it -- work. a senator's desk in the senate chamber was his office. there was no other place to go. >> i mention electricity, no furniture. there were some spittoon sphere as well. well.toons here as >> looking at those spittoon's in the senate chamber, it tells you a lot. every senator had a spittoon. every senator disregarded trying to hit the spittoon. as a result, there are patterns all over the floor. >> do you know who charles dickens was,

. >> william henry seward, stephen douglas, hannibal hamlin of maine, daniel webster of massachusetts c. calhoun of south carolina and sam houston of texas, and that is just the beginning. this was the very apex of the golden age of the senate. modern visitor comes into the chamber everything had been cleaned. if you were to bring back a senator from the 1819 or 1833, they would probably double over in laughter. it just was not like that at all. this was like the floor of the stock market merchandise exchange just before the closing bell. [inaudible conversations] it was the only place where people at a place to work. paper everywhere. as senators desk and the senate chamber was his office. there was no other place to go. >> imagine, no electricity, no furnace. and spittoons here as well. >> pristine, cleaned do carpet would not have looked like that for very long. looking at those spittoons in the senate chamber tells you a lot. every senator had as the ten and proudly disregarded trying to hit the spittoon. the result was patterns all over the floor. >> drop his money back. he would

. >> william harry seward of new york, henry clay of kentucky, stephen douglas of i'll, hannibal handlandmaine, daniel webster of massachusetts, luis cass of michigan, john c. calhoun of south carolina and sam houston of texas. that's just the beginning. and this was the very apex of the golden age of the senate. when a modern visitor goes into that chamber, everything is gleaming, clean, and the air is fresh smelling. if you were to bring back a senator from the 1819 or 1830 be period, they'd probably double over if laughter. it just wasn't like that at all. this was like the floor of a stock market merchandise exchange just before the closing bell. it was the only place where people had a place to work. there was paper, paper everywhere. a senator's desk in the senate chamber was his office. this was no other place to go. -- there was no other place to go. >> imagine, no electricity, no furnaces. and then spitoons. you see some spitoons here as well. >> those pristine, clean, new carpets wouldn't have looked like that for very long. looking at those spitoons sitting in the senate chambe

see william henry seward of new york and henry clay of kentucky, stephen douglas of illinois hannibale of maine, daniel webster massachusetts who was cast in michigan john c. calhoun of south carolina and sam houston of texas and that's just the beginning. this was the very apex of the golden age of the senate. modern visitors go into the chamber and everything is clean and fresh smelling. if you were to bring back a senator from the 1819 or 1830 period they would probably double over in laughter. it just wasn't like that at all. this was like the floor of a stock market merchandise exchange just before the closing bell. it's the only place where people had a place to work. a senator's desk in the senate chamber was his office. there was no other place to go. >> imagine no electricity, no furnaces. and spittoons. you see some spittoons here as well. >> those pristine clean new carpets would not have put like that for very long. looking at those spittoons sitting in the senate chamber tells you a lot. every senator had a spittoon and every senator disregarded as a result of patterns al