we are surrounded by edwardian onulence. the walls are not guilty of understatement. style and decor and color scheme that we see here has been carefully restored to resemble its appearance more than a hundred years ago. when people come into the senate chamber on guided tours, and they look up, they'll see a dramatic oval skylight. which is part of the 1906 design. and they will see small hand-painted monograms v.a., standing for virginia up in each corner of the oval. and when they look around, they see the circa 1908, 1910 wall designeds with dutch metal paint that gives you the gold guilding. they see plasters wrapped around the chamber. if they are coming to the chamber during session, they wouldn't be on the floor. but they would be in a dramatic spectators gallery. there is a sweeping semi circular gallery for the general public that is along the back of the chamber that gives everybody who comes a bird's eye view on the activities of the senate. and jefferson wants people to come to this capitol building. he himself said wherever the people are well informed,