but they're wrapped by the great thadias stevens giving one of the last speeches everybody knows he's not long for this world. that goes on and on in 1877. there are little pages sitting down here as part of a really lengthy process in 1877 to solve the problems related to the disputed presidential election of the previous fall. it's so lengthy that some of the poor fellows here on the steps oh it was roster have fallen asleep. some look plane exhausted. one of the things the artist is letting us know, this is late at night, it's going on for a long time. it might feel a little tedious to the average joe which is what the page stands in for. pages weren't just in the chamber, of course. they were out and about doing other things. >> one of the things that the pages would do in the 19th century prior to having a lot of staff on capitol hill, pages performed a lot of administrative jobs that staff do now. one of them was to have go out sometimes late at night and round up members from the boarding houses or from their hotels from a late night vote. we have a wonderful memoir by a page w