Uncle Hiram, a countryman, makes his first visit to the national capital. He arrives at the station, visits the equestrian statue of General Wm. Teeumseh Sherman, sees the Washington Monument, and is surprised at its height of 555 feet. He sees the Capitol from the top of this monument. He goes into the treasury, where he meets Lee McClung, treasurer of the United States who shows him $10,000 in gold, then forty million dollars in ten thousand-dollar gold certificates. He is shown a receipt for the largest single money transaction in the world. Leaving the treasury he sees the White House: the statue of Andrew Jackson; takes a walk along Pennsylvania Avenue and sees the Library of Congress. Coming to the White House, Uncle Hiram sees the members of the president's cabinet leaving, and recognizes Secretary Meyer of the Navy, Secretary Wilson of Agriculture, Secretary Stimson of War, Secretary Hitchcock, Postmaster-General, Secretary Nagel of Commerce and Labor, Secretary Fisher of the Interior, and Attorney-General Wickersham of the United States. Uncle Hiram recognizes Admiral George Dewey, and is shown the guns the admiral captured at Manila. He sees Major-General Leonard Wood, chief of the staff United States Army. Within the White House are shown the executive offices; the East Room (this is the first motion picture ever showing the interior of the East Room). Interior of the president's office; W.M. Pennell, the president's private doorkeeper; Rudolph Foster, assistant secretary to the president, and Major Thomas L. Rhodes, the successor to Major Archibald Butt, martyred hero of the Titanic. Outside the White House, Uncle Hiram sees two of the president's bodyguard mounted on motorcycles. Then he catches a glimpse of the president himself leaving the White House. Having seen all there was to see in the city, Uncle Hiram leaves for home.