Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 318
n the Speaker vr:goes through a similar announcement,always concluding with the drearywords — words that call up hideousvisions before the eyes of sleepy clerks they voted ! Then Senator Merriman resumedhis speech. After talking for a while, to give hisopponents time to disappear and get to sleep,… … will call the roll ! We had some memorablefilibustering in my day. Onthe night of May22, 1874, a greatcontest, in theSenate, over acertain bill, cul-minated in twen-ty hours of \vork !The majority haddetermined thatthey would sitthe bill out thatnight. So they as-sembled in force,ready to pass…
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