Precisely at 2:00 o'clock one afternoon the assistant doorkeeper of the Senate spoke out in a loud voice, interrupting the deliberations of that body and announcing the arrival in the chamber of nine Representatives. Vice President Dawes immediately ordered that the visitors be assigned seats and then announced, "The Sergeant at Arms will make proclamation."
Thereupon the Sergeant at Arms cried:
"Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the...
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