Congressional Serial Set

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

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Page 1518 - And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true, and knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if made under oath, and by virtue of the Canada Evidence Act.
Page 1332 - COMMERCE, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 416, Senate Office Building, Senator James Couzens presiding.
Page 1690 - GREETING: WE COMMAND YOU, that all business and excuses being laid aside, you and each of you appear and attend before...
Page 1260 - ... vote of each member present, a person for senator, and the person who receives a majority of all the votes of the joint assembly, a majority of all the members elected to both houses being present and voting, shall be declared duly elected. If no person receives such majority on the first day, the joint assembly...
Page 1490 - The critic said that no one ever went aloft to shift over a gaff-topsail, and that he knew what he was talking about because he had seen many gaff-topsails shifted over from the deck. Yet I, on a sevenmonths' cruise in a topmast schooner, had gone aloft, I suppose, a hundred times, and with my own hands shifted tacks and sheets of gaff -topsails. "Now to come back to 'The Game.
Page 1586 - We will recess now, gentlemen, until 2 o'clock. (Whereupon, at 1 o'clock pm, the committee took a recess until 2 o'clock pm) AFTER RECESS. At the expiration of the recess the committee resumed its session.
Page 1411 - The CHAIRMAN. We will now adjourn until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. (Thereupon, at...
Page 1681 - ... to the West Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River, and via the Sag Canal and the Little Calumet and Calumet Rivers to turning basin No.
Page 1158 - The CHAIRMAN. We will adjourn until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. (Thereupon, at 5...
Page 1635 - Hines stated that a subpoena had been issued for these men or that a subpoena might be issued for them if Mr. Cook kept on talking? Mr. WIEHE. I think he said a subpoena might be issued for them. Mr. FARRAR. That is your present recollection? Mr. WIEHE. That is my recollection ; yes, sir. Mr. FARRAR. Did you find Cook and O'Brien at the hotel ? Mr. WIEHE. I did. Mr. FARRAR. Where? Mr. WIEHE. In the Grand Pacific Hotel. Mr. FARRAR. What did you say to them ? Mr. WIEHE. I told them that Mr. Hines had...

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