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Luther gets a girl for himself in Battle-burg, makes himself there a homesick kind of home. All day and every day for weeks the Tohannocks and the Hehonees stand in full Indian regalia in the capitol lobby for the assemblymen to see. All day, back home at Ball's Wharf, Sarah Sprouse, whose husband John has died, dreams of Luther. Finally she begins to write him love letters on the sly. But Bengo Sprouse finds out, tells his brother Willis, who is a deputy sheriff, and who has been making up to Sarah himself. When, after the Legislature...
...first ballot nobody got a majority of over half the votes, the necessary minimum to elect. But M. Doumer had failed to win by only seven votes. M. Briand by 48. The result, to a practiced parliamentary eye, was decisive-for a large block of centre National Assemblymen were known to have pledged themselves to vote on the second ballot for whomever received most votes on the first. M. Briand promptly withdrew his candidacy, and soon after left Versailles for Paris where, as he admitted, "feeling a little faint," he went early to bed. At Versailles the vote proceeded again...
...Lansing, Michigan's capital, state senators and assemblymen, many of them fathers of large families, spoke harshly of him who spoke so boldly. It was undiplomatic to offend the legislators. They make yearly appropriations for the university. Many a pessimistic citizen envisaged the legislature, outraged, refusing its usual generous allowance to the state's education. And in 1927 when Dr. Little asked $4,925,000 for lands and buildings the legislature granted him only $3,950,000 which by Governor's veto was promptly cut down...
This "general ticket" or "block vote" method, which is used in New Jersey to elect blocks of state assemblymen by counties, in 1919 gave 37,386 Democratic voters of Essex Country 12 senators, 37,003 other voters none...
Nonetheless, the advantages will be tremendous. Thieves who desire to be immune from arrest need only array themselves as bearded assemblymen to pass unchallenged through the whole police force; poor factions--unable to support a lobby--may disguise themselves as representatives and vote in favor of their own bills. Indeed, the possibilities of disguise are so endless that the idea is bound to spread. It only remains for the lobbies to disguise themselves as the Ladies' Auxiliary to complete a tangle which even the great Sherlock Holmes could never unravel without the aid of a false nose...