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...walls of Acre, from which Saladin's soldiers shower arrows, spears and boiling oil. The second comes when, finding that Saladin is not in Acre but Jerusalem, the cavalry of the two armies meet in a head-on collision on the edge of a ditch into which a quorum of men and horses roll with neighs and yelps. With these two scrambles out of the way, there is not much left to happen. Saladin, who turns out to be a broad-minded Oriental, proposes a truce which Richard accepts...
...have it," opined Speaker Byrns. Representative Deen and Republican Leader Snell jumped to their feet demanding a division. Forced to stand up and be counted, Representatives were far less willing to vote their real preferences: in against adjournment, 48 for. Republican Snell promptly raised the point of no quorum and Democrat Taylor of Colorado demanded a roll call. Forced to go on record, a still smaller percentage of Representatives were willing to defy the Democratic leaders: against adjournment 261; for 87. Another day passed and Franklin Roosevelt, facing his newshawks at the White House, answered a direct question directly...
There was a moment's pause. At that point on other occasions Senator Robinson regularly suggests the absence of a quorum. Though only four other Senators were on the floor, Leader Robinson broke his rule...
...work. Nevada's McCarran, the only Senator who appeared to wish the filibuster to go on, obliged by demanding another quorum, but this time Huey Long did not dare leave the floor for fear of losing his speech-making prerogative. Besides, the galleries were filling up with a new crowd-Washingtonians who preferred listening to the Kingfish to watching the Shriners parade in the rain. Going to the clerk's desk Long snatched up the official list of Senators...
...whereas Long had only two quorum calls to give him rest, LaFollette was assisted by 30 quorum calls that consumed a total of 7½ hours...