[The Gilded Age Part 5. by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Gilded Age Part 5. CHAPTER XLIII 7/10
But I wish the New York papers would talk a little plainer.
It is annoying to have to wait a week for them to warm up.
I expected better things at their hands--and time is precious, now." At the proper hour, according to his previous notice, Mr.Buckstone duly introduced his bill entitled "An Act to Found and Incorporate the Knobs Industrial University," moved its proper reference, and sat down. The Speaker of the House rattled off this observation: "'Fnobjectionbilltakuzhlcoixrssoreferred!'" Habitues of the House comprehended that this long, lightning-heeled word signified that if there was no objection, the bill would take the customary course of a measure of its nature, and be referred to the Committee on Benevolent Appropriations, and that it was accordingly so referred.
Strangers merely supposed that the Speaker was taking a gargle for some affection of the throat. The reporters immediately telegraphed the introduction of the bill .-- And they added: "The assertion that the bill will pass was premature.
It is said that many favorers of it will desert when the storm breaks upon them from the public press." The storm came, and during ten days it waxed more and more violent day by day.
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