I am satisfied of that." "All right, then; grant that it does good; go on with the preliminaries." "That is what I am coming to.

First, as I said, they will try a lot of members for taking money for votes.

That will take four weeks." "Yes, that's like last year; and it is a sheer waste of the time for which the nation pays those men to work--that is what that is.

And it pinches when a body's got a bill waiting." "A waste of time, to purify the fountain of public law?
Well, I never heard anybody express an idea like that before.

But if it were, it would still be the fault of the minority, for the majority don't institute these proceedings.