He made an apology, and, as the apology was ample and his deliverance is slow, the apology enabled him to consume some more minutes of precious Government time.

And then, having failed to find fault with the estimate for what it did not contain, he proceeded to assail it for what it did contain.

Here again he was out of order, for the estimate was prepared exactly as every other estimate had been prepared for years.

This answer was given to him.

But Jimmy went on--gulping and obstructing, obstructing and gulping.