Twenty Years in the Press Gallery: A Concise History of Important Legislation from the 48th to the 58th Congress: the Part Played by the Leading Men of that Period and the Interesting and Impressive Incidents. Impressions of Official and Political Life in Washington

Publishers Printing Company, 1906 - 497 pages

The Member of Congress II	11

The Work and Pay of a Congressman	16

The Civil Service Law and the New Lobby	22

At the White House	27

The Private Secretary	33

The City of Washington	38

The Fortyeighth Congress	43

Orville H Platt	45

Financial Legislation in the Last Twenty Years John Boyle	161

PART II	165

Nelson W Aldrich David S Barry	175

William B Allison Walter Wellman	180

Joseph W Babcock N O Messenger	184

Augustus O Bacon Archibald W Butt	187

George Gray	197

Fred Starek	224

Title	Twenty Years in the Press Gallery: A Concise History of Important Legislation from the 48th to the 58th Congress: the Part Played by the Leading Men of that Period and the Interesting and Impressive Incidents. Impressions of Official and Political Life in Washington
Author	Orlando Oscar Stealey
Publisher	Publishers Printing Company, 1906
Length	497 pages

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The Morrison Bill	53

The Mills Bill	58

The Fiftyfirst CongressThe Reed Rules	63

When Speaker Reed Counted a Quorum	67

The Battle of the Quorum	71

The Battle of the Quorum Continued	80

The Closing Scenes of the Quorum Struggle	89

The McKinley BillThe Silcott Theft ΙΟΙ	101

The Fiftysecond Congress	105

The Fiftythird Congress	110

Edward W Carmack	111

The Wilson TariffSenator Gorman	115

The Bitter Debate Over Wilson Bill	121

The Fiftyfourth Congress	124

Richardson	125

The Fiftyfifth Congress	129

The Dingley Tariff Bill	134

The War With Spain	141

The Fiftysixth and Fiftyseventh Congresses	145

Allen G Thurman	148

William A Clark	150

The Fiftyeighth Congress	153

A Glimpse of Cockrell	155

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