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SCENE IN THE SENATE LOBBY
During the secret session which immediately precede the vote the lobby of
the Senate was crowded with Representatives, reporters, and citizens anxious to learn the
nature of the speeches made by the several Senators. Every hall and corridor, every
stairway and lobby, and every yard of tenable space from the rotunda to the farthest
corner of the Senate wing was occupied. The hungry crowd was "voracious for
news." Occasionally a Senator came out to get his lunch at the adjoining refreshment
saloon. He was at once surrounded by his friends, and scrap by scrap the news was wrenched
from his reluctant lips.
IMPEACHMENT -
Reporters and Citizens in the Senate
Lobby Seeking Information
during the Secret Session.
May 30, 1868 page 340
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