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Show HULL BREAKS THE NEWS. A large parcel of legislative consternation occurred oc-curred last Thursday afternoon, when Speaker Hull of the House arose, his attenuated form quivering quiv-ering with dignified agitation, and announced that Apostle Smoot had taken the oath of office and acquired ac-quired a commodious upholstered seat in the United Unit-ed States Senate. The House had under consideration at the time Bill No. X, An act for the separate maintenance of church and state. The effect of the unexpected announcement of Presiding Bishop Hull of the M. I. A., was magical. magi-cal. Elder Willard Done's placidly wooden visage j assumed a smile so seraphic that it burned like an incandescent halo, and Legislator Abraham Hy-rum Hy-rum Nash looked as if he had been smitten amidships amid-ships with a Comanche arrow. Joy and jubilation veneered the faces of the rest of the Smoot coterie. co-terie. In the intensity and expansiveness of his elation, Brother Nash went hurtling goutily all over the city and county building, lustily vocifo- rating the news through the door of every office in that haven of ephemeral statesmen. Even the engineer and elevator boy were notified of the momentous mo-mentous ceremony. Gladness expanded and gleamed on the bonnie " features of the Highland triumverate, Bishop McKay Mc-Kay and Bishop McFarland. The effulgent whiskers whis-kers of Bishop Spry and Bishop Richards and l Bishop Gardner bristled like the glistening spears of a triumphant host or the gently wafted banners ban-ners of victory. Mrs. Coulter, in her excitement, crushed the kindergarten bill so hard that you could hear the children Just at this point horror became rampant for one awful moment. Some Legislator (not a bishop) bish-op) with the soul of a demon incarnadined whispered whis-pered the suspicion that in the hurry and excitement, excite-ment, Fussy Jimmie might have been sworn In , instead of the lank apostle. The excitement was acute and feverish and le-mained le-mained unabated until a dispatch was received from Fussy James, stating that to avoid that probable prob-able contingency he had left Washington the even. J ing before. Having again acquired a normal respiration, the House then resumed the consideration of Bill No. XX, an act defining and regulating senatorial and apostolic duties. |