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Show WOMAN CONDUCTS HOUSE BUSINESS For the first time this session, a woman acted as speaker of the house of representatives repre-sentatives for a brief time yesterday. Speaker Tolton bein called from the room for a while, he asked Representative Grace Stratton-Airey to preside in his absence and requested Representative Rust of Kane county to escort her to the chair and occupy the speaker's stand with her. Representa tive Stratton-Airey conducted conduct-ed the -business of the house for fifteen or twenty -minutes most successfully. |