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Show NOTES OF THE PERFORMANCE. A House clock which marks time at 9:20 p. m. Thursday. March 9. may be started again today and allowed to run to midnight, mid-night, before It is captured and retired Into private life by one of the House members. e e There Is really a chance for adjournment adjourn-ment today. e Representative Joseph hld the chair for an hour last night, while the House was trying to decide whether to work or not, and fined Spencer snd Hopes for taking ta-king State property. Spencer was sentenced sen-tenced to pay a fine of four dozen oranges, and when the gentleman In the chair asked Hopes whst he would like to be fined. Hopes promptly replied that he would pay for a drink for the crowd. There was no hesitation over the acceptance accept-ance of the fine. . "Death to Deficits; or How to Cut an Appropriation Bill by Raising the Appropriation." Appro-priation." was the title of a drama perpetrated perpe-trated on the House floor yesterday, e o a Sergeant-at-Arms Snow gave a very lifelike imitation of Joseph at the mock session of the House last night. |