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Show SPEAKER SHIFTED HIS QUID. Thla was Done So That No Partiality Could Be 8hown. Doctor Hlldrcth, In his "Memoirs of the Early Settlers of Ohio," devotes a chapter to Abraham Whipple of Rhode Island. He was born In 1733, and was one or the first to take a hand In tho revolutionary war. In 1786 ho was elected a representative to the legislature from the town of Cranston. The advocates of the paper-money system were then In power, and had chosen Othnlel Gorton, a clumsy old man, for speaker. Gorton was In tho habit of keeping a large quid of tobacco in one side of his mouth, which pressed out one ot his cheeks. Most of the debates wero on thp opposite side of the hall from that on which Commodore Whlpplo sat, and the speaker's face was commonly com-monly turned that way. Onco in tho course of the debate Whlpplo had cogitated a speech, which ho waited for an opportunity to deliver. de-liver. At last, out of patience, ho rose and called, "Mr. Speaker!" Ths speak-.or, speak-.or, whose face was turned the othor' way, did not hear hlni. He raised his volco to its utmost, "Mr. Speakdrt Gorton started, nnd turning to the commodore, said, "I hear you." Thereupon There-upon Whlpplo began: "I wish, Mr. Spoaker, you would shift your quid of tobacco from your starboard to your larboard Jaw, that It might give your head a cant this way, so that you could somotlmes hear something from this Bide of tho house." Then ho went on with his speech. |