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Show Vice President Learned aulckly. Vice-President Fairbanks Is proving an apt pupil In tho role of presiding officer of the United Hlalos seuntc For a few days ho v. a clearly worried, wor-ried, and on one or two ilnn actually became rattled The senate; was about to go Into eicctillve soaston one afternoon and Mr Fairbanks Intended to order tho serceant nt arms to "clear tho galleries nnif close tho doors." Instead, In-stead, ho directed that official to "clear tho door and cfuso tho galleries." Tho first day In ntado a slip. Ho was administering; tho oath ot effleo to new senators and. having commit' text tho oath In memory, did not mak ttso of tho book tu guldo him. A a result he Inadvertently omitted that part of tho oath referring to "mental reservation or purpose of evasion." |