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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 72

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The discussions are reported somewhat more fully when the reporters were allowed a place on the floor of the senate, but it was not until the eligibility of Albert Gallatin was called in question, that the doors were thrown open to the public. (1793) Up to this time the attitude of the various members toward the questions that arose must be determined largely by their votes. The relative prominence of members in the senate may now be easily traced through the "Congressional Globe" where each speech or incidental remark or burst of laughter is reported, but the early reports are very meager.
On the day appointed (March 4, 1789) for the new constitution to go into effect, only eight of the twenty-two senators-elect were assembled at New York City. Others arrived and on April 6 a quorum was formed upon the arrival of Richard Henry Lee

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71 The discussions are reported somewhat more fully when the reporters were allowed a place on the floor of the senate, but it was not until the eligibility of Albert Gallatin was called in question, that the doors were thrown open to the public. (1793) Up to this time the attitude of the various members toward the questions that arose must be determined largely by their votes. The relative prominence of members in the senate may now be easily traced through the "Congressional Globe" where each speech or incidental remark or burst of laughter is reported, but the early reports are very meager. On the day appointed (March 4, 1789) for the new constitution to go into effect, only eight of the twenty-two senators-elect were assembled at New York City. Others arrived and on April 6 a quorum was formed upon the arrival of Richard Henry Lee