Everybody is drunk, more or less, and they are noisy to have some fun with you." It was even as he said.

Everybody, more or less, was drunk--especially the provisional speaker whom Mr.Randall had placed in the chair--and when we arrived and I was led a prisoner down the center aisle pandemonium broke loose.
They had all sorts of fun with me, such as it was.

It was moved that I be fined the full amount of my mileage.

Then a resolution was offered suspending my membership and sending me under guard to the old Capitol prison.

Finally two or three of my friends rescued me and business was allowed to proceed.