Senator Hanway had undertaken no child's task when he went about the gavel elevation of the popular, yet--by House usage--the illegitimate Mr.Frost.
Months before ever Senator Hanway was granted the honor of knowing Mr.
Gwynn, he had been burrowingly busy about the Speakership.

As a primary step he was obliged to suppress his ebullient brother-in-law.

Mr.
Harley, the moment a conquest of the House in the interests of Senator Hanway was proposed, waxed threateningly exuberant.

He was for issuing forth to vociferate and slap members upon their backs and jovially arrange committeeships on the giffgaff principle of give us the Speakership and you shall become a Chairman.

The optimistic Mr.Harley, whose methods were somewhat coarse and who did most things with an ax, was precisely of that hopeful sort who would advertise an auction of the lion's hide while it was yet upon the beast.