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• “A message was received from the senate by Mr. EARLY, who informed the house of delegates that the senate had accepted their invitation to attend the delivery of the addresses of the commissioners from the state of Alabama.”

  Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.

• “A message was received from the senate, by Mr. TOWNES, who informed the house of delegates that the senate had passed a bill entitled an act to provide more efficient police regulations at the poor-houses of this commonwealth: in which they respectfully requested the concurrence of the house of delegates.”

  Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.

• “On Saturday, June 22d, the list of delegates to the Convention having been drawn up as the Republican Machine intended, Mr. Taft was nominated by a vote of 561; Roosevelt received 107, La Follette 41,”

  Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography

• “A message was received from the senate, by Mr. THOMPSON, who informed the house of delegates that the senate had concurred in the amendment proposed by the house of delegates to the amendments proposed by the senate to house bill entitled:”

  Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.

• “A message was received from the senate by Mr. WICKHAM, who informed the house of delegates that the senate had passed”

  Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.

• “We know it can be boring; we even know of delegates who prefer hanging around at Standing Orders Sub-Committee rather than staying in the hall.”

  Conferences are Murder

• “Resolved, that the house of delegates of Viriginia have received, with deep sensibility and regret, intelligence of the death of their late fellow member, William Garth of Albemarle.”

  Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.

• “A message was received from the senate, by Mr. LYNCH, who informed the house of delegates that the senate had passed a bill entitled an act to authorize the county courts and any incorporated city or town to arm the militia of their respective counties, cities and towns, and to provide means therefor, No. 19: in which they respectfully requested the concurrence of the house of delegates.”

  Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.

• “A message was received from the senate, by Mr. BRANNON, who informed the house of delegates that the senate had agreed to the joint resolution upon the subject of the coercion of a state, and a resolution for a joint committee to confer with the commissioners of Alabama.”

  Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.

• “Moreover, representation was apportioned geographically, meaning a preponderance of delegates from the rural parts of the state, “honest well-meaning country men,” according to one typical assessment, but “intirely unacquainted with such high matters.””

  Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

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