[70] Ibid., 1870, 178.
[71] Ibid., 149.
[72] House Deb., 1869, 139; 1870, 191, 231. Sen. Deb., 1870, 705.
[73] Sen. Deb., 1870, 639-40. House Deb., 1871, 87, where the gentleman from Orleans declared that he would not come to order, and did not heed the sergeant.
[74] House Deb., 1869, 294.
[75] Ibid., 1871, 90.
[76] Carr had come from Maryland in 1865, was now twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, shrewd and wily in the extreme. House Misc. Docs., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 217.
[77] Crescent, Jan. 26, 1869.
[78] House Deb., 1871, 135-6.
[79] Ibid., 1869, 111-12. The following statement of the speaker establishes the fact for 1871 clearly: “I will not allow while I am speaker of the House, to have spirituous liquors brought into the House. I must maintain the dignity of this House, if the House will not maintain its own dignity. I do not desire such a thing shall be done again.” Ibid., 1871, 114.