"Vote! Vote!" Cardon bellowed.
Literate President Morehead banged his gavel and, in a last effort, started the call bell clanging.
"The motion has been presented and seconded; the amendment has been presented and seconded. It will now be put to a vote!"
"Roll call!" Cardon demanded. Four or five other voices, from both sides of the chamber, supported him.
"The vote will be by roll call," Literate President Morehead agreed. "Addison, Walter G."
"Aye!" He was a subordinate of Harvey Graves.
"Agostino, Pedro V."
"Aye!" He was a Lancedale man.
So it went on. Graves voted for the motion. Joyner voted against it. All the Lancedale faction, now convinced that their leader had the opposition on the run, voted loudly for it.
"The vote has been one hundred and eighty-three for, seventy-two against," Literate President Morehead finally announced. "The motion is herewith declared carried. Literate Lancedale, I appoint you to organize a committee to implement the said motion, at once."