Excerpt from A Plan to Restore to the House a Real Deliberative Character: Speech of Hon. David J. Lewis, of Maryland, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, April 27, 1911 Mr. Chairman: I hope that I will be understood as being entirely sincere in confessing the embarrassment a new Member must feel, exaggerated in my case by the attitude I am com pellea, apparently, to take this afternoon. It is not an attitude of opposition to the bill, because it heartily meets my favor, but an attitude which may seem to older Members as rather forward in a gentleman as new as myself - a didactic or school master attitude. With this sincere apology I trust I shall not be misunderstood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.