One morning Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, Congressman from Washington, went to Speaker Reed’s room to secure recognition from the chair to call up a bill of interest to his constituents. After some talk, Reed drawled: “Well, I guess I will have to grant your request, Lewis. I am not so ugly as I look.”
”Impossible, Mr. Speaker,” cried Lewis, bowing nearly to the floor; “utterly impossible!”
This greatly amused Reed, though the joke was on him.
Source:
Boller, Paul F. “In the Chair.” Congressional Anecdotes. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. 240. Print.
Original Source(s) Listed:
Watson, As I Knew Them, 37.
Clark, Quarter Century of Politics, II, 211-12.
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