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The subject was now fairly before the House, and it may be cited as an example of fast legislation, that the bill was considered and brought to its final passage in the House on Saturday, February 13. To the surprise of both friends and opponents, the vote stood forty-eight for and but seventeen against. The bill then passed to the Senate, in which body a long and spirited fight ensued. It did not take a great while to demonstrate the fact that there was strength enough in the Senate to pass the bill, but the opposition died hard. A running right was kept up for many days, culminating frequently upon points of the most insignificant technicality — even narrowing down to grammatical criticism and fault finding with our choice of words.
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