of Boxhall’s dramatic revelation. He promptly sent his marshals up to Boston, to serve Engineer Gill, Captain Lord, and the Californian‘s officers with subpoenas to appear before his committee on Friday, April 25, in Washington DC, where the hearings were being moved. The press, which by now was following the committee members and their assistants everywhere they went, quickly picked up the scent of a good story in the making, and that Friday morning the hearing room was packed. The Inquiry had shifted to Washington for the simple reason that the facilities at the Waldorf-Astoria were inadequate to the committee’s needs; also, the public’s interest was threatening to turn the hearings into a circus. At one point, on the third day of the Inquiry, a group of women collectively marched into the hearing room, and not finding enough room for them to be seated together as a body, immediately began rearranging the furniture to suit their convenience. Smith, tight-lipped and furious, promptly ordered the ladies to cease their disruptive behavior, on pain of being forcibly removed from the hearings.
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