If there were any obvious good to be accomplished by such a rule, if there were any exigency seeming to require the sacrifice, I should welcome it; but I put it to Senators, whether experience in Executive Session does not show that it is unnecessary.
Sumner questions the necessity of a new rule, suggesting that existing practices suffice for effective discussion.
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