11 o'clock
`` It is to-day that I appear before the ways and means committee , is n't it ? '' Langdon queried of his secretary . `` Yes , '' said Haines , consulting his memorandum book . `` At 11 o'clock you go before ways and means to put forward the needs of your State on the matter of the reduction of the tariff on aluminium hydrates . The people of Mississippi believe it has actually put back life into the exhausted cotton lands . In Virginia they hope to use it on the tobacco fields . '' `` Where does the pesky stuff come from ? ''