| Show ii t SOME PERSONAL IN TUE Th HALLS BALLS OF o CONGRESS V THere lucre Have Dave Been Numerous Personal agreements In BOth Senate and House of Representatives Represent t tives moro mare or less ro ra raP J are ni e not panting for forIT fo P IT tho tM recent congressional fist fistfight fistfight 1 fight between Mr of at Dt DEI Armond ot of MIs pl and nd Mr j In times past some of at tho the most sf s representatives arid alid senators rs rsc enI t c f fought furiously in tho 1 chambers with lIsts linger finger nails nalla t tle Hubs cuspidors or bound copies congressional To cite c applying to 10 tho the Identical 31 a of the tho latest belligerents In tho the thoS 5 S w t senate an flu earlier Mississippian a Si a pistol and antl retreated from an anC C bit IId who bared his lila lilaC liland C sad nd boldly Invited the tho other to lo 1 S 01 Other senators grabbed Footo 1 s J I his b pistol Still others grabbed ring Benton There was no noD t D to this Interference 8 elnen aro just about as hu bu m other ether men Some congress gress a 3 Mand much abuse but ut few fo 11 un I being called liars In open t c tIng without trying to resent It Itt 1111 t Usually It Is tho the passing otle j He Ue II that causes the 1110 en cn In la congress Some Sorno members rs m Banters liars In longer r words using Se rire language to 10 express their mean f 11 ithan ban Is III necessary while now no and andla ta la the die He lie direct IS given School lp I S frequently content themselves A shouting Youre YoI e another but 1 dignity precludes this pIe method of evening up scores scoreR Disagreement undoubtedly stands as the tho them pIOn m free for all tight fight In the his Ms Ih of O congress however was not J about by giving tho tim lie One called another gentleman n a adding Injury to Insult Insull by chok jg birn Im ut at the th same samo instant This infraction of at tho rubs rales of I twirl W 5 opened the thc famous fracas of I Feb 2 1858 nearly half halt a century ago j There was an all night session of ot I Ito tho to house The matter under und r consid j was Wll President 1 go on the celebrated Lecompton j constitution for Kansas Should It be beJ J to 10 the tho regular committee on j territories which wad va Democratic or orI I tu IGa special committee CO Shortly before I In the tho morning young oung Galusha A Grow of Pennsylvania walked over overto j to the th Democratic DOll side of the tho house j While standing there he ho made mado B it in n ft the tho poor Door i t Lawrence LI t it M i ni of South I Carolina a slaveholder occupied a seat scat nearby cear by Keitt said aid sharply to Grow It U you aro are going to 10 object lI go back baele to 10 your own side of the tho hall haH This Thia Is a free frea halt hail and II nil every mem mom member ber lias a right to go where ho pleases retorted Grow GrOll GrOllI I 1 want vant to 10 know what you moan menu by hy luch an Oil answer an IS that thill demanded arising and striding over to Grow crow I 1 meant Just what I said that this 11 b a free hall bali and any man may go terii he lie pleases please I Ill Til let you know cried I clutching Grow by h time the throat that you OU aro a black puppy 1 Grow throw threw up his lila arm nail knocked grin grim loose Never Novel mind ho said Raid I shall oc occupy occupy cupy such place In this tills hall lieu as na I please and no driver shall crack Ills his whip over mo nie With this hits tho ho general engagement opened made mado another grab for fora foro a o rows throat Tho Th Pennsylvanian Pennsylvania I L tare faro out In Kansas was tunic tamo In 1 com comparison parison though more fatal to tho the par mu participants 1111 Dignified history does docs hot Include this thin after midnight battlo In Inthe tho the story ot oC tho timo struggle over tho the to Lu compton campion constitution tho the free freo soil fight In Kansas Yet Mr Grow Oral was wn fighting for lor the tho freedom ot of the hall bali it would seem that history should hould give j Tho TIlO letter Jailer thinking It wan WIM W who wh Imd haI struck him fiercely at nt hll Wo W Ont nt In 10 tim of oC his hut brother It t had a ft family and Wood blood is I thicket thicker than Hum water Mr Mi h Inlo be It II known wore a Ii awig awig wig not awara of ot if wrong suit Mill II 1 Striding riding down thoun UK h aisle Pt tImI million u nil its to 11 Mr IIII il r a h down Hi Ill t h o Everybody I d lighting fighting ng and into Two were in 11 thin fracas flit luMm A Grow was wu u the t lm fattier father of tin the Ih true fro homestead act uN which I has haM peopled lolled V L LI I Mi I i e j rf si iAtA ic icv v A AI I I lim t I J I II IA I t A 1 i iI ij I j 1 L dc J I Jf j r d 44 t fr i r I d dI I 4 I I Ica ca T mf 1 l ts REPRESENTATIVE JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS REPRESENTATIVE DAVID A DE ARMOND I I knocked him down Keitt got sot up and wont ent for Grow again Southern mom mem members bers sitting near neAl rushed to Keitts Keitt as assistance assistance Northerners rallied milled around Grow Grol Most of the tho meddlers were peacemakers bj l I intention but ut in the Ufe excitement they became belligerents some because they wanted to 10 tight light and others In III self sell defense It is said zaid that moro more than half time the members on the floor enlisted and und went Into action Tho The battle was brief brier but furious Hair Hull was pulled noses were punched lips were wore cut cui clothing was torn and other casualties resulted The Thc border bonier war var Place to such an affray even though It did end ond most ludicrously In congress at lit tho the time limo were welo the time two Washburne brothers Elihu of lilt Illi Illinois nois and of Wisconsin WI A Am member m named Potter Potte the tile two Iwo Wash burnes bombs and others were trying U to pro pre preserver servo server MiS Grow so that ho he could grow up to the tile as hu he h did three years later la tel and become a D famous na national figure Representative Barks dale dalo of Mississippi playing the role of ofa ofa lr lra a peacemaker caust hold of or Grow Potter under tho the Impression that the tho Mississippian meant harm halm to Grow hit this however when he ho grubbed harks BurIes haloS dales hall hair with one hand and struck out at him with tho the other To time the ut ul utter tot tel amazement of time the Wash Vash burne hair hall all nil came lume off In iii one bunch Ills His blow went wild and ami tho the force of ot It almost disjointed hl liU own elbow There he stood In midst of the time melee incite holding the time scalp of In iii his hili hand Those mem members bers who saw the incident ceased light fight fighting ing log in orde to laugh grabbed I his wig and anil put pill putH It H backon back on his 1215 head herta But DUt In his hasto hm to his shining pate hate ho lie put pul U Il t on rUm time the plains miamI and added lcd billions I to our national wealth Elihu B H through his Influence at nt Washington i kept Ulysses S Grunt Grant from froni being sidetracked and und snowed by h mismanagement at al atthe althe atthe the beginning of or the tho wu III Grow Groll had liati still three moro morn years work to get his homestead lull hill through congress and 1111 Washburne still had General Grunt to 10 It must mu t bo he ii admitted that the hO th lifting hItting of Mr wig was nUl worth all time the chagrin it cost ost that gen gemi gentleman That somebody might aught have hae hen been hurt ivon en killed but mit for tilt till timely Ios of the I he I Ii may ma Tic lP Indicated td by tin th fact thai lint um ori member tl us i observed lugging to ki 1 lie rear ream r ol ot or the time hall hail it Il t huge bilge metallic spittoon spit loon which hl ii had hail carried down don 10 tu the lime I front tot for usa tiso its is a aW W A Midsummer Hot Wave Aug Autt 27 SO SM I 1 was Wu n It lint hot day clay eh in Washington A tIght fight on tho the Helni Republican lican Fide Ide of ot tIle the house Increased 1 the thu Mr r Wilson of or tho time state of Washington anti and Mr of Now New ow Jersey INC were ere CIO tho hand to hand bellig heilig belligerents events hut but no less INS a personage limit Undo Uncle Joe Cannon Caution tho present speak cr er oC of tho tit th honker Indulged In lit u hue of or talk which thich precipitated the light It 11 appeals that flInt Mr dr Cannon find and Hilly Mason Milson 1 U Out onO of or his lila Illinois hoots Ii oliea aus who later latr r became a II senator were engaged In a 1 heated healed Interchange of language Cannon called Mason OIl u Ii with a it 1 qualifying adjective III in front Mason called Cannon an nil old blackguard with several sev r l ad ati adjectives jC Mr Mm 1 McAdoo of ot New Now Jersey remarked that Cannons Call nOli languages language was II ns that lint of ot a u stable boy bo Mr r re remarked marked that Cannons language was tas US outrageous and ho lie ought to be b cen COil censured by b the tue house Wilson ilson or of Washington a n little hItti tel fel fellow tellow low weighing about a Cl hundred pounds turned to 10 and aud said mid What do you Oll know about Cannon You are nrc not here often enough to t know kilow what whal l 1 ii 1 going on Youre a it 1 liar lIal a shouted More loro words wol s forcer fiercer O ic l words passed N Both Bath men amen struck at each lIeh other oth r Ono One hit hll a a x member who hI happened to tobo tobo bo ho in hi front ot or thur tho siring line lino Three or four other members got mixed up tip in III inthe the time light fight All Au were cre Republicans The Democrats looked on on in glee Sonic Some of them altered bets on certain bellig belligerents to win Will Finally the tho principals were caught and hOld held h down Iowa In 11 their statS scats CUd and the allah affair blow biet over Mr III Cannon was wu preserved to l history ItI tol antI and anI antInow now hits has the tho prerogative ati of censuring the tho house hols Instead of ot being censured c by It Senatorial Spats Spate III In time tho the foot lot nice ace of moro more than half a 1 century ago U lI there haY have been several II actual fights wWi with some Homo little bloodshed but no ItO fatalities Two of tile tho most notable of such stich affairs took place e in 1902 The was Willi between Senators Tiliman and aud both of 01 South Carolina who vho celebrated birthday by a II rough and tumble light In open aile II session of 0 the tho senate Tillman Tiliman had accused 1 of 01 having voted for the lh war treaty In exchange for certain patronage a white with rage arose and declared that the tue statement was a 1 willful nod and deliberate ate and and malicious lie Senator did not lIot pause pUI e for re rim reflection Ho lIe took a flying fI leap over three thee or four our chairs ChillIs Senator Teller of Colorado being tho lie occupant of or one and ami landed on Senator face fuco In turn landed on Oil countenance Mr Layton tIm the assist assistant ant sergeant at lit minus arms sought to sepa separate rate tile tho combatants getting a few hard halll licks himself Senator Teller and others finally assisted tOlI tIme the official In parting the two wiped a 1 little lit lie blood from his face ace and McLaurin rearranged his collar Time Tho senate C Immediately went vent Into executive tive session H slon to 10 ti preserve Its it dignity so 10 fur fill as 1111 was possible the tho galleries being full it spectators rime Tho next foray In the time senate took look place pinel tho ot or JUliO Juno following It 11 was vas a I matter of tout four months between fights Tho Timo participants were two of time the youngest amid most eloquent semi On One Memorable Occasion the Entire House Took the floor for Purposes Other Than Orator Oratorical OratoricaL Oratorical ical tors tnt in lii tho Iho body Jody ilos Io V italics of Ir IrlI ToNas lI nH declared war var nr against again 1 Alburt Ib of Indian Texan lied lind soul raid that limit a II certain IJ of it o time the state Flute department wn 11 either Incompetent or ot willfully W III fu II negligent It 11 I I so 10 o happened d that lint this was from Indiana rioth Bolh Senators St n and mId Fairbanks 1 resented e Balloy remark hell heir I fellow foliot 1 I do tie that tho thu was unwar ulIar Bailey to but bUl tho the tatter declined to ti withdraw it After Attel the senate adjourn adjourned od ed Texas strode over to Indiana with lowering brows brollA still occupied pled pied his chair Bailey Bullo Insisted that t tU U language was offensive and not hare hIVO been used Dove ridge any an Intention to offend say sayIng log Ing that ho lm merely had defended u a friend Under inder attack u Bailey Insisted that Dc m should think It Ito over r hours deliberation would not hot make mo mc change my mind said Beveridge Bailey lost control ot of himself te a u threat threatt he ha h leaped upon the voting Indiana senator grasped him bun by bytho limo tho throat mid amid lul pressed hint him backward I 1 Mr JIlt swung around in his hili effort to 10 free himself and vas waa forced forcell against his lila dos with inch uch violence that the HIP desk was waR w s torn loose from Its fastenings 1014 pushed into Inlo the aisle Other senators finally dragged Mr tr away tind hehl hint him until ho hl cooled down The Indiana man was re remarkably cool He lie simply walked to lu another seat scat sat down and lighted a cigar Not So Fierce Nowadays Before Delore the civil war var the belligerency of congressmen was VII even oven more than since I In the time heat of ef I debate over oler the tho slavery luo lIol and Its kindred problems members now lOW and then men drew and threatened to shoot In those days daya the dueling code furnished an all outlet to wrath Several duels were eme fought fou between of ot congress growing out of or words passed lasse on II IL I Is Isa a happy huppy circumstance that th practically all ull of or these thel c legislators l who light when they lose lase their tempers feel foci very cry vary orn afterward and manage to tomake tomake make up tip and be hit good friends lI Some Sonic years ago two congressmen en engaged hi Iii a n flat fist fight tight on tho timi loor ot of tho the house Time The ho next time they niel luct In Inane one of oi the th aisles their friends feared fen red an all another another other encounter The man muan who had hiatt been buen the tho aggressor turned turn l to 10 his op OI opponent anti and said naith Give mo nie a chew cume of ot tobacco The Tho other fished out his lila plug multi and presented I H tt with a L t how bow LOVE ARCTIC TRIP POSTPONED Commander Peary lemuy Issued a n state statement ment to tho the effect that owing to the tue failure of the ilie contractor to Install now boilers In III time tho arctic exploration steamer H In time tho time agreed upon up n the A 1 am olin expedition of tho time Peary Arctic club has been postponed |
