Show USED TO BE fIGHTS IN CONGRESS Personal Encounters Were Not At All Uncommon Fifty Years Ago WILLIAMS AND DE ARMOND Their has eiles About Special to tire the Neuva Washington lice Dec 31 words ll IB III Ii a now member of the Iho house from rain tire the district of ot Georgia Ten were ere allowed him him thu oth other er or day to 10 make a few Cew remarks on tho tim till all Important question to lu his Iris section oC or to the states slates tire tho big cotton tax lax In that WItS was nus levied by b the tIre United States government durIng the Civil war var Both ami armi became unusually frolicsome while ho hu had tho the floor Most new would tiara have ha 0 been heen rattled rallied butt but not lol j 10 to o with Edwards lie He th turn the fun un that WIl poked nt lit hue hili heroically h for or ho he had hall a purpose In i t low iw Just after netI tire the venerable and arid long lors experienced exp Colonel Coonel died the he voters ohm or of the Rent a n Mr Mi hOve Overstreet to Washington to represent them lie He had only purl part of oh a n term Now ho he li is I mutter after the tine seat 01 of Edwards That IH Is why 1111 tho the mUter latter wanted to get got In Iii a II speech early on time the cotton tax lux Thunderous applause greeted his Iris leading points For In Instance stance when ho Ill lr said I am rum tho the son Hon or of ofa orIl ora a Il private soldier the tho members cheered on moth both sides They rhoy whooped when ho sold said this was at nl last a fl country and nn fairly went wild over IrIs his declaration that this tints Is h the thc greatest country on tho time face Cuco of ot the tine earth etc But Dut Edwards s got leave leava to extend his remarks mini with what ho he actually did say Eny interspersed with vitt so much loud applause o ho he will he be able ube Io 10 show how Ms his constituents that ho ire Is a n bigger man In Congress than they realty really supposed suppose HE I BELONG Poor Peter Porter what lots of If the congressmen aro are saying since the house committees have been announced Peter Is time the man nina who ho do de tented Representative Wadsworth up III In western Now New No York last year after actor Wadsworth had hn served sered nearly twenty years Porter was shut Rhut out or of both party caucuses on ocr arriving here and old Uncle Joe was actually mean enough to assign him Irim to Io the ridiculous house houpo committee known as ventilation and acoustic worse orse than limn be bo log InS on aim no committee at nil all Porter ran mu as nn an independent candidate Re Republicans Republican publicans publican disown dIson him and nd In placing his name on tho the list of o members It Is IR printed by order of o the tire house or of era er In Italics That Indicates In that a man mann Is a Democrat THE TIlE RETORT COURTEOUS A story Is being told on lIe tive Cushman of or the tha state ot o Washing ton to the effect that one of or his lI InS ing constituents claimed he ire Va was tIre the best beAt man aman at repartee on tho the Pacific How so IO this Uris man was warn asked Welt Well ono uric day he replied Cush Cushman taco man was making a speech al leeh before 10 people There was wits n a fellow In hr the audience wIle who ho did ld not mint agree with Cush Cushman man Iii In anything any thin he ire said sald Finally the tho fellow asked the congressman an Im Impertinent Impertinent impertinent pertinent question Cushman to show how quick ho he Is at repartee yelled back at him Shut your our domed mouth That was a squelcher I FIST FIGHTS ONCE OCE COMMON The Tho encounter en COUll tel between Congressmen Williams and Do Armond tho the other othel day duy in the hall In tit house hou e of o representatives causes cause the oldest Inhabitants to remark that list fist lights fights among con congressmen grossman gressmen are arc rare compared With Ith tho time happenings In the tho capitol DO to DOor toor or moro more years a ao yo Then Jhen T horn It was a J com cam common cammon mon thing to hear of o them and nd right In the midst of debates in the two branches Duels were vere common also In hI tIros days dora Tire The Armond battle battlo bring to mind that there was wag In I the tire Fiftieth Congress a J representative flom TUlla named Major Martin I it 1 von raIo ranchman who bl W v unit out tho time gum KOI tho tire unit ho In Major Martin got sot the tin lust work reek ho lie was WOd here hero limit hut mild Mid Ii felt tell right at Ut homo humo the thu night of or time h Democratic Dc 0 caucus when whon tho tIre lain inte Int Mr lr Blount of or Georgia and former br hud n it fight light It reminded luau him very vory ory much of or his hi bl part hart I of ot Texas when whon things thinKS unsettled A MAGIC luNG nINO Representative Hill of or Connecticut lias hM a n ring ed lust last summer I In tim which hl ll is II looked upon an art quite n it I curiosity by try iris hilt follow toll 0 I congressmen It him hilI a u turquoise sot ting tin and tha band Is U hl with carvings He lie says that tho lie Arabs gen Ren generally elaU have lh e rings ring and when lh they y get Ret Into trouble point Urn th finger bearIng It at the tile adversary and Ine drive away Time the evil one ono and the tho trick works hike Ilko a 1 charm OLD TIME METHODS I Away back In lii tire the forties theio thero wore welo two wo Democratic members of o time mouse hOUM named Ono One of ot them was IR known among iris hili legislative associate I an Old Sausage because ho hue brought to tn time the fur tiny day during tho the win whim tom tel a 1 luncheon that of o and amid bread which ho inc housed used to unroll arid and eat Olt In tIme the old ohl hall hiaTt now lin called statuary hall This ThIll Duncan a II force fierce debater and did not caro ho ii saId Raid in attacking attaching the Whigs One speech had a II of 0 cuts to show his hili contempt for Co I political j i I They included such pictures as ns a 1 snake 1 In the grass u ml dismal looking hookIng I with a Whig deposited therein |