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SOUTHERN BLOOD
BO|LS EASILY
Therefore Heads Are Lost and
Fists Fly Around Nations
Capitol.
BY Ernest G. Walker.

| WASHINGTON, D. c., May 31.-The
biggest fighting arena in the country
is at the Capitol. No Congress passes
into history without some efforts at
physical violence, by men who have lost
their tempers. For many years visitors
were shown an ink sploteh in the old
committee room of the House Naval At
fairs, where an irate Missourian, by the
name of Tarsney, had thrown pot of
writing fluid at the head of an offending
colleague-and missed him.
Nowadays all the visitors to the gal
leries of the Senate want to be shown
the rotund and youthful looking Senator
from Texas, Mr.. Bailey, and they also
inquire whether one w. Sinkler Man
ming is seated at one of the high
benches in the press gallery where the
correspondents watch the proceedings of
the Senate. Their fine mixup the other
day, right in front of the mahogany
portal to Senator Aldrich s Committee
room, has been the dominant theme of
a week, which will be gossiped about
long after the debate over the sugar
schedules and the increase in the duty
upon potatoes is forgotten by all except
those who administer the laws.
The Northern men in Congress rarely
figure in these encounters. They do not
lose their tempers so quickly. Call a
Southern man liar or other like Of
fensive name and he will fight upon the
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told back home and his home folks
would snub him and ostracize him when
he returned. No one, of course, likes
| to have his honor or his veracity i'm
| pugned, but the Northern Congressman
finds some other way to retaliate.
But the Northern men have their
| quarrels, often of very bitter nature.
There is probably score of Republican
Senator's who are not on speaking terms
with all their colleagues. One con-
spicious case of their present session
might be mentioned-that of Senators
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, and Dolliver,
of Iowa. No one knows just what
passed between them, but they had a
heart to heart wrangle some weeks ago,
lengaged in the plainestskind of talk and
the one hates the other cordially. But
they did not come to blows. Time and
again they approach the very limit of
parliamentary law and etiquette in what
they say about one another, but they
respect that limit.
The House has had quarrel scene
Missiles have been flung in open session
and during the days just preceding the
Spanish war, there was a pile up OF
members right on the floor. Repre-
sentative Bartlett, of Georgia, threw q
book at Representative Brumm, of Pen
nsylvania, and there followed most
turbulent scene. In the earlier, and as
many pessimistic people claim the better
days of the Republic, such affairs were
followed by challenges and sometimes
by duels. Nowadays the combatants
glare blankly at one another for week
or two or month or two and ther
! make it up and become fairly good
friends.
No one marvels when the nimblt
: Senator Beverage of Indiana. trips
over to the seat of Senator Bailey OF
. Texas and sits down for a most earnest
conversation. Their relations are en-
tirely friendly. But it was only a few
years ago that, one afternoon, just after
the Senate had adjourned, the quick
tempered Bailey, walked over to the
, seat of the Honorable Beveridge anC
elutched him by the throat, pulled out
, his cravat and mussed him up quite
generally before the bystahders separat
ed them. Mr.. Bailey barely missed be
ing in contempt of the Senate, but the
, wise ones argued it out sagely that as
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could have been no contempt. Senator
Beveridge is very plain spoken at times
, He has frequently angered older Sen
ators both by his words and his manner
Some of them thought Senator Bailey
on that occasion had some provocatior
although they never for moment
: sanctioned his method of showing re
sentiment.
1t was altogether different when tht
two South Carolina Senators. Tillmar
and MeLaurin, started biff bang con
test right on the floor when the Senate
was in session. That was contempt OF
, the Senate beyond all question. TIL,
doors were closed in twinkling and thu
: indignant Senate went into executive
session. 1t suspended the two fer
South Carolinians. President Roosevelt
, recalled White House invitation tt
Senator Tillman and the air of all Wash
, ington resounded with discussion of tn,
incident. Both Senators had to apollo
gize to the Senate in the most abiec
terms and it was many day befor
any of their colleagues were willing t.
receive them personally or socially.
The Bailey Manning episode occurre,
In the public corridor, adjoining tn
Senate chamber, after adjournment, an,
j there was no question of contempt il
: their scrimmage. Manning, like tn
Senator, is a Southerner and would no
stand for being called worse nam
r than liar.
e The rules of conduct for a Senator
l as well as for Representative, hav
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