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dangermousie...really don't know their history.
Congress is ridiculously decorous compared to how it used to be.
E.g. this bit from wiki on a Congressional brawl in 1860 about a brawl started by Laurence Keitt: "Keitt started a massive brawl on the House floor during a tense late-night fillibuster. Keitt, objecting to an argument from Pennsylvania Congressman (and later Speaker of the House) Galusha A. Grow, dismissively demanded that Grow sit down, calling him a "black Republican puppy". Grow responded by telling Keitt that “No negro-driver shall crack his whip over me.” Keitt became enraged and went for Grow's throat, shouting that he would "choke him for that". A large brawl involving two dozen representatives erupted on the House floor, ending only when a missed punch from Rep. Cadwallader Washburn of Illinois upended the hairpiece of Rep. William Barksdale of Mississippi. The embarrassed Barksdale accidentally replaced the wig backwards, causing both sides to erupt in spontaneous laughter."
Yeah.
I really need some books on 19th-century American history, I find the period fascinating.
Congress is ridiculously decorous compared to how it used to be.
E.g. this bit from wiki on a Congressional brawl in 1860 about a brawl started by Laurence Keitt: "Keitt started a massive brawl on the House floor during a tense late-night fillibuster. Keitt, objecting to an argument from Pennsylvania Congressman (and later Speaker of the House) Galusha A. Grow, dismissively demanded that Grow sit down, calling him a "black Republican puppy". Grow responded by telling Keitt that “No negro-driver shall crack his whip over me.” Keitt became enraged and went for Grow's throat, shouting that he would "choke him for that". A large brawl involving two dozen representatives erupted on the House floor, ending only when a missed punch from Rep. Cadwallader Washburn of Illinois upended the hairpiece of Rep. William Barksdale of Mississippi. The embarrassed Barksdale accidentally replaced the wig backwards, causing both sides to erupt in spontaneous laughter."
Yeah.
I really need some books on 19th-century American history, I find the period fascinating.
