{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So a comment in a letter I was reading from 1898\n(\u201cTo think of you witnessing that row in Congress Wednesday afternoon!\u201d)\n\n led...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/167333657178/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://yeoldenews.tumblr.com/post/167321325012/so-a-comment-in-a-letter-i-was-reading-from\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">yeoldenews</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>So a comment in a letter I was reading from 1898\n(\u201c<i>To think of you witnessing that row in Congress Wednesday afternoon!</i>\u201d)\n\n led me to come across a forgotten episode of history that I feel needs to be re-remembered\u2026</p>\n<p>It seems the heated debates in Congress over whether to authorize military intervention in Cuba (the Spanish-American war would be officially declared\u00a0 12 days later) led to a book/fist fight on the House floor.</p>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"5666\" data-orig-height=\"756\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_oz0mqugRlD1qb8oku_540_ec3ea42c7e24.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"5666\" data-orig-height=\"756\"/></figure><figure data-orig-width=\"2473\" data-orig-height=\"2040\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_oz0mr7kpJ21qb8oku_540_a2ce919af6d1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"2473\" data-orig-height=\"2040\"/></figure><figure data-orig-width=\"4707\" data-orig-height=\"727\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_oz6dxoCVpW1qb8oku_540_f01b22fc69e3.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"4707\" data-orig-height=\"727\"/></figure><figure data-orig-width=\"2345\" data-orig-height=\"858\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_oz6dy4oVLW1qb8oku_540_fc7278370742.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"2345\" data-orig-height=\"858\"/></figure><p><a href=\"http://yeoldenews.tumblr.com/tagged/rachel\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel\u2019s</a> cousin Will was on spring break in DC at the time and apparently witnessed the entire thing from the House Gallery.</p>\n<p>I read some other letters from that week to see if anyone else mentioned the fight and Will\u2019s cousin Edith had this to say:</p>\n<p>\u201c<i>I think it was perfectly disgraceful, think of our dignified American Senators flinging books at each[other], I would liked to see them do it though, if it had to be done.</i>\u201d<br/></p>\n</blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_inline_oz0mqugRlD1qb8oku_540_ec3ea42c7e24.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 540, "thumbnail_height": 72}