Incidents of the Fight by Night, from Ben Perley Poore’s Reminiscences, 1886

Representative Covode (PA) wields a spittoon while Representative Washburn (WI) pulls off Representative Barksdale’s(MS) wig.

Reproduced from Perley’s Reminiscences of 60 Years in the National Metropolis, by Ben Perley Poore, General Collections, Library of Congress