America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 366 Republican party leader?I have to be beaten too!

Scott is in a very happy mood today.

The Democratic Party in New Mexico is indeed a bunch of worms, vulnerable.

If they do a little trick by themselves, they will be defeated.

As usual, he walked into the hall of the State Senate as usual.

The group of people who took care of the Democratic Party still has a wolf they raised that needs to be dealt with.

However, when Scott walked into the hall, he found that something was wrong.

The Democrats are not as demoralized as they expected.

They sat safely in their own seats, whispering to each other.

What surprised him the most was that Congressman Harlem, sitting in the front seat, was staring at him intently.

Scott didn't care.

What qualifications do you have to provoke yourself when you are defeated?
If he can be regarded as the leader of the Republican Party, Haring is at most a leader in the Democratic Party, with no cards at all.

This is also one of the reasons why the Democrats won control of the Senate in the mid-term elections, but they still cannot beat him.

These people have their own ideas, and they are scattered.

Scott didn't go to see Harlem, but sat back in his seat.

Every move is the gesture of a winner.

The meeting started.

The whole agenda is smooth.

As usual, some small budgets and proposals went through quickly and smoothly.

Democrats took issue with some parts of it, but did not mount a strong resistance.

Fella as always is unbearable.

The three or four non-partisan Senates have always followed the trend and have no special opinions.

The meeting seemed to be ending peacefully.

Scott stepped up to the stage.

He will personally present the last proposal for this meeting.

"As we all know, the Chinese problem has always been a deep-rooted problem in the western United States. For this reason, the federal government introduced a bill the year before last to restrict their naturalization."

The old man glanced at the manuscript in his hand and continued.

"Our state, in the spirit of liberty and equality, did not legislate this bill alone."

"However, since the beginning of this year, the problem of the Chinese has become more and more serious! More and more Chinese have circumvented the bill and obtained American citizenship in a special way."

"This makes the bill exist in name only!"

"Chinese appear in Santa Fe! Appear in Albuquerque! Although we don't have specific numbers for the time being, they are a real threat to the survival of local people!"

"In addition, they established a Chinese town in Roswell and set up a militia organization, which posed a huge threat to the surrounding area!"

Scott spoke in a high-sounding manner, as if he was not the one who approved the Roswell construction proposal.

"So, I propose."

"First, ban the militia organization in Roswell Township. It will be considered illegal for Chinese to possess weapons without the approval of the state government!"

"Second, re-examine the identity of Chinese in New Mexico! If citizenship is obtained through illegal means, it should be revoked and deported!"

Scott read from the script on the stage, reading the content of the manuscript in his hand.

The bill has passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

The Democrats raised no objections.

Generally, the two parties will not have any big differences on this kind of matter, not to mention, the Democrats who denied the establishment of Roswell before were also Democrats.

Therefore, Scott believes that this bill will pass without any suspense.

However, the old man hadn't finished reading yet, and Congressman Harlem in the audience had already stood up.

"You were the one who wanted to build the town in the first place! Now you are the one who drove out the Chinese! Is it interesting to backtrack?" Harlem slapped the table and roared.

Scott was stunned, and the Republican congressmen behind him were also stunned.

Did Harlem take the wrong medicine today?

Standing up and talking suddenly at this time is completely out of line with the process!
The speaker coughed: "Member Harlem, it's not time for free debate yet, please let Senator Scott finish his speech!",

Scott waved his hand at the elderly speaker, signaling that he would take care of it.

"One moment, another moment, we needed Chinese to work for us before, but it doesn't mean they can seize the resources and employment opportunities of other citizens!"

He suppressed his anger and spoke slowly.

"You're just kidding! How do you make those Mexican and Hispanic citizens think of us? You are overdrawing the credibility of the state government!"

Not to be outdone, Harlem was furious, as if he had taken gunpowder, changing his previous image of a gentleman.

"Mr. Harling, I think your behavior is degrading as a state senator. The state senate is a sacred place, and you can't bring your personal emotions here."

With a victor's smile on Scott's face, he looked down at Harlem and the Democrats.

"Fart your fart! You want to defeat us with some ghostly tricks?"

A foul language suddenly burst out of Harlem's mouth.

Everyone was in an uproar.

The people sitting in the State Senate are all decent people. Even if there are disputes with each other, they are resolved in a more civilized way.

More often, the two parties have already communicated in private.

Exploding foul language here is unheard of.

"What did you say?! You have the ability to say it again!" A young republican was so excited that he stood up from his seat and pointed at Haring's nose.

Harlem yelled and cursed, and his language was extremely vulgar.

The hall became lively, and people from both sides joined the "cursing group" one after another, scolding each other across the speaker.

"Silence! Silence!" The old speaker shouted hoarsely, "You won't be able to solve the problem like this! You will be ridiculed by the people."

However, no one paid him any attention at all.

Harlem was the loudest.

Before coming to this meeting, Chen Jianqiu said to him earnestly: "The reason why you can't win against Scott is that one is not united enough, and the other is that you are too gentle."

"I know Scott better than you. He is a rogue who does everything. If you still treat him like a gentleman, you can't deal with him at all."

Harlem agrees with Chen Jianqiu on Scott.

But his long-term education told him that it seemed that cursing people in the Senate was not what a gentleman should do.

"Would it be too much to do this?" Haring hesitated, "After all, since the founding of the United States, there seems to have been no examples of extraordinary actions in Congress? If we do this, what will the people think of us?"

Chen Jianqiu smiled.

He pulled out a piece of paper that Holmes handed him:
1798 Connecticut and Vermont congressmen duel with sticks and pokers.

In 1837, the speaker of the House of Representatives stabbed an Arkansas representative to death in the House of Representatives for "insulting" him.

Senator Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery senator, caned Senator Charles Sumner unconscious in 1856.

You told me there was no fight in parliament?
"What happens in the Senate, the people outside don't know."

He patted Harlem on the shoulder: "Let go of the idol burden, you should scold and beat, think of your predecessors, and restore the glory of American democracy!"

Thinking of this, Harlem felt that the scolding was not enjoyable enough.

He picked up a document on the table and threw it at Scott.

However, the documents were obviously not as smooth as the book, and they scattered in the air and fell to the ground.

Harlem jumped out from behind the table, and rushed towards Scott who was still on the table in two steps.

The old man was about to open his mouth to question Harlem who rushed over, but he suddenly swung his fist at him.

The Democratic senator, in his prime, hit Scott in the face with an old punch.

Scott only felt his eyes darken, his nose sore, and he took two steps back.

A sharp pain came from the bridge of the nose.

"He's crazy!" Scott staggered towards the stage while clutching his nose.

Harlem chased after him, but was stopped by the young Republican who had scolded him just now, and the two scuffled together.

As a result, the situation is out of control.

There was chaos in the Senate hall, and the members broke into one another.

Some of them grabbed each other's clothes and hair, one by one, and became entangled into a whole;

Harlem's behavior thoroughly inspired the soul of the West in them.

Wild, filled every corner of the West, even in the Senate.

The few non-partisan independent congressmen stood aside with their shoulders folded, watching tremblingly.

The overall lineup of the Democratic Party is slightly younger, with one or two more people, so the fighting power is slightly stronger.

They quickly knocked Republican senators headed by Scott out of the Senate.

Yes, physically punched out.

Other people in the parliament building, for example, the members of the House of Representatives didn't know what was going on, and they all came over to fight, which stopped the fight.

Haring led the New Mexico Democrats to victory in the brawl.

On the Republican side, Scott's nose was broken, other hair was ripped off, clothes were torn, and the number was even greater.

It was the first time since the Civil War that the Democrats had defeated the Republicans by force.

A moment to remember.

Haring returned to the Senate chamber singing along with his disheveled Democratic senators.

They can't wait to go back and have a drink now.

Just like when they were young.

After that, the state legislature was suspended for at least two weeks to calm the nerves of those on both sides.

As for Scott's bill, it's even more nothing.

(End of this chapter)