howdy martin. and he had been through to the civil war from the start. he raised a cavalry outfit in texas and he had fought through and he knew something about violence. he carried a bowie knife on him, there being no metal detectors. what howdy martin wanted was to tell him now is the time to rush the speaker's chair and lift this fat republican out of it and get down to business. all he wanted was the word. someone said, crazy howdy, crazy martin has it in for you, and you'd better watch it. and reed didn't care, didn't flinch. his family records that when reed went home after one of the three days of this brutality directed against him, rhetorical brutality, he laid down in a cold sweat and shuddered. but the democrats would have been astonished to hear that because he seemingly -- he was unflappable to look at him. the way he fought back was by showing no emotion. the democrats finally had to admit this was some demonstration of -- >> so the disappearing quorum went away. >> it did. he had the majority votes and he told them that they were here and