Fierce Battle In Hungarian Chamber.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 18, 1912:
Free Fight Between Deputies, and Police Called in to Expel Rioters.
LEGISLATORS LIKE MADMEN
Six Policemen in Some Cases Needed to Remove One Deputy — Count Karolyi Faints After Freeing Himself.
    BUDAPEST, Sept. 17.— The Hungarian Parliament, which began its session today, was the scene this afternoon of a free fight between police and Deputies. The violence was unprecedented, and the din of trumpets, motor horns, and cowbells continued all day long.
    Count Stephen Tisza, President of the lower house, who was jeered from the moment he entered the Chamber, surrendered the chair at 3 o'clock to Vice President Beothy, but the uproar did not abate. At 4 o'clock a strong force of police entered the building. Count Tisza, who was in the lobby, declared that he would summon the police into the Chamber itself if necessary. This was eventually done.
    A Commandant of Police called upon individual Opposition Deputies to leave the House. About 100 of them gathered in the middle of the Chamber, while their leaders, Count Apponyi and Count Zichy, stood at the gangways, and were joined there by Count Andrassy and Count Semsey, who are not affiliated with my particular party. All attempts to induce the Deputies to depart peaceably failed. The police advanced to expell them, and a terrific struggle ensued, in which fists were used freely.
    In some cases it required as many as six policemen to remove a single struggling legislator. One had an arm nearly pulled from its socket. Count Karolyi, who has had several experiences of the kind, struck out like a madman and succeeded in freeing himself from the police at the door. He rushed back, and fell fainting on a bench.
    After a prolonged struggle, only Count Apponyi and fourteen Deputies were left. The Count told the Police Commandant that they would depart voluntarily if the police went first. This was done. The seats, which had been piled up as barricades, were restored to their places, and the Government Deputies returned to the Chamber.
    Count Tisza then addressed the Deputies, declaring that business could not be carried on, nor could it be checked, by means of children's trumpets, and the discussion of finances was resumed.
    The Socialist Party has decided to hold a street demonstration to-morrow evening in favor of universal suffrage.
    Stormy scenes were witnessed in the Hungarian Parliament at its closing sittings in June, which culminated in an attempt being made to assassinate Count Tisza. The President of the chamber was shot at three times by an Opposition Deputy, Julius Kovacs, who then fired two bullets into his body, wounding himself seriously. The Count escaped unharmed.
    Count Tisza was elected Speaker on May 22. He is an opponent of universal suffrage and on this issue his election was contested with a bitterness that resulted in violence in the Chamber and in bloodshed in the streets.