First to reach the tree was a 4-year-old redbone coon hound named Rudd.
All other members of the senate responded by barking; some cried "arf," some cried "woof," and others imitated the long-drawn bugling of the redbone hound.
Most of them, horrified at the thought of being considered bloated capitalists, favor leftish causes of one kind or another, and at times have struggled over them like redbone .