The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-16
TOM REED ON TRICKS
He Says the Republicans Never
Lost One Last Congress-.
HE PREFERS MILLS FOR SPEAKER
The Minority Will Make an Interesting Session
Stories of His Trip to EurOpe-He
VIII Publish Book.
lspecial to THE HERA1p-Examiner pigpatch

Me-, to interview Speaker Reed. Mr..
Reed was interviewed and here is a por
ton of the story the World publishes this
Saturday morning:
MIR. Reed had been encountered on the
street not far from the corner where stands
his house. He greeted the stranger to
Portland warmly, and asked him to walk
home with him. 1t seemed very natural,
quite like old times at Washington in 1885,
when the big man was plain 'Tom," Reed,
and when the writer used to walk down
the avenue from the capitol with him aud
listen to the lament of the Congressman
because he couldn't get bicycle strong
enough to carry him. That seemed his
only sorrow in those days.
The house is red brick, the door opens
into wide hall, at the right of which is a
large parlor and behind it the library.
Just as he had tossed his straw hat upon
the bench IN The hall the ex- speaker flung
himself IN gargantua nchair. He shook
his locks, passed his fingers through them
as If to comb out the cannon balls lodged
there during the great campaign in the
House. His light blue flannel shirt was
unbuttoned.
He threw his massive head back into the
cushioned chair. mo, sir, we never lost a
trick in the whole game" SAID the speaker
of the Fifty-frst Congress, Shaping his
chubby hands upon the arms of the big
arm chair in which he sat- or rather
sprawled after the manner of Talleyrand
IN the well-known picture. mot trick.
Play whist:n
"Yes'
"Then you understand what it means to
take the thirteen tricks. Well that's what
we did; nothing got away from u.s."
Do you expect to see the next sneaker
play the same game"
~ hope so. If the game Of politics is
worth Joining in at all, it should be played
with the best skill and judgment that one
possesses. Politics! It's business-all
business. How about the speakership!
You see, I've been away"
CRISP and McMillin show strongest on
| the surface at present." answered the
| correspondent. ''They are both working
hard, through their friends, pledging
votes.''
"And what about Mills?"
"He is keeping very quiet; he has been
in hidiag down at a small Asbury Park
hotel for some time. Nobody can find out
| what Mills is doing; but friends of the
| other two men insist that he isn't in the
hunt"
Pm sorry for that" was the thoughtful
reply. II like conviction. | always found
him fair opponent, though l did have to
| call him down once, when he and Rog-
ers, of Arkansas, got TO cattawumpusing
about the floor OF the House one after
noon"
That's a new word, Mr. Reed" said the
correspondent. did you find that at
Herculaneum. But its meaning is evil
dent. You suggest it as synonymous for
'fllibustering.'
mot exactly" replied the ex-speaker
seriously. ITO explain. Fillibus5ering in
! 1880 may have been all right, but in 1890 it
| had developed into absolute obstruc-
ton. Such methods always out
grow the intent and purpose for which
they were created. Familiarity with men
develops unexpected traits. The slightest
advance beyond or invasion OF vested or
constitutional rights is a dangerous step.
not in itself perhaps, but because of what
it may lead to. This very language was
applied to me time and again, know; but,
| God bless me, l was only trying to hold
down rather turbulent and numerous
minority to the bed rock of parliamentary
forms from which similarly situated
minorities had been allowed to slip in the
past. L was simply holding 'er nose agin
the Shore if the metaphor isn't too
strained. And | did it. Now l say let
Crisp, or McMillin, or Mills do the same
thing, if the next speaker has the sand to
make US walk the chalked line. The last
election spoke with considerable vigor re-
garding this same matter, and the minority
ought to hear the echo. But We'll make
things interesting for them, nevertheless. -
"Whom of these men would you prefer?'
81 am on good terms with all of them,'
was the reply. PERSONALLY, without any
disrespect to either of the other two, |
would be glad to have Mills next speaker
He has the capacity for the place
is good parliamen tartan, and as ! said
before sincere and frank antagonist
have always found him a quick, ready
man. Last session, when l was in the
speakers chair, he quoted me against my
self, and did it very cleverly. He was o.
K 1t was good politics."
"How did you parry the thrust"
Parry nothing!" exclaimed the ex-
speaker, laughing until fat covered up his
eyes as the crust of hot cross bun en-
CULTS the raisins on its surface. 81 never
said word. l couldn't afford, officially, to
notice remark made by one Reed. mem
Der from Maine, in a previous session of
Congress. Don't you see the point!' he
said with smile that broadened his face
until it became as round and jolly as the
moon on her fourteenth night. 81 treated
the matter as l would have done had an
other mans language in previous Con-
gress been quoted in his absence, but |
could have answered it, and | can yet, if |
FINANCE writers (no reference to Washing
lively session was ahead"
''You enjoyed your trip abroad?"
Every much indeed. / didn't try to dc
too much. ] simply stuck to England Hol
land, France and Italy. There's lots of
Europe for me to see yet"
Tell me all about the journey"
"Pd like to, but you see, Pve been asked
to write it myself and Pm afraid you'll
+olya ha adU ora off nv narrative },
"f you don't look out, Mr.. Reed, you
will become"
AZ know what you mean" intercepted
the speaker Pm liable to be ranked
among the d literary fellers.'
The Worlds correspondent, in order that
the sale of the ex-speaker's book may not
be interfered with, refrains from herewith
did not impress MIR. Reed. He went to the
salon several times, but the pictures die
not please him as did the paintings at Bur
lington house, and he's no Anglomaniac
Reed was much impressed with the honest
simple hearted women of the bourgeoise
in the provinces They are religious
housewifely and faithful so far as be
knows; most of them can tell their bead:
backwards as well as forwards, and every
lady the ex-speaker met had already beer
awarded the rosiere or was about to Obtain
it,
81 stopped off at Avignon on my journey
from Monte Carlo, l mean Marseilles >
resumed the ex -speaker as he lovingly ca
ressed Paris edition of the Letters d.
Mon Moulin" "for no other purpose thar
is visit the place where the pope's mule
was stabbed. Daudet never wrote anything
; quite up, to that story. Why, have told i
dozens of times, and even when recountet
in my imperfect way it has made a hi
every time. Nobody has kicked, not ever
the mule. The quaint old walled town i: