Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-09
| NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. Ez-SPBAKER REED TALKS. A Reception Rendered Him
 in Washington.
 CHAS. PARSONS ELECTED PRESIDENT At the New England Road
 Meeting Yesterday. \ SCH00nER'S ROUGH pASSAeE. A BOOkkeeper Arrested for
 EInbeZzlement. l
IN HONOR OF Ex-sPEAKER REED

| IN HONOR OF EX.SPEAkER REED A Brilliant Reception Rendered to the Gentleman from Maine in Washington Last Evening He Talks on the Actions of the Pres ent Congress-A Masterly Speech. WASHINGTON, March S.---A reception was given this evening to Hon. Thomas B. Reed of Maine at the National Rifles
 armory by the National Republican Auxil- iary Association. Senator Perkins presid- ed and congratulatory addresses were
 made by MT. Burrows of Michigan and
 others.
 MT. Reed said: ''Only one year ago last
 Friday-only one short year ago-on
 March the 4th, 1891, had occasion to ad- dress an august assembly in the presence of many spectators. The republican party had been subjected in the election just be- fore to the severest reverse but one in all it's history. All that parti- san malice could do had been done Reproach, clamor, recrimination and derisive epithet were at high tide on every shore and seemed to be rolling land ward still. I ventured then and to that ouo1CaCO GO CApI0So ny uusuoACh SOhh- dence that time would do justice to the house of representative of the Fifty-frst congress and that the verdict of history, the only verdict worth recording, would place the men of the majority on the list of those who had done the state service. With all my faith, however, I did not dream the verdict would be so swift, 80 sure and so complete. But history in this age and in this land of surprises does it's work for the living as in the old time for the dead. Time has not yet justified all we did, but the catalogue is already large and every day brings it's just additions. Since the new house came the majority have shown how incapable they are to cope with tariff revision. Unable to make warp and wool of their own they have confined themselves to trying to shoot holes through the cloth we have. Disabled by prejudice and pas sion from adopting in entirety the admir- able system of rules left them by their predecessors, they have reused cries of shame from their own party by the ruth less manner in which they have surpassed even their own false description of our acts. Since yesterday there remains but one sol itary shred of foundation on which they based their outcries and reproaches of two years ago, and that remains in defiance of the opinion-the unanimous opinion-of the supreme court.
 Our works do follow us. Only two years ago these men connected the name William Mckinley with every de1isive ep- ithet and every term of reproach. Elected since then governor of his great state by the greatest majority of recent times, he has lived to see returning prosperity jus tify his work and crown him with honors. The charges or extravagance and waste are in like fashion falling to the ground. All the rest of the country will soon know it as we'll as you know it in the District of Columbia, where you have seen that the only attempt to reduce ex- penditures has been on items like that on streets whereby the growth of the nations capital will be impeded, and like that on school books, whereby are lessened the chances of education of the poor. Mean while the republican party turns it's shin ing face to the future, now as ever the one hope of progress of the people,"
 After the speechmaking the floor was cleared and the evening was passed in dancino