The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-04-11
BRYAN MADE REED SAD
Then The Car From Maine Scored The
Nebraska Cyclons
A LOT OF SHARP TALK
There Was Not Much Business
Disposed of While the Two
Statesmen Told Their Tales
to tho House.

WASHINGTON, April l0.-Thero was
question to-day when the house met as 10
tho order oi business. An attempt was
made to consider somo senate amend
iiehts 90 the bridge bill, when Reed argued
tnat the house must proceed to a vote on
tLe motion 10 discharge tho warrants is
sued 10 the sergeant-at-arms under the
resolution of March 10 for the absentees.
The motion came over from last Satur-
day. Reed contended the house pre-
sented an unseemly spectacle, rs the
members were under threat OF arrest and
that the report of the sergeant-at-arms
should be disposed OF as matter of the
private rights of the members. 1t was
decided to allow the whole subject TO go
over until tomorrow.
The bills we're passed for the protection
OF game in the Yellowstone park and for
the punishment of crime in the park by
tension OF the law and jurisdiction of the
wyoming United States district to its ter
rltoryi TO grant chief justices in the terri
tories power To appoint commissioners 10
take proof in land cases.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the postofilce Appropriation
bill. The pending question was the point
OF order raised by Henderson against the
amendment offered by Dunphy OF New
York, to prevent tho manufacture OF post
age stamps by the bureau of engraving
and printing under the contract recently
awarded. Tho point OF order was sus-
tanned. An amendment to reduce from
s2iS,oO 10 $4,000 tho appropriation for
tho manufacture OF stamps was adopted.
An amendment providing that all pub
llcatlons purporting TO he issued period
ically 10 subscribers but which are really
books or parts of books. to be subject 10
the rates provided for third class matter
through the mails was adopted. The fight
against the appropriation of Sl96,3l4 for
SPECIAL mail facilities on the trunk line
from Springfield, Mass, via New York
ana Washington TO Atlanta and New Or
lear.s then began.
in the course of the debate Bryan of Ne
, braska took the floor and ostensibly
| speaking 10 the amendment, made reply
TO recently published letter of Reed to
{. L. B. VouGhan, of Hutchinson, Kas.. in
which he criticised Bryan for using :in lis
! speech in Denver, an extract from one OF
his lieea's) Boston speeches. Bryan
stated the extract he used had not been
taken from its contents: that he had
used all of the published report of tho
| speech. Moreover he stated that Reed $
| letter of explanation was written deliber-
ately and reiterated practically the idea
contained in the speech from which he
| quoted. He proceeded to characterize the
speech rs an appeal to sectionalism, an
| appeal TO the selfishness of New England.
| While Reed told tho West that all the
states were equally interested in tho pres
crvation of the protective tariff, he told
Massachusetts she was most interested.
Ii was a remarkable utterance from the
leader of the republican party. He called
attention TO a discrepancy in Reeds let
ter. He spoke of his reference TO the
Wilson bill in the speech, whereas the
Wilson bill was not reported until a month
after the speech as delivered. He
called attention to Reeds letter, he
said, because he did not want some west.
ern republican proceeding on the samo
line to argue that tho tariff should be
wiped out in order that the West might
start upon her manufacturing.career and
finally achieve the power and prestige
now enjoyed by New England. lie wanted
the country 10 know Reed: while he stood
| up for protection for the whole country in
the halls Of congress, in Massachusetts he
held up the question Ignorance of the
South' and tho "Rapacious West" and
pleaded for special privileges for New
England. democratic applause.
Reed listened to Bryan attentively.
When he had finished, Reed arose. The
| incident was of little importance. he said.
Its only significance was that Bryan had
taken what he had said in Boston and put
IT forth in Denver as Reeds positive de,
claration that the passage of the Wilson
bill would result in building up the west
crn manufactures to the destruction OF
those in the East. lie was unwilling that
this mistaken impression should &C
abroad.
He found that the newspapers of the
West IN the midst of the ruins of the dem
ocratic party needed some startling lie "a
come and 90 on. No man here would
have placed n wrong construction on hl,
speech. Every one knew when IL was de
liyercd, although the bill had not been re
ported, that free raw materials werc TO b.
used 10 appease New England. There
was no doubt the course of empire woult
continue TO move westward, but IL shoulc
move westward without carrying in IL,
wake the ruin of the consumer as well a
the manufacturer. The destruction of thu
manufactures would be the destruction o.
the great manufacturing plants. Million,
untold would be lost, and when rebuilt
they would go westward. II this process.
went on naturally il would be TO the ad
vantage of the whole people. The repub
lican doctrine of protection believed In nt
class as did the doctrine of the Wilson
bill. 1t believed that the American peo
pie should do the work.
Without acing on the amendment th,
committee rose and the house adjourned
NEW YORK THANKS HILL.