The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-11
Interesting Tilt in the House Over Mr..
Reeds Utterances Concerning the
Effects of the Tariff Bill
SHORT TRUCE IN THE SENATE
Republicans Agree to Give More
Time to the Discussion.
Speech by Senator LOdge-Mr. WOlcott
Secures the Adoption of His Mex
lean Dollar Resolution.

Qu6SllOU Mlc Az IlOOSC AhCN NONoS - "
the order of business. An attempt was
made to consider some Senate amendments
to a bridge bill. when Mr.. Reed urged that
the House must proceed to vote on the
motion TO discharge the warrants issued to
the Sergeant-at-arms, under the resolution
of March 10, for the absentees. The motion
came over from last Saturday. Mr.. Reed
contended that the House presented an un-
seemly spectacle, as members were under
threat of arrest, and that the report of the
Sergeant-at-arms should be disposed of as
a matter of privilege affecting its member
ship. Finally. by agreement, it was decided
to allow the whole subject go over until to-
morrow.
Bills were passed for the protection of
game in the Yellowstone Park, and for the
punishment of crime in the park by the
extension of the laws and Jurisdiction of
the Wyoming United States District Court
to it's territory; to grant chief justices in
Territories power TO appoint commissioners
to take proof of land cases.
The House then went into of
the whole and resumed consideration of the
postofice appropriations bill. The pending
question was the point of order raised by
Mr.. Henderson, chairman of the postofice
committee, against an amendments offered
by Mr.. Dunphy to prevent the manufacture
of postage stamps by the Bureua of En-
craving and Printing under the contract re-
Gently awarded to it. The point Of order
was sustained. The amendment to reduce
from $4,000 to $4,000 the appropriation for
the manufacture of stamps was adopted.
Mr.. Wheeler offered an amendment to the
general delivery laws so as to extend the
list of special delivery service to three
miles at an additional cost of 10 cents per
mile. 1t was ruled out on a point of order.
The amendment providing that all publica-
tons purporting to be issued periodically
to subscribers, but which are really books,
or parts of books, be subject to the rates
provided for third-claSs matter when trans
mitted through the mails was adopted. The
fight against the appropriation of sls6, 3i4
for special mail facilities on the trunk line
from Springfield, Mass, via New York and
then began.
In the course of the debate which fol-
tensibly speaking to the amendment, made
a reply to the recently published letter of
Mr.; Reed, addressed to c.. B. L. Vaughan.
of Hutchinson, Kan, in which he criticised
Mr.. Bryan for using in his speech made
In Denver an extract from one of his
Reed's) Boston tariff speeches. In that
letter. which was given in these dispatches,
Mr.. Reed complained that. the extract
taken out of its contents conveyed a wrong
extract he used had not been taken from
its contents; that he had used all of the
puDilSntl report OIL the SDSeCn. Moreover.
he stated that Mr.. Reeds letter OF ex-
PLANTATION, written deliberately, reiterated.
practically, the idea contained in the speech
to characterize the speech as an appeal to
sect IH : n an appeal to the selfshness
West that all the States were equally in
terested in the preservation of the pro-
tective tariff. he told Massachusetts, that
markable utterance from tho leader of the
republican party, the leader not only in
the House, but IN the country. He sailed
letter. He spoke of his reference to the
Wilson bill in the speech, where, as a
ported until a month after the speech was
delivered. He had called attention to Mr..
Reeds letter, he said, because he did not
the same line TO argue that the tariff
should be wiped out in order that the
featuring career, and finally achieve the
power and prestige now enjoyed in New
England. He wanted the country to know
that Mr.. Reed, while he stood up for pro-
lection for the whole country in the halls
Of Congress. in Massachusetts held up the
pacious West" and pleaded for Special
privileges for New England Democratic
Mr.. Reed listened to Mr.. Bryan atten-
lively. When he had finished, Mr.. Reed
arose. The incident was of little conse-
that Mr.. Bryan had taken what he had
said in Boston and put it forth in Denver
as Mr.. Reeds positive declaration that the
passage of the Wilson bill would result in
building up Western manufactures to the
destruction of those in the East. He was
unwilling that this mistaken impression
should go abroad uncorrected. He found
that the newspapers of the West in the
midst of the ruins of the Democratic party
needed some startling lie TO come and go
on. No one here would have placed a
wrong construction on his speech. Every
one knew when ii was delivered, although
the bill had not been reported, that free
raw materials were to be used TO appeaSt
New England. If, as a result of the pas
sage of the Wilson bill, the Eastern manu-,
features were destroyed, when rebuilt they
would move nearer the source of produc-
ton. There was no doubt that the course
of the Empire would continue to move
westward, but il should move westward
without carrying in its wake the ruin OF
the consumer as we'll as the manufacturer
The destruction of the manufactures would
be the destruction of the great manufactur
ing plants. Millions untold would be lost
and when rebuilt they would go westward
If this process went on naturally il would
be TO. the advantage of the whole people
The Republican doctrine of protection be
lieved i'm no class as did the doctrine of tn,
Wilson bill. 1t believed that the American
people should do the work. Republican ap
plause)
Without acting on the amendment. tn,
committee rose and at 8 O'Clock the Hous,
adjourned.