The morning call., 1894-04-11
BRYAN AND REED.
Giants fitting in the
House.
NEEDS A LIE TO GO ON.
Democracy Reduced to Most
Dire Strait.
THE WEST AGAINST THE EAST.
How They Will Be Arrayed Should
the Wilson Bill Ever Become
Law.

WASHINGTON. April 10.-There was a
question to-day when the House met as to
the order of business. An attempt was
made to consider some Senate amendments
to bridge bill when Reed argued 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 Is for the absentees. The motion
came over from last Saturday. Reed con-
tended that the House presented an un-
seemly spectacle as members were under
threat of arrest and the report of the Ser
geant-at-Arms should be disposed of as a
matter of private rights of members,
Finally il was decided to allow the whole
subject to go over until tomorrow.
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 law and jurisdiction of
the Wyoming United States district to its
territory; to grant Chief Justices in the
Territories power to appoint commits
sioners to take proof of land cases.
The House then went into committee of
the whole and resumed consideration OF
the postoffice appropriation bill. The
raised by Henderson. chairman of the
Postoffice Committee, against an amend
ment offered by Dunphy to prevent the
manufacture of postage-stamps by the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing under
the contract recently awarded. The point
of order was sustained The amendment
to reduce from S243.0OO to S1So,OoO the
appropriation for the manufacture of
stamps was adopted. An amendment pro-
viding that all publications purporting 10
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 transmitted through
the mails was adopted.
The fight against the appropriation of
S196. 314 for special mail facilities on the
trunk line from Springfield. Mass, via
New York and Washington to Atlanta
and New Orleans then began. In the
course of the debate which followed Bryan
of Nebraska took the floor, and, ostensiby
speaking of the amendment, made reply
to the recently published letter of Reed to
c. l.. B.Vaughan of Hutchinson, Kans., In
which he criticized Bryan for usin in his
speech made in Denver, an extract from
one of his (Reed's) Boston speeches. In
the letter, which was given in these dis
patches, Reed complained that the extract
taken from its contents conveyed wrong
i'm preston.
Bryan stated that the extract he had
used had not been taken from its contents;
that he had used all of the published re-
port of the speech Moreover he stated
that Reeds letter of explanation was
written deliberately. and reiterated practi-
cally the idea contained in the speech
from which he had quoted. He proceeded
10 characterize the speech as an appeal to
sectonalism, an appeal TO the selishness
of New England. While Reed told the
West that all the States were equally
interested in the preservation of the pro-
tective tariff, he told Massachusetts, that
she was most interested. 1t was a re-
markabe utterance from the leader of the
Republican party. He called attention to
the discrepancy in Reeds letter, and
of his reference to the Wilson bill in the
speech, whereas, as matter OF fact, the
Wilson bill was not reported until month
after this speech was delivered. He called
attention to Reeds letter, he said, because
he did not want some Western Republican
proceeding on the same line to argue that
the tariff should be wiped out in order
that the West might at least start upon her
manufacturing career and finally achieve
the power and prestige now enjoyed by
New England. He wanted the country to
know that Reed. while he stood up for pro-
lection for the whole country in the halls
of Congress. in Massachusetts, he held up
the questions of Ignorance of the South"