The record-union., 1894-04-11

of the Whole and resumed consideration
of the post office appropriation bill. The
pending question was a point of order
raised by MIR. Henderson, Chairman Of
the Post Office Committee, against an
amendment offered by Mr.. Dunphy of
New York, to prevent The manufacture OF
postage stamps by the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, under the contract
recently. awarded. The point OF order
was sustained. The amendment to re-
duce from S243, 900 TO SlS0,00O the appro-
priation tor the manufacture of stamps
was adopted.
An amendment providing that all pub
lications proporting to be issued perodi-
cally to subscribers, but which are really
books, or parts Of books to be subject TO
the rates provided for third-class matter
transmitted through the mails, was
adopted.
The fight against the appropriation of
$780, 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, Mr..
Bryan of Nebraska took the floor, and,
ostensibly speaking of the amendment,
made reply to the recently published
letter OF Mr. Reed, to G. l.. b. Vaughan
of Hutchinson. Kansas, in which he criti-
cised Bryan for using, in his speech made
in Denver, an extract from one of his
(Reed's) Boston speeches. In the letter,
which was given in these dispatches, Mr..
Reed complained that the extract taken
from its contents conveyed wrong i'm
preston.
Mr.. Bryan then stated that the extract
he used had not been taken from its con-
tents; that he had used all of the pub
lished report of the speech. Moreover,
he stated that Reeds letter of explana-
ton was written deliberately and reiter-
ated practically the ideas contained in the
speech from which he had quoted. He
proceeded to characterize the speech as an
appeal to sectionalism; an appeal to the
seltishness Of New Englanders. While
Reed told the West that all the States
were equally interested in preservation
of the protection tariff he told MaSsachu
sets that she was most interested. 1t was
remarkable utterance from the leader Of
the Repu blican party. He called atten-
ton to the discrepancy in Reeds letter.
He spoke of the reference to the Wilson
bill in the speech, whereas as matter Of
fact the Wilson bill was not reported un
til month after this speech was deliv-
cred. lie called attention to Reeds let
ter. 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
U1IgnG dG 16dSl SidTJ pOu u6E IUdUuldCtuI-
ing career and finally achieve the power
and prestige now enjoyed by New Eng
land. He wanted the coantry to know that
Mr.. Reed, while he stood UP for protec-
ton for the whole country in the halls of
Congress, in Massachusetts he held up
the question Ignorance OF the South
and the 'rapacious West" and pleaded
for special privileges for New England.
Democratic applause.
Mr. Road liStppo6 n Mr. RrUan
lively. When he had finished Mr.. Reed
arose. The incident was of little inn
portance, he said. Its only significance
was that Mr.. Bryan had taken what he
had said in Boston and put it forth in
Denver as Reeds positive declaration
that the passage of the Wilson bill would
result in building up Western manu-
factures to the destruction of those in the
East. He was unwilling that this mis-
taken impression should go abroad un-
rectihed. He found that the newspapers
of the West in the midst of the ruins of
the Democratic party needed some start
ling lie to come and go on. No man here
would have placed a wrong construction
on his speech. Everyone knew when it
was delivered, although the bill had not
been reported that free raw materials
were to be used to appease New England.
There was no doubt the course of the en-
pire would continue Westward, but it
Should move Westward without carry
ing in its wake the ruin of the consumer,
as well as the manufacturer. The de-
struction of the manufactures would be
the destruction of the great manutactur-
ing plants. Millions untold would be
lost, and when rebuilt they would go
Westward. If this process went out il
would naturally be to the advantage OF
the whole people. The Republican doc
trine of protection believed in no class as
did the doctrine of the Wilson bill. 1t be-
lieved that the American people should
do the work.
Without acting on the amendment, the
committee rose and at o'clock ad-
journed.