The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-02

Gallant sleeDer. He makes IL a rule TO
GET seven or eight hours sleep night.
No one calls him In the morning uihe7s
there is an emergency one morning uul
Ing the last Congress, MT. ANeh wa
ed until twenty minutes 10 t".lNe 10
Mr. Reed TO appear. lie hh"" III. -.
Reed had been up very late the hlbnI
100 after an exhausing day I'm the
House speaking on the Sherman repeai
hu. lao knew also that Mr.. Reed was
anxious 10 take part in that day sta-
sion Of the House. 50 at twenty minute
before noon he went into his bedroom ana
smoke 10 him. When Mr.. Reed ieal"
wbot time II was. he jumped out OF hed.
n,,llod his clothes on in hurry anu
without waiting for breakfast huiil,u
down stairs and into cab. lie was u
the Capitol a few minutes ail'r -
o'clock. and said afterward that he never
felt better than he did that day
Sleep has a recuperative power Tot Mt
Reed. However exhausted ne may be at
the end Of the day. a good nights rest
will make a new man Of him. IN the
blst Congress. when the Speakers duties
were much more severe than now, MI
Reed usd sometimes 10 slip into MS room
when the House had gone into committee
of the Whole and, without word
stretch himself out on a leather-coNerel
couch Tn less than "A minute ne would
be sound asleep. Mr.. Allen would drop
the latch Of the door. and Neal, the
colored messenger outside, whose excuses
for the Speakers inability to see you are
harp-Ike in their melody. would place
himself on guard. For fifteen minutes
or more there would be silence in the
Speakers room, broken only by the faint
rustic Of papers at Mr.. Aliens desk and
tho heavy breathing OF the sleeper. MT
Reed can go 10 sleep at any hour OF the
day or night when he needs rest and cas-
fly cancels the debt he owes 10 nature
for a straight twenty-fOur hours OF labor
or for any other unnatural strain.
only once at this session Of Congress
has the Speaker robbed himself OF sleep
without making up for IL later. Ihat
was when he was making NJ his COM
mittees lie was at work then night and
day. late and early. The story OF the
way the committee places were dlstrlnu-
ted has not been told yet. ! am going TO
tell il here 1t is an illustration Of the
method Mr. Reed pursues in disposing or
the business before him. That ne is a
man of method is made evident by the
tale that is told OF his schooi-tcaching
DAYS. when # is said he kept a boy i'm
after school on the last day OF the ses-
sion because he did not know his lessons.
His mcthodicalness is still better shown
In his work as Speaker Of the House.
In the first place. il must be stated that
Il is not true, as reported, that Mr.. Reed
had much Of the work Of distributing
committee places mapped out before be
came here. lie was resting this summer
and ne gave little thought 20 committee
selection. lie probably fixed I'm his mind
the chairmen of the principal committees
-Dingley for Ways and Means. Hit for
Foreign Affairs, Cannon for Appropria-
lions But the rank and file he had not
considered at all. on his way TO Wash
ington Mr. Allen procured some large
sheets Of cardboard from a Massachusetts,
manufacturer. On these he pasted 'he
- Of the members Of the House. az