The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-11
just Peculiar. Not ouarrelsome.

OF course, if Mr.. Reed were to get in an
ugly mood about this or any other matter.
there would be lively times ahead. If he
disapproyes wholly of the Mckinley plan
to have new tariff bill framed by the ways
and means committee during the winter,
perhaps the ways and means committee
Will not do 1t, for it is pretty generally
conceded that the ways and means COM
mittee is likely to be loyal to Mr. Reed.
In the improbable event of determine
ton ON the part of the speaker to harass
the administration and delay the passage
OF a tariff bill a special session of congress
might not be success. The speaker has
great power in the house, and if his au-
thority were tested there is not much that
he would fail In after having once set out
for it.
or course the sensational correspondents
Will tell you that party quarrel is on,
ana that the party just coming into power
is going TO be divided into factions at bit
ter war with one another, that McKipley's
friends will be forced to run candidate
Tor speaker against Reed, and all that sort
OF thing. But level headed observers do
hot think any such thing is likely to hap
pen. Mr. Reed Is simply little peculiar;
that Is all. He probably wants to have an
understanding about things and does not
wish to have policies instituted which he
is expected to carry out without being
consulted himself Inasmuch as it Is dis
tinctly the policy of the new administra-
tlon to have peace and harmony and to
treat all men and factions fairly, it is safe
TO say this little shadow of trouble will be
quickly removed, If it has not already been
swept away by what Is going on behind
the scenes.
A Lost Speech.
am able TO tell you most interesting
story concerning President Cleveland and
his secretary of state. On the occasion of
the chamber of commerce dinner in New
York couple of weeks ago Mr.. Olney was
invited to attend The secretary has long
thought there ought to be in this country
practice similar TO that which obtains
abroad, by which the minister of foreign
affairs now and then appears at n public
dinner and by means of speech concern
Ing some international difficulty allays
public fear. In England Lord Salisbury
makes his famous Guildhall speeches and
In them generally oontrives to clear the at
mosphere Of good deal of the fog of ru-
NOR and Misunderstanding. 1t was Mr..
Olney's purpose to use the chamber of com.
merce dinner for a similar purpose. and
Cuba was to be his text.
At that time the most alarming rumors
concerning our governments attitude to-
ward Spain were In circulation. The SEN
sation mongcrs would have 1t that war
was Impending MIR. Olney had prepared
what he was going to say, had packed his
gripsack and reached the railway station.
when messenger from the White House
asked him to return. The secretary had
nothing else to do. Now his friends are
asking these suggestive questions:
Was President Cleveland afraid 10 have
his policy foroshadowed by his secretary of
state, lest there might be a change In the
situation before the message should be sent
to congressS
Or was the president unwilling to have
Mr.. Olney gain the personal credit which
might attach to him In case of his public
appearance In such an important roles