New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-03
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Washington. June 4

Washington. June 1
"MORGANATrC LoGfc"-A fragment Of pape.
10y on desk In the Hall Of Representatives ysster-
day-not j. Hamilton Lewiss desk-upon which the
following written.
''MorganstIc logic The House Of Representatives
Is not In session; therefore Congress Is not In ses-
sion; therefore the Senate is in session. there
% rGnS and ad o sSars s ne
always be reconciied."
HE THRIvEs ON wORK-Among the Repre-
sentetives who accompanied President Mckinley ,c
Philadelphia to-day Chairman DIngiey OF the
Ways and Means Committee, who expects 10 spend
a week In Maine before he returns to washington
This Will be his first opportunity for and
recreation since he arrived here In November. and
there Ia no man In Congress who has toiled more
necessarily and diligently or who has been under
severer and more constant mental and physical
strain than he Governor Dingley is man OF fra
yet he appears well In every respect as
he did six months ago AZ Mr.. Dinsey himself re-
ago when the strain was severest. nc seems 10
thrive :, on e., work" Probably there !. not anoth..
nGe IN bs 5 hs hd be- has
fresh and vigorous to-day as ne does.
SPOILED SENSATION-The fact that Speaker
Reed received a Threatening letter yesterday was
used az the foundation which 10 a fairy
ment that officers Of the Secret Service had be-n
detailed to guard his person and protect him from
assassination. The persons who concoctcd the SEN
sation and hawked II among the newspaper Offices
did their work In clumsy a manner however
that they reaped slight profit and glory from T.
Like many other men who prominent in public
life, Mr.. Reed from time 20 time receives abusive
and vulgar letters from unknown and usually
anonymous sources, and sometimes one that IA
couched In threatening language. His private sec
rotary to-day exhibited two large packages con-
tanning crank letters. which he had preserved as
curOsies Such letters Mr. Reed never troubles
himself about and seldom secs. Yesterday. how
ever one fell into his hands II was da ted a, Los
Angeles and was embeshed with a skull and
eross5ones. After reading II he pinned II 10 the
door OF his Office that his callers could se.e IL
Mr.. Allen. his private secretary did not show tina
Speaker another letter which had been received In
the early mail. This was written on a letter.
head Of the House Of Representatives and signed
"A Cuban" and Mr.. Reed Informed that un-
less the Cuban resolution received proper consid-
GRAFTON yesterday he would not leave the Speakers
chair alive, or words 10 that effect The letter was
postmarked Washington. but It happened that on
several successive days within the last week mis-.
sives Of a similar tenor and in somewhat similar
handwriting had been found In the Speakers mall
and filed by his private secretary. These letters
we're all dated and postmarked at New-York one
Of them being written on a letter-head Of the Re-
publican National Committee and another on that
OF, the Aston House On reading the anonymous
easy. and without showing it TO the Speaker he
conferred with Sergeant alarms Russell and sug:
gested that 1t might be wise in any person ot
suspicious appearance or actions should be found
lettering In the corridors or galleries. 70 have him
and without the knowledge Of either the Speaker
or ms pryate he with hs
OF detectives to the Capitol. Hot their trail
the job to use phrase common in detective cir
cles. ne. II Is understood. was the writer OF the
OF the Speakers private secretary Mr.. Reed ot
ouse had no occasion TO feel any uneasnsss for
tons taken TO insure his safety. and he would
have felt no alarm II he had been apprised OF the
However. whom the Speaker arrived AZ h,7 Office
n the aSt b6 h dn E his Rudy s sId
journalist" might have used as the foundation of
car head Near one corner T Of his mo2th
piece Of court plaster as big as silver half-dime
the barber while shaving him this morning. prob.
ably so-and yet real ye low Journalist would
easily have Inferred otherwise and magnfed the
scratch and It's cause accordingly.
CRANKS IN THE CAPITOL-Cranps frequently
and lunatics sometimes among the VISIT.
ors who throng the corridors and galleries Of tho
Capitol especially while Congress is In session OF
course other men who are frequently called cranks
have business there. and occasionally OF them
sets himself up a parliamentary leader. Those
OF the kind first mentioned however are usually
by eccentricities Of dress or manner. One OF this
recently appeared in Statulry Hall He was
well advanced In years and attracted crowd by
the fashion in which he wore his long white
more which carefully tied with pieces OF
ribbon of yar'Ous gay eolors and shades. making
his appearance really picturesque OF course a big
crowd soon rathered around him and he
politely nut firmly required to move on" He re-
scented this ar indignty and lodged complaint
who took up the cudges for him and brought the
matter TO the attention OF the Speaker. They
offensveness. and said that he had formerly been
otlcer Of high rank In the Army. The neces-
sary explanation was forthcoming and the wounded
feelings Of the picturesque veteran were soothed.
Capitol nowadays.
MR. REED AS A OVERWHELMINGLY
differences Of opinion there may be in Congress
in regard 10 the power exercised by the Speaker Of
the House. Il is the less a fact ,ha; he IL
chosen final arbter for numerous parliamentary
bodies all the country. Hardly day passes
that Mr. Reed does receive communications re-
quessng him 10 pass some less intricate
point on which local parame ntarans have disputed
and failed to agree. Sometimes 1t is a far-away
chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton that gets tangled I'D over some question. and
quest Secret orders. debating societies and other
Geiiherative bodies write TO the Speaker for iscl-
si0ns. Sometimes the more simple questions ere
turned his private secretary VINO has
come an experienced rarllameniarian from long az.
ISOLATION with Mr.. Reed The secretary formu,tes
the reply in instancfs bat the Speaker scrutl.
fully accord with his views the reply Is enrl,,en
Requests often come from bodies that have adopted
atlre complimented Mr.. Reed by voting a COPY OF
his manual 20 each member OF the LEGISLATURE