The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-03
Representatives at Washington
and The Speaker.
FIGURING ON REEDS SUCCESSOR
Politicians Comment on Course
of the Czar-The Legal Con-
nection He Has Made.

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Speaker Reed from Congress means
"a reorganization of the next House on
Administration lines and the election
|of a Speaker who will be in entire
sympathy with President Mckinley and
his policies.
Fully half a dozen candidates will
contest for the position to be vacated
by Mr. Reed and the campaign will be
|inaugurated at once, as the possibility
lof Congress being convened in extra
session in September or October makes
the situation all the more interesting.
Representative James S. Sherman OF
New York, Representative j. A. Hop
kins of Illinois, Representative w. P.
Hepburn of Iowa, Representative
Charles II. Grosvenor Of Ohio, Repre-
sentative d. b. Henderson of Iowa
and Representative John Dalzel of
Pennsylvania are included in the list
of actual and possible candidates.
General Grosvenor, the acknowledged
spokesman of the administration on
the floor, is not likely to become an
active candidate unless the eXigencies
OF the situation demand it. Repre-
sentative James Sherman of New York
and Representative A. j. Hopkins of
Illinois are the two strongest candi-
| dates in the race. AS has been here
tofore announced in the press,
Mr. Reed now intends to WELD all the
| influence he possesses to land Sher-
man. He will try to throw to him the
solid support of the New England Con-
gressmen and get as many votes for
him in New York as he can.
The decision of Mr.. Reed to give up
public life for the purpose of resum-
ing the practice of law gives great
satisfaction to the administration. 1t
will enable the President to carry his
policies through the House without OPP
position, and as the Senate is strongly
Republican, he is assured, in advance
of the meeting of Congress, that White
to demands upon Congress next winter.
Had Mr. Reed remained in Congress
he would have found his powers cur
tailed and his heretofore absolute do
have half the power that has been his
in the past.
Politicians here say Speaker Reed
retirement from Congress just now is
ho Il hn Il O
for the Presidency. 1t is taken for
granted that he will not be a candidate
against Mr. Mckinley next year, but
it is also believed he is looking ahead
he believed he would have been elected
President if he had not lived in a
corner of the United States, and hence
his removal to New York is taken as
his way of saying he will be can
didate in 1904
The Speaker, though counting the
support of Plat for the Presidency in
1904, seems determined to have his
own way as to the selection of his
successor. The moment it becomes ap-
parent to him that he is endangering
his chances for the White House, he
may turn in and help Plat to land his
man as Speaker.
The firm with which Speaker Reed
has identified himself was formed fiji
teen years ago. 1t consists of John
w. Simpson, Thomas Thacher, William
NJ Barnum and Philip G. Bartlett.
Mr.. Simpson is a son-in-law of the
late George I. Seney, and has been for
years counsel for the Manhattan Trust
and other corporations, as we'll as for
Moore e Schlay, and other Wall-street
brokers. Thomas Thatcher is son of
the late Professor ThacheT of Yale
University. He is a graduate of the
university and of the law school, and
has been frequently talked of for
United States judgeship. William H.
Barnum is a son of a Yale man, having
been a classmate Of Frank H Plat,
son of Senator Thomas c. Plat and
member of the law firm of Tracy,
Boardman & Plat. Mr. Bartlett is still
another Yale man. Speaker Reed has
known the members of the firm for
many years and has had frequent bust
ness dealings with them. Though ne
had received offers to go to the head
of several firms, perhaps better known,
he early expressed his preference for
the one with which he is to be asso-
ciated