The National tribune., 1899-09-07

ticket about so long (measuring card on
her finger with your name onto it. Is that
so?"
"Ycs. it is customary to carry your card"
"Well, don't like this place for nothing.
I'd heap rather be at home in the mount
aims of I didn't want to come,
nohow, but my old man said 1 must,-other
members brought their wives" and pa
thetically closed by saying this is no place
for me" and moved away.
Mr.. Reed soon went to the gallery. Mrs.
Reed repeated the interview. Mr.. Reed
said, Il have just had a talk with her old
man. and he said that he told his wife that
she had got to come with him, and he added,
I Just planted clean $100 bill down to her
and told her to Ak herself up smart as any
woman in Washington"
And yet 1 wonder, when it comes to
voting for any vital measure, if this plain,
guileless mountaineer will not be found
voting on the right side? ...-..
In the days that followed, when Mr..
Reed was made Speaker of the House,
his leadership Of his party is well known.
His parliamentary ruling stands as au-
thority, Notwithstanding the Congress of
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton did not agree with his impressions"
and ignored them in their action on cleo
| tons.
| They very properly took the ground that
Mr.. Reed had only had an ex-parte expla-
nation of the conditions and rules that
govern their Congress, and saw no reason
why they should be governed by the sug-
gestions or ruling of anybody outside of
| the body polite that made its own laws
and followed them strictly.
1t would hardly be expected that Mr.
Reed, as Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, would be governed by rules
laid down by another deliberative body
no more should the Congress Of the Daugh.
ters of the American Revolution adop,
measures not In accordance with thei,
laws.
1t has always been understood, how
ever, by the members Of the society that
had Mr.. Reed been intelligently Informed
on both sides Of the question at issue that
he would not have given out such an "im
preston" 1t was a misstatement of the
true condition. 1t gave, however, food
for much sparring pro and con, in which
the press entered largely.
But the Daughters" had no disposition
to controvert Mr.. Reeds parliamentary
opinions have been to him too often,
and always found him courteous and
helpful; and it Is perhaps a fitting place to
say that, among public men and women,
they have no better friend than Thomas B.
Reed. This was merely misunderstand-
ing Of conditions, and the Daughters
quietly proceeded to elect their President
and other officers as their law directed.
But the newspaper men and the college
, men saw too good joke in this to let Mr..
Reed down easily, and some of his be.
I nighted brethren, like Gen. Cotton, acti-
ally fell into poetry, at least it was an.
, nounced at the meeting of the Bowdoir
, Alumni, an ode" If it lacks aupht tf
make it poetry. don't blame Mr.. Reed
| Remember. you can't make silk out O,
+ Cotton"
The following is the ode;
You do quite well
, To cast your spell
On Congressional cavorters,
But you'll find your match
y When you toe the scratch
With Revolutionary Daughters.
They know no rules
Taught in the schools
OF established authority,
1 Nor can they see
How it can be
Ones always majority.
9 For their sweet talk
e You can not balk
n With low resounding gavel.
Try not again
o With tongue or pen
@ Their tangles to unravel.
e We congratulate Mr.. Reed that he di
,. not try the old Adam dodge Of throwing
q it all upon "the woman thou gavest me,
x but rather boldly admitted to his Alumr
d brother that "she gave me warning, but
did not heed" 1t is barely possible tina
g Mrs. Reed herself looked into the matte,
II and her woman's intuition told her tina
y his impression" was wrong.
l. But we would not want IL to go out I
the world that all the poetrv Of earth WA