Show THERE NASA LIVELY 1 P A A GE A T ARM r r f p Bryan and Reed Cross Swords in the House 1 HOW THE MAINE MAN HATES THE WEST r I Sharp and Stinging Remarks from Both Members rTf7 There Is No Doubt Say Reed That the Course of the Empire Will Move Westward but i Must Go Without Carrying Ruin to the Consumer anti Producer in Its Wake SpreadEagle Republic cans Washington April 10 There was a question today when the House met a to the order of business An attempt was made to consider some Senate amendments to a bridge bill when Mr Reed argued that the House must proceed pro-ceed to vote on the motion to discharge the warrants issued to the sergeantat arms under the resolution of March 19 for the absentees The motion came over from last Saturday Mr Reed contended that the House presented an unseemly spectacle as members were under threat of arrests and that the report of the sergeantat arms should he disposed of as a matter of private rights of members Finally i was decided to allow the whole subject sub-ject to go over until tomorrow Bills were passed for the protection of game in the Yellowstone park and for the punishment of crime in the park by extension of the law and jurisdiction of the Wyoming United States district to its territory to grant chief justices in the territories power to appoint commissioners com-missioners to take proof of laiTd cases The Postoilice Bill The House then went into commutes of the whole and resumed consideration of the postofflce appropriation bill The pending question was a point of order raised 5y Mr Henderson chairman of the postoffice committee against an amendment offered by Mr Dunphy of New York to prevent the manufacture of postage stamps by the bureau of engraving and printing under the contract recently awarded Tk point of order was sustained The amendment to reduce from 243 000 to 180000 the appropriation for the manufacture of stamps was adopted An amendment providing that all publications purporting to be issued periodically to subscribers but which are really books or parts of books bs subject to the rates provided for third class matter when transmitted throxTgh the mails was adopted The fight against the appropriation of 196314 for special mail facilities on the Trunk line from Springfield Mass via New York and Washington to Atlanta At-lanta and New Orleans then began Bryan Scores Reed In the course of tLc debate which followed Mr Bryan of Nebraska took the floor and ostensibly speaking of the amendment made a reply to the recently published letter of Mr Reed to Mr C L B Vaughan of Hutchinson Hutchin-son Kansas in which he criticised Mr Bryan for using in his speech made in Denver an extract from one of his Reeds Boston speeches In that letter let-ter which was given in these dispatches dis-patches Mr Reed complained that the extract taken from its contents conveyed con-veyed a wrong impression Mr Bryan stated that the extract he used had not been taken from its contents that he had used all of the published report of the speech Moreover More-over he stated that Mr Reeds letter Jl of explanation was written deliberate fjj and reiterated practically the idea contained 4 con-tained in the speech from which he had quoted He proceeded tc characterize the speech as an appeal to sectionalism an appeal to the selfishness sel-fishness of Nev England While Mr Reed told the west that all the states were equally interested in the preservation preserva-tion of the protective tariff he tolo I Massachusetts that he was most Interested In-terested It was a remarkable utterance I utter-ance from the leader of the Republi j can party He called attention to the r discrepancy in Mr Reeds letter he i spoke of his reference to the Wilson bill in the speech whereas as a matter mat-ter of fact the Wilson bill was not reported until a month after his speech was delivered He called attention to Mr Reeds letter he said because he did not want some western Republican proceeding on the same line to argue that the tariff should be wiped out in order that the west might at least start upon her manufacturing career and finally achieve the power and prestige pres-tige now enjoyed by New England He wanted the country to know that Mr Reed while he stood up for protection pro-tection for the whole country in the halls of Congress In Massachusetts he held up the question ignorance of the south and the rapacious west and pleaded for special privileges for New England Democratic applause Reeds Hatred of the West Mr Reed listened to Mr Bryan attentively at-tentively When he had finished Mr Reed arose The incident was of little lit-tle importance he said Its only significance sig-nificance was that Mr Bryan had taken what he had said in Boston and put it forth in Denver as Reeds positive posi-tive declaration that the passage of the Wilson bill would result In building build-ing up western manufactures to the destruction of those in the east He was unwilling that this mistaken impression im-pression should go abroad unrectified He found that the newspapers of the west in the midst of the ruins of the Democratic party needed some startling start-ling He to come and go on No man here would have placed a wrong construction con-struction on his speech Everyone knew when it was delivered although the bill had not been reported that free raw materials were to be used to appease New England There was no doubt the course of the empire would continue to move westward huf ih should move westward without carry ing in its wake the ruin of the consumer con-sumer as well as the manufacturer The destruction of the manufacturps would be destruction of the great manufacturing man-ufacturing plants Millions untold would be lost and when rebuilt they would go westward If this process went out naturally it would be to the advantage of the whole people The Republican doctrine of protection be lieved in no class as did the doctrine of the Wilson bill It believed that the American people should do the work Without acting on the I amendment the committee rose and at 5 oclock adjourned |