Show DEATH OF SPEAKER REED SIC acht SHORT former 81 B talker etker of tile lie of fourr VV HI online I 1 to heri hut Be beilly wlm lillen he 10 I 1 tal si peste rully to thomas agett reed former speaker of the house of re presenta alnes and fot foi mana man years one of the most prominent in public life Is lead dead ills his death occurring in washington 1 I C at 12 10 0 clock cielock sunday rooming aftel a short illness tho the immediate cause of death being uraemia at the bedside when beai ho he d died 1 I d were airs reed and miss kat katherane Kather berine lne reed doctors mcdonald bishop and Good goodnow and the nurses mr reed passed away avay place peacefully fully arid and apparently without pain thomas brackett reed need was born october 18 1839 in portland land mr ali and received ills his caily edu education educato catl n in tho the common schools of that cit in 1860 he wag as graduated awn bowdoin boivid Bow doln 0 in cot col lege winning one of the hig bist hon ors the pile foi excellence in eng dig lish composition tho the next four years year biere ft ere spent pent b bv mi ali reed in te teaming ahing and the study of la a defoie ht hla rd ad inis mission sion to the bar lie he was appointed acting asaf assistant tant inastri in the united navy nany after his digel tige in ili mr reed iced returned to portland passed the bar and entered on the practice ol of his profession deais later he was nias elected as a republican in the tag legislature of the state of maine in IM lie he was anas 10 ip elected to the house and in 1870 roade made state pass ing from the latter position to that ol of attorney atto iney general of the state the same Ret retiring tring from this office after effective service in 1873 he was inas then made solicitor of the city of port land in september 1876 he ll 11 na was nai i elected to the forty fifth con congress congie giess fis rf the unit ed states which assembled in de cember 1877 lie ho immediately be came prominent through a speech one of the few boimal ones eibi delivered by him in which alch lie he argued against the aliment ment of damages L lv the unit ed states for injuries deceived by william and mary college at the hands of united stites troops during the war var the subsequent policy of 0 the government go in relation to wai claims was largely determined by the th defeat of this measure to which mr reed signally contil contributed conti buted lie he was also one of the minority members RP ap pointed to investigate the ele election tion ol of president in the famous haves tilden controversy ills hill shill as a dehater debater was as at once reco gilled and his influence becoming more strongly stion gly marked each acar the leadership ol of his parts was nas finally con concede cedel 1 to 1 him I im and in the foi doity ty ninth and I 1 congresses the complimentary noro nation to the ship was mas ten dered him by the republicans in the fifty first con cor giess gi ess that par ty having obtained the ascendancy lie ha was elected slen speaker lir on the alist bal lot in the alist lays days of his adminis of the offlie e much opposition was made by the to the on en of ahat ml mi reed bell believed eNed his constitutional power poi er to count members present in the house as pir in a vote ote despite their re fasal to use theli prill privilege ege the tion of silence on suh such tx occasion caslon con sti legal absence and the dost destruction st thereby of a was howedel howe how vei evel set at test lest by the adoption of new nen rules bv the house le binary 14 1890 in september of the same year mr reed was as reelects re elecie I 1 to the fifty second con congress gregg b lv a laige ma borit mr tr reed proved himself rif an indefatigable boiler even while tile in congress and aside from his duties as ai congressman and aspea er lie fund found time to conti unite to maga alnes of the day articles pertinent nent to tt the various political and economic cl questions which feie meie fl aiom om time to time agitating the country |