How Speaker Reed Ruled The House

Once in a wiliile tlie speaker -wü'uld aawuse hiinselt' asid sead owb telegTBms in aü directloiie, wging absent repuMïcams to coma back to AVasiiiugto:i and put sonnc Important vote ftootugti, but ael'ttoar he mor any otlirepubücaii leaders cared to da tthis iï.uui wïiis necee leíft Vlie effect oL sucli pe-emptiou-y sumiuotases s-üiouid graduaily ba bluutel. TTio quioiimm-couixting busineee wout du daily a U'ae old' staiid, but witli BOsne modlricatlaiis aaid ïan.y to'uelies. Ooice, example, ■viieu tlhe &peakeirJ8 comufc wae cliaílenged, lie deiie.aded it by explaitoing tlia't, althorag'ii euoiigli detanoenate TO6 )uot in ttueii1 seiats to make up a, .quorum ■n-'hieii conimrted, ttlue doorkeeper liad iiiïa'-'med Wra taa.t tliere wwe several bellidnid ttie ecreera at the i"ear' oï the Iiali, and tliese, added VO Uhc vleiWe supply, wcwld te suffieleint. Again, wtoen the deurocnats had loït ai v&ry íew af tíieir ,juuaniber iiraside tJic ktill to keep their "maquopunii" protest alive aad to1 cali few t'he yens and luays om evei-y vote, Judge H'oinnii piioiiipfceid by curiosity to &eO luow, these mem wene gettiinfe oïi., pofced hls nose tibrough a crack, of tlhe door, aad vas proniptjy coumtted by; tlie spea',ker as present. The same misctaiice bcfell M". Byn,um wlhiü had iaiadvörbejDtly eaitered tlie tliam'beT to get a booík from liiis.desk. Tlhesc incidenits made me-rriment Lor the rep-ulblïciuifi, but stlnred the deanocnats to etill livelier resentment.- JiHieun Jonnold to t:he Illustrated Amea'icaai.