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Description: Ex-Speaker Reed Dead - He Was Sick a Few Days;
Minister To Japan Killed;
News of the Week - Washington Items
Newspaper published in: Schuylerville, NY
Source: http://www.fultonhistory.com
Page/Column: Page ?, Columns 1, 3 & 7
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EX-SPEAKER REED DEAD
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Famous Statesman Expires at the Arlington Hotel, Washington
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HE WAS SICK A FEW DAYS ONLY
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His Death Caused by Uraemic Poisoning—Slight Attack of
Appendicitis Brought on His Fatal Illness—Wife and Daughter
With Him at the End—His Long Service in State and National Affairs
Washington, D. C—Thomas Brackett Reed, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, died here in his apartments in the Arlington Hotel. The immediate cause of his death was uraemia.
With him when the end came were Mrs. Reed, their daughter, Miss Catherine; Doctors Gardner, MacDonald, Bishop and Goodno and the nurses.
Mr. Reed passed away peacefully and without pain. His mind was in such a state on the day previous to his death that he did not realize the seriousness of his condition. He was cheerful and conversed with those about his bedside. When it became apparent that he would not survive his illness, his wife and daughter were informed, and they remained constantly at the bedside until the distinguished patient breathed his last.
Mr. Reed returned to die in the city where he had made his great reputation, first as member of Congress and the acknowledged leader of his colleagues, later as Speaker of the House, and then as candidate for his party's nomination for the Presidency. Like that other “man from Maine," this last ambition never was realized by Mr. Reed.
Growing old and without financial competency Mr. Reed finally left the speakership and Congress four years ago. His income in legal practice since then, it is estimated, had been between $50,000 and $100,000 a year, equal at least to that of a President, and he dies leaving the competency he sought for his widow and the daughter, who was his chum.
Mr. Reed died of uraemia, which means, as his physician said, that he had a chronic case of Bright's disease for many years, which had broken down his system, and which suddenly became acute and deadly when appendicitis was contracted recently. His kidneys suddenly refused to perform their functions, and the uraemic poison passed directly into his blood. All efforts to save him were futile.
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Thomas Brackett Reed, member of Congress from the First District of Maine for twenty-two years, and Speaker of the House of Representatives during eight sessions; lawyer, public speaker, debater and author, and, in 1890, a prominent Republican candidate for the Presidential nomination, was born in Portland. Me., sixty-three years ago. He grew to manhood In Portland, and began his business career in that city, which honored him with many offices of trust first making him Representative in the State Legislature, and then electing him successively to the offices of State Senator, Attorney-General of Maine, City Solicitor of Portland and member of Congress. Since 1890, when Mr. Reed resigned from Congress, he had been a resident of New York City and a member of the law firm of Reed, Simpson, Thacher & Barnum. He leaves a wife and daughter.
Mr. Reed probably will be remembered, more than for anything else, for the revolution he wrought in parliamentary procedure while Speaker of the House of Representatives. The rigorous manner in which he carried out the rules of which he was the author caused him to be widely spoken of by his political opponents and others as "Czar" Reed.
Mr. Reed was not in sympathy with the acquisition of the Philippines, or with the expansion policy of the administration of President McKinley.
Personally he was most loved by those who knew him best. He was bubbling over with good humor and good fellowship: he had ready wit and keen sarcasm. In ordinary conversation, no less than in public addresses, he showed a remarkable fund of information, broad reading, a strong, penetrating mind and a keen power of logical analysis and analytical reasoning.
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Reed’s Native Town Mourns
Portland, Me.—The news of the death of Thomas B. Reed was received here with general sorrow. Mr. Reed was born here, and was personally known to many persons in the city.
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MINISTER TO JAPAN KILLED
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State Department Informed of Alfred E. Buck’s Death Near Tokio
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Washington, D. C.—Mr. Kogoro Takahira, the Japanese Minister, called at the State Department with a cablegram from his Government informing him that while duck hunting near Tokio, Alfred E. Buck, United States Minister to Japan, became suddenly ill and died. Mr. Takahira conveyed the condolences of his Government.
Mr. Buck, who had made a splendid record since his appointment from Georgia, in 1897, was born in Foxcroft, Me., in 1832. He made his own way through school and served in the Civil War, after which he settled in the South and bore a prominent part in the reconstruction of the Southern States.
He served in Congress as Representative of an Alabama district, and later removed to Georgia, where he was Clerk of the Federal Court and United States Marshal of the State. He had great political influence in
Georgia.
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NEWS OF WEEK
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WASHINGTON ITEMS
Postmaster-General Payne will investigate the anonymous attacks by a mysterious letter writer on wealthy families in Chicago.
Colonel H. C. Hasbrouck, Artillery Corps, commanding at Fort Adams, R. I., was promoted to be Brigadier-General, preliminary to retirement.
Charles H. Butler, of New York City, was appointed reporter of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court.
William H. Theobald asked Secretary Shaw's permission to resign, and made charges against Colonel Storey, of the Customs Service at New York City.
Controller Ridgeley's report suggests as a solution of the currency question a bill permitting the banks to issue a limited amount of uncovered notes, on which there shall be a tax ranging according to the size of the issue.
Admiral Dewey sailed from Washington on the Mayflower to take command of the combined fleet in the Caribbean Sea maneuvres.