The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-27

cred Of all the surveys placed by the senate on the bill the south gets none. The appropriation of the Mississippi river is the only thing in the bill of interest to the south.
 the gentleman from Pennsylvania would support him when he thinks it profitable .'
 MT. Dalzell, with some feeling, declar- ed he had asked MT Cochran civil question. "I got a brutal reply" he said.
 He insisted that he did not question MT. Cockran's consistency.
 "rhe reply" he said, was that the gentleman from New York stood on the high plane of conscience while 1 was play ing politics for profit"
 MT. Dalzell provoked loud republican applause when he said that while he was an intense partisan, his "brethren on the other side will admit that gener- ally at least, 1 am a gentleman"
 Judging by certain press dispatches appearing as MT. Cockrans g speeches, MT. Dalzel said it would be Inferred he had made an unjust attack on MT. Cochran. 'On the contrary" he said warmly. ''he made mean and contemptible attack on me-" and he added that the man who would have made any response other than he did, would have been poltroon and coward.
 MT. Dalzell explained his remark of last Saturday by saying that he had been informed" that it was profitable to MT. Cochran to support Mckinley when he did. He vehemently declared that he was so informed.
 q say now" he exclaimed. "that I was justified in making that charge, because 1t Is the current belief to this day that the gentleman received money for his po- litical work
 Charges Against Cochran.
 To support his charge, he said, he would mention some facts and circum- stances connected with the history of MT Cochran. He then read from num- Der of documents to show that Mir Cock ran started as a greenbacker, and in 1896 stood with the Mckinley side because he was for sound money. For sound money in 1S96," he said, amid republican ap- plause, "traveling all over the continent; in 1900 in support of Bryan; greenbacker, sound money man, free silver man. He has been a Bryanite and an anti-Bryan- ite He was for Bryan in 19O0 Is he for Bryan now?"
 So far as he could judge, Mir. DalZell said he was for some gentleman up in New York. or maybe in New Jersey" and republican laughter was renewed when he added: If he is Grover Cleve- land. he has more wisdom than l think some of his brethren have"
 With some sarcasm MT Dalzell said that "possibly MT. Cochran is for some respectable political nonenity, who Is not known to have a single conviction upon any public question. and who is willing to stand with any platform that may be made for him. Looking MT. Cochran in the face. MT Dalzel1, speaking in deri- son said that MT. Cochran has been a oh lant sod to be a member of congress. The gentle man from New York Is a Tammanyite again and now again he is member of congress-" The republicans were arous- ed to a high pitch of enthusiasm when MT. Dalzef softly inquired:
 would not that make one suspicious that 1t was more than a matter of con- science with a gentleman having such a harlequin career?"
 Reads From Newspapers.
 The democratic side of the house, he said had got hysterical when on Satur- day he would not disclose the name of his informant. He then read from the New York Journal, publish by MT. Cock ran's colleague, w. R. Hearst, in Au- gust, 1s96 a statement that MT. Cochran was for Mckinley, "a position which, " said the publication, ito those who re- member his career in congress, does not seem to involve such strain on his feelings as might be supposed, especially with rumors in the air of S250, 600 checks out of Hannas educational fund"
 He quoted from an article in the New York Tribune in 1893 in which the state ment was made that MT. Cochran evil dently had been deeply incensed by the charge that he had sold his oratory to the fusion cause, but had been hired for a large price by Tammany.
 MT. Dazell then appealed to the house to know whether or not he was accused of being in politics for profit he was not justified in saying he had been informed MT. Cochran practiced politics for profits.
 Mir. Dalzell closed amid wild republican applause with a most bitter dehuncia- ton of Mr Cochran. He referred to that gentlemans speech before the democratic body which sent him to congress in which Mir Cochran said: We have reached a point which over the country is regarded as an international hoodlum."
 Facing the democratic side and looking directly at Mir. Cochran, Mir Dalzell de- clared that that utterance was of as much interest to them as now to himself. "If there be any hoodlums among us," he said, speaking with much vehemance, they are not the product of American in- stitutions or American civilization" He was interrupted with loud and pro- tContinued on Second Paqe)