The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-10
SUPERB AND
 ELECTRICAL BOurke Cochran Thrills
 the House. AssAILs THE PRESIDENT Calls on Congress to Assert
 Its Prerogatives. 4l ...a-z - 4s < <
AssAILs THE PRESIDENT
Brilliant New York Congressman Cheered By Both Sides of the House and Causes Repub-
 licans to Divide.
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Superb and electrical, Bourke Cochran very nearly swept the House on both sides with his memorable attack upon the usurpations of the executive branch Of the government As his resplendent periods thrilled his listeners, 1t was evil dent that even the Republicans could not all sit still unmoved by the powerful elo- quence of the orator. st
 It proved to be something more than the mere disporting of the gifts and graces of oratorical equipment. The bril- liant speaker had prepared an argument, pitched upon a high plane, the delivery of which was not only wonderfully fine from the purely physical merits Of the efrort. but was vibrant with the notes of triumphant and unanswerable logic.
 Some feeble efforts were made to make a showing for the majority side, but Dalzell and Grosvenor. both keen and smart and confident as ever. retorted in defense of their party. and in the effect of their lame and impotent replies had cause to sympathize with each other in their complete discomfiture. It was a victory for the Democraticl side and Bourke Cochran was the here.
 Text of His Discourse.
 The recent executive order of the Press ident relating to age as evidence of pen- sionable disability today furnished the text for the lmpassioned Appeal by Mir. Cochran to members of the House to uphold the dignity of that body by re- fusing to submit to what he alleged to be the usurpation of t1e legislative au- thority of Congress by the executive
 In anticipation of Mri Cockran's speech. almost every seat on ffe floor was occur pied and the galleries were filled to oyar- flowing. MT. Coekrah characterized the Presidents interpretation of the law as hollow mockery and a play on wordssv and said this was known by the man who wrote it as iS shown hy the order itself He deciafed that Congress. on acc count of It's ppsillanimous failure 10 do It's duty to Itself had I0st caste; go much so that the newspapers of the country outside of Washington now print only q paragraph or tso of it's proceedinea TAA action of the President, he said. had been Justified by the Secretary of the Interior. by the precedent of President Cleveland; but If that be so then in Gods name let us condemn that act of Mir. Clevelandis as vehemently as the act Of any Republican President"
 The disposition to justify everything because Mir. Cleveland did it, he said. twas the highest compliment that could be paid to a man by Congress. but the confidence which Mir. Cleveland enjoys. he asserted, only adds to the danger og the act and does not lessen 1t.
 Republicans Reply.
 The President and Secretary of the In- terior found warm supporters in Messrs. Dalzell, Grosvenor. Gibson, Calderhead. Lacy and Hepburn. The first named maintained that 1t made no difference how many millions of dollars were in- volved in the Presidents order because the Secretary of the Interior distributed the money voted by Congress pursuant to the rules of evidence established by tho pension bureau. MT. Grosvenor be- lieved that the country and the old sol- diers would approve the order and that the money necessary for putting 1t into effect would be included in the forthcom- ing deficiency bill.
 The debate occurred on a resolution in- troduced by. MT. Cochran directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investi- gate the recent pension order. It having been reported from the Committee on Rules with recommendation that 1t lie on the table, and this was adopted by the narrow majority of three votes, the Speaker having his vote recorded in tie affirmative. Three Republicans-Cush- man (Wash.), Littiefield CMe.) and Me- Call (Mass.) voted with the Democrats against tabling the resolution.
 Mormons Skip the Country.
 Senator Burrows. Chairman of the Sem ate Committee on Elections. and other members of the Committee are consIds erably worked up over the disappearance of several important witnesses in the Reed Smoot cases. The Committee is- sued subpoenas for two or three high of. flcers in the Mormon Church and expect ed to have them here on the 30th instant. when the hearings are to be resumed.
 RtYr hal hak the men wanted by his Committee have