The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-27


 applause. Continuing, he said They are to be found rather amongst those adventurers. who, having left theii own country for their country's good | find in 1t homes of the most prolific source of notoriety and pelf, men who. without conscience and without conviction, find an opportunity. now with one party, now with another. to- find a market for the peculisr wares among which Is not re- spectability."
 He took his seat amid another storm of Republican applause.
 Mir. Cochran had sat through the entire speech of Mir Dalzell unmoved and wait ed for him to finish. Then rising from his seat, he was greeted with turnultuous applause by the Democrats
 The Reply of Cochran.
 When order vas restored he began hIs reply by stating that from the position Of the newest and most humble member of the House it was surprising to have been exalted to a political issue"
 He could, he said, scarcely realize that this extraordinary display of personal rancor and vituperation will be accepted by the Republican party as the keynote of this special campaign"
 Personally, he said, he did not care to engage in a war of abuse with the gen
  MT Dalzells application to himself Mir. Dalzell. he declared, had thought it proper to justify charge of infamy against a fellow member by searching the various channels through which an anonymous calumniation circulated in a political campaign and with hands no cleaner than those with which it deals, hurls 1t over a body of deliberative men" Many things" he said, ;. had been quoted which had been attributed to him, some of which were garbled extracts of speeches and some of which were alleged interviews he never held. Therefore. he said. "the gentleman perhaps has some right to complain that the charges which he voiced here last Saturday had been left these many years unnoticed by me-"
 MT. Cochran denied the charge that he had received $15,0O0 from Palmer and Bvckner campaign committee. He also denied in the most positive manner that he ever had received money for support ing President Mckinley in iSse. Denial of Charges,
 He denied the charge that he ever was a Greenbaeker and said in the cam paign of 1886 he combatted with all his' energy the theories regarding the finances advocated by MT. Bryan. He believed Mir. Bryan to be an absolutely uoAtCcI anu udQ iC0AClCQ llat WIGn he saw his error on the financial ques- tion he would be the first to take tho plank out of the platform. Within the last few days, however. he said, MT. Bryan had demonstrated that he was at tached to an idea and would tear down everything rather than yield
 Mir. Cochran then reviewed his welcome back to Congress. saying it had been most cordial on the part of the members of both sides of the chamber, and had been participated in by Mir. DalzeIl.
 We are now told" he continued that was all the time regarded as a mer- cenary whose services were for sale"
 If MT. Dalzell believed the charge he had brought against him 1t showed him (Mr. DalzelD in a pltiable state. He was in infamy and did not know it. He had confessed to his own partys cor ruption. He had proved. If he had proved anything, that the Presidential election had been purchased. It had been charged that sixteen million dollars had been spent by the Republican Campaign Com mittee in that campaign. Mir. Cochran said he had never believed these charges himself. He added:
 ''I can always protect myself from the gentleman from Pennsylvania by choosing my own side of the street. Be- fore I sit down, I shall ask this House to agree with me on this, that If what the gentleman has said is true. am un- worthy of membership"
 MT. Cochran was interrupted with loud cheers from his Democratic colleagues. Ho continued:
 This will take a wider range than our personal virtues. shall ask for a com mittee to investigate this charge and shall ask for power to send for persons and papers"
 MT. Cochran said he had a resolution ready to offer, that presents my atti- tude and the attitude of the honest man in the face of''-pausing and measuring his words-"one that cannot be described in parliamentary language" The Demo- crats interrupted with applause and Mir. Cochran continued:
 "one," he said. whose character cam not be described because he has illus trated 1t by his performance. He then read his resolution which was as follows: "Wherels. The Hon., John Dalzell, a member of the House and of the Commit tee on Ways and Means, charged on the floor that William Bourke Cochran, Representative from New York, as a members of the same committee, has been paid money by a political party to support the candidate for the Presidency nominated in opposition to the party with which the said William Bourke Cochran had heretofore been affiliated; and. Whereas The charge, though attack ed specifically on the floor by the said William Bourke Cochran. has not been withdrawn by the said John DalEeIl; and:
 Charge Not Withdrawn. Whereas. Said charge, if true. estab- ', fishes such conduct as should unfit any man for membership in this House, and 1T false, should be so declared and it's author censured severely; therefore be 1t
 Resolved, That a select committee of hve members be appointed by the chair to inquire into the truth of said charges ana to report the testimony with their conclusions thereon to this House at It's session beginning the first Monday Of December next; be 1t further
 Resolved. That said committee be, and 1t Is hereby. given full power to compel the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such papers as the mem bers thereof may deem necessary to the full and proper discharge of duty hereby imposed on them"
 Loud Democratic applause followed Mir Cockran's reading of the resolution.
 He then resumed, and said that when that resolution was adopted in all It's terms something more important than his conduct or the action of the member from would be clear.