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BITTER WORDS
PASS IN HOUSE
COCHRAN AND DALZELL
CONTINUE THE PERSONALITIES BE-
GUN ON SATURDAY.

iterates His Charges Against the
New York Democrat-His Caustic
Comments Upon COckran's POIiti-
cal Career Provoke Republican
AppIause-Cockran, Replying, De-
mands an investigation.
Charges.
Washington. April 26.-The heavy
weights" had another bout in the
House to-day, with Messrs. Dalzell and
Cochran as combatants.
The speeches We're a renewal of last
Saturdays debate, but were more per-
sonal in their character. AS on Sat
urday, the speakers were greeted with
vociferous applause by their respective
colleagues, and the bitterness of party
feeling ran high. Mr.. Dalzell repeat
ed his charge that Mr.. Cochran had
received money for his support of Nc
Kinley The charge was Indignantly
denied by Mr.. Cochran.
The climax came when Mr. Cochran
offered a resolution providing for the
appointment of a select committee of
| five members of the House, to investi-
gate the charge which had been made
/ against him by Mr.. Dalzell. He and
other Democrats, including Mr.. Will
liams, the minority leader, demanded
immediate consideration, but the
Speaker declined to pass on a point
of order against the resolution until
he had examined precedents.
To support his charges Mr.. Dalzell
said he would mention some facts and
circumstances connected with the his
tory of Mr.. Cochran. He then read
from number of documents to show
that Mr.. Cochran started as a Green
hacker, and in 1896 stood with the
Mckinley side because he was for
sound money. For sound money III
1885, he said, amid Republican ap-
plause, travelling all over the conti-
rent; in 1900 in support of Bryan,
greenbacker, soundmoney man, free
silver man. He has been a Bryanite
and an anti-Bryanite. He was for
Bryan in 1900. Is he for Bryan now?"
His Political Gymnastics.
Looking Mr.. Cochran in the face
MIR. Dalzell, speaking in derision, said
that Mr.. Cochran has been a Tam
manyite and as such has been a men,
Der of Congress; he has been an anti
Tammanyite, and as such ceased to be
a member of Congress. The gentle
man from New York is a Tammanyite
now again, and now again he is a
member of Congress"
The Republicans We're reused to a
high pitch of enthusiasm and approval
when Mr.. Dalzell inquired softly.
Would not that make one suspicious
that il was more than a matter Of
conscience with a gentleman having
such a harlequin career?"
The Democratic side of the House
he said, had got hysterical when he
would not on Saturday disclose the
name of his informant. He then read
the New York Journal, published by
Mr.. Cockran's colleague. w. r. Hearst
in August, 1896, in which the statement
was made that Mr.. Cochran was for
Mckinley, "a position which to those
who remember his career in Congress
does not seem to involve such a strain
on his feelings as might be supposed
especially with rumors in the air Of
$3.50 900 checks out of Hanna's edu-
cational fund"
A Fling at Him an Alien.
Mr.. Dalzell closed amid wild Repub-
lican applause with a most bitter de-
nunciation of Mr.. Cochran. He referred
to that gentlemar's speech before the
Democratic Convention which sent him
to Congress, in which Mr.. Cochran
said: I'VE have reached point
where the country is regarded as an
international hoodlum." Facing the
Democratic side and looking directly
at Mr.. Cochran, Mr.. Dalzell declared:
IF there be any hoodlums amongst
us they are not the product of Ameri-
can soil, American institutions, or
American civilization" He was inter-
rupted with loud and prolonged Re-
publican applause. Continuing, he
said:
They are to be found rather
amongst those adventurers, whoIhaving
left their own country for their coun-
trys good. find in the field of Ameri-
can politics prolific source of notoriety
and pelf, men who. without conscience
and without conviction, find an oppor-
tunity now with one party, now with
another, to find market for their
peculiar wares among which is not re-
spectability"
He took his seat amid another storm
Of Republican applause.
Then Cochran Made Answer.
Mr.. Cochran has sat through the en-
tire speech of Mr.. Dalzell unmeved and
waited for him to finish when, rising
from his seat, he was greeted with tu-
multuous applause by the Democrats.
Mr.. Dalzell. he declared had thought
It proper to justify charge of infa-
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