The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-27
MEETS GOADING
WITH CHALLENGE
DaIZell Attacks Bourke Cock.
ran Again and Latter Calls
for Investigation.
Globe Special Washington Service, -

Globe Special Washington Service, -
1417 G Street.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 26.-
Overshadowing everything else in in
terest today was a sensational debate
which took place in the house Of rep
resentatives between Representative
Dafzell on the Republican side, defend
ing the party's policy and the tariff,
and Representative Bourke Cochran,
who appeared as the champion Of the
Democrats, and amid restrained en-
thusiasm poured out food of eIo-
quenee that held the packed galleries
spellbound for three hours
The session ended with a fitting eE-
max when the New York member took
up the charge chat he had received
money for supporting the Republican
| candidate in 1896, and demanded an
immediate vote on a resolution Of in
vestigation. Failing to get unanimous
consent, he pressed the matter as one
OF personal privilege, and a vote was
averted only by the cunning Of Speaker
Cannon, who said he was not prepared
TO rule on q point of order, and would
take advantage of his privilege to ex-
anime the precedents before announc-
ing his decision.
There could be no objection or ap-
peal from this situation, and the house
took a recess until evening and then
adjourned over, with the matter still
in the air.
Mr.. Cochran again spoke of Folk of
Missouri, as a possible candidate OF
the Democracy, but said that whoever
was the candidates the issue would be
honesty against corruption During
the debate the floor of the house was
packed. Practically every senator left
the other end of the capitol and came
to swell the audience. Many times
members forgot themselves and sweIled
the applause with yells and shouts.
Walter Z. Clark.
Details of the Encounter.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 90
The -heavyweights'' had another bout
in the house today, with Messrs. DaI-
zelI and Cochran as the comba atants.
The speeches were a renewal of last
Saturdays debate, but were more per-
sonal in their character AS on Satur-
day. the speakers were greeted with
vociferous applause by their respective
colleagues, and the bitterness of party
feeling ran high.
Mr.. DalZel had Mr.. Cochran on the
rack for nearly two hours, during
which time he dealt largely with that
gentleman's political history, which he
said showed him to have been consec-
utively a Greenbacker, a sound money
man and a free silver man. He re-
verted to his statement of last Satur-
day that he had been informed that
Mr.. Cochran had accepted money to
support the campaign Of Mckinley,
and read extracts from several news
papers TO show that was the general
impression at the time A man. he
said, who would not have replied TO
Mr.. Cochran as he did on SATURDAY.
would have been a poltroon and a
coward
Cochran Denies EmphatieaiIy.
Mr.. Cochran. thoroughly indignant
at times, denied the accusation of Mr..
DalzeIl, whom he arraigned for making
statements which could not be sub
stantiated. II what Mr.. DalzeH had
said were true, he declared, he was un-
worthy Of membership. In emphatic
and positive language, Mr.. Cochran de-
MED that he had received money from
the Palmer and Buekner campaign
committee, or that he had ever re-
ceived money for supporting Mckinley
in 1896. If Mr.. Dalzell, he said. be-
lieved the charges against him, it was
nothing but q confession of the Re-
publican party's corruption and proof
that the presidential election had been
purchased.
The climax came when he offered a
resolution providing for the appoint
ment Of. a select committee of five
members Of the house TO investigate
the charge which had been made
against him by Mr.. Dalzell He and
other Democrats, including Mr.. VIII
liams, the minority leader. demanded