The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-27
MIR. COCHRAN THROWS BOMB DareS Investigation of Dalzell Charges. CANNON DoDGES QUESTION Declines to Rule on Point of
 Privilege. Scheme of the New York Congress- man is to Show Where the
 s1e,ooo, ,ooo Mckinley
 Campaign Fund Went.
CANNON DoDGEs QUESTION

Washington. April 26-The heavy. weights" had another bout in the House today. with Messrs. Dalzell and Cochran as the combatants. The speeches were a renewal of last Saturdays debate, bu: were more personal in character.
 As on Saturday, the speakers were greeted with vociferous applause by their respective colleagues and the bitterness of party feeling ran high.
 Mir. Dalzell had Mir Cochran on the rack for nearly two hours. during which time he dealt largely with that gentle mans political history, which, he said. showed him to have been consecutively a Greenbacker, a Sound Money man and a Free Silver man. He reverted to his statement of last Saturday. that he had been informed that Mir. Cochran had &C., cepted money to support the campaign of Mckinley and read extracts from several newspapers to show that that was the general impression all the time.
 MT. Cochran, thoroughly indignant at times. denied the accusation of Mir. Dal- xell, whom he arraigned for making state ments which could not be substantiated. If what Mir. Dalzell had said were true, he declared he was unworthy of mem bership.
 Cochran is Emphatic.
 In emphatic and positive language, Mir. Cochran denied that he had received money from the Palmer and Buckner campaign committee or that he had re- ceived money for supporting Mckinley in 1896.
 The climax came when he offered a res- olution providing for the appointment of select committee of five members of the House to investigate the charge which had been made against him by Mir Dal- zen. He and other Democrats. including Mr. Williams, the minority leader, de- manded immediate consideration, but the Speaker declined to pass on point of order against the resolution until he. had explained precedents.
 Mir. Dalzell referred to the colloqGy between himself and Mir Cochran last Saturday, and called attention to the reply of Mir. Cochran that he had never made a Republican speech but that he supported Mckinley when he thought 1t right, but the gentleman from Penn syivania would support him when he thinks 1t profitable" '-
 Mir. Dalzell declared he had asked Mir. Cochran civil question. T got brutal reply" he said.
 He insisted that he did not question MT Cockrans consistency.
 "The reply" he said. was that the gentleman from New York stood on the high plane of conscience, while I was playing politics for profit"
 MT Dalzell provoked loud Republican applause when he said that while he was an intense partisan. his brother 'of the other side will admit that generally, at least, I am a gentleman"
 Dalzell Feels Sore.
 Judging by certain press dispatches appearing after Mir. Cockran's speech. MT. Dalzell said it would be inferred he had made an unjust attack on MT. Cock ran. On the contrary, he said warmly. He made a mean and contemptible at- tack on me- and he added that the man who would make any other response than he did would have been a poltroon and a coward.
 Mir. Dalzell explained his remark of last Saturday by saying that he had been "in- formed'' that 1t was profitable to Mir. Cochran to support Mckinley when he did. He vehementIy declared that he was so informed.
 'I say now" he declared, that I was Justified in making that charge, because it is the current belief to this day that the gentleman received money for his political work"
 To support his charge. he said he would mention some facts and circumstances connected with the history of MT. Cochran. He then read from number of documents to show that Mir. Cochran started as a greenbacker and in 1896 stood with Mckinley because he was for sound money.
 Record of Cochran.
 For sound money in 1s96," he said amid Republican applause, travelling all over the country; in 1900 in support of Bryan; Grenbacker. sound money man, free si- yer man. He has been a Bryanite and an anti-Bryanite. He was for Bryan in 1900. 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 for Grover Cleve- land he has more wisdom than I think some of his brethren have"
 With some sarcasm Mir. Dalzell said that possibly MT. Cochran is for some respectable political nonenity who has no convictions on any public question, and is willing to stand on any platform that may be made for him. Looking MT. Cochran in the face, Mir. Dalzell, speaking in deris.on. said that MT. Cochran has been Tammynite and as such has ceased to be A member of Con- gress. The gentleman from New York is a Tammanyite again and now again he Is a member of Congress" The Republicans were aroused to high pitch of enthusiasm when MT. Dalzeil softly inquired
 Would not that make one suspicious that 1t was more than matter of con science with a gentleman having such a harlequin careerT'
 Reads from Newspapers.
 The Democratic side of the House. he said. had got hysterical when. Saturday, he would not disclose the name of his informant He then read from The New York Journal. published by Mir. Cock rams colleague w. Hearst. in August 1896. a statement that Mfr. Cochran wsa for Mckinley. "a position which" said the publication ito those who remember his career in Congress. does not seem to involve such a strain on his feelings as might be supposed. and especially with rumors .n the air of s250,0o0 checks out of hand as an educational fund"
 He quoted from an article in The New York Tribune in 1893, in which the state