The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-13
RIDICII.,ED
 P/C0CKRAN Cor r.essman's Criticism z of the Senate, HEARD BY A CROWDED HOUSE Thinks the Hepburn Bill Perfection
 of Litigation. Says the Constitutional Lawyer is Dls- tinEuished by the Awfulness of His Mien and the Strange
 ness of his Meaning.
HEARD BY A CROWDED HOUSE

 of today's proceedings in the House of Representatives was the speech made by Mir Cochran tN. Y.), who under an agreement made on a previous day was given an hour to elucidate the subject of general debate'' on appropriation bills.
 In view of the announcement that Mir. Cochran would speak the galleries were crowded and very large pro- portion of the members of the House were in attendance. Mir. Cochran after a short discussion of the fiction of general debate" and the failure of members to attend the sittings of the House while subjects covering the widest possible latitude were being H. luminated, launched out in defense of the Hepburn rate bin and the high position taken by the House not only in the exceptional character of the leg islation but In the dignified way in which the bill was passed by the lower house of Congress. In this connection he ridiculed the constitutional debat- CTS in the Senate.
 Immediately after the House con vened. a number of private pension bills with Senate amendments were concurr- ed in.
 MT. Adams (Pa). offered and had passed a resolution calling upon the secretary of the treasury for informa- Iion anu GcTtItitu CoPiSo OI OH nS- counts of the United States postal agent at Shanghai. China. between 1901 and 1905.
 The House then took up the postoffice appropriation bill.
 half dozen members were on their feet when the item carrying the ap- propriation for the pay of letter car riers was reached demanding recogni- tion to offer amendments increasing the nav of these carriers
 GoldfogIe's Amendment.
 MT. Goldfogle (N. Y), secured recog- milton and offered an amendment for the increase but 1t went out on a point of order.
 Mf sulzer (N. Y). offered a substi- tute to MT. Goldfogle's amendment making the appropriation $24,50o,00o, with tie limitation that no part of the appropriation shall be used for said purpose unless in the use therefor the carriers hereinafter mentioned shall be paid salaries according to the amend ment of Goldfogle.
 MT. Overstreet made the point of or- der against the substitute When MT. Cochran (N. Y.), rose to address the House at o'clock under a former agreement, he was met by crowded galleries and a large represen- tation Of the membership who gave him a hearty welcome He began his speech with a criticism of the latitude of general debate"
 He recalled that the Hepburn bill in the House was considered with un- Tinted debate and contrasted its posi- tion in the Senate. The constitutional lawyers. he said, had played battledore and shuttleIock with its terms.
 "A constitutional lawyer" he ex- claimed. How are we able to dis tinguish him? Not by the number of
 taE4 t,io but by the wonder and awe of his asso- ciates-at the multiplicity of his quo- tations; the strangeness of his phrases; the awfulness of his mien and the mys- tery of his meaning" Loud applause.)
 These constitutional lawyers" he said, have spread their wings and taken flight far beyond the view of or- dinary citizens. If a railroad does not like the action of the commission, all 1t needs to do is to stand pat if may be permitted to use the vernacular of the majority in phrase of singular force.'
 Hepburn Hill Perfect.
 In his opinion the Hepburn bill Is the perfection of legislation. Mir. Cochran received an ovation.
 Consideration of the appropriation bill was then resumed. an amendment being adopted to appropriate for star AoutCS, tCAhPCe ot SSi NiSC OAA newly established offices $7.100.000 provided that put of this appropriation the postmaster-general Is authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the es- tablishment and equipment of relay stations in such manner as he may think advisable. without advertising therefor.
 An amednment was adopted requir- ing the chief director of each of sev- eral executive departments. independ- ent bureaus and government establish ments having headquarters at Wash ing to maintain from July 1 to Decem- Der 31. 1906, record of all mall enter ed at Washington by each under penal ty privilege so as to show the character and quantity of the mail in the several classes, and report to Congress not la ter than February 1, 1907, what amounts of postage would have been required for each of the classes
 MT. Macon (Ark) sought to limit the railway post office car service to the cars actually in use by transporta- tion companies. but was defeated on rising vote. The committee then rose, and the House concurred in the Sem ate amendments to the bill fixing the terms of courts in the Southern Dis trict of Texas. At 5:30 the House ad journed until tomorrow