Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-21
RECALLS OLD SCRAP
Litt!eton Incident REEVES Dali
zeII's Memories.
FAMOUS BOUT WITH COCHRAN
PennsyIvanian's Reply TO New Yorker
Holds Record for Caustic Person
aIities-SoIdiers, Lawyers and
School Teachers Who Are
Now IN Congress.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington. The reply made on
/ the floor Of the house by Representa-
[ tive Martin ". Liltleton of New York
( to insinuations that he was friendly
( to the steel trust and was not
Democrat, brought sharply TO the
members minds the speech of anoth-
er Democrat made under somewhat
/ similar circumstances and which caus-
/ ed a great sensation some years ago.
! There were two persons who were
/ chief parties TO the incident called to
mind by Littleton's defense of himself.
/ One of them was Bourke Cochran, for
mer Democratic representative from
( New York, and the other was John
| Dalzeu Of Pennsylvania. who still sits
1 il the house and is one Of the pillars
! OF what is called regular Republican
ism. When Representative Littleton
( was speaking Dalzell must have had
wildly before him the picture Of the
/ other scene. Bourke Cochran in a
! speech had attacked some of the Re-
/ publican party policies and had said
! some sharp personal things about
| John DaIzell, high chieftain of pro-
/ lection" Cochran intimated that Ual-
| zeil was not altogether patriotic IN his
| legislative endeavor; in other words.
| that he might be considered in a sense
| sel+-seeking.
! DalzeIPs Caustic Reply.
Dalzelrs answer holds the record
perhaps in congress for extreme bit
! terness and caustic personalities. He
accused Cochran Of having made
/ speeches on different sides of public
1 Questions, speeches contrary to one
another, and having delivered them
| not altogether without the idea that
/ personal profit might come.
There were reasons why the Demo
Gratis did not want Cochran to make
| answer in a way that might give po-
/ htical advantage TO the enemy, and
| the leaders labored with him just as
/ they labored with Littleton the 9th,
| er day, but Cochran was not to be de-
MED. He answered Dalzell with a
/ flood OF oTatory. but while it was a
fine speech, rhetorically, it did not
have the thousand lance-like points
| which bristled all through the utter
ance of the Pennsylvania.
There is a resolution now In con
gress asking for an investigation of
| tbe matters lying underneath the in
| situations against Littleton. Cochran
years ago asked for an investigating
| committee, saying that if what Dali
zeil had said about him were true he.
Cochran. was unfit 10 sit in congress.
Investigation never materialized and
time finally put its oil in the wounds
| OF the forensic battle.
| Soldiers in the Senate.
The government recently has been
exercising its vigilance in connec-
| ticn with what it seems to be-
lieve to be powder trust, an
! organization, according to the gov
| ernment view. in the restraint of
/ trade. In the United States senate
! there is a man whose name is in
separately connected with powder
Same one has put it, lone never hears
his name without expecting an ex-
| Elosion." Curiously enough. the mem
! Der is graduate of the United States
Military academy, where a boy smells
| powder and in a way eats it from the
| day be enters uutil the day of his
! graduation and then, unless he quits
/ the service, he goes ahead smelling
aud eating it on occasion for the rest
/ OF his life.
Henry Algernon du Pont of Della
! ware is the senator whose name is
/ suggestive of upland shooting, marsh
/ shooting and the field OF war. Senator
/ du PUnt graduated at the head OF his
! class in the United States Military
/ academy May 8. 1861 This was known
as the War Glass OF the school, for all
! of its members went straight to the
! front, although there was a goodly
/ number of them left the academy be-
/ fore the day of graduation 10 order to
/ join the forces of the Confederacy in
the field
The future Delaware senator went
/ into the engineer corps, but soon aft
/ er he joined he was transferred to
/ the artilIary. He is a retiring man
/ who seldom says anything in the SEN
| ate. His army record is such that II
| be chose to talk about it could do SO
( with a good deal of pride. He does
not look much like a fire eater, but
/ through the four years Of the war pro
/ motions came to him rapidly for such
/ things as distinguished gallantry'
4 and voluntary exposure to the enc
my's fire at critical moment" and
/ ether things apparently equally TO his
/ credit and to the satisfaction of his
superior officers.
Senator Briggs Army Record
Another senator who was a gradu-
/ ate of Uncle Sans school is Frank
! Obediah Briggs of New Jersey His
career as a soldier was short. He
| graduated from the school on the Hud
son in 1872 and for seven years there
after served as second lieutenant in
the Second United States infantry
1 Promotion was very slow in those
days and it may be that the future
senator wearied of guard duty and
an occasional chasing Of Indians.
without any opportunity Of reward
from a grateful country. for it was no.
torious that Uncle Sam never took
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Will Sc Cooks, Mot Marksmen.
Hereafter an army cook is to be a
knight of the kettles and pans. pure
and simple, and will not be called
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