Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-02-18 | Page 4 | Hobson Bitterly Attacked in House

HOBSH BITTERLY JTUCKFJI! HOUSE Democratic Colleagues Accuse Alabama Member of Neglecting- His Duties. WASHINGTON. lrb. 17. Bitter nor-sonal nor-sonal attacks on ReiirescntMtlve Richmond Rich-mond I'cnr.son Hohson were made on I ho floor of tho houso today bv two of his Deincratlu colleague. Representative liny of Virginia, chairman of the military affairs af-fairs committee niul Representative VUz-grcrald VUz-grcrald 6f Now VqiI. chairman of the appropriations ap-propriations committee. , , Remarks inserted In the congressional record, but not uttered on the floor, dl-rci'te'J dl-rci'te'J acmlnst these two members formed the haslu for the attack. Mr. Hay charged llobson with having "acted In a cowardly wav." and Mr. I'Ttzgomld declared de-clared Mr. llobson devoted more thno to the Chautauqua leeture platform than to attending hcssIoiim of tho honae. Mr. Kltzgemld told the house that he hHd called at Mr. Hobson's offlco to request him to bo present to hear per-ponnllv per-ponnllv the attack he proposed to make upon him. but Mr. llobson had left the city. "The. pen Hainan from Alabama explained ex-plained his ahsoneo from the house by saying he had a message- to deliver to the people." said Mr. Fitzgerald. If he chooses to accept his compensation as a representative and upend his time delivering de-livering messages for pay from the Chautauqua Chau-tauqua platform, that Is bin privilege. It If mv opinion that he would bolter Korvo the country by attending to his dutlca here." Representative Hay said h- felt called upon to repudiate on behalf of the com-niillco com-niillco on military affairs the "cowardly lnnintiationp" contained In Representative Hobsou's criticism or the army rcorgani-y.allon rcorgani-y.allon schema