Show littleton Litt teton ainold incident ent revives dal zells memories FAMOUS BOUT WITH W ITH COCKRAN COC pennsylvanians lans ians reply to now new yorker holds record lor caustic person allele soldiers lawyers and school teachers Tea chera who are now in congress by GEORGE CLINTON washington the reply made mada ou on the floor of the house by represents tive Martin W littleton ot of new york to insinuations that he was waa friendly to the steel trust and was not a democrat brought sharply to the members minds the speech of another democrat made under somewhat similar circumstances and which caused a great sensation some years ago there were two persons persona who were chief parties to the incident called to nind by littletons Little tons defense ot of himself one of them was bourie cockran for or mer democratic representative from new york and the other was john dalzell of pennsylvania who still sits in the house and Is one of the pillars of what la Is called regular republican lim lam when representative littleton LUt leton waa aa a speaking Dalzell Dat zell must have had vividly before him the picture of the other scene bourke cockran in a 8 speech had attacked some of the republican publican all party policies and had said some sharp personal things about john dalzell high chieftain of cf protection lection tec tion cockran intimated that dalzell was wa nut altogether patriotic in his bis legislative endeavor la in other words that ho he might be considered in a sense beeking Dat Dalzel zells ts caustic reply dalzells dalzelle Dal zells answer holds tho the record perhaps in congress for or extreme bitterness and caustic personalities lie he accused cockran of having made speeches on different sides of public questions speeches echea contrary to one 0 another and having delivered them not altogether without th I 1 idea d e a that personal profit might come there were reasons why the democrats did not want cockran to make answer la in a way that might give political advantage to in ana enemy and the leaders labored with him just as they labored with littleton the other day but cockran was not to be denied ile he answered dalzell with a flood of oratory but while it was waa a fine speech rhetorically it did not have the thousand lance like points which bristled all through the utterance ot of the lam there Is a resolution now in congress asking for an investigation ot of the matters lying underneath the insinuations against littleton cockran years ago asked for an investigating committee saying that it if what dalzell had said about him were true be cockran cockrain was unfit to sit in congress investigation never materialized and time finally put its oil in the wounds of 0 the forensic battle soldiers in the senate the government recently has been exercising its vigilance in connection with what it seems to believe to be a powder trust on EM organization according to the government ernin e at view in the restraint of trad de e in the united states senate there Is a man whose name Is inseparably connected with powder someone some one has put it one never bears bl ble name without expecting an aa explosion curiously enough the member Is a graduate of tho the united states military academy where a boy smells powder and in a way eats it from the be day he enters until the day of 0 his graduation and then unless he quits the service he be goes ahead smelling and eating it on occasion tor for the rest tit 0 bis big life henry algernon du pont font of delaware la Is the senator whose name la is suggestive or of upland shooting marsh shooting and the field of 0 war wan senator du put punt graduated at the head of 0 his alas in the united states military academy aca deroy may M ay this was known its as the war class of the school borall for all of its members went straight to the front althou although gli there was a goodly num number berof 0 ahem hem left the academy before the day of graduation in order to joletha join the forces of tho the confederacy in the be field the future delaware senator went I 1 futo the engineer corps but soon after he jol joined ned he be was transferred to the vir tillary lie he Is a retiring man who seldom says anything in the senate ills his army record la is such that if he chose to talk about it could do so BO vib lob a good deal of pride he does doe not took look much like a fire eater but through the four our years of the war promotions came to him blin rapidly for foi uch such things as distinguished gallantry gallantry and voluntary exposure to the ene mys fire at a critical moment and other things apparently equally to hla his credit and to the satisfaction of hla his superior officers senator briggs army record another senator who was a graduate of uncle sams school Is frank obadiah briggs 0 of new jersey hla fits career as a BU soldier idler was short tie he graduated from the school on the hudson in 1872 and fo for seven yours thereafter served ss as second lieutenant in the second united states infantry promotion wavery clow clew in those drys and it may be that the future wearied of guard duty d an occasional chasing ut indians vilt without bout any opportunity anity of reward from a grateful country tor for it was waa no that uncle um never caver tools took touch much account of the great hardi bIp and dangers which the soldiers of the frontier encountered on his fits behalf in 1877 briggs resigned sinned re from the army and went to trenton N J where after a while he entered poll ties ills ilia first office was that of mayor of trenton tie llo was elected to the senate in 1907 to succeed J P F dryden who died only three weeks ago soldiery soldiers in the supreme court T the h e S u pr e m e co court u f t 0 of f t the hots U united nl te d st states at e s h has a a e several ev e ral s soldiers 0 1 dle r s f in n its membership m e m bers ber ship bip edward douglass douglaas white the chief justice who was appointed to that office by president taft to succeed melville W V fuller served BB as a private in the confederate army in hla his biography supplied tor for official use the chief justice merely says saya 1 I served in the confederate army JIG ho tolls tells nothing of the excellent record which be made as a soldier although having no military education he be did not rise to high rank in the armed service of the confederate government oliver wendell holmes son ot of the autocrat of the breakfast table had a fine record as an a soldier ills his ta fathers thera story of A sea search ach for the captain or a name similar dealt with the attempt to trace youna holmes alter after he be had been badly wounded and bad disappeared justice holmes left harvard college early in 1861 to go to 0 o the front with the twentieth massachusetts volunteer infantry ile he was shot through the breast at balls bluff and it was thought he could not recover lie ile did recover was commissioned as eat captain and inside of four our months was shot through the dealt lie he recovered from this wound as be did from the other and again went into the service and in less than a month after he returned to the front was shot through the I 1 leg eg he seems to be pretty healthy today although it la Is said eald that he la Is a walking barometer and that if hla his wounds begin to hurt in fair baether he knows that it Is going to rain in afla of 24 hours horace harmon lurton another associate justice ot of the supreme court s served three years in the confederate army general grant once captured the confederate force of which h lurton was a member the young youn g con fedale soldier then saw grantford grant for the i first time but history falla fails to record that the general recognized la in hla his y youthful captive a future associate justice of the united states supreme court lawyers numerous in congress the majority of the members ol of the sixty second cong congress tess Is composed of lawyers this condition of preponderance of legal minds in the two houses has been maintained ever since the earliest days of the republic when tor for awhile agriculture was waa named as the pursuit in life of more than hall half the senators and representatives not nil all of the member of congress who have a right to practice in the courts ore are actively engaged in their professions A good many of them are rather rusty on law and they admit it IL these members in the main are men who have been holding office continuously tor for years and who have found that they could not keep pace with law when tre only time that they can give to it la Is during the recesses of congress in the summer bummer months when most of the members after the hard winter feel more like going fishing than taking up cases lu in court moreover almost every eiery september they are called upon to makri political speeches and this like fishing interferes woefully with legal practice A half of them once teachers while the majority of the members are lawyers by profession fully halt bait of the men of the two houses at some time in their careers have taught school there are men in extraordinarily high official places today who in early life taught schools at the crass crossroads ellhu root senior senator from new york Is one ot of these ilia 1113 father was a professor of mathematics at hamilton college and he be was known as square root a deslou designation sufficient clent to show that the students liked their teacher of mathematics one of 0 E elihu ichu roots brot brother beri succeeded his father in the professorship at hamilton and the boys called him cube root ellhu root himself thought that tie ha would make teaching his bis life profession and so BO soon boon after graduating from hamilton he entered a country school in n onelda oneida county now york and taught there for isome some time then hrs his attention was turned to the bar and he became a lawyer the rest of his history is too well known to need repetition robert marion la follette senator 0 from wisconsin and a sivility lity also was waa n school tea cheri ho did not teach long but teaching was one of the means which he used in his rather hard driven youth to help him prepare himself for the career which he be hoped to enter upon |