Show COCKRAN AND DALZELL STILL OBJECTS TO BEING CLASSED AS POLITICS FOR REVENUE ONLY washington april 26 the heavy weights had another bout today in which mr dalzell and air Cockri in were he combatants the speeches were a renewal 0 last saturdays bout but were more personal in character As on saturday the speakers were greeted with vociferous applause by their respective colleagues and tie bitterness of party feeling ran high sir dalzell had mr cockran on the rack lor nearly two hours during which time he had dealt largely with that gent lemans political history mr cockran thoroughly indignant at times denounced the accusation of mr dalzell whom he arraigned for making statements which could not bo substantiated the climax came when he a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate tho charge which had been made against him by mr dalzell he and other democrats including mr wil hams the minority leader demanded immediate consideration but the speaker declined to pass on a point ot order antu ha had examined precedents mr dalzell referred to tho colloquy between himself and mr cockran last saturday and called attention to the reply of mr cockran that be had never made a republican speech but that he supported mckenley when he thought it right but tho gentleman from pennsylvania would support him when he thinks it profitable mr dalzell with some feeling dai charod ho aad asked mr cockran a civil question 1 I got a brutal reply he said ho insisted that he did not question mr cockrane cockrans Coc krans honesty the query might have called into question mr cockrane cockrans Coc krans consistency the reply he said was that tho gentleman from new york stood upon high piano of conscience while I 1 was playing politics for profit mr dalzell provoked loud 1 alcan applause when he said that while he atas an intense partisan hie breth 1 ren on the other side will admit that generally at leaea I 1 am a gentleman judging by certain press dispatches appearing after mr cockrane mr dalzell said it would be interred hc had made an unjust attack on mr cockran on the contrary he said warmly he made a mean and contemptible temp tible attack on me and he added that the man who would have made any other response than I 1 did would have been a coward mr dalzell explained hta remark ot last saturday by saying that he had been informed that it was profitable lo 10 mr cocbrane to port mckenley when he did he vehemently declared that he was so informed 1 I eay now he exclaimed that I 1 was in making that charge because it Is the current belief to this day that the gentleman received money for political work to support his charge he said he would mention some facts and circumstances connected with abo history ot mr cockran he read from a number of documents to show that mr cockran started as a greenbacker and in stood with the mckenley side because he was for sound money for sound money in 1896 he said amid republican applause traveling all over the in 1900 in support of bryan greenbacker sound money man free silver man he has been a bryanne and an anti he was tor bryan in 1900 Is he tor bryan looking mr cockran in the face mr dalzell eaid mr cockran has been a and as such has been a member of he has been an anti and as such ceased to be a member of congress the gentleman from new york is a now and now again is a member of congress the republicans were roused to a high pitch of enthusiasm and approval when mr dalzell inquired would not that make one suspicious that it was more than a matter of conscience with a gentleman having auch a career the democratic side of the house had gotten hysterical when on saturday he would not disclose the name of his informant he then said the new york journal published by mr cockrane colleague W hearst in august 1896 published a statement that mr cockran was for mckenley a position which said the publication 0 o those who remember his career in congress does not seem to involve such a strain on hie feelings as might be supposed and especially with in the air of checks out of hannas educational fund he quoted from an article in the new york tribune in 1893 in which the statement was made that mr cockran evidently haj been deeply In ceased by the etory that he had sold hie oratory to the fusion cause but had been hired for a large price by tammany mr dalzell then appealed to the house to know whether or not when ho was accused of being in politics for profit he yas y as justified in saying he bad been wormed that mr cockran practiced politics or profit mr danzoll majo a comparison ot the various campaign utterances ot mr cockran and eadd that it in 1896 he was com batting the ot the court of the united stales in 1900 he was aiming a blow that would have resulted in such destruction dalzell closed amid wild republican applause with a most bitter denunciation nuncia tion ot mr cockran he referred to that gent lemans speech before the democratic convention which bent him to congress in which mr cockran said we have reached a point where the country ie regarded as an international hoodlum facing the democratic side and looking directly at mr cockran mr dalzell declared that the utterance was of as much interest to them as it was to himself it there be any hood luma among us he baij speaking with vehemence they are not the product ot american soil american institutions or american civilization they are to be found rather among those adventurers who having left their own country tor their count rys good find in the field ot american politics a source of notoriety and pelt men who without conscience and without conviction find an opportunity now with one party now with another to find a market tor their peculiar wares among which Is not respectability mr cockran had sat through the en tiro speech ot mr dalzell unmoved and waited for him to finish then rising from his seat he was greeted with applause by the democrats when order waa restored he began his deply by stating that from the position 0 the newest and most humble member of the house I 1 seem to have been suddenly exalted with tire dignity of political issue personally ho said he did not care to engage in a war ot abuse with the gentleman from pennsylvania referring to mr dal appellation of himself mr dalzeil he declared had thought it proper to justify a charge of a fellow member searching the various channels through which anonymous culmination circulates in a political campaign many things he said had been quoted which had been attributed tri buted to him some ot which were garbled extracts ot speeches and some of which were alleged interviews never held therefore he eald the gentleman perhaps has some right to complain that the charge which he voiced here last saturday had lived these many years unnoticed by me mr cockran denied the charge thai he had received from the palmer buckner company he also denied that he had ever received money for supporting president election in issai he denied the charge he ever was a greenbacker and aid that in the campaign ot 1896 he with all his energy what he believed to be a hearsay regarding the finances advocated by mr bryan he had believed mr bryan to be an absolutely honest man and bad predicted that when he baw his error on the financial question he would be the first to take the plank out of the platform within the last few days however he said mr bryan had demonstrated that he was attached to the idea and would tear down everything rather than yield it mr dalzell believed the charges be had brought it showed him dalzell in a pitiable state he was in infamy and did nut know it he confessed to bis own bartys corruption he had proved it he had proved anything that the presidential election had been pur biased it had been charged that sixteen million dollar bad been spent by the republican campaign committee in that campaign mr cockran aid that be had never believed these charges himself he added 1 I can always protect myself from the gentleman from pennsylvania by choosing my own side of the street before I 1 sit down ishall ask this house to agree with me on this that it what tte gentleman lias said la true I 1 am unworthy ot its membership it what ho eald be false he 1 unworthy of membership mr cockran was interrupted walli loud from his democratic colleagues he t thib will inka wider kanip hau ow I 1 auk or a committee u hie charge and ehnle aik for power tu send or persons and capere mr cockran eald he had a resolution to that represent attitude and the altitude of the honest man in of pausing and measuring hie worde ono that cannot be de in parliamentary language the democrats interrupted with applause but mr cockran continued one whose character cannot be described bed because he has it by hie performance he then read hie resolution as follow whereas the hon john dalzell a member of the house end of the com on ways and means has charged on the that william bourke coci ran a from nw york and a member of the same committee baa been paid money by political party to support the candidate for the preal dency named in opposition to the party to the said bourke cockran had heretofore been attached and aln rea the abarge though i attacked specifically on the hoor by the said william bodurko cochran has not been withdrawn by tho said john dalzell and whereas said charge it true establishes such conduct as should unfit any man for membership in this house and it false should bo so declared and its author censured severely therefore be 1 resolved that a select committee of five members be appointed by the chair to inquire into the truth 0 said charge and to report tho testimony to this house at its session beginning the first monday of december and be it further resolved that said committee be and Is hereby given full power to compel the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such papers as the members thereof may deem necessary to tho full and proper discharge of the duty hereby imposed on them loud democratic applause followed sir Cockran fl reading of the resolution cochran eald that when that resolution was adopted something more important than the conduct or the action of the member from pennsylvania would bo made clear we will sec he said just how the election in 1896 was conducted and wo will see whether in fact the presidency was bought or purchased or whether it was won in honorable political conduct or whether it represented as the gentleman from pennsylvania would have us believe the skill in corruption which was possessed by the managers of the republican organization the gentleman from pennsylvania he said had asked him who H was we would choose for our standard bearer I 1 said there was a man in missouri whom we might choose to nominate as our standard bearer because the main issue of this campaign will not be how wo are to collect revenue but he said amid wild democratic cheers how are we to keep the thieves from stealing ts proceeds continuing mr cockran facing the republicans said you have already a distinguished candidate who Is in the white house who Is strident in voicing expressions of reform we have always elevated men to dignity who have known how to prosecute men who violated the law and brought reform into disgrace your candidate denounces corruption lets between elections and utilizes them at the primaries we will he said go before the people whoever may be nominated whether it be the young giant of reform who has won his spurs in missouri whether it be that upholder of the law who administers justice in new york at this unrestrained applause or whether it be the man whose great achievements on the monroe doctrine evoked the sentiment which the gentleman from pennsylvania read from my speech in the usual garbled methods suppressing context in conclusion he said it the house will adopt my resolution I 1 will promise that the unmasking and unveiling of the facts is all that will be necessary to government on a i solid foundation justice will be its fruit glory its and cecur ity ever its eternal doctrine the democrats went wild as mr cockran sat down and the speaker found difficulty in restoring order mr cockran then asked immediate action on his resolution as a matter of privilege mr Oro evenor and mr payne at once were on their feet wn objections contending that the resolution wax not privileged both mr cockran and mr william were contending for immediate consideration when the speaker vigorously brought hie gavel down and announced that the resolution having been presented and the point of order made upon it the chair declines to rule on the point of order until he has had opportunity to examine the precedents at p m the house took a recess until 10 tomorrow |