Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1904 — FLING EPITHETS IN THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

FLING EPITHETS IN THE HOUSE.

Congressman Dalzell Call© Cock ran a Political Harlequin. Congressmen Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Bourke Cockran of New York renewed their personal quarrel in the House the other afternoon over the charge of Mr. Dalzell that Cockran had supported McKinley in 1896 for money. The tilt amused the members and when Mr. Cockran offered a resolution calling for a committee of five to investigate the chaiges against him. Speaker Cannon said a point of order had been raised and he would take the matter under consideration while the precedents were looked up. He suggested it would be better for all concerned “to have a night to sleep on it,” and the resolution went over. Mr. Dalzell described Mr. Cockran as a political harlequin who changed' his colors as his interests seemed to suggest, and read newspaper extracts to prove that Mr. Cockran had accepted money to speak in behalf of candidates not of his own party. In reply Mr. Cockran said that Mr. Dalzel had by implication confessed to corruption within his own party, but had proved none of his accusations. Then, as n question of personal privilege, he said: “Before I sit down I shall ask this House to agree with me on this, that if wli.it the gentleman has said is true I am unworthy of its membership. If what he said be false, he is unworthy of membership. “This will take a wider range than our personal virtues. I shall ask for a committee to investigate this charge, and shall ask for power to send for persons and papers.”