SCENE IN CONGRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12213, 7 March 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

SCENE IN CONGRESS.

News from Washington on January 20 states that on the debate in the Senate on the settlement of the Alaskan boundary dispute, Senator Cochran, of Missouri, citicised severely the " surrender" to England, which he termed " cowardly and pusillanimous!" " How about the surrender under a Democratic Administration of the territory between lattitude 49 and 50.40" asked "Hepburn.

*' That was in the period of our weakness," replied Cochran, "when the fear of the result of war with England bore heavily upon public men. Now, in the time of our strength, we supinely permit another land grab by the same land-grabbing country.'' ; Something of a stir was caused just before Cochran concluded 7 by an ■ unexpected interruption from the ladies' gallery. Cochran was speaking of the' ; " truckling policy of the United States to Great Britain." When that truckling ceased, he declared, the people of Canada, now intensely loyal to England, would change their attitude. " You lie," cried a stylishly-dressed young woman, in clear ringing tones. ' ° All "eyes were turned to the ladies' gallery, where the speaker leaned forward defiantly ar if she intended to say something further. . But a companion pulled her back and immediately afterwards she left the gallery.