The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-12
THAT SNUB TO HILL SPEAKER CANNON INCIDENTAL LY ADMINISTERS HIT AT
 PRESIDENT
Gossip About This
 Autocratic Stroke
Weakness of His "Explanation'' Il
 Apparent at the First Glance.

| Apparent at the First Glance.
 Washington, D. C., July 12.-It has
 been well understood for some time
 that Congressman Hill would not be
 allowed on the tariff conference com
 mittee. MT. Hill and his friends
 Cannon-whatever his supply of gall | would not quite venture on such a
 radical departure from precedent
 which he professes to respect. But.
 Hills. head, This summary action l has excited so much criticism that
 the speaker Saturday afternoon gave l out an explanation. His friends
 wish now that he had kept still, for it | is an explanation that does not ex- plain.
 It seems that Mir Cannon showed
 Hill off because Geographical distribu- | llon, population (which means vote)
 and wealth had to be considered. Now
 the Senate conferees were named first, | and these Represented Rhode Island,
 Maine, Michigan. Illinois and Pennsyl-
 tribution,'' MT. Cannon selects also
 representatives of Michigan, Illinois | and Pennsylvania, passing over Long
 worth from Ohio, Crumpecker of In | Giana, Gaines of West Virginia and
 Needham from California, who are un-
 derstood not to agree with all the up l ward-revision pro-trUst notions of the autocratic speaker. Doubling the rep
 resentation of three states, he left all
 the country west of Kansas unrepre-
 sented. As for wealth, it is known at l the Treasury department that the
 wealth of the country is in the East
 necticut; and, al for the votes, while | they are found in the great Middle | West, it happens that the sentiments l they represent are not reflected in
 Cannon or his appointees from that | region.
 Coming into New England, Cannon | took Mccall of Massachusetts instead I of Hill of Connecticut. Possibly this was for President Taft's benefit and I to teach him a lesson, for Mccall is an. out-and-out opponent of Taft's Philippine policy, while Hill is known to stand by the President in this as
 in other matters and to be his close friend. The question is being asked whether Taft hasn't been fooled. It is the rumor that he helped to get Cannon the speakership when Hill
 and others like him held the balance of power and that Aldrich promised
 him tariff bill he would be glad to sign. Now the question is whether there will be a bill that he can sign. It is admitted that Cannon aspired to , De nominated for President and that there was large and powerful cabaI determined that Taft should not get there anyway; and it looks as if these doubtful friends of Taft had control Of the situation at present and might try to put him in a hole. Beside this,
 this, in Hill's case. is the fact that he
 had the impotence to go in for the senatorship when Aldrich and his crowd demanded the reelection of Brandegee. A man of Hills stamp was not wanted in the Senate nor on any conference committee where his thorough knowledge of the prin- ciples and details of the tariff and
 his positive convictions would have
 made him a force. It is believed that the interests" have abundant friends in the conference.