The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12
HILL-REILLY. DEBATE IN
 CONGRESS MeTidsn Man Was More Than Match for nOTWdIk
 Congressman THE DEBATE IN FULL
(By a stan correspondent.l )

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 on the floor of the House, Wednesday,
 between the lone Democratic member
 from Connecticut, Mr Reilly. and the
 Representative from the Fourth dis
 triet, MT. Hill. in which the latter came out second best. It was after
 Mr. Filf elpousntly predicted the elec- tioR1bf MI. Taft in November. in a | tariff-political speech that Represen- tative Reilly injected himself into the affray and the following is what took place between Messrs Reilly and Hill:
 MT. Reilly-Mr Chairman, do not attempt to measure swords with my older and more experienced colleague from Connecticut (Mr. HilI) in mak- ing protective tariff speech, but am impressed by the tact that this afternoon in this House, the gentle 1 of William Howard Taft than he was 1 at a recent meeting of Connecticut postmasters. Q4aughter and applause on the Democratic side.)
 Only this morning-and it seems as if it was rather providential-I re- ceived a letter, a part of which hold In my hand, and in view of the polit- ical dfstussiop having developed here and in further view of the great con- 1 ffdencefekpressed in the election of the
 Republican nominee by my colleague.
 want to read something that the l gentleman from Connecticut said at a recent meeting of Connecticut Repub- lican postmasters along this same line
 of confidence. read from the letter in question:
 'I will retail to you part of a speech that heard at the annual
 banquet of the Connecticut Postmas-
 terss Association. at which was a guest.
 aHen. Ebenezer J. Hdll was the ! speaker, and he prefaced his remarks Iby asking if there were any reporters iI in the room; and upon being assured
 that there were not. he resumed his
 speech, which he evidently considered it of a confidential nature. He began sI by saving that he was pleased to see I all the old familiar faces. but he fear ed that some of those faces would be missing at the next annual banquet -| ifsstiley did not do better work in the
 next electipn than they did in the last, ldaughters)
 i MT. Hill rose.
 Mr. Reiliy-I will not yield now.
 The Chairman-The gentleman de- clines to yield.
 MT. Reilly-EEe said further:
 You are all creatures of the pres ent administration, and as such are expected to be in harmony with and part of that admiNistration. and fur l thermore, notwitha& landing orders and
 statements to- theE contrary. you are openly work for the continuation of
 that administration. q4aughter and applause on the Democratic side.1 .E The letter continues:
 .sBut the part of his speech which will interest you most is that in which
 he alluded to you. He said:
 :" Behold the man you have sent to
 Washington to represent this district. Do you know what he is doing? He I is voting with the Southern Democrats to destroy the manufacturers of Con- necticut. 2"
 deny that absolutely. voted on tariff measures in this House with the majority of this House, and also with I a large minority on the other side of the House who are honest in their convictions. Applause on the Demo- cratic side.)
 was promised the people of the coun- try by the Democrats in 1910, after | they had been deceived by the prom. ises made by the gentleman from IConnecticut tMr. HilD and other Re-
 publicans in 1909. Applause on the l I am sick and tired of hearing the gentleman from Connecticut, the T know-all of tarih legislation, compar- ed to whom the distinguished gentle
 man from New Y ork (AGr. Payne) is a
 mere piker; no. one knows anything but the gentleman from the Fourth district of Connecticut-I say am
 sick and tired of hearing him. under the guise of protecting the American Iworkingman, getting up here and feed ing them with speeches on the tarin. I{Applause on the Democratic side.1
 say that the Democracy of this House has redeemed it's pledges made in 1910 so far as adverse Senate and Ia hostile President would permit them;i and if the House legislation had been passed by the Senate and ap- proved by the President, the people of this country would have been far better off today: far better than they WilliIbel in listening to thisi bunconnbe l every of few. days. under every pretext that the gentleman from Connecticut
 CMr, HatD can inject into the discuss l sion of bills in this House. (Applause I on the Democratic side.)
 Mir. Hill-Mr Chairman, I rise to a 1 question of personal privilegeA I de-. ] sire to ask the gentleman from Con- necticut eA4r. Reilly) if he states on his honor as a Representative that he i has quoted my language correctly.
 MT Reilly-Mr. Chairman, I will
 state on nay honor as a Representa- ] tfuez4hat this is a bona-fide letter re- ceivedE only today from a friend MT. Hill-I ask the gentleman fair- " ana SQuafely as a FepreSenlaIlVe I from Connecticut if he is responsible for the correctness of the language which he has read on this floor? 6.
 MT. Reilly--I will ask the gentleman from Connecticut if he denies having said that. Applause on the Demo- cratic side.l
 1Er HiiI-I want to ask the gentle l naaN 1.-The SStates on his honor as a | ReDneSentattVe that the language which he has attributed to me was
 ever uttered by me; not because some body tells him so, but will he be re- sponsible for the correctness of it? MT Reilly-I will not believe the lam guage I quoted if the gentleman from lConnectlcut denies it, but until he does deny it, I do believe it.
 MT Hil1-Oh! I. emphatically deny the correctness of the language which has been read here by the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Reilly.) I have the right to know whether he Knows himself that he has read lan- guage that he says he attributes. to me.
 Now, MT. Chairman, the reason deny it; I have kept silent in the past on attacks of this kind. I came [ into this hall some time last winter uu Y FINIS H
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