The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-11
TAXES
 HILL TO TASK E. J.,Starts Trouble by Launch
 ing Into Second Attack !. on Wilson
WHAT E. ]. HILL SAID
 WHEN HE LEARNED
 REPORTERS WERE ABSENT
Meriden Congressman Quotes From Recent Speech by Hill Before Connecticut Post masters


 masters
 Washington. July 1.-Two Connec- ticut Congressmen, Hill of Norwalk and Tom Reilly of Meriden crossed swords in debate in the House yes- terday. The whole House membership present listened intently to the battle and it was the consensus of opinion at the close that Hill had bitten off more than he was able 70 masticate.
 Reilly created big sensation by l'e- citing extracts from a speech Hill der ployes when Hill upon inquiry ascer- tained that no reporter was present.
 The Meriden Congressman was in fine fettle and he waded right into Hill who under former administrations has been regarded as one Of the big noises of the stand pat regime.
 Since the nomination of Woodrow Wilson by Nthe Democrats, F1tl1 has been cast down. He, like others of
 his colleagues of reactionary views, had hoped against hope that the Dem ocrats would name a. reactionary and then they saw some hope of success Tor themselves.
 But the nomination of Wilson was an awful jar to them and they are now trying every conceivable way to dig up things which they hope will serve to blind the eyes of the elec- tors to their own past derelictions by pretending that Wilson is the enemy of all mankind especially the laboring class.
 The purpose of Hill and his assoc ciates is so we'll known that little if any attention is paid to their rawlings. A Sun dispatch has the following concerning the episode in the House vesferdav. Representative Hill of Connecticut. one of the Taft lieutenants, made a , second attack on Candidate Wilson, yesterday afternoon. His prediction ed aroused Democrats, Representative Thomas L. Reilly, also of Connecti- cut, responding with bitter personal attack on MT. Hill. "A. good deal of soiled political linen was displayed be- fore Messrs Hill and Reilly conclud- ed their discussion.
 The House had the Sulzer bill, pro- posing the creation of department of labor up fors consideration. This was used by Mir. Hill as pretext for an attack on Candidate Wilson. MT. Hill called attention to the visit of President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor to the summer home of Gov Wilson.
 1T sincerely trust Mir. G0mpers learned from the Democratic nominee whether he would continue to hold the views he expressed on organized labor three years ago.. exclaimed MT. Hill "In his baccalaureate sermon at Princeton three years ago MT. Wil- son declared that labor organizations make unprofitable servants out of their members by limiting their ac- tivities and preventing them from earning what they otherwise might earn. I cannot understand what nr nf 1r,T1Sy Ia 1nd Wilson to believe that the great self protective labor organizations, con- taining men whom we know to be the finest in the world, are a means by which unprofitable servants are created and employers driven to ruin. 7
 .I know you are truthful man, F. said Representative Garner of Texas. a Democrat Amy statement you may make as the truth I will accept as the truth. Do you honestly believe William H. Taft stands even a re-
 mote chance of succeeding himself as President?"
 To this question MT. Hill replied: T believe, I know in fact, that Mr.
 Taft will be reelected. Tammany will sell you out as you have been sold out before. do not care how
 many tickets may be in the field. It makes no difference whether there are three or four or five. Taft will
 be elected orf the protective principle
 as opposed to the free trade princi-
 It was at this point that Representa- tive Reilly interjected himself into the Iddscussion. Mr. Reilly began with, the assertion that Mr. Hill now expressed more con- fidence in the election of MT. Taft than he did at a recent meeting Of Connecticut postmasters.s Everybody | sat up and took notice.
 Continuing MT. Reilly said he had just received a letter from Connecticut containing extracts from a speech made some time ago by MT. Hill. The speech was delivered at this years annual bouquet of the Connecticut Postmasters' Association.
 MT. Hill began his speech before the Connecticut postmasters, MT, Reilly said, by asking if there was any re- porter present. When assured that there was not Mir. Hill, MT. Reilly said, made the declaration that he was pleased to see so many familiar faces. but feared that many of them would be missing at the next annual banquet IF they did not do better work in the next election than they did in the last. According to MT. Reilly, MT. Hill continued:
 You are all creatures of the pres- ent Administration and as such are SXp6cIeQ 10 De In harmony With and part of that Administration, and fur thermore, notwithstanding orders and statements to the contrary, you are expected to take off your coats and openly work for the continuation of l that Administration
 MT. Hdll then proceeded. according to Reilly. to denounce Reilly in this language:
 Behold the man you have sent to Washington to represent this district
 Do you know what he is doing? He is voting with the Southern Democrats to destroy the manufacturers of Con- necticut"
 Mr. Reilly then proceeded to talk on his own account. He said that Hfll twas ia know it all,' that he was tired of listening to MT. HilPs "buncombe talk'' and that he was going to tell some plain facts about MT. Hill. MT. Hill emphatically denied the cor rectness of the speech attributed to him.
 BABY GIRL BORN TO
 MIR AND MRS. J. P. RYAN The advent of a little girl frightened