The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-14

Dill to regulate the appointment of
deputy United States marshaIs and
deputy revenue collectors to protect
the people of the South came up for
action you were absent, but that the
gentleman from Connecticut" with
two associates, gave the bill its ma
Jor1ty to free the South from that OBJ
noxious crew that has controlled the
offices in the past. applause on the
Democratic side.) You go back to
the South and say that from old New
England there were only four votes
for that bill, one cast by the gentle
man from Massachusetts (Mr. Gil
more) and three cast by Representa-
t1Ves from Connecticut. You tell your
people that you deserted your inter-
ests and that the South ahd to depend
on the gentleman from Connecticut
With his associates, to bring the bill
to conclusion and right the wrong
that had been existing in Dixie. Tell
that to your people and keep some of
your talk out of your book of imagi-
nation. which seems to be your stock
in trade.
You want to say this, too-and
am going to emphasize it-that when
that great measure known as the
Payne-Aldrich bill came in here-and
why the gentleman from Alabama
lMr. Underwood) did not tell it all
do not know-four times you, Mr..
Hobson, voted for the Payne-A1drich
crew. That bill was in this House
three different times. You voted on it's
final passage the first time. Where were
you when 1T came back from the SEN
ate on the 9Th day of July, 1903? You
were absent. You were here on the
18th, for you voted on the income tax.
You were here on the goth, for you
voted with US Democrats on the urgent
deficiency bill; but, gentlemen, that
is when it came back from the Senate.
On the final passage of the bill, July
81, there were three yea-and-nay
votes, and on the first roll call there
were II absent, and on the third and
final 10 absent. and the distinguished
gentleman, Mr.. Hobson, was one of
those. Out of that II there were 4
pairs. without a pair, and the dis
tinguished gentleman, Mr.. Hobson,
was one of the three. On the last
bill there were four pairs, and two
without a pair, and the distinguished
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Hob
SOM was one of the two. The gentle
man states that he had a pair for the
session. The books do not show it. I
do not know how he fixes it. Once
he was paired with Mr.. Fowler and at
another time with Mr.. Capron. This
time it does not show that he had a
pair at all. applause
The Speaker. The gentleman from
Connecticut asks unanimous consent
to read an article from the New York
World. Is there objection? (After a
pause.) The Chair hears none
Mr.. Donovan. The article is as fol-
lows:
Hobson Again!
Fifteen years ago last June Rich
mond Pearson Hobson was a hero. He
has been a nuisance ever since With
his mi1itarism. his jingoism, his anti
Japanisn, he has been a visitation up
on his afflicted country.
Now he is running for the United
States Senate against Oscar W. IN
derwood. He feels that demands for
100000 900 for the Navy for 10 super
dreadnoughts, even for Immediate
war with Japan, have lost their pris-
tine charm. So he turns over a new
leaf by denouncing Mr.. Underwood as
the tool Of the whisky ring and the
money interests
Coming on the heels of the passag e
of the Underwood tariff act, it is hard
to decide whether this charge is the
more outrageous or 1udicrous.
With South Carolina threatening to
send Cole Blease to the United States
Senate, the bare possibility that Ala
bama might inflict Hobson on the
country is enough to arouse a. Nation
wide interest in Mr.. Underwood's can
didacy.
(Laughter.)