The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-16
HILL BOUQUET TOLD BUT HALF
 OF REAL STORY
Ex-Congress1nan Fails to Print All of Palmer Speech i'm
 Boosting Self.
HILL COTTON BILL"
 NOT WRITTEN BY HIM
Is Strangely Silent on Fate of Substitute Bill His Own
 Party Rejected.
cstaff correspondence.)

washington, oct 16-Here is the way that the Hon. E. J. Fill attempts to throw a few Democratic bouquets at himself: He clips from the Congress sional Record an extract from the speech of A. Mitchell Palmer on the Tarin and 1t is printed in the Sen tir1eIpa of MT HilPs home town under < 41e heading "An Unsolicited Esndorse-' Here is what MT. Hill printed:
 esOn Friday, May ?, 1913, MT Palmer said: ~The gentleman from Connecti- cut, MT. Hill, who is no longer member of this House. but whose ability to construct tariff legislation with accuracy and regard for the facts from his point of viewI mean with regard to the. principle upon which Republicans would write a law-no man will gainsay, and whose industry, capacity for work, and desire to do what in good faith he started out to accomplish no man in the House will crit1cize.' 's
 After putting loud applause on the Republican side'' after this extract from Palmer,s speech, the Sentinel prints it for the edifcation of it's read- ers although there is nothing about eappIauses in the Congressional Rec aprd.
 But here Is what the Record says in continuance of the Palmer speech, and 1t is evident that the fine sarcasm kof the Pennsylvania member in the above extract from the Record can mot be twisted into a Hill boost:
 This gentleman 6dr- HilD prepared a schedule of Schedule in collabor- ation with experts who worked for the tar1T board.
 .e7e had the assistance not only Of the experts of the tariff board, who really did the work. but he sat night and day with the distinguished assist ant secretary of the treasury, MT. Cur tfss who is in the treasury depart anent in charge of the admin istration of the custom laws, and who is himself considerable expert, than whom per- haps no man in the country could bet ter say whether the language of the proposed bill was in exact accord ERnce with the recommendations of the ttarin board. With all this help MT. gT1iu wrote and finally introduced his kcotton schedule revision bill.
 ssWen, one day, just when the gen Ftlemen on the other side were criticiz- ling us because in writing our metal sscheduIe bill we refused to wait until ithe tariff board had come with it's re- port when they were criticiMng us fbecause We reported a. Schedule K, revision which did not take into con- fsideratfon any Of the findings tof the ffar1m board MT. Hill brought his bill into the ways and means committee and o1Eered 1t as a substitute for the
 
 having stood for 8 tarim board he hvvazted to present a bill which was 1n exact accord with the tarin boards report. He submitted 1t as a Republi- jcan tarfH board substitute for the Underwood cotton revision bill, and Eny distinguished friend from New Hor1 eSereno B. Payne father of the Payne tarfn bfiD would not vote for 1t, and every Republican member of Fhe committee with the exception of fp 7ieafsa af1 Jfcfxv
 Why they did so do not know except that they were not willing to hollow 8 tariff board of their own crea- hion.' Applause on the Democratic efde0
 This '-applause' 'can be found re- rorded In the Record but you cannot find that which MT. Hills Sentinel ar hicle carried.
 Now if Hill wanted to quote Palmer why did he resort to printing half the
 Representative Palmer exposes Hill fn that he did not write the Hill bill. gFhe tariff experts and the assistant Fecretary of the treasury wrote the
 Schedule K which MT. Palmer did bnention was the iniquitous schedule deal1ng with the wool imports of the rountry-
 It was in connection with Schedule ilK that Representative Reilly of Con ! VI SCLMCt@N III SRO1k1HS or MT E11lI as a Br1ember of the NorwaIk WooIen Mills Conpany, on the floor of Congress, bald.
 For years stockholder, director and wice president, Hill has been making hVoo1en schedules as member of the hways and means committee, and if it Nsere not high enough he would add en as much as he liked
 Why was MT. Hi1rs cotton bill re- pud1ated by Republicans and Demo crate alike?
 Think 1t over, MT. Voter