The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-01
AWAIT l. QUEST TIONINC OF . HILL AT CAPT AL
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ProgFessiEes and. Progressive ,~ Republicans; Want t For -sss Once to Pin Him Down. s.
MADE THEM PAY FOR ..
 HIS sRARY. GARRIAGE''
Hills Elusive Tactics On Tar .ttE= scz .$.f: .~5.as-4 : %1fs5 -, s- if. Matters Have Antago- =
 nized Colleagues. .-
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tspeeIa1' to the Farmer.p


 Washington. :Jan.. 1-There is ,proba- Ecan4 Congress who welcomed the news lthat Congressfnan Jeremiah Donovan had taken steps to ascertain the truth about the contributions of nandfac-f turing corporatfons to the campaign fund Of Ebenezer J. Hill than the Pre-, Igressive members and the Republican, I members with Progressive tendencies F. They remember Mir. FIfl1's attfUade Ion the tariff in the = S2nd Congress when he claimed to stand fora low ftarina and they have watched him in the last campaign; posing as the high I priest Of the highest kind of protec- ] tion. They say. that the leopard caE- 4not change his spots, buttathat Eben- 1 ezer can do it and get away with it, i Southern members have -Sna enaoF1esg I too. $ssThey. were grea tiy interested in Ethes Cotton Schedule that was drafted tby the Tariff Board in the 62nd Con- gress.- They remember that MT. Hill Itook the conclusions of the. Tarfn Board and wrote, or caused to be writ Item, what he termed the stHil Biu.s'
 This bill was repudiated by the late zl Sereno E. Payne and other Republican Headers who wanted a different kind lof a tariff than MT. Hill was trying to
 put over in the form of the Slow rate l'tHin Bi1l.''
 Ithing. F When the time came for Os- T car W. Underwood to draft a tariff 4 bin he wanted a tariff that was as nearly scientific and competitive in it's ifs character as could be- He took Fl the figures of the late and lament ed IT Board sfl1 at h 2 FeeT1bI Jeans had
 thrown in the discard and the cotton lschedule rates that were written into the UnderWood% bill. were practically 1.-the same as recommended by the FaE- Eiff8 Board, N s :. s&4sIlis act ofssadr.a ind erwo ood' s n1ganf F that .ths#rates of his cotton scheduIe I.were practically the same figures as
 the deductions MT. Hill had made from ! lthe Tariff Boards figures in writing what he wanted the world to regard f as the sssF1ill BfI1.''
 : All during. the last <Cangressionai
 election MT. Hill. in the suiseF of 9 high. tariff exponent, Iambasted the ,. EJnd nderwood tariff on the stump, in his E Hliterature, and in st7e press.
 ssf Mot onces did he define his position ! to state Arss,s Ind erwoods had donE ffight taikingss g if 7beaFd' s.9f1Eg eslarss9GoF I1iS9.cotton schedule. 4s s ,e5sg 4 MT. Hill had shown 8 desire to claim T z the work of, the Tariff Beard as his RI own5 and he was 3, two tariff man a n that tfnne,3 and when he became 2 f campaigner for reelection he was 2
 thigh tariff man, and claimed there was 0- nothing in the Underwood tariff ztlla; ? was neritorious-not even the rates O . the would be ttHill Bill.,'
 Mr. Hill left a record of such tactic , behind him and for that reason mel : who were his colleagues in Congress : I are pleased that for once the gentle ' man from Connecticut is going to hav < Ia chance. to stand still and tell how {g when, and why he did a certain thing E If anyone ever accused him of votinI
 against proposition he was general
 l ly able to show them that even thoug ; I hessvoted against it in one place h
 voted for it in another:
 There was the Sherwood Pensio, n bill that he voted against in the Hous = but he claims that he voted for ] r because he voted for the Senate an {, House Conference report which wa . manner that it treated the old sol = dier,
 as The willy MT. Hill never seemed t let anyone know how. he was going t a vote and after he had finished it wa = always a hard matter to. learn ho- l., he thought he had voted.
 Is He will undoubtedly be asked .whs v he would do for corporations who cor tributed to his campaign fund ths m did not contribute to his election e1 e penaes. @,4J s
 V One western Congressman on lrea6 ing HilPs list of expenses emitted Is> F1oud peal of daughter and declared sas Little Ebby even made them pay fl ,e the 9baby carriage. they rolled hi 9f5 around in.''
 "a He was reading an item that shove ,t that MT. Hill had had his automo of : paid for out of funds furnished large ld by the attorney of the National Ass 3o eiation of Manufacturers