New Britain herald., 1915-01-23
CONCRfSShAN-fLfCT
 HILL TO UPHOLD HIS CLAIM 10 ELECTION
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 every dollar received, contributed or expended either by Mr. Hill or the re- publican party as whole was fully reported and expended in accordance with the law of Connecticut and by duly constituted and qualified agents under our law.
 Never Even Qualified.
 ''The official records of the sta:e show that you deliberately defied or ignored the law and never even qua1 flied as a candidate for the office. which you now claim, either by ap- pointing yourself as your own politj- cal agent which the law permits, upon notice given, or by registering with the secretary of state the name of some one else to act for you. It fol- lows, therefore, that every act per- formed by you in the campaign was illegal and every cent expended by you was illegally expended.
 'You are not even justified under Connecticut law in making claim for the seat for, while the votes cast for you were probably honestly cast they were cast for an illegal candidate.
 Report Not Disputed.
 Ou OO not the accuracy of the report of receipts and cxpenui- lures made by MT. Hills legally ap- pointed political agent, or that the total amount as reported is within tt4, limit prescribed by federal and state law, while the state records show that you made an illegal report of expend- itures aggregating several hundred. dollars beyond such limit, and not in xri{ towns either as to the amounts paid or the persons to whom you paid them as dislosed by the official rec ords of the state.
 Under both federal and state law, candidates from the fourth congress sional district were entitled to expend not more than $750. The report made by me both to the secretary of state of Connecticut and the clerk of the house of representatives showed an expenditure of $500; whereas your re- port showed an aggregate of $1,127.O5, and included an expenditure to every town in the district except Bridgeport, Norwalk and Wilton, which comprise about half of the district in popula- tion, and where you make oath that neither in your own name, or in any other, you made no expenditure, con- trary to the actual facts which will be developed later on.
 Can Conceive No Reason.
 You claim that I should have re- ported as my own expenditures the expenditures of the committee in charge. of the campaign for the whole state ticket in the fourth district, and "a nf b11tj tn ho committee were made by corporations. In reply, I would say that I can con- ceive of no more reason why I should clude in my personal report expen- ditures made by this committee for the whole ticket, than that all other candidates for congress in the United States should include the expendi lures of their respe ctive state commit you should include in your report the sum of s2,S45 collected and expended by the democratic committee in Bridgeport where you say you made no contribution or expendi- lures whatever.
 'You do not claim that any contri- button reported by my political agent was made by a corporation, but you intimate that personal contributions to the general campaign funds were from persons holding some official re- lations with corporations, and that, therefore they were improperly made; but you neglect to state that, in the official report of the committee in Bridgeport, where you say you ex- pended nothing, contributions are found from the Conn. Brew Co., and the Home Brew Co., in their own corporate names and from other in- dividuals connected with other cor porations.
 Hits Democratic Candidate.
 As will later appear, another can didate, and intimate personal friend of yours on your party ticket far ex- ceeded the limit of expenditures al- lowed by law, and the amount expend- ed was paid in to the general demo- cratic fund which was used for the whole democratic ticket including your own candidacy. Why do you not apply to yourself the rule wrongfully applied to me and report this amount as your own expenditure %
 Several Specific Answers.
 Then follows specific answers to the several paragraphs of the complaint, denial being made that any act was committed that contravened the law The reply then makes a. summary of MT. Hills position, referring to the appointment of a congressional cam paign com mittee, with Arthur c. Wheeler as treasurer. The summary says: 'It (the committed received no money from the state central com