New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
DONOVAN VS. HILL - ARGUMENTS HEARD
Decision of Committee Is Not EX- peCted for Two Weeks
Especial to the IIera1d.)

sides of the contest of former Repre- sentative Jeremiah Donovan against Representative E. J. Hill, of the Fair field county district of Connecticut. The committee will take the matter under consideration as soon as the arguments delivered before it are printed. A meeting of the commit tee will be called two or three weeks hence, at which time pehaps the con- test may be decided Members of the committee did not say today what their decision might be.
 Briefs in the case were filad some time ago with the committed. The arguments yesterday were del;verd by Democratic National Committeeman Homer s. Cummings of Stanford for Mir. Donovan, and by Judge w. F. Henney of Hartford, republican na- tionnl committeeman for Connecticut, and c. Milton Fessenden of Stamford. An hour and a half was allotted by the committee to each side tp present it's a. arguments. MT. Cummings occu- Tied his entire time in an opar'ng ar gument. MT. Fessenden followed wi-h half hours speech and MT. Hcnney clUsCG with an hours arguments
 1~,t n parties to the contest were p-1scnt during the he9 in, and vari- ous otJier Connecticut people were ;;lsc present, including Representative Oakley and other members Of the state delegation in congress, and Lynn Wilson of Bridgeport, who Is a supporter of Donovan.
 Spent Too Much Money.
 Cummings argued that the commit tee organized by friends of Hill, at the head of which was Fesscnden, was created for Hills special benefit, at his suggestion and in his house. It expended more money than the cor rupt practices act permits candidates for congress to expend, and therefore violated the law, since it acted for Hill, Cummings said.
 He admitted that Donovan had tech nisally violated the law by spending "a few hundred dollars more than the law allowed, and by failing to appoint a political agent, as is required, but Cummings declared that Donovan was so busy at congress attending to his duties and making a fight against ab- senteeism during the last congress sional campaign that he had forgot ten about the law.
 4 Taking up the charge that corpora tions had contributed to the Hill cam paign fund in violation of the law, Cummings declared that the Strad Braid association had collected $250 from corporations for the fund.
 Cummings devoted considerable time to discussing the relations of Charles Greenwood, Hills secretary, Co the 1atter's campaign. Greenwood was Hills secretary for many years until he retired from congress two or three years ago. Then he entered the employment of MT. Kipp, president of the Salts Textile Co.,, of Bridgeport, and in that capacity he had helped Hills in the campaign. Since Green wood testified that he received no Compensation from Hill for that work from Hill, Cummings argued that Greenwood's services constituted contribution from the corporations in violation of the law.
 Fessenden discussed legal points in the case. Judge Henney's time was spent in answering Cummings argu- ment to the best of his ability He denied that Hill had originated the idea of the Fessenden business mems committee and declared that the chairman of the republican congress sional committee in that district had suggested it.
 Henney's Denial.
 That the Fessenden committee was not working solely in Hills interest Henney said, was proved by the fact that it contributed $1,000 to the re- publican state campaign committee. Henney said that Greenwood's testi- mony showed that he had worked only during evenings and spare time for the Hill campaign. He said that if witnesses were necessary as to Hills character he (Henney) would call Cummings as his chief witness to prove that Hills character is good.
 Judge Henney put the committee in a good humor with his funny stories, college experiences and side remarks.
 Counsel on both sides are returning immediately to Connecticut.
 Senator McLean's three vacancies in the Annapolis naval academy are to pe filled by w. l. Leahy of Hartford, E. w. Cooper of Darien and c. l.. Richards of Norwich, provided they pass the physical examination next month, as they are expected to do
 The senator had one vacancy to his credit in the ordinary course of events by reason of the graduation of a mid sfipman from the academy. Another vsas created by the failure of one of his boys to pass an examination in one study. The third was created un- der the new law passed recently to in crease the size of the midshipmens s corps.
 MT. Mclean was informed today that the final mental examination for one vacancy was passed successfully by F. w. Cooper, R. w. Bockious of Meriden and A. $. Rush of New Haven in the order named. Cooper will get Yo1o iC