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Continued From Yesterday.
mr.. DE LUGO. With reaards y mh.

~ VV4NA W WIldC UuI Tile
Just said. Now all OF a sudden, Mr.. Hill is a contracted en-
ployee like Mr.. Mendez. I cant quite follow. From day to
day Mr.. Hills position with this Legislative Body changes
according TO Senator Ottleys moods. read in the Home
journal, Tor today, Senator Ottley reprinted his speech of
last week, where he said that Mr.. Hill was the Consultant
Tor the Legislatures Majority group. It is written in the
paper IN black and white and En- sish; that he had beeq,
employed as a consultant to the maiorny and iust cant
figure out exactly what the status of this gentleman IS.
But that's neither here nor there, Mr.. President. / do
not believe that an employee Of the Legislature has the
right to get on the radio, while he is an employee. and at
tack any Senator, muchless call hin a liar. And that goes
for whether the Senator happens to be in the majority or
minority, democrat or whatever; it just doesn't 90. Now
it you I know in the same speech that Senator Ottlev
gave on the radio he said that when the Coalition came
into the Legislature-the Second Legislature-they fred
Mr. Hill MI. Hill knows that the reason why he was left
out was because he went out during campaign and cam
pasgned AGAINST Senators and he was not a contractlral
employee then. know that. And Leroy Francis was let 90
because he threatened the Chief Clerk. They had a differ
ence OF opinion and the Chief Clerk was kept on. There
was no politics in that,
But Mr.. Chairman, / have the floor. If | may just
continue with my thoughts. During that campaign, which
was the frSt campaign in which was an active candidate.
Mr.. Hill was still the Legislative ConsuItant for the Vir-
gin Islands and he went from island to island, on the radio
ana everywhere, and attacked the present Governor Of the
Virgin Islands, who was then a Senator. He attacked Sena-
tor MerWin; he attacked Senator Lawaetz; he attacked
Senator Milin. He also attacked Senator Rodriguez who
was not reelected. And it left bad taste in other peoples
mind.
Now, don't care what you say, if Mr.. Hill wants to
take an active part in this campaign; if Mr.. Hill wants to
get up and blast me or blast anybody, or if any employee
OF this Legislature, wants to take to the radio and blast the
Senators he should resign first; that is the only manly
thing to do And if they're employees here and if we're
Virgin Islands Senators elected by the people and we re-
main senators until defeated at the polls. And If anv If
these employees wants to become senators all they have to
do is to run in the next election. And / believe that / have
spoken to you about this in the past, Mr.. President, and
! Go not believe that you condone this kind Of thing.
would like your ruling on it.
Can an employee of the Legislature get up and attack
q senator. Forget that it is me; can he get on the air and
call you, the President Of the Legislature liar; he is quot
ing you. Have you ever called me publicly a liar? "a Brazen
Lie, as he states here? 1t looks like he is quoting it from
the record. 4 don't recall it.
really, seriously, hope that you would take the
proper action. One Of two things, either MI. Hill apologies
or resign. # he resigns, good; then, he can really lambaste