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 65th Congress 1 
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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 EBENEZER J. HILL 
 
 (Late a Representative from Connecticut ) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 
 SECOND SESSION 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 March 3, 1918 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 September 27, 1917 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in the House 5 
 
 Prayer by Piev. Henry N. Coiiden, D. D 5, 8 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Schuyler Merritt, of Connecticut 11 
 
 Mr. Champ Clark, of Missouri 18 
 
 Mr. Claude Kitchin, of North Carolina 20 
 
 Mr. James R. Mann, of Illinois 23 
 
 Mr. Joseph W. Fordney, of Michigan 24 
 
 Mr. J. Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania 29 
 
 Mr. William R. Green, of Iowa 31 
 
 Mr. Charles H. Sloan, of Nebraska 38 
 
 Mr. John Q. Tilson, of Connecticut 42 
 
 Mr. James P. Glynn, of Connecticut 46 
 
 Mr. Augustine Lonergan, of Connecticut 50 
 
 Mr. Richard P. Freeman, of Connecticut 53 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 55 
 
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 HON.EBENEZER J. HILL 
 
DEATH OF HON. EBENEZER J. HILL 
 
 Proceedings in the House of REPRESENXATn-ES 
 
 Thursday, September 27, 1917. 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Hcni-y N. Couden, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer: 
 
 Our Father in Heaven, " in whom is no variableness, 
 neither shadow of turning," constant in Thy ministra- 
 tions, upholding, sustaining, guiding those who wait upon 
 Thee, we thank Thee for past blessings and most earnestly 
 pray that we may lean with greater confidence upon Thee, 
 that as individuals and as a Nation we may march onward 
 and upw^ard in righteousness, truth, and justice. 
 
 Once more in the dispensation of Thy providence we 
 are called upon to mourn the loss of a Member of this 
 House. Wise in his counsels, firm in his convictions, pure 
 in his motives, he leaves behind him a worthy record. 
 Comfort, we beseech Thee, his colleagues, friends, and 
 the bereaved family with the promises of the Gospel. 
 
 We know not what the future hath 
 
 Of marvel or surprise; 
 Assured alone that life and death 
 
 His mercy underlies — 
 
 so we trust, hope, aspire, and pray in the spirit of the 
 Master. Amen. 
 
 Mr. Glynn. Mr. Speaker, it is my painful duty to an- 
 nounce to this House the death of my distinguished col- 
 league, the Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, who for more than 20 
 years has represented his State in Congress with remark- 
 able integrity and fidelity. 
 
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MeMOUIAI. AdDHKSSES : RliPKESENTATIV-E HlLI. 
 
 At some later clay I shall ask that a day be set aside 
 when fitting tribute can be paid to his distinguished char- 
 acter and to Ills eminent public services. At this time I 
 offer a resolution and ask for its immediate considera- 
 tion. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report it. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 House resolution 155. 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. Ebenezer .1. Hill, a Representative from tlie 
 State of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 23 Members of the House, with 
 sucli Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
 attend tlie funeral. 
 
 Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
 and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
 out tlie provisions of this resolution, and that the necessary ex- 
 penses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent fund 
 of the House. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the resolu- 
 tion. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
 The Speaker. The Chair will announce the House Mem- 
 bers of the committee to attend the funeral. The Chair 
 would appoint the entire Committee on Ways and Means 
 were it not for the fact that Messrs. Kitchin, Rainey, Dixon, 
 Fordney, Garner, and Moore of Pennsylvania are on this 
 conference committee on the war-revenue bill. If any of 
 them want to go, I will appoint them. I do not think they 
 can go, and I do not think they ought to go, although, of 
 course, everybody liad great respect for Mr. Hill, and the 
 entire House would like to go. 
 
 Mr. Kitchin. It will be impossible, I will say, Mr. 
 Speaker, for the first five Members to go. 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 The Speaker. I will appoint the committee as follows: 
 Mr. Lonergan, Mr. Tilson, Mr. Glynn, Mr. Freeman, Mr. 
 Gillett, Mr. Hull of Tennessee, Mr. Garner, Mr. Collier, 
 Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Oldfield, Mr. Crisp, Mr. Helvering, Mr. 
 O'Shaunessy, ^Ir. Carew, ]\Ir. White of Ohio, Mr. Green of 
 Iowa, Mr. Sloan, Mr. Longworth, Mr. George W. Fairchild, 
 Mr. Sterling of Illinois, Mr. Martin of Louisiana, Mr. Tread- 
 way, and Mr. Rodenberg. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report tlie next resolution. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the resolu- 
 tion. 
 
 The resolution was unanimously agreed to. 
 
 Accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m.) the 
 House adjourned until to-morrow, Friday, September 28, 
 1917, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 Friday, September 28, 19i7. 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
 ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the fol- 
 lowing resolution: 
 
 Senate resolution 138. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the 
 announcement of the death of the Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, late a 
 Representative from the Stale of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of eight Senators be appointed by 
 the Vice President to join a committee appointed on the part of 
 the House of Representatives to take order for superintending the 
 funeral. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the 
 deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
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Mkmoiual Ai)[)hesses: Repkesentatim: IIii.i. 
 
 And that in compliance with the foregoing resolution 
 the Vice President had appointed as the committee on the 
 part of the Senate Mr. Brandcgee, Mr. McLean, Mr. Dil- 
 lingham, Mr. Fcrnald, Mr. James, Mr. Overman, Mr. Pom- 
 erene, and Mr. Ncwiands. 
 
 Friday, February 8, 1918. 
 
 Mr. Merritt. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
 Sunday, March 3, 1918, he set apart for addresses upon 
 the life, character, and puhlic services of Hon. Ebenezer 
 J. Hill, late a Representative from the State of Connecti- 
 cut. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Connecticut asks 
 unanimous consent that Sundaj-, March 3, 1918, he set 
 apart for addresses on the life, character, and j)ublic 
 services of the late Representative Hill. Is there ohjec- 
 tion? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Thursday, February 28, 1018. 
 The Speaker. The Chair designates Mr. Tilson, of Con- 
 necticut, to preside next Sunday. 
 
 Sunday, Mareh 3, 1918. 
 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
 order by Mr. Tilson as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Infinite Spirit, our Heavenly Father, we bless Thee for 
 the faith that holds our course to Thee; for the hope that 
 cheers us on our way; for the love that reflects itself from 
 a thousand angels in crystallized thoughts and acts, in 
 deeds of kindness and generosity, in the sacrifices around 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 the fireside which pour themselves out in motherly solici- 
 tude and fatherly care, in the heroism for the principles 
 we love, and in the glory of the holy sacrifices on the field 
 of battle; for these angels enthroned in the heart of man, 
 the wireless telegraphy that keeps us in touch with Thee. 
 
 We are here to-day in memory of a statesman who has 
 finished the work Thou didst give him to do for his con- 
 stituents, State, and Nation. Strong in his conceptions, 
 pure in his motives, firm in his convictions, he leaves 
 behind him a record worthy of a place on the pages of 
 history. 
 
 Comfort his colleagues, friends, and those who were 
 near to him in the ties of love; and bring us all, in Thine 
 own good time, to dwell together with the faithful in Him 
 who taught us life, liberty, truth, justice, mercy; and ever- 
 lasting praise be Thine. Amen. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will read the 
 special order. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 On motion of Mr. Merrill, by unanimous consent, 
 
 Ordered, Tliat Sunday, Marcli 3, 1918, be set apart for addresses 
 
 upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. Ebenezer J. 
 
 Hill, late a Representative from the State of Connecticut. 
 
 Mr. Merritt. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
 tion. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Con- 
 necticut offers a resolution, w^hich the Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 House resolution 263. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
 that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
 Ebenezer J. Hill, late a Member of this House from the State of 
 Connecticut. 
 
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Mkmoiuai, Addrf-sses : HcPRESKNTATnT: Hill 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public career, 
 the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall stand ad- 
 journed. 
 
 Resolved, Tliut the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mb. Merritt, of Connecticut 
 
 Mr. Speaker : It is hard for me to appreciate that I speak 
 here not merely as Mr. Hill's friend and constituent but 
 as his successor. He had for so many years and so ade- 
 quately represented the district that he had become an 
 institution, and, I may add, an institution wliicli tlie dis- 
 trict and the country could ill afford to lose. The district 
 regarded him with confidence in his honesty and wisdom, 
 and those who knew him with affection also. While it is 
 true that he was a strong party man, it is true also that 
 he regarded all individuals and all interests in his district 
 as under his care, and they received it. Democrats and 
 Republicans alike; so that after election was over all par- 
 ties regarded him as their Representative, and he accepted 
 the trust in that broad way. He had a peculiar right to 
 represent Fairfield County. There have been in this coun- 
 try no hereditary titles or privileges, but fortunately there 
 are some families with hereditary ability and character. 
 The Hill family is one of these, and its paternal ances- 
 tors have been residents in Fairfield County froin its 
 earliest settlement. Andrew Ward, the only man ap- 
 pointed by the Colony of Massachusetts on both its Com- 
 mittee of the Church and Committee of the State to 
 organize the Colony of Connecticut, was an ancestor. 
 
 William Hill, the first Hill ancestor in America, was a 
 member of the first colonial Connecticut Legislature, at 
 Hartford, and so continued until his death. 
 
 Two hundred and fifty years later his descendant, 
 Ebenezer J. Hill, was a member of that same legislature, 
 by that time, however, the legislature of a sovereign State. 
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Mi:m(iui\i. Addukssks : Hki'keskntativi, IIii.i. 
 
 During that interval of 250 years there was no time 
 when inemhers of the family were not serving the church 
 and State. 
 
 The Rev. John Jones, of Concord, Mass., the first min- 
 ister of the town of Fairfield, was an ancestor, and was 
 public!}' recognized as acUve in forwarding the interests 
 of the Colony. 
 
 Many other persons i)ronunent in the county history 
 from colonial limes down to the present are among his 
 ancestors. 
 
 And a study of this ancestry shows also how and why 
 he was among the earliest to form and avow the convic- 
 tion that women should have equal rights and opportu- 
 nities with men. 
 
 Mr. Hill's own mother was the wife of a minister of 
 Hartford, and when her husband was ill for some weeks 
 she conducted the services to the satisfaction of the con- 
 gregation. His grandfather Hill was one of the early 
 Methodists in Connecticut, and was also a leading aboli- 
 tionist and suffered considerable persecution on that 
 account. 
 
 His maternal ancestors were Scotch and came to Port- 
 land, Me., then called Falmouth and under the jurisdic- 
 tion of the Colony of Massachusetts. 
 
 These ancestors were of the same sort, and, being nearer 
 the frontier, took even a more active part in the Indian 
 and colonial wars. 
 
 Pacifists were at that period neither popular nor numer- 
 ous, and if there were any slackers they were not in the 
 Hill ancestry. 
 
 Time will not permit to follow this inquiry over the 
 seas, but it is of interest to note that the wife of the first 
 Hill in America was the daughter of Ignatius Jourdain, 
 who was deputy mayor of Exeter, in England; and he. 
 during a plague, when the mayor had fled, remained at 
 
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AUDKKSS OF Mr. MeHRITT, of COXNECTICI'T 
 
 his post and did almost superhuman relief work. Later 
 he was summoned before the star chamber under the 
 Stuarts for refusing to yield his religious convictions. 
 
 And so, to represent this line of God-fearing and man- 
 serving people, Ebenezer J. Hill was born in Redding, 
 Conn., in 1845. 
 
 This lineage and this background were a precious in- 
 heritance and a strong incentive, and well did he profit 
 from the first and respond to the second. 
 
 His ability and industry were early shown by the fact 
 that he passed his entrance examination for Yale at the 
 age of 14, but owing to the regulations he could not enter 
 until 1861, in the class of 1865. 
 
 The young men of that time, like our young men now, 
 felt the call of country, and in his sophomore year, 1863, 
 he tried to enlist, but was still too young, so he took the 
 only opening that presented itself and entered in the 
 Quartermaster Department as assistant to his brother, 
 Maj. Asburj' Hill, and there remained until the end of 
 the war. 
 
 He did not complete liis undergraduate course, but in 
 1895 Yale conferred upon him the degree of A. M. in 
 recognition of his public services. 
 
 Upon reentering civil life after the war he at once went 
 into active business, not neglecting his public duties and 
 responsibilities. 
 
 To indicate his varied activity it may be mentioned that 
 for 25 years and until he was elected to Congress he was 
 in the lumber business; and also, at different times, he 
 was president of the Norwalk Street Railway Co., Nor- 
 walk Gas Light Co., Norwalk Mills Co., and later vice 
 president and then president of the National Bank of 
 Norwalk, which office he held at the time of his death. 
 
 During this period he was active in performing his 
 duties as a citizen in the town and borough of Norwalk, 
 
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MriMoiuAi. Ai)i)Hi;ssi:s : Ri;i'1(i:si:ntativk Him. 
 
 serving as a member of the city government and also upon 
 the board of school visitors. 
 
 In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican national 
 convention at Chicago, wliich nominated James G. Blaine; 
 and in 1886 he was elected a member of the Connecticut 
 State Senate, and some valuable constructive legislation 
 was credited to him at that time. 
 
 In 1894 he was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress, and 
 began that service which lasted, with the exception of a 
 single Congress, the Sixty-third, until his death, in 1917. 
 
 This period of service in the House, consisting of more 
 than 20 years, was longer by over 2 years than that of 
 any man who had previously represented Connecticut. 
 
 His ability and industrj' early gave him a standing in 
 the House which time and experience confirmed and 
 strengthened. Aside from other committee work, he 
 served for 8 years on the Banking and Currency Com- 
 mittee and 14 years on the Ways and Means Committee. 
 Of his work on those committees and in Congress his col- 
 leagues here present can speak with more intimate knowl- 
 edge and greater authority than I. Wc in his district, 
 however, had good reason to know of his untiring devo- 
 tion to his work, his constant study of economic condi- 
 tions, especially with regard to manufactures in tliis coun- 
 try and abroad, and his wonderful accumulation of facts, 
 which was indeed encj'clopedic. 
 
 In his later years he had a deserved national reputa- 
 tion as an authoritj' on matters of the tariff and banking. 
 In addition to his studies he added to his store of knowl- 
 edge by wide travel and careful and accurate observa- 
 tion. Scarcely a vacation passed without his going to 
 some foreign land for pleasure and study combined, and 
 he always added to his store of useful information. I say 
 useful advisedly, because he was no collector of dry facts 
 but rather of facts as tools for use. 
 
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Address of Mr. Merritt, of Connecticut 
 
 He cared for this knowledge not as a historian but as 
 a forward-looking statesman. Tliis is shown by the fact 
 that he not merely helped on good measures, but he 
 either originated or was among the pioneers in legis- 
 lation which was then and still is most beneficial in this 
 countrj'. 
 
 He had a leading part in establishing the gold standard, 
 his speech in Congress on that subject being used through- 
 out the United States as a textbook and authority. To 
 his credit largely are to be placed the establishment of 
 rural free deliveiy, his own district being the second 
 district in which rural free delivery was established; 
 free alcohol for the arts; and the chemical schedule in 
 the present tariff bill, which promises to establish the 
 dyestuff industry' in this country. 
 
 He was also an ardent supporter of national enfran- 
 chisement of women — and this years before it became a 
 political issue or even popular. Indeed, he stood on this 
 platform in the face of threats that it might imperil 
 his renomination. He was prominent in the Methodist 
 Church and in the Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 And with all this tremendous activity and diversity' of 
 interest and occupation he had a fine capacity for friend- 
 ship and good-fellowship. 
 
 There was no town in his district where he had not 
 hosts of friends; no assembly where he was not welcome 
 nor where his coming did not add to its pleasure. To 
 illustrate one phase of his character which did not always 
 appear on the surface may I give one personal anecdote? 
 
 Among his friends was a Catholic priest. Father Fur- 
 long, of Norwalk. Before his trip to the Holy Land 
 Mr. Hill called on his friend, then sick unto death, and 
 asked him if there was anything he could bring liim. Said 
 the father. " If I live so long, I should like above all 
 things to have you bring me a rosarj' from the Holy CitA." 
 
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Memohiai. Addhicsses: Representative Hile 
 
 When Mr. Hill was in the Garden of Clethsemane, which 
 was under the care of monks of the Franciscan order, he 
 noted an okl olive tree said to have heen there since the 
 days of our Lord. In conversation with the abhot he 
 learned that the olive stones were carefully preserved and 
 made into rosaries, but were reserved strictly for the 
 members of the order and never sold. Thereupon Mr. 
 HiLi, told the abhot the story of his dying friend, the priest 
 in \orwalk, and what a solace and inspiration this rosary 
 coming from this particular place, and made by the monks 
 of his order, would be to this dying man. The abbot was 
 touched by the storj', and said that he felt justified in 
 breaking the rule, and presented Mr. Hill with this ro- 
 sarj% which, fortunately, he was able to place in the hands 
 of his friend before lie died; and when he died this rosary 
 was clasped in his hand. 
 
 Mr. Hill's high devotion to duty never left him. Al- 
 though he was too ill, he made a special trip to Washing- 
 ton last July in order to speak on an important pending 
 measure. On the 25th of July he made a brilliant speech 
 in the House that attracted the attention both of the House 
 and the country. Then he went home, and on the very 
 next day, though suffering from exhaustion and overwork, 
 he went to the station to join in the farewell to the boys 
 of the Sixth Company of Coast Artillerj', of which his own 
 nephew, Albert Mossman, is captain. He spoke inspir- 
 ingly to those young men, pointing out to them that they 
 were not going out for conquest, but for the fulfillment of 
 a patriotic duty, and then called on those remaining at 
 home to fulfill their duty in the maintenance of democracy 
 in its best form. 
 
 That was his last public appearance, and from then un- 
 til the 27th day of September, 1917, when he died, he grew 
 steadily weaker, until his splendid constitution was worn 
 out, although his mind remained clear and alert until the 
 
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Address of Mr. Merritt, of Connecticut 
 
 last. And I think we can say of him tliat he, like his 
 friend the priest, died clasping to his heart his rosarj' of 
 public duty. 
 
 Gentlemen, this seems to me a record of a happy and 
 well-spent life. President Eliot has said that the only 
 real happiness is in doing some good tiling well. Our 
 friend did many good things in the service of his town, his 
 State, his countiy, and his fellow men; and he did them 
 all well. 
 
 We can readily believe that he has heard the Master say 
 "Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter thou 
 into the joy of thy Lord." 
 
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Address or Mr. Clark, or Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I served several years with our lamented 
 friend, Emenezer J. Hii.l, on the great Committee on Ways 
 and Means, long service on which is, within itself, a liberal 
 education. First and last, strong men of almost all occu- 
 pations or professions testify or argue before it — in fact, 
 every class of men except fools. So far as I know, they 
 never appeared before that committee. Mr. Hill was a 
 working member of both the committee and the House. 
 He was one of the most industrious of mortals, and by 
 constant toil he accumulated a vast quantity of informa- 
 tion on a variety of subjects — particularly on economic 
 subjects, on which he was an expert. 
 
 One of my college professors frequently said that some 
 people had memories like a tar bucket, to which every- 
 thing that touched it stuck. Certainly Mr. Hill's memory 
 was of that variety. Consequently he probably possessed 
 as much information as any other man in the House. 
 
 He was not an orator, but a forceful speaker — a crack 
 debater. He was exceedingly tenacious of his opinions, 
 advocating and defending them with energy' — indeed, with 
 vehemence. He enjoyed a mental and linguistic contest, 
 and when he thought he had the best of a clash the evi- 
 dences of his pleasure were patent to all observers. 
 
 A staunch Republican partisan, he was a thoroughgoing 
 American, fighting for his countiy in his youth, serving 
 her faitlifully in his mature years in this great arena of 
 intellectual struggles. 
 
 He was a seasoned traveler, and illumined his speeches 
 and his conversation with facts and illustrations garnered 
 in foreign lands — always to the edification of his hearers. 
 
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Address of Mr. Clark, of Missouri 
 
 He was an intense protectionist, but he never fell out 
 with men of different views or underrated their capacity. 
 
 He was an agreeable companion and estimated highly 
 the value of friendship. 
 
 His death was a positive loss to this House, to his State, 
 and to the country. 
 
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Address of Mh. Kitchin, of North Carolina 
 
 Mr. Speaker: When I first met Mr. IIii.i., hack in the 
 Fifty-seventh Congress, liis fourlli term and my first, he 
 impressed me as a most forceful character and a most 
 courteous and considerate gentleman. In my LI years of 
 service with him here I never saw anything to impair, but 
 everything to strengthen, that impression. For more than 
 a decade preceding his death Hill was a commanding 
 figure in the House. His intellect, his integrity, his cour- 
 age, his sense of right and truUi, his diligent study of 
 legislation, his courteous deportment, his sympathetic im- 
 pulses combined to qualify him as such. And he looked 
 the part. 
 
 If we except the gentleman fi-om Illinois |Mr. Mann], 
 the incomparable minority leader, I doubt if any man in 
 Congress in the last 1.') years was as tireless a worker or 
 as diligent a student of legislation as he. While well in- 
 formed on every subject of legislation, he was more of an 
 expert on questions of finance and the tariff. I doubt if 
 the late Mr. Payne in his best day had more accurate 
 information with respect to the tariff or gave to it closer 
 study than had Mr. Hill. 
 
 I remember hearing Speaker Clark say once that Mr. 
 Payne knew more about the tariff than any living man. 
 In the Sixty-second Congress, when the House under 
 Democratic control was attempting to revise the tariff, 
 schedule by schedule, I regarded Mr. Hill the most ag- 
 gressive, the most agile, and the most dangerous opponent 
 of the several revision measures. Frequently I was struck 
 with amazement at the fund of information, and the accu- 
 racy of it, he displayed on this floor. He was a splendid 
 
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Address of Mr. Kitciiin, or North Carolina 
 
 debater, witli a keen, penetrating mind. He saw at once 
 the weak and strong points of every question, argument, 
 or position. He was a factor to be reckoned with in every 
 contest. His logic and arguments seemed convincing. 
 He was never rhetorical. He expressed his thoughts with 
 emphatic clearness. His deliven,' was earnest and force- 
 ful and oftentimes picturesque. At times he rushed on 
 his opponent like a whirlwind. In the fiercest combat 
 he never gave offense, but remained civil and courteous 
 throughout. He was a foeman worthy of the best steel. 
 He was a hard hitter, but never an unfair one. He struck 
 always in the open. He and I had many a lively tilt, both 
 on the floor and in the Waj^s and Means Committee, of 
 which, for many years, he was a leading member. We 
 have given and taken many hard blows, but they never 
 left a sore spot on either. I admired him and held him in 
 the highest esteem. I am happy in the belief that we 
 enjoyed one another's confidence and friendship. 
 
 He frequently visited my office, especially in the Sixty- 
 fourth Congress. The last time he visited the Capitol we 
 spent together in my office an hour of most pleasant con- 
 ference. He was then a sick man, but his mind was as 
 vigorous as ever. He was then keenly interested in and 
 anxious over coming legislation. I never saw him, well 
 or sick, that his eagle eye and nose did not reveal the 
 fighter. I observed it with admiration on this last occa- 
 sion. As the gentleman from Connecticut, his honorable 
 successor, indicated in his interesting and splendid ad- 
 dress, he came from a race of fighters. Yet he was as 
 genial and sweet-spirited and lovable a gentleman as one 
 cares to meet. He was of unimpeachable character. I 
 never heard the slightest reflection cast upon him. The 
 breath of the faintest suspicion never blew about him. He 
 led a clean, pure, open life, both private and public. He 
 was a Christian gentleman in the truest sense. The State 
 
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Mi;.M()HiAL Ai)i)iii;ssi:s : Represkntativi-; Hii.i. 
 
 and tlu' district which he served so long, so faithfully, so 
 ahly, were most fortunate in having such a man to repre- 
 tiont them at the Nation's Capital. 
 
 His loved ones who mourn his death have full right and 
 reason to be proud of his career and of his name. The 
 House in honoring to-day the memory of one so worthy 
 does honor to itself. The opportunity extended me b}' his 
 distinguished successor to speak these simple words of 
 appraisement of our deceased friend and comrade I count 
 as a real privilege, as it is a genuine happiness. 
 
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Address of Mr. Mann, of Illinois 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I was shocked and inexpressibly sad- 
 dened when I learned of the death of Mr. Hill. Of 
 course, I knew that he had been ill, like myself. We 
 had mutually advised each other to cut out work and 
 rest. 
 
 Mr. Hill was a real statesman. He became a recog- 
 nized authority, particularly upon economic problems, 
 and especially upon finance, and under that on banking, 
 currency, and the tariff. 
 
 When I became the Republican leader in the House I 
 often turned to Mr. Hill for advice and information. I 
 had a number of sessions with him, and his remarkable 
 fund of information was very striking. He was one of 
 the most intense characters that I have ever met. I used 
 to wonder sometimes, in the House, when Mr. Hill was 
 in debate, with that fierj^ earnestness and intensity, with 
 his hand and finger pointed as though liis words would 
 burn — I used to wonder sometimes, looking at him, 
 whether he would come down to earth again. Then 
 would come that genial smile following the intense argu- 
 ment, showing that his feet were on the ground all the 
 time. I never saw him when he was so intense that he 
 could not be a good-natured, smiling, sweet-tempered 
 gentleman. 
 
 If it were not for my own condition I should be glad 
 to speak longer. This is the first time, Mr. Speaker, that 
 I have spoken in the House since toward the middle of 
 last July, and it was only because of my intense admira- 
 tion and affection for Mr. Hill that I felt obliged to-day 
 to satisfy myself in making these few remarks in memory 
 of one of the great men of the House, a distinct loss to 
 the House and to the country, and also my particular 
 friend. 
 
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Address of Mr. Fordney, of Michigan 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Every great country recognizes and 
 honors its great men. To-day we meet to honor the 
 memory of a veteran Member, who for more than a score 
 of years stood among the foremost in the framing of 
 legislation. Almost from the first he was known as a 
 strong, fearless, able, and intelligent advocate of all that 
 tends to make us great and keep us free. He came here 
 an accomplished, energetic, successful man of affairs, and 
 in all matters pertaining to business, revenue, and finance 
 his advice was early recognized as wise, conscientious, 
 and sound. In the days when Payne of New York, Dalzell 
 of Pennsylvania, Grosvenor of Ohio, and Boutell of Illi- 
 nois were often spoken of as the big four of the Repub- 
 lican side, it would have been hard to saj' that Hill of 
 Connecticut was not just as much entitled to membership 
 in the leading quartet. 
 
 He represented an element of which there is always too 
 small a representation in Congress — the constructive, suc- 
 cessful man of affairs. In its hours of ease the Congress 
 has been prone to bait and belittle the men of this coun- 
 try who organize and finance its business, and to imagine 
 that in some way the lawyer and politician can run 
 things; but after doing a great deal to hamper and handi- 
 cap the men who accomplish results, the recent months 
 of stress and peril have seen the Government turn its ap- 
 pealing hands to these men as the hope of the countrj*. 
 And they are. 
 
 Mr. Hill came here at the opening of the Fifty-fourth 
 Congress, on the first Monday in December, 189.1. Of the 
 Members who outranked him in length of service, only 
 six remain with us — Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, with 
 
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Address of Mr. Fordney, of Michigan 
 
 21 terms to his credit; William A. Jones, of Virginia. 14 
 terms; Henry Allen Cooper, of Wisconsin, and Frederick 
 H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, 13 terms; Champ Clark, of 
 Missouri, and J. Fred Talbott, of Marj'land, 12 terms each. 
 George Edmund Foss, of Illinois, Frank W. Mondell, of 
 Wyoming, and Richard Wayne Parker, of New Jersey, 
 each with 11 terms of service, came to this House in the 
 same Congress and stood before tlie Speaker's desk to 
 receive the oath of office at the same time as did Mr. Hill. 
 Two Members of shorter service, Charles R. Crisp, of 
 Georgia, and Benjamin L. Fairchild, of New York, also 
 served in the Fifty-fourth Congress. 
 
 A glance at Mr. Hill's early speeches will sliow that 
 from the very start he showed that broad, piercing vision 
 that always is found in the statesman and the man of 
 large affairs. The very first speech that he delivered, on 
 Februarj' 11, 1896, reads almost like a prophecy. He said 
 that the issues were three: First, adequate revenue, based 
 on pi'otcction lines, to fully meet expenses, reduce to some 
 extent the national debt, and develop the resources of 
 the Nation; second, a sound system of national finance 
 to give the business interests of the country peace; third 
 (and could he have said it better if he had been speaking 
 to-day?) : 
 
 We must maintain the honor and protect the rights of the 
 American people everywhere, abroad as well as at home, and 
 give sympathy, encouragement, and hope to men who are fighting 
 for freedom in other lands. 
 
 Througliout liis whole membership liere he was always 
 the champion of the rights and prerogatives of the House, 
 and his verj' last utterance on tliis floor was on July 25, 
 1917, when he rose to a question of privilege and, as a 
 member of the Ways and Means Committee, called atten- 
 tion to the fact that he thought the privileges of the House 
 were being invaded by the action of the Senate in propos- 
 ing to raise money by certificates of indebtedness, the 
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 function of this House to originate. He said the Repub- 
 lican Members of tlie House proposed to stand by the ad- 
 ministration, but they wanted to do it " legally, fairly, 
 and squarel}'." Legally, fairly, and squarely! That was 
 the way Mr. Hill always did things. He was manly, 
 straightforward, direct, aCfirmative, constructive — an 
 American of wliom his associates, his State, and his coun- 
 try' are proud. 
 
 Mr. Hh.l's two great specialties in legislation were our 
 financial sj'stem and the tarilT. In matters relating to 
 banking and currency he possessed a practical knowledge 
 and a breadth of vision rarely equaled and never sur- 
 passed by any Member within this generation. 
 
 He was sent here by a constituency that recognized the 
 value of long service, and so was able to develop his 
 capacity as a legislator, and to give to his district and his 
 country the benefit of the ripe experience that can come 
 only from years of apprenticeship in the business of being 
 a Congressman. 
 
 I have said that there were six men of longer service 
 than Mr. Hill remaining in the House and two others who 
 had served as long. It is only a little while ago, and yet, 
 of the great company' of 357 men who formed the House 
 of the Fifty-fourth Congress, where are the rest? Some, 
 like Pitney, of New Jersey, and McMillin, of Tennessee, 
 now occupy high posts in other departments of the Gov- 
 ernment. A few others, like Bankhcad, of Alabama, 
 Curtis, of Kansas, Shafroth, of Colorado, Smith, of Michi- 
 gan, and Underwood, of Alabama, now hold places of 
 honor in the Senate of the United States. Some are pros- 
 perous in private life. But we have held solemn services 
 like these for many of them, and many others have died 
 since their membership here was ended. 
 
 In that Congress the Speaker was Thomas B. Reed, of 
 Maine, who was ex-officio chairman of the Committee on 
 Rules. Nelson Dingley, of Maine, was chairman of the 
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Address of Mr. Fordney, of Michigan 
 
 Coniinittee on Ways and Means. Among the other mem- 
 bers of that committee were Sercno E. Payne, of New 
 York; Charles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio; Jonathan P. Dolli- 
 ver, of Iowa; Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia, ex-Speaker and 
 father of our honored colleague Charles R. Crisp. Joseph 
 G. Cannon, of Illinois, was chairman of the Committee 
 on Appropriations. In his right hand is length of days, 
 in his left hand honor and affection. Long, long, indeed, 
 may he be spared to us and to his countrj\ The chairman 
 of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 
 was William P. Hepburn, of Iowa; on Banking and Cur- 
 rency, Joseph H. Walker, of Massachusetts; on the District 
 of Columbia, Joseph W. Babcock, of Wisconsin ; on Edu- 
 cation, Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania; on Foreign Af- 
 fairs, Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois; on Indian Affairs, James 
 S. Sherman, of New York; on Invalid Pensions, John A. 
 Pickler, of South Dakota; on the Judiciarj', David B. 
 Henderson, of Iowa; on the Merchant Marine and Fish- 
 eries, Sereno E. Payne, of New York; on Naval Affairs, 
 Charles A. Boutelle, of Maine; on Pensions, Henry C. 
 Loudenslager, of New Jersey; on the Post Office and Post 
 Roads, Eugene F. Loud, of California; on Public Buildings 
 and Grounds, Seth L. Milliken, of Maine. 
 
 On what was the minority side of the House were 
 Leonidas F. Livingston, of Georgia; Francis G. Newlands, 
 of Nevada; James D. Richardson, of Tennessee; James E. 
 Cobb, of Alabama; David A. De Armond, of Missouri; 
 William H. Grain, of Texas; Hernando D. Money, of Mis- 
 sissippi; Josiah Patterson, of Tennessee; and Henrj' G. 
 Turner, of Georgia. Scores of others that I might men- 
 tion call up vivid memories of great debates and great 
 service. As we hear their names their voices echo again 
 in our ears. We see their faces; we recall their heartj' 
 handclasps as we greeted them session after session. 
 They make for us a moving picture of friendship, of char- 
 acter, of manly strength. Yesterday they were with us. 
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 Now the calling of the roll of their names is answered 
 only hy silence and our own heartache. Our Members 
 fall like soldiers. And, Mr. Speaker, what a scene of 
 struggle this Hall has been. The issues for which the 
 men of 22 years ago were fighting here have many of them 
 gone. Then Grover Cleveland was in his second term, 
 and the country was divided on the question of the free 
 and unlimited coinage of silver. Since then the legisla- 
 tive pendulum has swung both ways on the tariff ques- 
 tion. Government operation of utilities, the elTicient coor- 
 dination of all business activities, the development to the 
 utmost of national resources, the conservation of food 
 and fuel, the quick development of a great merchant fleet, 
 these and the other paramount questions now under dis- 
 cussion were unborn and unknown subjects in legislative 
 halls. The great roll of missing men, as well as the new 
 subjects that we must discuss and settle as best we can, 
 serve to remind us of the thought so eloquently expressed 
 long ago by Edmund Burke, when, on hearing of the death 
 of his opponent for a seat in Parliament, he exclaimed, 
 "What shadows we are and what shadows we pursue! "' 
 
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Address of Mr. Moore, of Pennsylvania 
 
 Mr. Speaker: We call the flower of American man- 
 hood for the purposes of war. The aged we leave behind 
 for counsel. The infirm, the halt, the unfit we do not 
 take. It is one of the curious inconsistencies of our times 
 that when the sound of battle calls we send forward to 
 the supreme test the best we have and leave behind, even 
 as a burden or a menace, much that the body politic 
 might well dispense wath; but this is the soldier's way. 
 
 If we go into the orchard when the fruit is ripening 
 we take not the gnarled and unfit fruit. We leave it to 
 sap the strength of the tree and take that fruit only, 
 which is wholesome, that which is rosy-red. When we 
 enter the garden we do not pluck the thistles and the 
 thorns nor the rose that is shedding its bloom. We pick 
 that flower which is purest and fairest. 
 
 Sometimes I think it is so with men in private and in 
 public life. We yield up those who have been most 
 serviceable, those who are most capable by experience 
 and learning to sustain our aims. Strange, is it not, 
 that when one has perfected himself for public work and 
 has acquired such knowledge and information as has 
 been accurately attributed to our lamented colleague, 
 Mr. Hill, that we should suddenly be bereft of Ms asso- 
 ciation and services? But this surely is not our way; it 
 is God's way, and we may neither question nor resist it. 
 
 Ebenezer J. Hill, as has been so eloquently stated by 
 the distinguished leader of the majority [Mr. Kitchin] and 
 by our beloved minority leader [Mr. Mann], was of states- 
 man stature. He was a strong legislator. The foundation 
 was in him. He had grown step by step, through the in- 
 fluences that environed him yonder at Norwalk and 
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Memorial Audhessks : Rei'resentative Hii.i. 
 
 throughout Connecticut, until he was the peer of those 
 with whom he came in contact here. 
 
 He had speciaHzed ujjon economics, upon finance, upon 
 tlic national revenues. He made these great national 
 topics his special study, but he equipped himself in other 
 ways to match the masters of debate in this House and to 
 bring credit to his State and his country'. He was a genius 
 at figures, and he noted the small things, so that he might 
 be able to control the larger ones. Did he give informa- 
 tion to the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Mann], as indi- 
 cated in the feeling speech so recently delivered? Yes; 
 because he had studied, because he had investigated, be- 
 cause he had made notes, and was sure of his facts. Pass- 
 ing events of importance did not drift from his memorj'; 
 he noted and preserved them for such emergencies as 
 might arise. He did not let the incidents of the day pass 
 by so that they might be useless to-morrow. Therein was 
 much of his strength as a debater. 
 
 My personal acquaintance with Mr. Hill began about 
 that time when he was a contemporary in this House with 
 Mr. Payne, Mr. Dalzell, and Mr. Fordney on the one side 
 and with Mr. Clark, now Speaker, Mr. Underwood, and 
 Mr. Kitchin on the other. I came here in the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress when Mr. Hill was in the heyday of his activi- 
 ties. It was my privilege to observe and to follow him in 
 all essentials, for in the larger, broader sense Ebenezer J. 
 Hill stood for the rights of America and the preservation 
 of those rights. He had observed and studied the eco- 
 nomic conditions that prevailed elsewhere. He believed 
 in American ideals, and hoped for the perpetuation of all 
 that was superior in American life. 
 
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Address of Mr. Green, of Iowa 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I first became acquainted with Mr. Hill 
 when I entered this House in 1911. As a new Member, my 
 attention was natural!}' called to him as one of its leaders. 
 I well remember in the early days of my membership 
 seeing him take the floor in the midst of an exciting po- 
 litical conflict to deliver one of those powerful addresses 
 for which he was noted. The impression which he made 
 I shall not easily forget. With all the energy he pos- 
 sessed he struck without fear or favor, and like some 
 champion of old, whose blows sounded upon his enemy's 
 shield, his voice rang out in challenge to his adversaries. 
 Striding back and forth in front of the rostrum, with 
 gestures as vigorous as his speech, always in attack and 
 never in defense, he seemed the impersonation of a par- 
 liamentary debater. 
 
 He who rises to eminence in so great a parliamentary' 
 bodj' as a House of Representatives selected from a hun- 
 dred millions of people must possess both ability and in- 
 dustry, and one or the other to a marked degree. Nor is 
 that all. The path to that elevation is usually a long and 
 weary road, ascended through struggle and combat, by 
 toil and labor. At rare and long intervals some genius 
 has speedih' risen, but often generations pass without any 
 quick and dazzling success. In the few years that I have 
 been in the House I have seen lawyers of rare talent, 
 jurists of high standing, authors of note, scholars of repu- 
 tation, business men of renown, come, and in many cases 
 go, only to find that a high position here must be estab- 
 lished by capacity shown for the new work which they 
 were undertaking. 
 
 In truth, the science of legislation is the most compre- 
 hensive of all studies. He who would understand it fully 
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 must know not only the history of liis own country but the 
 lustory of all countries. He must be familiar with the 
 development and gi-owth of society, the principles upon 
 which ci^'ilizatio^ rests, and the lines upon which it must 
 advance. Nor must he be a mere theorist or a dreamer. 
 In no place is a capacity for tlie practical so much needed. 
 Nowhere is a vision for the future so much desired. The 
 learning of the past, the tendency of the present, the 
 demands of the future, the methods of business, and the 
 toil of labor must be considered. The field is limitless. 
 None can hope to cover it all, and many must content 
 themselves with but a small portion of the ground within 
 its boundaries. But the field is divisible; and if a legis- 
 lator has thoroughly mastered one of its important divi- 
 sions we say that he has done well. 
 
 Mr. Hill, brought to his duties a mass of useful material. 
 He had been both a student and a man of affairs. No 
 economic work worth while had escaped his attention. 
 There was no kind of business with which he did not have 
 an acquaintance, and his personal experience and prac- 
 tical knowledge in connection with and in relation to 
 some of the most important lines of industry qualified him 
 to speak as an expert. He had traveled widely, both at 
 home and abroad, not with the carelessness of the sight- 
 seer but as a student of world conditions, and often made 
 use of the knowledge thus acquired to illuminate discus- 
 sion and shape the course of his own legislative action. 
 Few men in this House have brought to their duties such 
 a wealth of acquired knowledge and practical experi- 
 ence. As a result, his counsel and advice was sought not 
 only by Members of the House but by Cabinet Secretaries 
 and Presidents. 
 
 But no amount of information and learning, however 
 
 great it may be, will complete the finished legislator. 
 
 There are many who are able to see what ought to be 
 
 accomplished, and to the uninitiated the enactment of a 
 
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Address of Mr. Green, of Iowa 
 
 statute seems an easy task. Knowing the object of leg- 
 islation, they fancy it is easy to so express it in a law 
 that the purpose will be carried out. In fact, it is most 
 difficult. Hence the orator, no matter how great he may 
 be, has his limitations in Congress. Speeches seldom 
 change votes. Debates may possibly turn the tide of 
 history. But the man of high legislative ability must be 
 capable of originating constructive policies and forming 
 statutes which will effectuate their purpose. For this 
 there is needed not only a creative mind, but also one 
 which is logical, accurate, and precise. Men have passed 
 through Congress and emerged with the fame of great 
 oratois, sometimes with the reputation of great debaters, 
 and yet have left upon the statute books not so much as 
 a mark to indicate that they have ever been Members of 
 that body. Their ability was, in fact, confined to a flow 
 of eloquence or a capacity for sharp retort and stinging 
 repartee. Mr. Hill was not one of that class. In fact, I may 
 say truthfully he rose far above it. His abilities were of 
 the solid and enduring tj'pc, and his course in Congress 
 marked by definite achievements. He could not only 
 shape and defend a policy, but he could look beneath the 
 glitter and veneer which covers the vagaries of the thought- 
 less and the wiles of the demagogue and expose their 
 fallacies with merciless logic. As he passed along the 
 evidence of his work remained behind him. We find it 
 securely preserved in the laws of the land. 
 
 While connected with large enterprises, Mr. Hill 
 realized fully that the greatness of this country must de- 
 pend upon the prosperity and advancement of the masses 
 of its people. Indeed, he was too just in his perceptions 
 and too clear in his thought to in any event deny them that 
 to which they were justly entitled. Wliile never a theorist, 
 his dream was to make this land one which throughout 
 its boundaries would be inhabited by a prosperous, 
 contented, and enlightened people. He believed that the 
 
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 laborer was worthy of liis liire and that his wages should 
 always be commensurate with his i)roduction. He wished 
 to put hope in the mind of the toiler and ambition in his 
 breast; to have our social system and laws so maintained 
 as to give opportunity for all and justice to everyone. 
 Thus the great jjrohlems of labor and capital were ever 
 studied by him to find some solution which would right- 
 fully apportion the share which each could claim, always 
 regarding the necessities of the toiler as coming first and 
 endeavoring that conditions should be so adjusted that 
 his reasonable demands should be met. He rightfully 
 considered that the policies of this Nation should be such 
 as would give the greatest return and the widest oppor- 
 tunity possible to the workingman. To accomplish this 
 purpose he advocated that the foundation for this policy 
 should be laid on a system of protection to our industries, 
 and no one was better able to present the argument in 
 favor of this position than he. He believed in it with all 
 his heart and soul and mind and brought to its support a 
 wealth of argument, experience, and logic which made 
 him one of the great champions of this cause. 
 
 The ability and industry which Mr. Hill possessed in 
 such a marked degree and the natural bent of his talents 
 drew him into a branch of work in which industry- of 
 the highest order was absolutely necessary to complete 
 success. While I was not in Congress during the earlj' 
 stages of his career, I can readilj' see why he was chosen 
 to sit as a member of the Ways and Means Committee, 
 that great committee which not only provides the means 
 of carrying on our Government but also outlines to a 
 large extent our fiscal policies. For proper service on 
 this committee unremitting toil and study is necessary. 
 So, also, a thorough masteiy of every system of taxation 
 must be acquired, and the application of these systems 
 is so highly technical that it produces a never-ending 
 round of labor. In this division of legislative work none 
 
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Address of Mr. Green, of Iowa 
 
 excelled Mr. Hill, and few equaled him. He was inde- 
 fatigable in his labors, but it was not the mere routine of 
 the pedant. He reveled in figures, but in his hands they 
 were not cold and dull, but lifelike and speaking. He 
 explored all the labyrinths of the tariff until its provisions 
 became so familiar to him that it was easy for him to 
 enlighten others, and only one who is a member of the 
 Ways and Means Committee can fully understand Mr. 
 Hill's wonderful grasp of the legislation which fell under 
 its jurisdiction. I had the honor to become a member of 
 that committee and the good fortune, sitting by his side, 
 to receive the benefit of his study and application. 
 
 It must not be supposed, however, that Mr. Hill con- 
 fined himself to the duties of his committee, vast as they 
 were, or that his duties were discharged with a thought 
 single to the benefit which might be received by the 
 region which he represented. His mind was too broad 
 and comprehensive to be so confined. With far-seeing 
 vision and discerning eye he looked beyond the bound- 
 aries of his own State, with its whirring spindles and 
 clanging hammers. He saw the great city, with its sky- 
 scrapers and its port teeming with ships from every mart 
 of the world, toward which all our commerce centers; he 
 saw the regions where boundless supplies of coal and iron 
 are brought together, marked by the smoke of thousands 
 of chimneys; he saw the broad expanse of the prairies, 
 where, under a smiling sun and beneficent sky, a bounte- 
 ous soil brings forth its stores to feed the waiting nations; 
 he saw the rugged sweep of the western mountains, 
 wherein were hidden treasures surpassing the fabled 
 wealth of the Orient and the dreams of magic; he looked 
 across the broad expanse of the ocean to our islands 
 blooming with tropical verdure, then again far beyond 
 the Arctic Circle, where the midnight sun still shines upon 
 our possessions, and south to where the Atlantic and 
 Pacific arc joined by that gi'eat canal which is the monu- 
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Memorial Addhessks: Representative IIili. 
 
 nient to the genius and enterprise of the American i)e()])le. 
 His was the vision of the statesman whicli liad no limila- 
 tions but that of the world itself. 
 
 Mr. Hill was first of all and above all an American. He 
 had unbounded confidence in the people of this Nation, 
 its institutions, its form of government, its future, and 
 believed that its destiny was to lead the march of civiliza- 
 tion in the triumi)h of democracy and representative gov- 
 ernment. Well niiglil he say willi the poet: 
 
 When the centuries behind mc like a fruitful land deposed, 
 When I clung to all the present for the promise it reposed, 
 
 When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, 
 Saw the vision of the world and the wonder that would be. 
 
 Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, 
 And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. 
 
 He saw, as many did not see, that we had come to be 
 a world power, with duties which we must perform and 
 responsibilities from which we could not escape. He 
 saw that our future depended to a large extent upon that 
 of other nations and that our policies must be broadened 
 and our actions shaped to meet the crisis which might, 
 and eventually did, arise. When the resistless tide of 
 time carried us into the great European war his patriot- 
 ism, ever present, arose to meet every emergency which 
 confronted us. 
 
 Unfortunately he was sick. His mind was as active as 
 ever, but he was weakened physically by age, incessant 
 toil, and disease. The strain imposed by the new and 
 staggering j)roblenis which the war brought upon us was 
 loo nmch for him to endure. The frail body could no 
 longer contain the soul which still burned with tireless 
 energj', the weakened cord snapped, and he passed away 
 just as the curtain was rising upon the greatest drama 
 which all history has ever known. 
 
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Address of Mr. Green, of Iowa 
 
 I had thought that perhaps he would have liked to have 
 played his part in these eventful scenes which are now 
 about us, just as we would have wished to have had the 
 benefit of his judgment and capacity in this crisis of our 
 Nation's affairs; but an all-wise Providence has said that 
 his work is done, and we can say that it has been well 
 and nobly done. A great debater, a great legislator, a 
 statesman in the best of all that word implies has left 
 us; but his work will endure, ineffaceably recorded in the 
 history of his country. 
 
 Mr. Freeman took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
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Address ok Mr. Sloan, of Nebraska 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It is fUliii{< that this House should set 
 aside this sacred Sabbath to do honor to the inemoi"}' of 
 Ebenezer J. Hill. The tribute to him shouhl be the prod- 
 uct of careful thought and choice construction. His life 
 and work are subjects that would call for the beauties 
 of the poet's dream and the most profound thought of 
 the philosopher. I regret that the halting sentences I 
 may offer will not be a more finished tribute to his life 
 and memor3\ 
 
 I came here in the Sixty-second Congress, when he and 
 those who had wrought with him had been reduced from 
 the majority to the minority. As a new Member I watched 
 with interest the changed conditions, observed how men 
 met these changed conditions. The course of the once 
 majority leaders had clianged. There was demonstrated 
 what we often see among men. They are often strong in 
 battle when the offense is on, but when reverse comes it 
 takes a strong and peculiar character to still show that 
 militancy which quails not before adversity but can battle 
 in the minority as effectively as in the majority. 
 
 It is easy to advance to the blare of the bugle, but it is 
 sometimes dillicidt in the forced retreat to save as many 
 positions as maj' be possible. I thought, among the char- 
 acters of the few men I studied, that there was in the 
 eminent statesman from Connecticut that which made 
 him not only a strong and militant character when the 
 offensive was on but a miglily force in defeat. 
 
 When legislation reversing that which he had aided 
 in passage was presented upon this floor never did I see 
 a debater who seemed to successfully save as nuich of 
 the situation as did Ebenezer J. Ilnx. 
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Address of Mr. Si.oan, of Nebraska 
 
 He was a remarkable chai'actcr here. He was persist- 
 ent, intense, and industrious in laying out plans and aid- 
 ing the plans of those with whom he worked. When he 
 came to the floor in debate he was militant. He charged 
 like a Rupert, a Navarre, a Stonewall Jackson, or a Sheri- 
 dan. He threw all his intellectual force and all the might 
 of his militant being into the debate. Seldom, if ever, did 
 I see Ebenezer J. Hill worsted in an intellectual combat 
 on this floor. He combined the two qualities of militancy 
 in debate and persistency in preparation. 
 
 Years ago Prof. Swing, in criticising the then great 
 iconoclast, Robert G. Ingersoll, attributed Mr. Ingersoll's 
 peculiar course to an interesting trait of human nature 
 that compelled a man who had been a great advocate, 
 once having taken up a cause, to follow it so far that it 
 became his master. Out of his discussion Prof. Swing 
 crystallized his thought into this expression, " The master 
 of a learned profession at last becomes its slave." 
 
 The best that we have in life, those things that we 
 idolize, those virtues that we extol, often become the most 
 tyrannic of our being, the most destructive of our lives. 
 As I sat here this afternoon and listened to the words of 
 our eminent and beloved leader, James R. Mann, paying 
 rich, deserved, and loving tribute to his deceased col- 
 league, I thought of him and Ebenezer J. Hill together; 
 not that they were of the same trend and bent of thought — 
 because they frequently differed — but because in the mat- 
 ter of industry they resembled each other so much. True, 
 our deceased brother had passed his threescore years and 
 ten; yet he seemed vigorous, and promised well for j'ears 
 to come. I have no doubt that, speaking by and large, 
 call the malady to which he succumbed what you will, it 
 was industry, excessive, overwrought industry, that called 
 him home. That industry is calling home so many I hope 
 the warning will be efl'ectivc to some who are now strain- 
 ing under the lash and scourge of tyrannic industry. 
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 Our Brother Hili. had his triumphs. They have been 
 recounted here. But one remarkable triumph I must 
 advert to which must have been a matter of distinctive 
 pride to him. He was a lifelong supporter of a policy 
 on which he believed the welfare of America and Ameri- 
 cans rested, the protection of American industrj' and 
 American labor. He was in the minority. Yet when the 
 great world war came on, after a great line of industries 
 had been neglected in America, over the repeated warning 
 of Representative Hux, he presented to an adverse Ways 
 and Means Committee the facts developed by his study 
 on the dye industry. He pointed to our national need 
 and overcame the prejudice of a majority of that commit- 
 tee. They said, in effect, " Yes, Mr. Hh.l, wc accept your 
 facts, we acknowledge the force of j'our reasoning, and 
 wc will write into law a concrete admission to you that 
 you are right, and the countn,' will profit by it. We will 
 lay a measure of protection' around this great industry 
 that we need so much to keep our textile industries going 
 and furnish a measure of preparation for the conflict that 
 is on." 
 
 The protection that Mr. Hill obtained for the dye indus- 
 try will be the greatest legislative monument which can 
 be raised in his behalf. It will stand as a tribute to his 
 industrj' and a vindication of his life's course. 
 
 With others I was permitted to attend the last rites 
 accorded him up there in that New England State. They 
 were held on a beautiful, bright autumn afternoon in 
 Norwalk, the city of his home. The silenced mill wheel, 
 the closed business doors, the vast concourse of people, 
 the coming from everj' part of the State of the Common- 
 wealth's greatest, attested the esteem in which he was 
 held. The tributes paid from the pulpit before which he 
 had so often sat were worthy of the gifted men who spoke 
 them and of the great subject which called them forth. 
 
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Address of Mr. Sloan, of Nebraska 
 
 Under the soft radiance of a sinking sun we repaired 
 to the hillside resting place of Norwalk's dead. We 
 passed under the trees which were already paying tribute 
 to earth for their season's g\or\- and annual life. 
 
 There was the fading leaf. Everj' color of the rainbow 
 was depicted in the foliage of Connecticut's fields and 
 forests. There was the maturing of corn. There were 
 the ripening pome and grape ready for gathering before 
 the winter came. Nature was giving evidence that time's 
 penalties were being exacted as well as man's rewards 
 were being granted. There on that afternoon we laid 
 away all that remained of that stalwart character — a char- 
 acter as rugged as the rocks and hills round his Con- 
 necticut home. I saw the rich fruitage ready for the 
 gathering, but the richest ripened product of all New 
 England that day returned to earth was this eminent 
 citizen, mighty legislator, and true American. 
 
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Address of Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Others have referred to the long and 
 honorable historj' of the Hill family in Connecticut. I 
 shall touch upon that subject no further than to say that 
 with Mr. Hill it was not only a matter of pardonable 
 family pride but it was both a source of inspiration and 
 a challenge to his best efforts not only to maintain the 
 high record already made by his progenitors but to add 
 to it. Instead of being content to rest upon laurels won 
 by those gone before, he acted upon the belief that he had 
 a heritage which could be maintained only by his own 
 highest endeavor. The record of Mr. Hill as business 
 man and public official prior to his first election to this 
 body has been referred to also and may be summed up 
 by saj'ing that both were worthy of the man whom later 
 you came to know here, worthy of the long line of his 
 forbears, and worthy of the great State that he loved, 
 served, and honored by serving. 
 
 He took his scat in this body in 1895 at the beginning 
 of the Fifty-fourth Congress. He came with no previ- 
 ously acquired reputation as a public speaker. In fact, 
 there was nothing on the surface at that time to indicate 
 that he would prove to be more than simply a worthy 
 Member of that honorable class of substantial men of 
 affairs known here as safe, level headed, and dependable, 
 but not leaders of tlie thought of other men. 
 
 In this respect Mr. Hill furnishes in some measure a 
 parallel to another distinguished son of Connecticut. I 
 refer to the lamented Senator Orville H. Piatt, who, com- 
 ing to the Senate without being known outside the bound- 
 aries of his own State and with no outward apparent 
 promise of special distinction, rose slowly but surely by 
 
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Address of Mr. Tii.son. of Connecticut 
 
 liis own fine effort and the irresistible force of his own 
 high character to be one of the truly great Senators of 
 his time, known thi'oughout the land and across the seas. 
 
 The development of Mr. Hill into one of the inost force- 
 ful and convincing debaters this House has produced in 
 many years is an interesting story well known to the 
 older Members of the House. The fact that he was such 
 is well known to all of us, having been demonstrated 
 many times on the floor of this House and on the stump 
 in many a hard-fought campaign. 
 
 The secret of Mr. Hill's success as a public speaker 
 and debater is reallj^ no secret at all. His power lay not 
 so much in fine phrases or rhetoric of any kind as in the 
 irresistible force of the logic of facts. So buttressed with 
 stubborn facts was everj' argument that it was a most 
 difficult matter to dislodge him or drive him from a po- 
 sition. He spared no pains, toil, or expense in thoroughly 
 equipping and arming himself with essential facts, and 
 so carefully were they marshaled that he was readj' at 
 all times to use them to advantage against all comei's. 
 
 During the vacation periods between sessions of Con- 
 gress — and, strange as it now may seem, there were for- 
 merly vacations — while other Members enjoyed a needed 
 rest or replenished depleted bank accounts by attending 
 to business at home, Mr. Hill made it the rule rather than 
 the exception to journey abroad, sometimes to our out- 
 lying possessions, frequently to foreign countries, and 
 one time all the way around the world. These trips he 
 made not simply for pleasure, not even for his own in- 
 formation or education, but for the purpose of more 
 thoroughly equipping himself for the effective perform- 
 ance of Ills duties as a Representative of the people. The 
 natural result followed. He became a tower of strength 
 in his own political party, a power in this House, and a 
 most effective and useful Representative of his people. 
 
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Mi;m()hiai. Ai)I)1(i:ssi;s: Rki'hi:si:nt.vii\i; II mi 
 
 Whatever else may he said of the House of Represent- 
 atives, good, had, or indifTerent, this is true: The Memher 
 who knows what lie is talking ahout, knows his subject 
 thoroughly, knows it better than other iMcmbers know it, 
 invariably commands the attention, the interest, and the 
 respect of the House. On this sound premise Mr. Hill 
 proceeded and by adhering to it preeminently succeeded. 
 
 Others might be content with skinnning the surface. 
 He insisted upon going to the bottom of whatever subject 
 engaged his attention. Recognizing the illimitable realm 
 of human knowledge and the narrow limitation upon 
 human endeavor, he did not attempt to cover the field 
 of the universe and did not pretend to know all that is 
 to be known. The field chosen by him, however, was 
 always covered in a most thorough manner. He never 
 hesitated to admit his lack of information or to seek in- 
 formation from others on a subject with which he had 
 reason to believe them to be more familiar than himself. 
 
 On- the other hand, he was ready to impart information 
 to those less informed on any subject than himself, and 
 he was so widely known to be thoroughly j)osted on a 
 number of such highly important matters that he was 
 being called upon constantly to give information. 
 
 The two most important specialties to the study of 
 which Mr. Hill devoted his tireless energy and command- 
 ing ability were revenue legislation, especially tariff leg- 
 islation, and banking and currency. On these two sub- 
 jects he was the peer of any Member of cither brancli 
 of Congress. 
 
 It is often said of him that he was a tireless worker. 
 He needed no prodding. The spur of a biennial election 
 was misapplied in his case. His district, his State, and 
 the country would have been the gainer if he could have 
 been elected for 20 years at one time, so that he could 
 have given his entire Ume and energies to the work he 
 
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Address of Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 
 
 loved so much. He did not complain, however, but in 
 every even year for 12 successive times he made a vig- 
 orous campaign, never failing of success except in 1912, 
 when his own party, rent in twain, went down before the 
 united opposition. 
 
 As we saw him toiling here under the load that grew 
 heavier year by year we knew what would be the in- 
 evitable and all too early result. 
 
 Near the close of the twenty-first year of his service 
 here he fell in the harness. He had passed the allotted 
 span of threescore and ten years and yet appeared to be 
 unusually vigorous until he suffered a breakdown less 
 than a year before his death. After that he made a brave 
 fight, appearing in his place in the House oftentimes, and 
 on one occasion, not many weeks before the end, making 
 a somewhat extended sijeech with much of his old-time 
 zeal and vigor. However, the inexorable destroyer would 
 not be denied, and on September 27, 1917, all that was 
 not mortal of this able, loyal, and faithful son of Con- 
 necticut and servant of an entire Nation passed to the 
 beyond. Of him it may be said as truly as of any man 
 who ever died on the field of battle that he gave his life 
 for his country. 
 
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Addiu:ss oi' Mh. Glynn, of Connecticut 
 
 Mr. Speaker: A considerable portion of the district 
 which I represent was formerly a part of the district long 
 represented in Congress by the Hon. Ebenezer J. Hiix, 
 whose memory we honor to-day. My home county of 
 Litchfield was a part of his district, and for 18 years he 
 was our Representative. We were proud of him in those 
 days, and we continued to be proud of him until the day 
 of his death. We knew of his ability, his integrity, and 
 his energj^ We realized that he was one of the leaders 
 in this great body and that we did honor to ourselves in 
 returning him to the halls of legislation term after term. 
 From the Fifty-fourth to the Sixty-second Congresses, 
 inclusive, his district comprised the counties of Litchfield 
 and Fairfield, and because of the great confidence we 
 had in him no other candidate was seriously considered 
 during all of those years. We had learned to know him 
 and to love him. We had learned to admire his force of 
 character, his tireless energy, his keen and penetrating 
 intellect, his power to cope with and to solve difficult 
 economic questions. 
 
 He was not one of those who measured his value to his 
 constituents by the amount he was able to obtain for his 
 district in the way of appropriations, and to the honor 
 and glory of his constituents be it said that they never 
 measured his worth by any such yardstick. The scope 
 of his vision was too broad to be limited by any such 
 narrow horizon, and while he was always loyal and faith- 
 ful to the interests of his district and State he was of 
 Hint splendid type of men who think and legislate from 
 a national viewpoint. 
 
 My acquaintance wilh Mr. Ilii.i. commenced more than 
 a score of years ago and gradually grew in intimacy. In 
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Address of Mr. Glynn, of Connecticut 
 
 the early years I knew him as the average man knows 
 his Member of Congress back home, meeting him only 
 infrequcntl}' when he happened to be in that part of the 
 district where I resided; but I early realized, as did his 
 constituents, that he was a tower of strength. When we 
 were asked by a stranger the name of our Representative 
 in Congress we were proud to say that it was E. J. Hill. 
 We somehow felt that we had contributed more than our 
 share, that we had a man in Congress great enough to 
 be a leader. Respect and admiration ripened into genu- 
 ine affection. He made enduring friendships and never 
 went back on a friend. He was faithful to every trust. 
 It was not in his nature to wrong any human soul nor 
 to take a mean advantage of any man. He was a friend 
 to every man in need. 
 
 Others have spoken of his ancestrj' and his business 
 activities, and it is unnecessary for me to dwell upon 
 these. During his service of more than 20 years in Con- 
 gress he was identified with practically all of the impor- 
 tant legislation enacted during that time and rendered 
 invaluable service as a member of the Committee on 
 Ranking and Currency and the Committee on Ways and 
 Means. He possessed a constructive mind and was a 
 statesman of the best and truest type. He abhorred sham 
 and hypocrisj'. He had the courage of his convictions 
 and would never compromise upon a question of prin- 
 ciple. He had no sympathy for the demagogue or time- 
 server. As a speaker and debater he was always ready, 
 always eloquent, keen and irresistible in his logic — a 
 veritable intellectual gladiator. 
 
 Mr. Hill's last appearance in the House was on July 25 
 last, when he rose to a question of privilege involving 
 the constitutional rights of the House of Representatives. 
 In the course of a five-minute talk he vigorously assailed 
 the attempt on the part of the Senate to invade the pre- 
 rogatives of the House, and called attention to the fact 
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Mkmoiuai. Ai>i)Hi:sst:s : Representati\-e Hii.i. 
 
 that under the Constitution tlie power of issuing bonds 
 and incurring indebtedness must originate in the House 
 of Representatives. The day before the Secretary of the 
 Treasury had appeared before the Finance Committee 
 of the Senate and proposed ?5,000,000,000 of additional 
 funds, part to be raised by bonds and part to be raised 
 by certificates of indebtedness, matters within the func- 
 tion of the House to originate. 
 
 In closing, he drew vigorous and prolonged applause 
 when he said : 
 
 I feel it my duty, Mr. Speaker, to call the attention of the House 
 of Representatives to this invasion of its prerogatives, so that in 
 the future, when such a bill comes to us for consideration, if 
 nobody else does it, I will move to send it back, as Mr. Sereno E. 
 Payne once did under similar circumstances, and the House re- 
 fused to consider it. I think we ought to stand on our rights and 
 have this business attended to more promptly than it has been 
 attended to. If I am not mistaken, I liave the support of the Re- 
 publican Members of this House in standing by the administration 
 during the war, but we want to do it legally, fairly, and sciuarely, 
 and I therefore call the attention of the House to this invasion of 
 our prerogatives. 
 
 The story of his life is the storj- of a boy reared from 
 good New England stock, who early learned the value of 
 time and the value of a dollar, because he had little of 
 cither to spare in his early days. It is the story of a boy 
 who made the most of his opportunities and was not 
 afraid to work, a boy of splendid mental attainments, 
 rugged honesty, and force of character, who would com- 
 mand respect anywhere and who knew no such word as 
 failure. Others might spend their time complaining be- 
 cause of lack of opportunity, but not so with E. J. Hill. 
 He turned stumblingblocks into stepping-stones, and could 
 succeed where others failed. All his life he was a student 
 of men and things, and was never satisfied with a superfi- 
 cial knowledge of anything. He was an encyclopedia of 
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Address of Mr. Glynn, of Connecticut 
 
 inforination. He has carved for himself an enduring 
 name in the historj' of his counlrj', and his work will be 
 a lesson and an inspiration to the young men of this 
 Nation through the coming years. With many things yet 
 undone, with many splendid dreams yet unrealized, with 
 his intellectual powers still undimmed, he passed from 
 this earthly abode, leaving as a rich heritage a splendid 
 record of accomplishment and the memory of a life well 
 spent. 
 
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Address of Mn. Loni:roan, of Connkcticut 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It was not my privilege to know Ebenezer 
 J. Hill intimately. I first met him five years ago, but 
 from the opening of the Sixty-fifth Congress to the time of 
 his illness I was associated witli him on several occa- 
 sions and had opportunity to observe his work as a 
 legislator. 
 
 He was a companionable man, ready and eflcclive in 
 debate, a leader not only in his own party but in the 
 House. His record stands out as one of service and 
 achievement. His appointment to the Ways and Means 
 Committee was a merited recognition of his ability. 
 
 Mr. HrLL was always informed, because he was always 
 a student. With unflagging industry he applied to every 
 new problem the test of experience of years. There was 
 not a subject of financial or economic importance which 
 might affect the welfare of his district, his State, or his 
 countr}' on which he was not informed. He worked 
 always with directness of purpose and sureness of plan. 
 He believed that a public office is a public trust. 
 
 To his duties he was ever faithful, and in this he was 
 true to the best traditions of New England. 
 
 The power of New England in the Congress of the 
 United Stales has always been recognized. In April, 
 1910, the Hon. Thetus W. Sims, of Tennessee, present 
 chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and 
 Foreign Commerce, quoted from an article in the Kansas 
 City Times, in which it was pointed out that the aggres- 
 siveness, the sagacity, the courage of the people of New 
 England commanded admiration, for despite a sterile soil 
 and an inhospitable climate they controlled the politics 
 
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Address of Mr. Lonergan, of Connecticut 
 
 and policy of the United States. And, further, it was 
 added: 
 
 The six States which form the New England group have figured 
 prominently in the settlement of every question that has been 
 presented to the Republic. 
 
 The reason given for the recognized leadership of New 
 England by the writer was that long service of Members 
 from the States mentioned naturally entitled such men 
 to greater influence. 
 
 Mr. Hill's life was a conspicuous example thereof. No 
 man in Connecticut's history served the State in the House 
 of Representatives so long as he. The Hon. E. Stevens 
 Henry, it is true, entered Congress at the same time, in 
 1895, but his service numbered 18 years. Mr. Hill was 
 completing his twenty-first year. The late Senator Joseph 
 R. Hawley, whose 28 years of public life at Washington 
 stand unequaled for Connecticut, was in the House but 
 four years, advancing to the United States Senate in 
 1881. The Hon. Orville H. Piatt was 26 years in Wash- 
 ington, during all of which time he was in the Senate. 
 Excepting these two illustrious men, the only other pub- 
 lic servant of the State whose record as a national legis- 
 lator exceeded that of Mr. Hill's was the Hon. Samuel 
 W. Dana, of Middletown. Mr. Dana was in the House 
 from 1796 to 1810 and in the Senate from 1810 to 1821, 
 a total of 25 years in Washington. In his own district 
 one must go back to the days of the Hon. John Davenport, 
 of Stamford, who was in the House as Representative at 
 Large and later as Congressman from the fourth district 
 from 1799 to 1817, 18 years, to approach the service of 
 the man whose memory we have come to-day to honor. 
 Mr. Hill's record is indeed a unique one, and one that 
 will not be excelled in Connecticut in many years. 
 
 There are but nine men in Congress to-day who sat in 
 the Fifty-fourth Congress when Mr. Hill first entered 
 
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Mi:m()I(i.\i. Addresses: Rephesentatim-; Hii.i. 
 
 national life — Mr. Cannon of Illinois, Mr. Jones of Vir- 
 ginia, Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin, Mr. Gillctt of Massa- 
 chusetts, Mr. Fairchild of New York, Mr. Crisp of Georgia, 
 Mr. Foss of Illinois, Mr. Mondell of Wyoming, and Mr. 
 Parker of New Jersey. Our beloved Speaker had been 
 in the Fifty-third Congress, and returned in the Fifty-fiftii 
 Congress, from which time he had been associated with 
 Mr. Hill in many important matters, and has on more 
 than one occasion indicated his admiration of our de- 
 ceased colleague. 
 
 The longer an industrious man remains in service the 
 more valuable he is to his constituency, the greater op- 
 portunity he has for the development of his talents, and 
 the richer is his State for his achievements. 
 
 Mr. Hill was in Congress ^vhen the United States 
 declared war against Spain in 1898 and when the exist- 
 ence of a state of war thrust upon it by the Imperial 
 German Government was formally declared in 1917. 
 He has seen other problems, less historic, indeed, but in 
 themselves large, met and overcome by the countrj' he 
 served so faithfully. 
 
 He left to his family the priceless heritage of a life 
 well spent. It should be to them a rich source of con- 
 solation, and it should be to everj"^ man an incentive to 
 added effort. 
 
 When a man has worked so ceaselessly as did Mr. 
 Hill for the things he thought best, one wishes that an 
 all-knowing Providence had granted him more years 
 in which to continue his constructive activitj' and to 
 enjoy association with those for whom and with whom 
 he labored, but in his being taken off " still achieving, 
 still pursuing," his family and his friends are comforted 
 with the assurance that when he entered into his reward 
 his stewardship was accounted for a hundredfold. 
 
 Mr. Tilson resumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
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Address of Mr. Freeman, of Connecticut 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It is acknowledged by all that in the 
 death of the late Ebenezer J. Hill the State of Connecticut 
 has lost an able and faithful Representative and this Con- 
 gress and the Nation at large has been deprived of a 
 strong and experienced legislator at a time when such 
 effective services as Mr. Hill was able to render were most 
 sorelj' needed. 
 
 I remember in 1894, when he was first elected to repre- 
 sent the fourth district of Connecticut, and since that time 
 I have watched his career here in Congress with ever- 
 increasing interest and appreciation. It was my privilege 
 first to meet him personally in the summer of 1903, when 
 he paid a visit to his son at the encampment of the Con- 
 necticut National Guard, and at that time I was impressed 
 with his thorough knowledge of the subjects he dis- 
 cussed, his wealth of information, and his strong, sincere 
 convictions upon the financial and economic questions of 
 the day. At that time his party was in control of the 
 affairs of the Government, and he certainly devoted to 
 his share of the task all his energy, industry*, and talent. 
 Because of the unfortunate division of our party in 1912, 
 Mr. Hill failed of reelection; but I had a long talk with 
 him at Bridgeport in the winter of 1913-14, and I was 
 surprised at his intimate acquaintance with the affairs 
 of Congress — his knowledge of the state of the National 
 Treasury' and of many other matters which indicated 
 that, with the exception of not being daily upon the floor 
 of the House, he was as active and as interested as if still 
 a Member of Congress. 
 
 When he was reelected by his district in 1914 it was 
 my fortune to be elected as his colleague, and from that 
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Mkmohial Addresses: Rei'resentatim!: IIiij, 
 
 tiuK' until his death I relied upon his counsel and advice. 
 I found him one of the most hard-working Members of 
 Congress, but never too busy to aid, encourage, and advise 
 a new Member of Congress. During his last illness he 
 remained constantly in touch with the situation here, with 
 intellect unimpaired; and when " God's finger touched 
 him " he had well earned eternal rest and peace. 
 
 Mr. Meiuutt. Mi\ Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 that Members desiring to print remarks on the life and 
 services of Mr. Hill may have permission to do so. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Con- 
 necticut asks unanimous consent that Members desiring 
 to print in the Record remarks on the life and services 
 of Mr. Hill may have permission to do so. Is there 
 objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. In 
 compliance with the resolution already adopted, the 
 House will stand adjourned. 
 
 Accordingly (at 1 o'clock and 58 minutes p. m.) the 
 House adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, March 4, 1918, 
 at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Thi'rsday, September 27. 1917. 
 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
 South, its Chief Clerk, communicated to the Senate the 
 intelligence of the death of Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, late a 
 Representative from the State of Connecticut, and trans- 
 mitted resolutions of the House thereon. 
 
 The Vice President. The Chair lays before the Senate 
 resolutions from the House of Representatives, which 
 will be read. 
 
 The Secretary' read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 In the House of Representatives of the United States, 
 
 September 27, 1017. 
 
 Resolved, Tliat tlie House has heard witli profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, a Representative from the 
 State of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, Tliat a committee of 21 Members of tlie House, with 
 sucli Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
 attend tlie funeral. 
 
 Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
 and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
 out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
 expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
 fund of the House. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 In accordance with the foregoing resolution, the Speaker 
 appointed Mr. Lonergan, Mr. Tilson, Mr. Glynn, Mr. Free- 
 man, Mr. Hull of Tennessee, Mr. Gillett, Mr. Garner, Mr. 
 Collier, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Oldfield, Mr. Crisp, Mr. Helver- 
 ing, Mr. O'Shaunessy, Mr. Carew, Mr. "White of Ohio, Mr. 
 Green of Iowa, Mr. Sloan, Mr. Longworth, Mr. George W. 
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Memohiai- Addresses: Rephesentative Him. 
 
 Fairchild, Mr. Slfrliiig of Illinois, Mr. Martin ol' Louisiana, 
 Mr. Treadway, and Mr. liodenberg. 
 
 Mr. Brandeoee. Mr. President, the Hon. Euenezer J. 
 Hill served continuously in the House of Representatives 
 for 23 years, with the exception of a period of two years. 
 He was one of the great leaders of the Republican Party 
 during that entire period. He occupied a prominent posi- 
 tion upon many of the most important commillees of the 
 House. He was a great expert upon banking and cur- 
 rency, tariff questions, and all conmiercial questions. His 
 name was a household word in bankers' conventions and 
 upon political platforms in this country for many years. 
 
 At some future time I shall ask the Senate to set aside 
 a day when proper tribute may be paid to the life, char- 
 acter, and distinguished public services of this great man. 
 
 I send to the desk resolutions, which I ask to have read. 
 
 The resolutions (S. Res. 138) were read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Resolved. That the Senate has heard with deep sensihility the 
 announcement of the death of the Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, late a 
 Representative from the State of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, Tliat a committee of eight Senators be appointed by 
 the Vice President to join a committee appointed on the part of 
 the House of Representatives to talse order for superintending the 
 funeral. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the 
 deceased. 
 
 The Vice President, under the second resolution, aj)- 
 pointed Mr. Brandegee, Mr. McLean, Mr. Dillingham, Mr. 
 Fernald, Mr. James, Mr. Overman, Mr. Pomcrene, and Mr. 
 Newlands the committee on the part of the Senate. 
 
 Mr. Brandegee. Mr. President, as a further mark of re- 
 spect to the memory of the deceased I move that the 
 Senate adjourn until 12 o'clock noon on Saturday next. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 1 
 o'clock p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Saturday, Sep- 
 tember 29, 1917, at 12 o'clock meridian. 
 
 Tuesday, March 5, 1918. 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by G. F. 
 Turner, one of its clerks, transmitted to the Senate reso- 
 lutions on the life and public services of Hon. Ebenezer 
 J. Hill, late a Representative from the State of Connecti- 
 cut. 
 
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