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Show : WOULD PUNISH CRIME M i OF GRAFTING BY DEATH il WATKHBl'RY, Conn., Sept. U. i Representative George L. Lillcy. mem- Sj j ber of the House Naval Affairs com- l mittc.e. who has been criticised becanss of his outspokeu attitude on Charles- I j ton harbor, has written an open letter, 4 ' tin which he says: 3. ! "If I had the supreme lawmaking i power in this country, the only orjroo 1 punishable with death would be that j 1 j of grafting. Murder would receive u ' secondary consideration. . 9 i "A 11 v. ma u who sitj; as a member 01 IM 1 the committee on naval affairs and 11 ' uses his efforts to obtain an nppropria- fl tion for some tumbledown navy yard in - his district to the end that ho may nro Iffl vide well paid .jobs for his couHtitu- fi ents is grafting. Not a single dollar '11 ' 111:1 v touch his hands, but just Ihe.saJne l ill 'he "is irrafting grafting out. of b 1 By C' iiitcd Statoa government, which ho is . Li paid to serve aud sworn to serve." fjjlll |