Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-15
LOBBY HEARING
FINDS BLACK
LIST
MULHALL IDENTIFIES LIST or CON-
GRESSMEN As A BLACK LIST
PREPARED BY FORMER CON.
GRESHAM WATSON.
OTHER SENSATIONAL
TESTIMONY PRODUCED

Washington. d. G., July 15.-Sena
tor Reed introduced a memorandum
at the lobby committee Investigation
today which Mulhall said was
blacklist of congressman. Mulhal
thought it had been prepared by for
mer Representative Watson.
1t follows:
"Watson-Here's list for you tt
knock out: Gambler, Mississippi
Hamlin, Missouri; Danforth, New
York; Payne, New York; Lever
South Carolina; Graham, Illinois; Lo
beck, Nebraska; Beall, Texas; Steph
ems, John P. Texas; Bowman, c. C.
Pennsylvania; Lloyd, Missouri; Clark
Missouri; Humphreys, Mississippi
Carter, Oklahoma; Brantley, Georgia
Hull, Tennessee; Bulkley, Ohio; Bur
CESS, Texas; Towner, Iowa; Focht
Pennsylvania; Gardner, Massachu
setts; Henry George Jr., New York !;
Henry, R. L., Texas; Kinds, Maine;
Linderbergh, Minnesota; Rees, R.,
Kansas; Reilly, T. l.. Connecticut;
Foster, Vermont
Before the senate lobby committee
resumed taking testimony today
Chairman Overman went to the White
House to confer with President Will
son. He declined to say what he had
discussed with the president.
Senator Reed started Martin NJ
Mulhall's testimony today on a letter
to Mulhall from DR.. G. Langtry Crock
ett, of Thomaston, Maine, dated July
a, 1913. Crockett was one of the men
who worked with Mulhall in the fight
to re-elect former Congressman Lit
tlefield The doctors letter was in
part: II have just read your confes
sion in the New York World. | be-
lieye it all excepting your statement
that you are doing it for the good of
humanity. This humanity business
of yours cannot swallow. Whether
you do apy good or not time alone
can tell; but you surely have kicked
up stink in this neck of the woods
] hope you are getting a good thing
out of this for you surely have be
daubed yourself
"On the whole, the people down
here believe it. | know it is true Oil
yer Otis is clamoring for me to tc
taken to Washington and there be
pumped | am ready to 60 | hope
you are getting good thing out of
it or are putting the knife into some
of the pirates that did not like you
You and know they were an un-
grateful bunch.
Now don't back down: stand by |
your colors. If you need me j. st call |
1 don't care if you sold my letters but
if you just gave them away, it is !
mean Of you. If you get enough out |
of it and need the price, why all |
right. Anyway we will not quarrel"
Fred C. Schwedtman, secretary 10 |
President Van Cleave, wrote Mulhall |
on August 9, 1907: There are some
large things brewing and there is
every indication that in our tariff |
we have with us the majori-
ty of the Republican leading congress
men and senators and men higher up
than that too.
Schwedtman wrote Mulhall on Sep.
tember 5, 1907, bringing in the name
Of Mr.. Taft, then secretary of war.
"You saw, of course, where Secre-
tary Taft referred to the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers at great !,
length in his Columbus address. If
we succeeded in getting the council
plans thoroughly established then our
power for good will grow right along.
Next year during the presidential
we will be a factor of ma
-ional Importance that cannot be over.
looked"
"In the days of Cushing" testified +,
Mulhall on another point, "there were
never any books-and there never
was any designation by name. We
Ill had numbers. was eleven, Lit.
.lefield was nine and Sherman was
eight" Senator Reed wanted to
know about the associations tariff ,
md reciprocity activities.
"The National Association of Man :
lfacturers, created and solely created :
he tariff commission" declared Null
lall. y
Schwedtman wrote Mulhaii on Oc- .
ober S, 1907, of certain work which :
Mr.. Brownell is doing unearthing the
connection between Gompers and v
he national Democratic campaign r
committee" f
'Who was Brownell?" asked Sena- n
or Nelson. n
"Chief of the publicity bureau of h
he National Association of Manufac- O
urers," replied Mulhall. "They were
rying to bribe Gompers at that c
ime." n
The committee did not ask for {
urther explanation. h
Mulhall went to st. Louis in Octo- n
,er, 1907, to settle strike of $4,000 o
hoe workers II
"Schwedtman told me to approach a
he head of the strikers, man nam g
d Frank. The sum of $4,000 had been C
H in my hands to get Frank to call t.
strike off. If he was successful s
was to be paid the money. The t;
Ike was called off two days later |,
was suggested and turned the b