The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-07-17
dULHALL'S OBJECT SERVICE TO
PUBLIC, NOT FOR GAIN, HE SAYS

tional Association OF Manufacturers
as its lobbyist, political worker and
butter-in" in the affairs of organized
labor
At the same time that he was ties.
tiiying there was spirited battle
being vaged between the senate lobby
committee and the house lobby com.
mittee for the chief witness and the
papers" in the case. The senate by
various ruses was able TO hold TO its
chief witness and to keep the Mulhall
documents safely in its possession
under guard.
Nearly 300 OF the letters and tele-
grams embraced in the voluminous
correspondence OF Mulhall, the emo
tional lobbyist strike breaker, were
passed up TO the colonel on the wit.
ness stand for Identification and eluci.
daticn
Witness Clashes With Emery.
The colonel contributed thrilling
feature to the hearing by resenting
the proximity of James A. Emery. the
alleged commander.in.chief of the
lobby forces Of the National Associa.
ton OF Manufacturers, and its general
counsel at the national capital
Emery, maniiestly laboring under
intense feeling which he could not al.
ways suppress, figured in clash with
the colonel which brought an angry
protest from the latter and the com.
ment that Emery represented the
worst gang in the country"
Emery. tall, trim and debonair, sub.
sided. but his eyes blazed as he stared
at his old.time servitor.
Former Acknowledgement McCHrter
Of New Jersey, retained to represent
the N. A. NJ, was rebuked for n vol
rntary intrusion into the rc9tine OF
examining the colonel, and the com
mittee decided that II would conduct
the inquiry into the Mulhall charges
without the help of outside legal tai.
ent. McCarter reminded the commit.
tee that he did not want to annoy il
during the hot weather.
God Almighty provides the wealth
err snapped Senator Reed. who had
Mulhall in hand, and the committee
will try to find the time TO conduct
this examination in a manner TO suit
itself"
Labor Offers Aid to Senate.
Judge Ralston, counsel for the
American Federation OF Labor, in.
terrupted the committee to offer all
Of the correspondence at his command
relating to any of the subjects con-
tanned in the Mulhall correspondence
The Garrett committee of the house
Of representatives, failing TO secure
physical possession Of the colonel.
sent its sergeant.at-arms to serve
subpenRs on former Chief Page Nc
Michael of the house, who, IL has been
alleged, was in the pay Of the lobby
Of the National Association of Manu-.
facturers and who subsequently acted
as confidential secretary to Congress.
man James T. McDermott of the
Fourth Illinois district.
Under instructions from Senator
Overman McMichael kept close to the
committee room. McMichael has al
ready told his story to some of the
members of the OveTman committee
House ManeuVers for Pstpers.
Deprived OF Mulhall, the Mulhall pa.
pers, which were turned over to the
Oyerman committee by a New York
paper, McMichael and other witness.
es, who have been served with senate
subpenas, Chairman Garrett addressed
a letter to Chairman Overman, waiv-
ing the present claims Of the house on
the person Of the colonel, who went
to New York.
Garrett asked for such Of the docu-
ments as have been put in as evidence
by Senator Reed before the Oevrman
committee. The chairman Of the
house labor committee particularly re-
Quested the possession of McMichael,
on the ground that the scope of the
proposed house inquiry was specially
directed at the conduct Of its mem
bers and employees past and present
When the Garrett committee discov.
cred that 1t was not the purpose of
the senate committee to relinquish
any Of its right to witnesses sub
penaed by It, there was confusion and
no definite action had been decided
on.
There is good reason to believe,
however. that within the next few
days the senate committee will recede
from its position to the extent OF pro-
viding material regarding the conduct
OF a member OF the present congress
who probably will be brought up un.
der charges and against whom i'm.
parchment proceedings appear to be
inevitable
At present the senate committee is
more concerned with the charges made
by Mulhall than in providing for fu.
ture contingencies. There is gen.
eral belief that enough material will
be forthcoming next week to justify
the house in taking up at least one
case in concrete form and opening
the way for ventilation of scandals
that have not as yet been injected
into the senate proceedings.
The most important feature of the