Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-07-30
WATSON STORY HIT HIT
MuLHALL TELLS INVESTIGATORS
he MADE ERROR in CHARGES
AGAINST II I'M. BE-, II "A
70 GHT ALBERT ]. HOPKINS Of 81 S
Letters Tell of Illinois Senate CONTEST;
and Reveal New Lobby Branch
Worked for lillian r. Mc kinley
and Others. ~. IL 8sS n Il sss ,t n

8 Washington, July IS. The senate
lobby committee put on full speed
ahead w ednesday and in an unusually
short session got into the record near
" Ave hundred letters Of Martin N.
3Mulhall, alleged political worker and
Legislative detective for the National
Association Of Manufacturers. Null
hall was on the stand only about an
hour after the noon recess, but In
spite OF the short session. the com;
mittee made rapid progress. S353 (
n Martin M. Mulhall, confessed ex.
lobbyist for the National Associa.
tion Of Manufacturers. retracted
Tuesday the most serious charge
he had made before the senate
Investigating committee. He had
sworn that former Representative
James e. Watson of Indiana was en-
ployed by private interests In 1909
while q member OF the house to work
for tariff commission bill. In re-
tracing he said Watson was not 9
member OF the house at the time.
Reports that Watson was about to
ask the District OF 4 Columbia grand
jury to indict Mulhalr on a charge Of
criminal libel were heard meanwhile
about the investigating room.
@S K; Mulhall volunteered his retraction.
He said he realized his mistake when
he saw the date Of . tarin convention
In Indianapolis in February. 1909
RI More OF the Mulhall letters were
barred while the ex.lobbyist was test:
flying. February 4. 1909, In letter to
II. C. Schwedtman, Mulhall got Into
Illinois politics and brought In former
I Senator Hopkins, who was defeated
for reelection by William Lorimer.
Mulhall wrote OF the senatorial dead.
lock ut Springfield: III s}'. Mi
I've are spreading the impression
that on account Of the contemplate
stand taken by Hopkins in the con-
vention at Chicago last June, wherein
he was extremely unfair to the manu-
featuring interests In refusing them q
hearing before the committee on reso.
lutions and packing that committee
in favor OF the Gompers crowd, he
has in q large measure brought this
fight on his own shoulders" Us ne. 4.
The same letter referred to w. B.
Mckinley OF Illinois. then q represen.
tative in congress, az follows:
There have been some votes cast
for Mr.. Mckinley since the contest
started, and Mr.. Emery and I will see
Mr.. Mckinley on this issue and try
to gain his active influence for our
people from this time on. He Il ex.
tremely friendly at present and we
are doing all we can to make this
friendship much stronger. II g ,5s
The Emery to whom the witness re
ferred was James A. Emery, described
by Mulhall as chief lobbyist, for the
manufacturer association.
IA few days later Mulhall, In another
letter to sSchwedtman. denounced Mr..
Mckinley and others for voting to de.
feat the ship subsidy bill. which the
manufacturers association favored. @
February IS, 1909, when the light on
Hopkins was hot, Mulhall wrote
Emery that he had I : long confer.
ence on political matters, with Ed:
ward Hines Of Chicago, whose connec'
ton with the political welfare OF Rep
jresentative jenkins Of Wisconsin In be.
half Of the manufacturers association
has been brought out before the com:
:mittee, and that he took Hines to Mr..
Emery's once to do some "confiden.
tial work." 5ut was chagrined to md
the once closed after he had boast.
ed to Mr.. Hines about the excellent
service to be had there. KIN 3s.st
Another branch Of the "insidious
lobby, was disclosed late In the day.
The Mulhall letters referred to efforts
to have Cardinal Gibbons. Daniel =.
futile, presiding bishop Of the Epis-
5copal church Of America I; Ambassador
James Bryce. the late Justice Brewer
OF the federal supreme court, and 9TH
$erj prominent men speak In st. louis
during . course OF lecturers given BY
the Citizens Industrial association.