Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-07-16
so MULHALL TESTlFlES
GIVES INFORMATION REGARDING
ACTIVITIES BEFORE CON-
vENTloN OF 1908
CONTROLLED THE COMMISSION
THE MANUFACTURERS AssocIA-
TloN WAS TOLD 1T COULD
NAME TARIFF BOARD

Washington, July 16.-A fund o
$5OO,OOO to 100000 year, raised b!
the National Council for Industria
Denfense- an adjunct to the Nationa
Association of Manufacturers for op
posing legislation, was described Il
the senate lobby committee today BY
Martin Mulhall. Mulhall had no per
sonal knowledge of the existence Of
such fund but declared that a col
lector for the organization had re
Gently given those figures Ito the
New York World.
4 often have thought and have sug-
gested,' said Muihall, that the coun-
ell ought to be investigated by the
postoffice department If it were in,
vestigated l feel that the gentlemen
who run it will have a hard time ac-
counting for the money collected"
The committee did not question
Mulhall further on the question
Mulhall brought one of lis stories Of
lobby activities for the National Man.
ufacturers association in 1908 to the
senate committee and testified aboul
the work Of the association in pro
noting tariff commission.
The association wanted Miles and
Schwedtman on it, and wanted to con
troll it themselves Mulhall testified
He did not explain who oMiles was.
Schwedtman was secretary to Presi-
dent Van Cleve.
Another letter from Mulhall, writ
ten at indianapolis June II, 1908, to
Schwedtman at st. Louis reported
how 'Mr. watson had large major
ity Of the machine under his control"
''The convention of miners will be
held here on the 1st," it continued.
Three of the district presidents from
the anthracite districts are my per-
sonal friends. l feel l might be able
to do good work through those gen
tlemen, and it is too bad we are short
of funds when the convention is com
ing with the opportunities for us"
On January 10 Mulhall wrote Sch
wedtman:
"Mr. Watson Friday told me that
if there was any danger Of any class
legislation being brought up while he
was absent from Washington to have
Mr. Emery see Senator Heminway,
He also told me to write Emery and
saw that Speaker Cannon would re
ceive him at any time and he could
talk freely and fully to the speaker
and that everything would be all
right"
In January, 1909, Mulhall received
a letter from former Senator Foraker
He suggested that he visit Cincinnati
'for a short interview" He testified
that he had made written report 10
Foraker, showing how the senator
stood" among business men in and
about Cincinnati
He did not testify whether the re-
port was favorable. Foraker wanted
to know if he would stand chance
to be reelected to the senate and
was still thinking about a president
ial boom.
In a letter to, l. H. Scates of the
Builders Exchange Of Baltimore, Mul
hall write:
"The situation in Baltimore poll
tics is the rottenest Of any city II
the United States. Tammany hall IL
New York has never played sucf
politics as is played in Baltimore, TO
Tammany does encourage an active
pushing, fighting democrat, but or
the other hand, if there is any clear
republican who attempts to come (
the front in Baltimore, the gang thai
calls itself the Union League OF Ba2
timore Immediately gets busy and at
tempts to destroy his reputation e
the republican party. Besides this
everybody knows that the Stone tac