The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-17

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was that we wished a representation in
| the the next cabinet. Mr. Vorys and Mr.
| Cole fully agreed with me on those mat
| ters and he positively stated that Mr..
VanCleave and yourself could name any
man you wished placed on the next cam
paign committee and, proving Mr.. Taft
| was nominated.
| He knew it would be an easy matter
| for our organization to name member
| of the cabinet.
| Schwedtman replied on March a. 19Os
How splendid 1t would be if we could
do what you and l feel ought to be done
| that is, have representation for the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers in the
next Presidents cabinet. OF course, we
must be careful in talking these matt
| over with Mr.. VanCleave, because being
| Independent and a man of great means
ne has no desire in that direction at all,
and he has been brought to believe as a
good many business men do that it is bad
| business for high class business man
| TO be mixed up with politics.
| In May, 1908, Mulhall wrote to Schwedt-
| man:
'Mr Emery and had a long interview
with Judge John j. Jenkins chairman
of the judiciary committee. Mr.. Jenkins
fully went over the laws that came under
his supervision at this session of Congress
anu lOlu US VI tie oplcliulu lShl pul up
to stop class legislation
Mr.. Emery and myself faithfully
promised him we would do everything in
our power, aided by the officers of the or-
ganization, to have him returned to Con-
gress.''
Describes Trip to Capital
In this letter Mulhall described a trip
to the capitol one afternoon. when he
found Mr. Townsend of Michigan, Mr..
Burton of Ohio and Mr.. Mckinley of
Illinois, all together with Mr.. Hitchcock,
surrounded by large labor lobby" He
said he realized that the "Gompers peo-
pler had Mr.. Hitchcock CTafts manager)
up there to try to force through some leg
| islatlon, and he waited to meet Mr.. Hitch
cock as he was leaving the building. Mr..
| Hitchcock gave him a friendly greeting,
| he added, but seemed annoyed that Null
| hall should medde in his affairs
| Mr.. Hitchcock suggested, the letter said,
that ''he thought 1t was better for me 70
attend to my business and he would attend
| to his
.I told Mr.. Hitchcock" added the writer.
| that | intended to go to. the telegraph
office and send to every prominent manu-
facturer throughout the country the fact
that Mr.. Frank Hitchcock. ex-First As
sistant Postmaster General (and at tie
present time Mr.. Taft's political manager)
was aiding the laboqites to get the injunc-
| ton bills through Congress and turned
| labor lobbyist. Mr.. Hitchcock advised
him not to send the telegram Mulhall
wrote because he WAS not attempting to
get any injunction bills through Congress,
and they parted on friendly terms.
Later. the letter continued, Nh.
| Townsend stated that he had given up the
fact that the laborites had brought Hitch
cock and the others to the capitol for the
purpose of defeating the ship subsidy bill
which was before Congress on Saturday
1 afternoon and that Hitchcock did do al
| that was in his power to have that bill de-
| feated to please the Gompers people
| Townsend state dthat he had given up the
1 fight on injunction bills and had taken nj
part in the ship subsidy fight. This was
given to me by Townsend In confidence
| MulhalL~went back to New Jersey late
| in March and on the 30th wrote Il
Schwedtman about the campaign agains
Congressman Gardner. He said Governor
Fort promised to aid him In the fight.
Union Pacific Issues Statement
New York, July 16.-The executive
committee of the Union Pacific railroad
issued a statement tonight in reply te
the charge made by David Lamar. Wal
street operator. before the Senate lobb,
| investigating committee that an $S2,
100000 forgery had been committed or
the books of the Union Pacific road III
1910.
The statement says that Thomas Glib
son, upon two of whose market let
ters' Lamar said he had based his
charge. "disavows any connection will
Lamar" and acknowledges the erro
of his former statements.
The committee made public recen
letter received from Gibson in which
he said that while he had characterized
the balance sheets of the Union Pacifi
as of June 80, 1910, as dubious book
keeping" he was now convinced thii
characterization was wrong. Il con
slider 1t my duty to withdraw tina
statement" Gibson's letter read.
The committee also made public ;
letter from a fl IN of public account
ants saying Gibson's use of the tern
dubious bookkeeping was "entirel,
Iunwarrantedf and based upon an en-
tire misapprehension of accounts anc
that the balance sheet of 1910 correctly
stated the true position OF the Uniof
Pacific system towards the public BY
| eliminating from both sides of the bal
ance sheet all stocks and bonds mo-