Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-07-13
Senale and House Lobby Prob
erS Clash Over Which Shall
Take Testimony Of MuIhalI
McMichaeI and Others,
UPPER BODY SEEMS TO
HAVE WHIP HAND NOW
Already in Possession OF I'M
pOrtant Correspondence and
Has Subpoenaed Leaders in
Sensational Expose,

,sy soar,sa JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wlHsl
Washington, July 12.-When sem
ate and house lobby investigators adj
iourncd today for Sundays rest,
the fight for possession OF Martin w.
Mulhall. J. h. McMichael .nd other
witnesses was sim in progress with
the odds strongly fayoring Chairman
Ovcrman and his senate committee.
The Ovormun committee adopted
90 technical measure of safety 10 all
low Mulhall to get out Of town for
sunday by remaining in session until
after he had boarded a o'clock
uain for New York.
The fight which came TO a head
late last night, when am officer Of
IA. house tried to take Mulholl away
from the senate committee at the
end OF an evenings hearing, was re-
sumcd as soon as prcliminaries could
b, dispensed with this morning. Null
han already had started the recital
Of his alleged activities az lobbyist"
for the National Association Of Man
riaciurcrs. and was prepared to take
Up the Identification of his letters
whore he left Off last night
with Mulhall, McMichacl and the
other witno ossos safely in the room,
and Witnesses and papers guarded by
Gordon Of sergeants-at-arms and
senate employees Chairman Oyerman
and his committee retired and in
dictcd an eplstle to Chairman Gar
Al
II was dispatched hy special mes
senger and the committee wadcd
into the mass Of Mulhol correspond
cnce.
They had not gotten out Of the
1904 file when Chairman Garrett's
special messenger advanced with an
answer to the Oyorman letter
Mr. Garrett said the house COM
mttcc might take hold Of Mr.. Me-
Michael. whom Mulhall alleged had
received pay from the National AS
sociation Of Manufacturers while act
ing as chief page Of the house Of
representatives.
Again there was a council of war
behind closed doors and a new let
ter was drafted In it. Chairman
Ovcrman intlmatcd that il the house
should present "A proper request for
some witness who did not happen to
be then engaged at the senate side.
the committee WOuld give courteous
consideration TO the applications"
In the meantime Mr. Mulhall who
had progressed only as far as the
latter part Of 1906 in his documentary
recital Of his lobbying work for the
National Association Of Manufacture
ers, had disappeared. He was re-
leased from tho senate committee
room at l.30 but the committee an
nounccd II would reconvenc at $3.50
When that timc arrived. Chairman
oNerman alone appeared on the
scene and said the committee would
recess until 10 o'clock Monday. With
the consent of the committee. Mul-
fall had departed for New York TO
spend sunday
Chairman Oyerman's last letter was
gone over by the Garrett committee
IN a secret session late in the after
noon, but no answer was made. The
mousse committee win reconvene at
1880 q. m, Monday.
James A. Emery. counsel for the
National Association of Manufactur-
'fs ana referred to by MulhalI in
published statement as the "chief lob
bylst Of the association at Washing
ION had also been subpoenaed "duces
ueculh by the house committee He
"''i'eu IN the afternoon to tell them
ihot he had previously been sum
Ihohed by the senate committee. who
"'oS commanded him to produce the
papers and he said the senate com
'u''loe had possession Of all his cor
Iespondence as wen as that OF Null
nan ana the other witnesses.
II McMichael is put ON the stand
ny the Garrett committee Monday,
'nat body viii plunge at once into
'le Mulhall charges that spying work
was done in the house for the manu-
Iacturers' association. Mulhall alleged
lhat McMichael received $50 weekly I
ana extra amounts. to secure infor- (
nation when chief of the house
Pages, and that he used the staff of /
pages TO aid him.
Two Investigations, therefore. Will
be in full running order Monday or
Tuesday.
The senate committee today Sc
cured the Identification of nearly 200
additional letters and documents fur
nished by Mulhall. bearing on his ac-
uVities as q representative of the
National Association Of MQnufactur I
frs in 1904 and 1906 in political
tights in Maryland and New Jersey
and IN union labor tights in Phila-
delphia His activity as a strike sup
pressor in Philadelphia in 1906, gave
the committee the occasion for much
81 It's questions He admitted he had
employed officers or members of la. .