The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-17
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Senate Lobby Probers
Refuse to Surrender
Star Witness.
HOUSE is WAITING
In Meantime "Revelator'' is
Watched Over by Seven
Officials of Senate.

Washington, ID. C.-FolloWing the
noon adjournment, the Senate com
mittee reassembled at 2:30 O'Clock
and adjourned until Monday morn
ing. Mulhnll went to New York and
will return Monday.
Washington, ID. C.-Under sub
pOena to appear at the same hour
before both the Senate and House
investigating committees Martin M.
Mulhall, testifying regarding the al
legged lobbying" activities of the
National Association of Manufactur-
ers, faces a puzzling situation.
Both committees met at 8 O'Clock
but Mulhall and ] III. McMichael APP
peared ut the Senate room and were
placed under the guard of the AS
sistant Sergeant-at-arms. The House
committee, minus it's expected wit
nesses, went into executive session to
plan further action.
The Senate committee issued in
structions to the officers of the Sen
ate that any attempts by the House
to take the witness must be resist
ed.
While the Senate committee held
an executive conference, three en-
pOyees from the sergeant-at-arms'
Office, three Senate clerks and a page
kept guard over the original and
duplicate papers on the committee
table and watched the witnesses.
Mulhall Got 500 Per Week.
Mulhall finally resumed the stand
and took up the Identification Of his
letters, which began. at last nights
session.
Counsel for the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, made Il formal
request for the right of the associa-
ton to be represented by an attor-
ney. Robert McCarter. formerly At
tOrney General of New Jersey, was
presented as the attorney.
More letters showing his relations
with Marshall Cushing, Secretary of
the association, were identified by
Mulhall. He testified that he had
an understanding with Cushing that
he was to receive 500 a week and
$40 weekly for expense for general
field work and lobby work in Wash
ingtOn."
The witness testified further how
he worked to- defeat the late Sena-
tor McComas of Maryland, although
posing as the Senator's friend.
Other evidence was introduced to
show the efforts by Mulhall against
candidates for congress.
Chairman Overman sent a formal
notice to Chairman Gardner of the
House committee that the Senate
committee insisted on keeping Null
hall as a witness until it finished
with him. He said they would re-
lease Nulhall later and would make
available the papers in connection
with the affair.
The House committee, unable to
get Mulhall, held an open session at
which James A. Emery, counsel for
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, promised the organiza-
tons cooperation in the probe.
MulhaIl Begins Story.
Washington, ID. C.-Martin M.
Mulhall, who claims to have been the
active lobbyist for the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers for many
years. began his testimony last night
before the Senate lobby investigating
committee.
Mulhall, whose alleged correspon-
dence has brought into the limelight
names of scores of men prominent
in political life in the last ten years
was on the stand about two hours
The commissee made only a faint i'm.
preston on the huge pile of letters
but enough was read into the record
to- show Mulhall's alleged relations
with Marshall Cushing, former sec.
Rotary of the Manufacturers Asso.
citation. Those relations, the testi.
mOny showed, began in 1908 and
Mulhall was first employed to work
against an eight-hour bill favored b,
the late Senator McComas of Mary.
land. Mulhall admitted frankly tina,
he had worked to defeat the McCom.
as forces in Maryland while he was
still posing as the senator's friend
He said he received many check.
from Cushing for, small amounts
which were to be used in paying the
expenses of a labor organization il
Baltimore which was opposed to Nc
Comas.
Mulhall told also of efforts to hell
settle the anthracite coal strike in the
Pennsylvania coal fields in 1902 ant
spoke of attempts to arrange confer
ences between the then Goyernol