The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-08-02
WATSON STORY HIT
MulHAlL TELLS INVESTIGATORS
HE MADE ERROR IN CHARGES
AGAINST HIM.
FOUGHT ALBERT J. HOPKINS
Letters Tell Of Illinois Senate Contest
and Reveal New Lobby Branch
Worked for William r. Mckinley
and Others.


Washington, July 25.--The senate
lobby committee put on full speed
ahead Wednesday and in an unusually
short session got into the record near
" FIVE hundred letters OF Martin M.
Mulhall, 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. tho COM
mittee made rapid progress.
Martin NJ Mulhall. confessed ex-
lobbyist for the National Associa'
ton OF Manufacturers. retracted
Tuesday the most serious charge
be had, made before the senate
Investigating committee. He had
sworn that former Representative
James f. Watson OF Indiana was en-
ployed by private interests In 1909
while a member OF the house to work
for u tariff commission bill. In re-
tracing he said Watson WAS not a
member of the house at the time.
Reports that Watson was about to
ask the District of Columbia grand
jury TO indict Mulhall on a charge OF
criminal libel we're heard meanwhile
about the investigating room
Mulhall volunteered his retraction.
He said he realized his mistake when
he saw the date OF tariff convention
In indianapolis In February, 1909,
More OF the Mulhall letters were
barred while the ex.lobbyist was testi-
Tying. February 4, 1909. in a letter to
J.. C. Schwedtman, Mulhall got into
Illinois politics and brought in former
Senator Hopkins. who was defeated
for reelection by William Lorimer.
Hulhall wrote of the senatorial dead
lock at Springfeld:
We are spreading the impression
that on account OF the contemptible
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
hearing before the committee on reso-
lutIons and packing that COMMITTEES
IN favor OF the Gompers crowd, he
has in a large measure brought this
fight on his own shoulders"
The same letter referred 10 W. B.
Mckinley OF Illinois. then a represen-
tative in congress, as follows;
There have been some votes cast
for Mr.. Mckinley since the contest
started and Mr.. Emery and will see
Mr. Mckinley on this issue and try
m Ia I'M
people from this time on he is ex-
tremely friendly at present and We
arc doing all we can 10 MIKE this
friendship much stronger"
The Emery to whom the witness re-
ferred was James A. Emery, described
b. Mulhall as chief lobbyist" for the
manufacturers association.
A few days later Mulhall, in another
letter TO Schwed,man, denounced Mr..
Mckinley and others for voting to de-
feat the ship subsidy BILL which the
manufacturers association favored
February IS, 1909, when the fight on
Hopkins was hot Mulhall wrote
Emery that he had long confer
ence on political matters" with Ed
ward Hines OF Chicago, whose connec.
ton with the political welfare OF Rep
resentative 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 Office to do some "confiden'
tial work." but was chagrined to find
the Office closed after he had boast
ed to Mr.. Hines about the excellent
service to be had there.
Another branch OF the ''insidous
lobby was disclosed late in the day.
The Mulhall letters referred TO efforts
to have Cardinal Gibbons, Daniel r.
futile, presiding bishop Of the Epis'
copal church OF America; Ambassador
James Bryce, the late Justice Brewer
Of the federal supreme court, and 9th
er prominent men speak in st. Louis
during a course Of lecturers given by
the Citizens Industrial association.