Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-07-29
n. A. NJ. PAID SOLON?
MULHALL CHARGES j. &. WATSON
OF INDIANA DREW SALARY
FROM ASSOCIATION.
PROMISED $4,000 AS BONUS
In Return, Witness Testifies Before
Senate Board, Recipient Agreed
10 Work for Passage of Law Great
Ing Tariff Commission.

Washington, July 23.-Col. Martin
NJ Mulhall, testifying before the SEN
ate lobby investigating committee,
charged that James E. Watson of In
diana. when member of congress, &C.
cepted money in payment for his serv-
aces in behalf of tariff bill.
Muihall said that Representative
Watson was on the secret pay roll of
the National Manufacturers associar
ton and drew $3.50 a week. in addi-
&iOn to lump sum of $500 paid him
as retainer.
The association, Mulhall testified.
also promised Watson $4,000 In cash
when the tariff commission bill was
passed.
Tie witness informed the senators
that it was blacklist of members OF
congress prepared by James E. Wat
son and one Childs, clerk of the
house committee on war claims.
Among others in the list were the
names of Representative Nichols and
w. B. Wilson of Pennsylvania, Victor
Murdoch of Kansas, Morse, Lenroot
and Nelson of Wisconsin, Haughen of
Iowa, Harris Maynard of West Vir
ginia and Champ Clark of Missouri
When did you get that list?" asked
Senator Reed.
Before election" replied Mulhall.
That's a list representing the men
the National Association of Manufac-
turers was opposed to and wanted to
beat We made every effort to drive
them back to private life
In another list was the name of
James T. McDermott of the Fourth II.
ainois district, but it had been crossed
out with pencil marks.
In letter written to Mulhall in Oc-
tober. Schwedtman is quoted as say
ang:
Il do hope that when James E. Wat
son gets in the governors chair he
will lay half dozen OF his good
friends (?) over his knee and spank
them to beat the band, including your
special friend, Senator Beveridge |
hate false friends more than / do the
worst enemies"
Mulhall was apparently much re-
freshed by a two days rest, as he
began the serial explanation of the
mass of corresp ondtnce in the hands
OF the committee.
The late Representative Henry c.
Ioudenslager of New Jersey, secre-
tary of the Republican congressional
committee in 1908, seemed to have in
Cured the enmity of Mulhall In Octo-
Der of that year. Mulhall wrote to Sec
Tetary Schwedtman:
Il told this gentleman that the
manufacturers of this country are
tired of pinhead politicians. When
was through Mr.. Loudenslager offered
an apology, claiming that he would be
good from this time on, but l plainly
gave him to understand that when be
comes up for denomination he would
near from our people,"
Mulhall did not fully explain why he
had fallen out with Loudenslager.
The senate lobby investigating
committee was told on Friday night
by S. Wood McClave, Republic
an candidate for congress in
special election to be held in the
Sixth New Jersey district, that
Martin NJ. MulLall had perjured him
self in his testimony before that body.
He also denied that Mulhall had raised
or spent money for him or had man.
aged his campaign against William
Hughes in 1910.
Martin M. Mulhall gave the senate
lobby investigating committee his
story of tie alleged effort in 1907-190S
to bride Samuel Gompers, president o:
the American Federation of Labor, to
desert the cause of labor and support
the policies advocated by the National
Association of Manufacturers.