Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-11
MU[HALL READY
TO BACK CHARGES
Appears at Senate Lobby In
vestigation, But Is
Forced to Wait.
NEVER KNEW MORGAN,
SAYS SPEAKER CLARK
Declares Lauterbach and Lamar Tale
a Lie, to Which They
Confess.

Confess.
Martin NJ. Mulhall. whose nuhr.h>s
Charges of his activities as a LOBBYIST for
the National Association OF Manufao
turers have named many congressman
as having been susceptible TO Influences
OF lobby. was ready today to BEGIN
MS testimony when the Senate inyesti-
eating committee assembled Inasmuch
as some witnesses in the wool tarff
phase Of the inquiry were waiting to be
heard, Mulhall was forced to wait
Despite reports of threats against him,
Col. Mulhall came in alone and marched
confidently down the aisle taking a seat
near the committee. Mulhan is a big
man with gray hair. wears glasses and
walks with confident. self-possessed
air. He watched with interest the ex-
animation of Witnesses
Clark Makes Statement.
Speaker Clark made a statement re-
lating TO the use OF his name by David
Lamar and Edward Lauterbacn. lie
testlned he had never had anything to
do with Lamar, Lauterbach or any OF
the men mentioned by them.
). Pierpont Morgan. he said, he saw
at Gfldlron ulnner in NaSnlns ION
several years ago, wnen former fresi-
dent Roosevelt and former Senator
+ on aker engaged in "A joint debate.
IL was the hottest debate ever heard
IN TINS country, said the Speaker.
Leuyard says that LaulerDach told
him that he Was in comm unica ton with
me through Senator Stone. l.auteroach.
VINO acknowledged on the witness stand
that he mad hea, said that Lamar gave
lnTOrmAIlDn "a sod
the whole sale was lie to force MOI gan
q co. to take Lauterbach back into their
employ All OF them oiscialm any ac-
qualntance or communication with me.
Justly Termed Lie.
Senator Stone justly and pronerlv
characterized the Lamar-Lauterbach
tale as a lie. in which he was entirely
correct. He and l never in our lives
conversed about, or in any way man
TONED. TO each other. Morgan & Co., or
the steel trust investigation.
Il never spoke to John Pierpont
Morgan or any member Of his firm In
my lie, never communicated with him
or them IN any manner whatsoever:
never authorized anybody else to do
SO. L was. to my best knowledge and
belief, never introduced, even casually.
to him, or any of them To my best
knowledge and belief / never saw any
OF them except Mr.. Morgan himself.
and that was across the large dining
room of the New Willard at a Gridir0n
Club banquet
Once Met Lauterbach.
Il was several years ago introduced to
Lauterbach here in Washington In the
presence of several gentlemen and passed
the usual salutations with him. That
was all l never saw him before or since
and never communicated with him in any
manner whatsoever about any business
matter whatsoever.
4 had never heard of Lamar and
knew only by seeing his name in the
papers that there is such a man as Louis
Cass Ledyard. 1t seems to me that when
MIR. Ledyard found out that Senator
Stones name and m-ne were being
banded about by Lamar, the pseudo
Palmer and Lauterbach he ought to have
let me know
The Speaker was not sworn and the
committee did not ask him any ques-
tons. He left the room when he finish
ed reading his statement.
Shows Financial Operations.
Winthrop L. Marvin. secretary OF the
National Association Of Wool Manufac-
turers, put in a synopsis of a state
ment showing the financial operations
of the association.
He was questioned about a special
twenty -lhousanu-doilar fund raised
several years ago lie said he had no
record OF now tnat fund was collected
or disbursed. lie believed L. +. Green
Of Boston, who helped raise it, could
tell how II mad been spent. No record
had been kept, but he was certain the
money nad Deen spent in printing anu
travelling expenses.
William h4tman. former president
- nA
Marvin.
Gift of $4,000 to North.
Whitman explained $500 gift made
to S y. d. North, secretary Of the asso-
ciation III 1881, and a clerk TO majority
members Of the Senate finance committee
The gift was made after the Dingley bin
passed Congress.
Many prominent wool manufacturers
and others not connected with the asso-
citation contributed to the fund North
was given silver service in 1905, when
he left the association to go with the
United States census bureau as director.
Letter to Serene Payne.
Senator Walsh read into the record a
copy OF what purported TO be letter
from North to Serene Payne, under date
OF December 3. 1858. 1t read:
Following my return To Boston after
the passage OF the tariff bill, the officers
Of the National Wool Manufacturers As
sociatio informed me that in recognition
of the arduous and responsible work L
had performed for the committee and
the serious INJURY to my health which had
resulted from an assignment entire apart
from my duties as secretary of the assO-
ciatioa they believed i had been under
paid and, accordingly an expression
OF their personal good viii and regard,
they presented me with the sum of 5000.
Shortly afterward my salary was in
creased from $1,000 TO $4,000 per annum."
Message to Aldrich.
Senator Walsh also had read into the
record q letter from Whitman to Senator
Aldrich. written about ten years ago.
urging the selection OF North as director
of the proposed census bureau. In the
letter Whitman said the bureau should
he independent of the bureau of labor,
because the speeches OF the director or
the bureau. Carroll ID. Wright. had been
..nopulistic and probably preJudiciai IN
favor of. labor" He refused to say that
North was recommended by him because
his views were more conservative. An
other letter praising North and suggest
inc appointment addressed to Senator AL
iison was read by Senator Walsh. In II
Whitman expressed the view that Wright