The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1913-07-18
|MULHALL UNDER
FIRE SIX HOURS
Lobbyist for N. A. M. Continues
Remarkable Tale.
BARES VOTE BUYING IN SOUTH
Late James S. Sherman's Name
Brought Into Senate Inquiry in Let
ters About Political Campaigns
Truce Declared With House.

Brought Into Senate inquiry IN Let
tiers About Political Campaigns
Truce Declared With House.
Washington, July 16.-For six hours
Martin M. Mulhall continued his con-
fession before the senate lobby COM
mittee Monday In that time Mulhall
identified nearly 500 letters and other
papers.
The threatened rupture between the
senate and house committee apparent
ly ended with a friendly agreement
subscribed to by both sides. Under
this agreement the senate committee
will finish it's examination of Mulhall
before he is turned over to the house;
Mulhall correspondence it cares to-
Copies of all the letters and memo
randa put in the record will be fur
nished every member of the Garrett
committee, and they will have ample
time to study the case before they get
Mulhall.
Mulhall's correspondence told of the
efforts to re-elect former Congressman
Littlefield of Maine and defeat the
present representative from that dis
trict, Daniel J. McGillicuddy. Little
field was to be supported by the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
because of his stand against labor leg
islation. Mulhall said on cross-examin-
alton that he had been told that $780,
900 was spent in that campaign.
Mulhall's letters went into detail
concerning the campaign he made in
Maryland to beat former Congressman
Pearre of Cumberland. Pearre was the
author of an injunction BILL" and
Mulhall and other agents went out to
get his political scalp.
Almost the first testimony related to
the campaign against Pearre instl-
gated by Secretary Gushing of the N.
A. M. n
"Why did you oppose Pearre?"
asked Senator Reed.
"On account of his stand on the in
junction bill, same as I did McCo-
mas" said the witness.
A letter to Mulhall from c. III. Holtz-
man, postmaster at Cumberland, said
the anti-Pearre organization there was
costing $500 a day and much "persua-
sion" was necessary.
What do you mean by persuasion?"
asked Senator Nelson.
Money" said the witness crisply.
1--WE had large colored vote there
that needed seeing Often" he ex-
planned.
Some of the letters read earlier in
the day showed that Mulhall had been
known to the late sVice-President
James S. Sherman, who in 1907 was
chairman of the national Republican
congressional committee.
In letter he wrote on July 1, 1907,
to Mr.. Sherman, Mulhall said he was
going west and would call upon "the
Hon. James S. Watson of the Sixth In
diana district" and that he intended to
look up members of the organization
In that district and get them to do
some active work for Watson.
81 will pledge you before starting
there" the letter said, that we will
be able to land Mr.. Watson again in
the next house,
On July 2 Mr.. Sherman, on paper of
the Republican committee, wrote Null
hall as follows:
my Dear Colonel am glad that
you are still interested in political as
well as economical work, and am
glad to bespeak for you to our friends
q cordial reception. While you are
not now employed by the Republican
congressional committee, nor were you
employed during the last campaign,
you did render us very material as
sistance, and I found you at all times
reliable, trustworthy and effective"
On the house side the Garrett COM
mittee heard one witness, Representa-
tive George w. Fairchild of New York.
Mr.. Fairchild denied seriatum all of
the Mulhall charges, declaring that he
never was a member Of the National
Association of Manufacturers, had not
attended their dinners and had never
met men named by him. He informed
the committee that Mulhall had been
In his district during the 1906, 1910
and 1912 campaigns, on each occasion
for only day or two, doing detective
work, coming in 1906 and 1910 at the
request of Republican campaign man
ayers, who paid hisAexpenses.
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