Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-07-17
LOBBYIST TEsTIFlEs AS GUARDS
SHIELD HIM AND HIS LET.
TIERS FROM HOUSE.
W HOUSE TRIES TO GET
WITNESS AND DOCUMENTS
Says In Fight On Mecomas Maryland
Senator's Secretary Wasln Pay of
Gushing; Hired Union Men to Fight
Hughes-DecIares Emery Repre-
sents Worst Gang in Country
House Plans to Put Former Chief
Page on stand-seandaIs Hinted.

Washington, D. CA series Of
short, sharp and menacing verbal ex-
plosions filled the senate lobby inves-
tigating committee chamber with the
smoke of battle" at intervals during
the testimony of Col. Martin NJ. Null
hall as to his relations with the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
as its lobbyist, political worker and
"butter-in" in the affairs of organized
labor.
At the same time that he was tes-
tifying there was a spirited battle
being waged between the senate lobby
committee and the house lobby com
mittee for the chief witness and "the
papers" in the case. The senate by
various ruses was able to hold to its
chief witness and to keep the Mulhall
documents safely i'll its possession
under guard.
Nearly 300 of the letters and tele-
grams embraced in the voluminous
correspondence of Mulhall, the emo
tional lobbyist strike breaker, we're
passed up to the colonel on the wit
ness stand for Identification and eluci-
dalton.
Witness Clashes With Emery.
The colonel contributed a thrilling
feature to the hearing by resenting
the proximity of James A. Emery, the
alleged commandments Of the
lobby forces of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, and its general
counsel at the national capital.
Emery, ~manifestly laboring under
intense feeling which he could not al
Ways suppress, figured in a clash with
the colonel which brought an angry
protest from the latter and the COM
ment that Emery represented the
worst gang in the country"
Emery, tall, trim and debonair, sub
sided, but his eyes blazed as he stared
at his old-time servitor.
Former Attorney-Genera McCarter
of New Jersey, retained to represent
the N. A. M, was rebuked for a vol
untary intrusion into the routine OF
examining the colonel, and the com
mittee decided that it would conduct
the inquiry into the Mulhall charges
without the help of outside legal tai
ent. McCarter reminded the commit
tee that he did not want to annoy it
during the hot weather.
"God Almighty provides the wealth
err" snapped Senator Reed, who had
Mulhall in hand land the committee
will try to find the time to conduct
this examination in a manner to suit
itself"
Labor offers Aid to Senate.
Judge Ralston, counsel for the
American Federation of Labor, in
terrupted the committee to offer all
of the correspondence at his command
relating to any of the subjects con-
tanned in the Mulhall correspondence.
The Garrett committee of the house
of representatives, failing to secure
physical possession of the colonel,
sent its sergeant-at-arms to serve
subpenas on former Chief Page Nc
Michael of the house, who, it has been
alleged, was in the pay of the lobby
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers and who subsequently acted
as confidential secretary to Congress-
man James T. McDermott of the
Fourth Illinois district.
Under instructions from Senator
Overman McMichael kept close to the
committee room. McMichael has al
ready told his story to some of the
members of the Overman committee.
House Maneuvers for Pseers.
Deprived of Mulhall, the Mulhall pa.
pers, which we're turned over to this
Overman committee by a New York
paper, McMichael and other witness
es, who have been served with senate
subpenas, Chairman Garrett addressed
a letter to Chairman Overman, waiv,
ing the present claims of the house on
the person of the colonel, who went
to New York.
Garrett asked for such of the docu
ments as have been put in as evidence
by Senator Reed before the Oevrmar
committee. The chairman of the
house labor committee particularly re
Quested the possession of McMichael
on the ground that the scope of the
proposed house inquiry was specially
directed at the conduct of its mem
bers and employees past and present,
Senate May Give In Soon.
When the Garrett committee discov
cred that it was not the purpose O
the senate committee to relinquisf
any Of its right to witnesses sub
penaed by 1t, there was confusion ant
no definite action had been decided
on.
There is good reason to believe
however, that within the next few
days the senate committee will sreced,
from its position to the extent Of pro
viding material regarding the conduc
Of a member Of the present congress
who probably will be brought up un
der charges and against whom I'm
Corruption.
Men are not corrupted by the exel
else Of power or, debased by the habi
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