Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-07-22
REED MAKES OPPOSITION
SAYS QUESTIONS MUST BE SUB
MITTED THROUGH UPPER
HOUSES COMMITTEE
MATTER is NOT DECIDED
BUT 1T is APPARENT ACCUSED
ASSOCIATION WILL HAVE
NO COMEBACK

Washington, July 22.-Attorneys for
the National Association of Manutac-
turers may not be permitted to cross
examine Mulhall, the confessed lobby
ist,. before the senate investigating
committee When Attorney Robert
McCarty for the manufacturers today
suggested cross examination Of Null
hail on his story tnat former Repre-
sentative James E. Watson Of Indiana
had been paid retainer of $500 and
a weekly salary of $3.50 to work for
the passage of a tariff commission
bill with promise of an additional
$4,000 if the bill was successful, SEN
ator Reed, the committees leading
questioner, declared himself against
cross-examination, but proposed that
questions be submitted to the com
mittee, The point was not finally
decided
Mulhall swore that Watson had
made the office of James A. Emery
here his headquarters after he was de-
feated for governor of Indiana in 1905.
Emery, Mulhall swore, was the chief
l15sp esurart
witness declared today mat fornss
Senator Hemenway of Indiana occupied
rooms next to Emery and that Watson
was in one office or the other much
Of the time.
On February 4, 1909, in letter %
Schwedtman, Mulhall got into Illinois
politics and brought in former Sen
ator Hopkins, who was defeated for
reelection by William Lorimer.
Mulhall wrote Of the senatorial dead
lock at Springfield:
I'VE are spreading the impression
that on account of the contemplate
stand taken by Hopkins in the conven-
ton at Chicago last June, wherein he
was extremely unfair to the manufac-
turers interest in refusing them a
hearing before the committee on reso.
llutions and packing that committee
in favor of the Gompers crowd, has
in large measure, brought this fight
on his own shoulders.
February II Mulhall wrote Schwedt-
man about the house judiciary com
mittee.
| "Mr. Watson stated that he would
see that that committee was fixed
Iup as well as it was p'ssible to fix
it, or, in other words. just the way
we wanted it." said the letter.
In a letter Of February II Mulhall
wrote schwedtman about the actlyi-
ties Of Cannon, Watson, sherman,
Crane and others to pass the bill to
make Senator Knox eligible to the
Taft cabinet.
Senator Nelson's name was men
toned again BY Mulhali in a letter to-
schwedtman February 20. He told
of an EXTENDED interview with the
senator on labor bills and the decision
Of the Judiciary committee on the
proposed Sherman law amendment
Senator Nelson has testified he had
no interviews with Mulhall. Late ia
February Mulhall seemed to have lost
/ hope of seeing Watson in the cabinet
and wrote Schwedtman, who replied:
4 Assure our friend that the leaders
Of our Organization are not fickle;
they win be true to him as long as
5 he is true to them. I am confident il
would give our leaders great pleasure
to back up Mr Watson for any posi-
tion, elective or appointive, for which
he may try iudgeship, senatorship
or presidency. for that matter"
The correspondence developed thai
/. Watson declined several federal ap
! pointments not to his liking.
' A war list" including six con
gressmen. said to have been marked
d for defeat BY former Speaker Cannon
and former Representative James l