The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-08-01
SHOWN UP As SUCH
BY CHIEF LOBBYIST
BEFORE COMMIT TEE
MULHALL DECLARES CONGRESS
MAN M'DERMoTT, OF ILL.
NolS AS GENIUS.
PAID The PAGES and CLERKS
Didn't Wait for Offers But Borrowed
Continuously and Never Paid Back
Says He Paid the Chief Messenger
and Speaker of the House.

lone more denial of the allegations oil
Martin M. Mulhall, former lobbyist
for the National Association of Man
Iufacturers, and one more serious
charge against men close to the pow
lers that were in Washington in the
days when Mulhall was working as a
political agent, marked the progress
today of the senate investigating
committee through his voluminous
correspondence.
Senator Cummins, member of the
Investigating committee, declared by
Mulhall to have taken him into pri.
vate conference about public business
denied fatty that he had ever held
such conference with Mulhall.
Mulhall, in letters and on cross-ex-
ANIMATION, swore that he had paid the
chief page of the house and the mes
senger to the house ways and means
committee monthly for little jobs they
| did for him. He swore, too, that he
had given money to J. H. McDermott,
for eight years member of the
house from Illinois. When question
led closely by Senator Nelson he said
the money was borrowed" and never
paid back.
A development of the day indicated
clearly that the senate committee
does not intend to allow the attor-
lneys for the Manufacturers Associa-
J ton to cross-examine Mulhall about
the charges he has made against Of
ficials of that organization, and
against former members Of congress
and men In high official life in Wash
ington.
Chairman Garrett of the special
house committee that is ready to in
|vestigate lobbying, announced today
L that Chairman Overman, Of the SEN
late committee, had promised to turn
lover Mulhall to his committee on
Monday.
Another feature of the day was the
activity of Senator Nelson, republi-
can member of the committee, who
heretofore had allowed his democratic
colleagues to conduct the MuIhall
branch of the inquiry almost at will.
Senator Nelson today searched Null
halls memory for particulars Of many
expense accounts and other matters
brought into the limelight in the let
ters.
Mulhall swore that his first visit to
McDermott was when he was visiting
every member of congress he could
possibly see about tariff commission
bill in the summer of 1909. At that
time he found McDermott an uncouth
politician. Later in the year he
swore he was introduced ITO l. H. Nc
Michaels, chief page Of the house,
and McDea motifs confidential Sec
rotary"
He testified that McMichaels, Hen
ry Neal, messenger to the speaker of
the house, and Harry Parker, essen
ger to the ways and means commit
tee, were put on monthly salary by
him nthat year, the chief page get
ting $50 month while congress was
in session, and Neal $50 month and
Parker $25. The sos he swore went
monthly to these three men was CIV
en- to him he testified, in check form
by James A. Emery, counsel for the
American Association of Manufact-
urers He said that McMichaels
knew when he employed him that
Mulhall represented the association,
and that he realized what sort OF leg
islation he was opposed to. Later
he swore that the chief page brought
Mulhall and McDermott together in
a Washington hotel. He said that
McDermott's secretary had explained
before the meeting that he was ga
rought jewell but that he had not
been long in Washington and didn't
understand things.
did you give McDermott any
funds?" asked Senator Nelson.
81 didn't ahve a chance" said Null
hall. HE borrowed it and kept bor-
rowing it."
did he pay it back?"
me, sir"
In speaking of his expense accounts
Mulhall said they were made out by
Katie M. Mrlhall, who accompanied
him on all his trips. He said she was
"in one sense his wife," and that she
had been driven insane by the cam
paign in the sixth New Jersey dis
trict.