Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-16


You don't i've with your wife. I'm .
congressman and I've got wife and
children. Say you wrote these letters
| unbeknownst to me. and that didn't
know anything about It.
| "Even If they prove that you COM
mitted perjury and forgery they can
only send you down the river to the
ark for two years and I'll pay you
500 a month while you're there I
said to him: Yes. you're willing to pay
me 500 a month to go to jail for
you, but you won't pay me the wages
you honestly owe me. I've got u! IN
my pocket. That's all I've got to snow
for six years work, but l won't do this
for YOU"
APPARENTLY struggling to control him
| self. McMichael told the committee OF
furnishing SIS to take Mulnai io, 20 o en-
cago to aid McDermott In tho AoA@ ca'u-
Where did you get that money!?
asked Garrett.
my mother had just died.. SAID MO
| Michael land I was executor OF my
mothers estate. The money was IN
a bank here to credit of the estate ana
I gave Mulhall check for 1t. | had
to hustle to put 1t back. ! never got
| any of it from McDermotI
A Lie, Says McDermott.
| McDermott and his attorneys were sit
ting together very near McMichAel a.
this testimony was given. McDermott
frequently whispered to his lawyer and
shook his head several times. However,
when he was asked for . statement. all
he would say was that the whole bust !;
ness was a lie on the part OF McMicnaei
from start to finish" .,,v
Mcdichael said that he was moray
sure that money passed between Martin
alive McDermott
You never saw any money passeo pc,
tween them, did your asked Chairman
mo, but when two men sit down to a
table without a nickel and third man
comes along and al three eat al ar'm M,
again with lot Of coin I am not 50
blind or so ignorant as to think the
money was picked from trees or grew on
the table And that happened time after
time at a private dining room at brits
Reuters
McMichael continued:
/ 1.-THE Honorable James T. McDermott
was after the coin strong. II l had q
wad Of money divided into two pats
and he knew it. he would gran the Dig
gest roll
Chairman Garrett asked him how he
/ or McDermott would know about each
/ other having money after the sessions
I'VE would smile at each other" he
said. Both Of us was careful not to
let the other know how much the other
one had. If Mulhall gave me two oiiis
I'd hide the larger one and fiash tn. the
ed anything over 81 McDermott copied
half of II. He would go to the hotel
cashier and give him his money; draw
81 and come back to where l was. deo
say to the cashier, Don't tell Mac I'm
| doiVc fbic
Relations Confidential.
"At this time your relations with No
} Dermott were conf1dential?" asked Gar
rett.
"oh. yes" said the witness. He said
that a hotel cashier named Regan had
made afidavits as to these transactions.
Regain will appear later.
The money he received from Mulhail
on these occasions, the witness said,
was always deducted from his monthly
stipend.
hall was for the purpose OF keeping
Mulhall and James A. Emery. counsel
for the National Association Of Manu-
facturers, advised of the status OF legis-
lation In the House, ana In various COM
tional Association of Manufacturers ON
cials.
McMchael dragged in Harry Parker.
the colored messenger who waits on
Oscar Underwood in the Capitol. Nc
Michael swore that Parker said he wa
getting $40 a month from Mulhall. This
says McMichael. was the inspiration ''te
get . little change" Thereupon. says Mo.
Michael. he sought to nnd this man. who
II said. Introduce him to me-" OK.
4 planned MoAichasl 90 the cigarette smoke
pulled from his mouth. land he did"
Payments to Messengers.
McMichael said that he had paid 81
to Parker ct one time ana that at another
time he paid $50 to Henry Neil the
N Speakers messenger.
n given McDermott the key to q small
room In the basement OF the Capito
II building
"McDsrmott ana I used to meet Null
hall shsr c,ou .aia tho WITH witnsss , ".
room. We used the room for confer
snces and for sleeping of DRINKS. Nv.
slept OF many q drunk there
Did AcDsr,nott have any share II
this 70 . Month salaryT' asked Rep
MOT directly ~ q salary from tho Ma.
tional Association Of Manufacturers,
said McMichasl. leaning back and puff.
Ing at his cigarette. but l would meet
you seen the colonel today7 would
say. yes Did you get any dough?
Yes. How much7' Fifty bucks
Then he would say. Well. slip me fifteen
\ Or twenty and he'd always get It."
MeMichael was asked II any Of his
page boys were used a. SPIES
l Services Not Valuable.
mo" he said. Absolutely never Tba,
H II absurd. I know Mulhall said that wa,
. part OF my instructions. but couldn',
remember 1t then any more than I car
now. The only time ever got any use
! full information for him was when Repre-
sentative Hughes Of New Jersey wal
II planning an eight-hour amendment 20 {
sundry civil BILL AeDermott told m,
4 about e. and made It plain that he ex
I pected me to tell the colonel He said
You'll aee the colonel today. won't you7
H II said would.