The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-30


throughout the country while the attor-
neys will endeavor to break it down.
Questions by the lawyers under the com-
mittee's rule will be filtered to the wit
ness through it's chairman.
$50 Questions
Robert McCarter, counsel for the asso-
citation, has about 25O questions he wishes
TO ask the witness. Attorney Jackson II.
Ralston for the American Federation OF
Labor, has prepared about 100 more, and
no one knows how many separate ques-
tions members of the committee will sub
init to Mulhall before he is allowed to
quit the witness chair in the Senate wing
of the capitol, and face the special House
committee that is eagerly waiting his ap-
pearance across the rotunda.
Mulhalls last day as an identifer of
letters proved the most exciting of his
TWO weeks the stand. He was called
a '1iar' and 'blackmailer" by Ma
jority Leader Underwood of the House
and he swore he had tried to get Chair
man Wilson of the labor committee inter-
ested in the story he is now telling and
that Speaker Clark and Minority Leader
Mann of the House had turned down an
opportunity to conduct an investigation of
his activities. The speaker and Mr. Mann,
he said, had been approached on this sub
ject by Representative James T. McDer-
mott of Illinois.
Never Saw Letters
'Neither Mr.. McDermott nor any,
body else ever showed me the Mulhall
letters and papers" said Speaker Clark
in a statement issued late today. Mel
ther Mr.. McDermott nor anybody else
-feyer spoke to me about them. l never
knew that Mulhall had any letters or
papers until l saw in a newspaper that
he had sold them to New York paper.
Mulhal brought the day to a climax
by swearing that McDermott had ac-
knowledged to him that he had signed
Mulhall's name to a check for $3.50.
Mulhall made this statement when
he was questioned about a trip to Chi
ago in April. 1912, to help MeDermott
in the primaries. He said Harold F.
Mccormick. son in law of John ID.
Rockefeller. had promised to contribute
$3.50 to the McDermott campaign. He
said Mccormick made out a check to
him for this amount, but that he did
not receive it until after he returned
TO Baltimore. He cashed this check in
Baltimore. but later the bank there
and the one in Chicago. on which Il
was drawn, informed him that dupli-
cate bearing his signature had been
honored also He told the committee
he never knew what had happened un-
til McDermott told him.
Senator Cummins tried to keep dis
cussion of the check out of the record
He said the question of whether Nc
Dermott had signed Mulha1ls name
was not pertinent to the committees
investigation, but MulhAls testimony
and the correspondence on the matter
Were allowed to go in A letter read
later showed that Mulhall took the
$3.50 given by Mccormick and used it
himself. although he said Mccormick
had given it for the McDermott cam
.paign. Mulhall explained that he had
spent a lot of money in Chicago and
that McDermott had never paid him
back
Mulhal told during the day that he left
the National Association of Manufac-
turers late in 1911, but letters of 1912 and
1913 showed him still about Washington
Interested in the makeup of committees
and in legislation. He apparently was
lobbying on his own hook and other let
ters showed an evident desire TO get back
with his old employers although he did
not admit that he wished TO secure his
old berth.
One of the last letters put in the records
was dated May 26, 1918, and addressed to
former Representatives James E. Watson
Of Indiana, whom Mulhall frequently dur
ing the inquiry has mentioned in terms
far from flattering. In this letter Null
hall asked Watson to interest himself
with D. NJ. Parry, former president OF
the association in his behalf 1t was only
tee started its lobby investigation and
that he began to negotiate for the dis
posal of his correspondence.
After he left the organization pMul-
hail wrote letters indicating an intention
to fight James A. Emery, Washington
counsel for the association, and j. P. Bird
general manager and other officials.
Mulhall testified he made his proposal
10 Wilson, now secretary of labor, per-
eonally, and to Clark and Mann in a
letter through Representative McDer-
mott OF Illinois
He testified he offered his CORE