Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-17
lFULHALL TELLS SENATE OF USING
SPIES FOR ACCUSED ASSOCIATION


At present the senate committee is
more concerned with the charges made
| by Mulhall than in providing for ru.
ture contingencies. There is a gen.
| eral belief that enough material VIII
| be forthcoming next week to Justify
the house in taking up at least one
case in concrete form and opening
the way for ventilation of scandals
that have not as yet been injected
into the senate proceedings.
Three Hours on the STAND.
Under agreement VITA the senate
lobby committee Mulhall spent only
three hours on the witness stand. On
the plea that he had some important
| business to transact in New YOrE. he
was permitted TO leave the city. To
return and take up the thread VI his
| narrative.
The most important feature u the
colonels testimony concerned his first
undertakings as lobbyist and strike
breaker for the National Association
! of Manufacturers. His eXamluau.u
was conducted entirely through the
medium of letters, kilograms and rg.
| ports which related chiefly to his ef-
| forts under direction OF Marshal Cush-
ing and other officials OF the n. \. W.
to defeat the late Senator McCUmls
OF Maryland: the starting of fake Cd.
Dor organizations to carry out the
| ~ \. NJ. s political undertakings and
the methods pursued by him unG,t
direction OF Gushing and other ~ A.
NJ. officials in breaking the strike Of
\ union job printers in 1906.
Letters Are Identified.
He identified letters rendered him
| for scrutiny by Senator Reed. Illus
trating the devices OF himself and
other n. a. NJ. agents In bryaking up
the Philadelphia strike. These letters
contained the names of the alleged
disloyal organized trade unionists to
whom money had been paid for their
treason and the dates upon which it
had been paid.
That the colonel was laboring un-
der intense excitement was shown
on frequent occasions, particularly in
regard to the Emery incident. En-
ery's offense was in the interprcta-
tion placed on 1t by the colonel II
was whispered question he ad-
dressed to Senator Reed. the purport
of which was whether a letter sub
mitted by the Missouri senator % the
colonel was on letterhead or blank
paper. Before Senator Reed made an
attempt to answer, the colonel fig
uratively came up on his toes. He
almost bounded from the witness
stand.
mo Laughing Matter"
with the index finger OF his right
hand pointing Straight at Emery. he
fairly shrieked a protest Addressfur
Senator Reed he said:
Senator. ! don't like this whisper-
ing going on around here. I'm omen
and above board, and if these gentle
men have got anything to say let them
stand up and say IT,"
The colonel meant by these gentle
men" Emery and McCarter.
Il notice" he said, raising his voice
that these people are going to have
counsel here. ought to have coun.
sell l notice that they're LAUGHING at
me. can tell them that this is no
laughing matter. This is a fight TO =
finish between me and the worst gang
in the country"
Senator Reed admonished Emery
and McCarter and assured the colonel
that ne would be protected against
annoyance. He afterward directed
that no person Interested in the In
curry should be permitted TO occupy
seats in front of the witness. Emery
> and McCarter had crowded themselves
into chairs Just behind Senator Reed
who stood at the end of the table at
which the committee occupied seats.
After this outburst McCarter and En-
: cry assiduously refrained from looking
at the colonel
Quarreled With Cushing.
Mulhall identified more letters
showing his relations to Marshall
Gushing, secretary of the Association
of Manufacturers. He testified he had
an understanding with Cushing that
he was 10 receive 500 a week and
b $40 a week for expenses for general
field work and lobby work in Wash
> ington." His arrangement with Cush-
ing began in the summer Of 1904 and
he understood 1t TO be permanent, al
i. though he had nothing to bind the
J association.
Mulhall testified further OF how he
: worked TO defeat former Senator Nc
! Comas of Maryland, although he posed
as the senator's friend. He said he
had received 500 letters from Cush-
: ing directed against McComas.
2 Il turned them over to Carl NJ.
Downs, secretary to McComas," he
Q added.
= DO you mean you delivered these
!, letters against McComas to his secre-
2 tary?" demanded Senator Reed.
Y Carl M. Downs was in the pay