Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-07-15
QUESTIONS HUMANITY" PLEA
DOES NOT THINK MOTIVES or
CONGRESS- STAR WITNESS
ARE ENTIRELY GOOD
TELLS HIM TO STAND PAT
SAYS MEN WHOM HE is EXPOSING
ARE PIRATES AND WORTHY
OF NO CONSIDERATION

Washington, July To- Before the
senate lobby committee resumed TAX
ing testimony today, Chairman over
man went to the White House to coli
fer with President Wilsonu He de-
clined to say what he had discussed
with the president.
Senator Reed started Martin M. Null
halls testimony today on letter 70
Mulhall from DIR. G. Langtry Crockett
of Thomaston, Maine, dated July 4,
1913 Crockett was one of the men
who worked with Mulhall in the fight
to re-elect former Congressman Little
field The doctors letter was in part.
q have just read your confession
in the New York World l believe
it all, excepting your statement that
you are doing it for the good of hui
manity. This humanity business Of
yours cannot swallow Whether you
do any good or not time alone can
tell; but you surely have kicked up a
stink in this neck of the woods. !
hope you are getting good thing 0ul
of this for you surely have bedaubed
yourself.
"On the whole the people down here
believe it. l know it is true. Oliver
Otis is clamoring for me to be taken
to Washington, and there be pumped
dry. I am ready to go. hope you
are getting good thing out of it or
are putting the knife into some Of the
pirates that did not like you. You
and I know they were an ungrateful
bunch.
Nov, don't back down; stand by
your colors If you need me just call
don't care if you sold my letters,
but If you just gave them away, it is
mean of you. If you get enough out
it and need the price, why all right.
Any way we will not quarrel"
Fred G. schwedtman, secretary to
President Van Cleve, wrote Mulhall on
August 3, 1907
There are some large things brew
ing and there is every indication that
in our tariff campaign we have with
US the majority Of the republican L.
ing. congressman and senators and men
higher up than that, too"
schwedtman wrote Mulhall on Sep
tember ), 1907, bringing in the name
of Mr.. Taft, then secretary Of war:
You saw, Of course, where secre-
tary Taft referred tothe National AS
sociation OF Manufacturers at great
length in his Columbus address. If we
succeed in getting the council plans
thoroughly established, then our power
for good will grow right along and
next year during the presidential cam
paign we win factor Of national inn
portance that cannot be overlooked. 2
IN the days Of Cushing" testified
Mulhall on another point, there were
never any books and there never was
any designation by name We all had
numbers. l was II, Littlefield was
nine and Sherman was eight"
Senator Reed wanted to know more
about the associations tariff and reci-
prooiy activities
The National Association of Manu-
facturers created and solely created tht
tariff commission, declared Mulhall
Schwedtman wrote Mulhall on DC.
tober 5, 1907, Of certain work which
Mr. Brownell is doing unearthing the
connection between Gompers and the
national democratic convention com
mittee."
who was Brownen?" ssked Sen.
ator Nelson
Chief Of the publicity bureau 81
the Association OF Manufacturers
They were trying to bribe Gomper
at that time"