The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Finishes LETTERS
SENATE COMMITTEE REACHES end
OF MULHALL LETTERS
UNDERWOOD GIVES LIE

UNDERWOOD GIVES LIE
Democratic Leader Also Calls Him
BIackmailer and Denies Having
Had Anything to Do With Him
Identification of Letters Has Been
Completed.
Martin NJ. Mulhall practically fin
tshed Tuesday at Washington his
Identification OF letters he wrote and
received in the ten years ne claims to
have been the lobbyist for the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers.
Now the Senate investigation. COM
mittee win turn its attention to e1-
animation OF Mulhall and attorneys
for the association and for the Amerl-
can Federation Of Labor, also inVolT-
cd in the correspondence, will begin
cross examination Of Mulhan.
Members Of the committee will at
tempt to strengthen Mulhalrs story
OF his political activities in Washing
ton and throughout the country,
while the attorneys will endeavor to
break It down. Questions by the law
yers, under the committees rule, will
be filtered to the witness through its
che man.
MuIhaI's last day as an tdentlfler
OF letters proved the most exciting OF
his two weeks on the stand. He was
called e .sliar" and a "blackmalier'
BY, Majority Leader Underwood OF
the House and he swore he had tried
10 get Chairman Wilson Of the labor
eommittee interested in the story he
ia now telling and that Speaker Clark
and Representative Mann, minority
leader of the House, and turned down
an opportunity to conduct an inVestl-
CATION Of his activities.
{ The speaker and Mr.. Mann ne
said. had been approached on this
subject by Representative James I.
-NcDermott Of Illinois
.eNeither Mr.. McDermott nor any
body else ever showed me the Null
hall letters and papers" said Speaker
Clark in statement issued late
Tuesday. ''Neither Mr. McDermott
nor anybody else ever spoke to me
about them. I never knew that Null
hall had any letters or papers until
T saw IN a newspaper that he had
sold them to a New York paper.
Mulhall brought the day to a Gil
max by swearing that McDermott
had acknowledged to him that he had
signed MuIhall's name to a check for
$3.50.
Mulhall made this statement when
he was questioned about a trip TO
Chicago in April, 1912, to help NC
-Dermott in the primaries. He SEA
Harold F. Mccormick, son-in-ls:% OF
John D. Rockefeller, had promised to
contribute $3.50 to the McDermott
eampaign. He said Mccormick MADE
ont a check to him for this amount,
INIT that he did not receive 1t until
after he returned to Baltimore. he
ca,hed this check in Baltimore, but
later the bank there and the one IN
Chicago on which it was drawn IN
formed him that a duplicate bearing
!. his signature had been honored aiso'
He told the committee he never knew
what had happened until AcDermot'
told him.
letter read later showed that
Nulhall took the $3.50 given him by
Mccormick and used It himself, al
though he said Mccormick had given
It for the McDermott campaign. Null
ha1l explained that he had spent q
lot Of money in Chicago and that NC
Dermott had never paid him back.
Mulhall told during the day that
he left the National Association OF
Manufacturers late in 1911, but let
ters OF 1912 and 1918 showed hlm
still about Washington interested IN
the makeup Of committees and in leg
fsaahon. He apparently was lobby
ing on his own hook and other let
ters showed an evident desire to ger
hack with his old employers although
be did not admit that he wished TO
secure his old berth.
One Of the last letters put In the
record was dated May 2S, 1918, ana
addressed to former Representative
. James E. Watson Of Indiana, whom
NulhaI frequently during the IN
nuiry has mentioned interms far
trom dattering. In this letter Null
:. hall asked Watson to interest himself
himself with D. N. Parry, former
president Of the association, IN MS
hehalf. It was only few days later
that the Senate committee started its
lobby investigation and that he began
TO negotiate for the disposal OF MS
correspondence.
Representative Underwood appear
ed before the committee to deny that
Mulhall had ever talked to him ABOUT
Y,ris,a.ion before congress. After
o,e look at the witness he said:
"I never saw him before IN my
life"
WILL WORK FOR LIVE SIOCk.
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