The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-11
GENERAL DENIALS
Those Drawn Into Lobby TeS-
timony Busy Explaining.
More Letters of National
Manufacturers Read.
GAVE SENATE CLERK So, 900
Did Not Want Speeches Favor
ing Labor Circulated.
Speaker Clark Tells How Little
He Knows Morgan.

I washington, July n.-Martln NJ
! Mulhal, whose published charges of his
activities as lobbyist for the National
| Association of Manufacturers have
! named many congressman as having
been susceptible to influences of a
lobby was ready today to begin his
! testimony when the senate Investigate
ing committee assembled.
/ Inasmuch as some witnesses in wool
| tariff phases of the inquiry were wait
ing to be heard. MulhaIl was forced to
| wait.
Winthrop L. Marvin, secretary of
! the National ASSOciat ton of Wool Man
/ ufacturers, put in a synopsis of a
! statement showing the financial oper-
ations of the association. He was
| questioned about a special $780, 900 fund
raised several wears ago. He said he
had no record of how that fund was
! collected or disbursed. He believed E.
| +. Green of Boston. who helped raise
| it could tell how it had been spent. No
record had been kept, but he was GER
| tain that the money had been spent
| in printing and travelling expenses.
William Whitman, formerly president
! of the association took the stand at
! ter Marvin.
Whitman explained a s., 900 gift made
| to S. N. d. North secretary of the
association in 1897 and clerk to ma
jority members of the senate finance
committee. The gift was made after
the Dingley bill passed congress. Many
prominent wool manufacturers and
others not connected with the associa
ton contributed to the fund
Whitman was questioned about the
$4,000 gift to North, an incident which at
tracted nation wide attention when it
was first disclosed several years ago.
He put in letter to North
dated at Boston, Sept. p, 1897, signed
by himself, George Sykes, Benjamin
Phipps. James Phillips, Jr., and Rufus
Greeley. 1t set out that at a meeting
of a few members of the National as
ISOLATION unanimous expression de-
veloped in favor of presenting to North
some substantial testimonial in re-
cognition of your past service to the
association and the wooden industry of
the country" 1t then went on to say
a draft for $1,000 was inclosed, and
concluded:
This is voluntary and cheerful
expression of their appreciation of
your work and of the high regard in
which you are held"
The signatures followed:
Il want to say that while I looked
upon the presentation of that sum to
Mr.. North as a proper recognition of
his services" said Whitman, mo
thought had ever entered into my
mind before Mr.. Phillips came to me
d
When Mr.. North left the association
later in 1908, it made him another
presentation in recognition of his
faithful service. That, however, was
in the form of a silver service, not liz
money, because he wanted that pres
ent to have a permanent form that
could be kept in his family
Senator Walsh read into the record
a copy of what purported ito be let
ter from North to Serene Payne, Dec.
8, 1908. 1t read: FOLLOWING my re-
turn to Boston after the passage q
the tariff bill. the officer of the Ma
tiOnal Wool Manufacturers association
informed me that in recognition of the
arduous and responsible work 1 had
performed for the committee and the
serious injury to my health, which had
resulted from an assignment entirely
apart from my duties as secretary Of
the association, they believed l had
been underpaid and accordingly, as an
expression of their personal good will
and regard, they presented me witt |
the sum of $4,000. Shortly after my |
salary was increased from $4,000 to |
$4,000 per annum.''
Senator Walsh also had read into |
the record a letter from Whitman to |
former Senator Aldrich written about |
North as director of the proposed cen |
SuS bureau.
Whitman wrote the bureau should |
be independent of the bureau of Ia Dor. |
because InS speeches OF the director
of that bureau, Carol D. Wright, had |
been populistic and probably preiu-
Gicial in favor of labor.
While Whitman was testifying the
committee recessed to 2:3O, removing |
the possibility of Mulhall taking the
stand until late today.
Confronted by what Chairman Gar
rett termed a ''puzzling situation" the
house lobby committee met today to
make plans for their investigation
The senate committee was about to
begin examination of the Mulhall !
charges until the senate committee has
hoped to use as the basis for its work.
The house committee also was una BILE
to obtain now the correspondence fur
nished by Mulhall. 1t may be forced
to delay it's examination of those
chorges until the senate committee has
poenaed Timothy d. Murphy OF Chi
cago, an elevator man at the capitol,
who is thought to know something
about threats of bodily harm said to
have been made against Mulhall. Muir
ply is expected to tell of conversations
he overheard.
Speaker Clark made a statement re-
lating to the use of his name by David
Lamar and Edward Lauterbach. He
testified he had never had anything to t
do with Lamar. Lauterbach or any of |
the men mentioned by them.
j. P. Morgan, he said, he saw at a
years ago, at which former President
Roosevelt and Senator Foraker en-
gagged in a joint debate.
1T was the hottest debate ever
heard in this country" said the
speaker.