Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-21
Gotham Financial Writer
Gives Lie to Wolf OF
Wall Street.
FORGERY TALE DENIED
Witness Tells Lobby Committee
He Has Never Seen the
x Author of Story.

Washington, D. c., July 21.-Martin
NJ. Mulhall continued his story be-
fere the senate lobby committee to-
day. A letter from Thomas Gibson,
New York financial writer, from
whom David Lamar testified he got in
formation to base his charge of the
$S2,000,000 forgery on the books of
the Union Pacific railroad, was put in
the record. Olson wrote that he did
not know Lamar, did not now believe
that there was forgery and was send
ing out retraction to his subscribers.
Paul D. Cravath, counsel for the rail-
road, put in a letter from firm of
public accountants explaining appar-
ent discrepancies upon which Lamar
based his sensational charge.
Representative Loudenslager of New
Jersey, secretary of the republican
congressional committee in 1908,
seemed to have incurred the enmity
of Mulhall. In October that year Null
hall wrote to Secretary Schwedtman
of the manufacturers that the people
of the country were tired OF pinhead
| politicians.
when got through Loudenslager
offered an apology, claiming he would
be good from this time one, but l
plainly gave him to understand that
when he comes up for denomination
he would hear from our people," Mul.
hall did not explain why he had fallen
out with Loudenslager. Schwedtman
wrote Mulhall in October: 81 do hope
when James E. Watson of Indiana
gets in the governors chair he will
lay half dozen of his good friends
over his knee and spank them to beat
the band, including your special
friend, Senator Beveridge. L hate
false friends more than do the worst
enemies"
Mulhall said all his accounts were
kept by an expert who accompanied
him on the trips, evidently his wife.
"She drove me crazy in the Sixth
New Jersey campaign" said she, "she
kept all my accounts and was the best
politician ever knew"
DoLLIvER AS FRIEND.
81 think we have made good friend
of Senator Dolliver and he made me
promise to call on him when we come
to Washington" wrote Schwedtman.
A long blacklist" of congressman,
republicans and democrats, who had in
Cured the enmity of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers, and to be
opposed when they came up for re-
election was presented by Mulhall.
Hughes of New Jersey, now senator;
Wilson of Pennsylvania, now secre.
tary of labor; Nicholas of Pennsyl-
vania, Pearre of Maryland, and Bur
nett of Alabama were described by
Mulhall as being on the permanent
blacklist, because. they always favor
ed labor legislation"
Against all these men we made
every effort to drive them from pubic
life" said he. On another list Len
root and Cooper of Wisconsin, Gard
ner of Massachusetts, Parsons of New
York, Greene of Massachusetts, Muir
dock of Kansas, Champ Clark of Mis-.
souri, and Haugen of Iowa were de-
scribed as "Cannon's list" and were
in disfayor with the organization
Mulhall swore, because of their oppo
sition to Speaker Cannon. On anotil
er list we're: Morse and Nelson o.
Wisconsin, Maynard of Virginia ant
Loudenslager of New Jersey" Mul
hall swore the names were furnished
: by Congressman Watson or by mi
Childs," clerk of the house committee
on war claims, in 1910.
TAFT FOR SENATOR.
Mulhall wrote Schwedtman Dec. Il
1908, that he had seen Senator Fol-
aker and that George Cox "the Cir
cinnati boss, was convinced tha
Charles P. Taft could not be e.ecte
senator, and he intended to advis
,. Taft to withdraw. Foraker SCENE
A. certain, Mulhall wrote, that with thu
aid of Cox he would win.