Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-15

1 hall professed field agent, strikebreak- 1 CT, lobbyist and political worker for 1 the National Association of Manu- 1 facturers, continued today his re- markable story before the senate lob l by investigating committee. Mulhall was on the stand for six hours In
 that time nearly six hundred letters, l telegramS and scraps of memoranda were identified by him, with hardly more than glance. He remembered apparently the first names of mem l berS of congress, of lesser politicians,
 of labor leaders and underlings, of ! secretaries to congressman and of all !! the men he had worked with through a year of most active campaigning Tn many parts of the country. His per- i toFmance seemed so remarkable to
 lawyers present that they sat all 1 through a long day intently watching 1 the witness and listening closely to | the letters and every word that the l witness uttered in the brief cross i examination that accompanied some l of them
 i Peace Between House and Senate.
 The threatened rupture between the i senate and house committees, appar- i ently ended today, with a friendly ] agreement subscribed to by both sides. 1 Under this arrangement the senate committee will finish it's examination i of AIulhall before he is released to ! the house: it will also put in the record ] | cares to- Copies of all the letters and i memoranda put in the record will be i furnished every member of the Gar i ret committed In the meantime James E. Emery, a Washington at | torney for the National Association of Manufacturers, who is under sub | poena by both committees, was allow ! ed to appear in the house wing with
 papers he was ordered to produce. Chairman Overman said tonight that l,I Hl1O1 .I4 I1,4
 idable for a few days had been smoothed out and that each com 1 mittee would now proceed in it's own
 way without confiction
 $6o.ooo in Maine Campaign.
 The senate committee devoted to-
 day largely to reading into the record the tale of Mu!halFs political activities. l There was an occasional reference to strikes in which the lobbyist Had figured and an allusion now and then ! to the inside workings of labor unions, | but for the most part it was a story 1 of politics as Mulhall played the i game. MulhalPs cores pon1ence told
 of the efforts to re-elect former Con-.
 gressman Littlefeld of Maine. and | defeat the present representative from that district, Dani9 J. 1IcGillicuddy. ! Littlefeld was to be supported by the National Association of Manufacturers because of his stand against labor or l ganiZations. Mulhall, said on cross
 examination that he had been told | that ,000 was spent in that cam l paign.
 Reason of Cushng's Resignation.
 Mulhal's letters went into detail
 concerning the campaign he made in
 Maryland to beat former Congressman
 Pearre of Cumberland. Pearre was
 author of an injunction btIl' and ! Mulhall and other agents went out to l get his political scalp.
 l Just before the committee adjourn | ed the letters began to show Mulhall's
 activities after Marshall Cushing, the 1 secretary of the association with whom
 he had correspondence so long, had re- l signed.
 t"Cushing resigned" Mulhall declar- 1 ed, because he said no self-reSpect- | ing politician could report on lobby l work"
 MuIhaI Knew "Jnn" Sherman. ] Mulhall said Cushing resigned in
 the spring of 1907 to the late James l w. Van Cleave, then president of the | association who wanted full reports | of all his work. The committee read | several letters frona~MulhaIl to Van 1 Cleave in which the lobbyist" show 1 ed that he did not care so much for l Gushing after the secretary left the 1 association.
 Some of the letters read earlier in the day showed that Mulhal had 1 been known to the late Vice Presi- i dent James $. Sherman. who in 1907, was chairman of the national repub- l lican congressional committee.
 Wrote Letter to Sherman.
 In a letter he wrote on July 1. 1907,
 to Mr. Sherman. Mulhall said he was 1 going west and call on the Hon. James i E. Watson of the Sixth Indiana dis l members of the organization in that | district and get them ip do some active 1 work for Watson.
 T will pledge you before starting 1 there,' the letter said that we will be able to land MT. Watson again in the i next house."
 Sherman's Letter to MuIhaII. On July Mir Sherman on paper of the republican committee wrote Null hall as follows:
 My Dear Colonel-T am glad that you are still interested in political as well as economical work and l am glad to beSpeak for you to our friends a cordial reception. While you are not now employed by the republican con- gressional committee, nor were you employed during the last campaign. you did rnder us very material as slstance, and found you at all times reliable trustworthy and effective"
 The House Investigation. On the house side today the Garrett
  sentative George w.. Fairchild of New York, and recessed for an indefinite period to take up the study of the copies of the Mulhan letters furnished by the National Association of Manu- facturers in answer to subpoena. duces tecum served on James A Elm cry
 Representative Fairchild was sworn to allow him to make a statenlent in answer to Colonel MulhalIs charge that he 1a ia large and wealthy manufac- l1 uRer himself and one of the most act i've adherents of the association" and that he told Mulhall of meetings and dinners held in Emery's home" Mul- 1 hall also dtclared that he had been sent Into Fairchild's district on three separate occasions at his request In both 1906 and 190S Mulhall said he werked in Mir, Fairchild's district and his expenSes were paid bN the Nation al Association of Manufacturers
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