Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-08-16
Meeting Of MuIhaII With Rep
reSentatiye MCDermOtt Is
Feature Before lnveStigat-
ing Committee,
CHICAGO STATESMAN
PERPETUALLY BROKE
EalpIoye at National Capitol
and Democrat in Low
er House ON Manufacturers
Payroll

a., ,oa,i.s JOURNAL srrciAL lrssto wlREi
Washington, Aug. l5.-ln a dra-
matte statement / II. McMichacls
dismissed chief page of the house o!
representatives., tonight presented to
the house lobby investigating commit
tee sweeping charge Of corruption
against Representative John T.. Nc
Dcrmott. OF Illinois. for years hi3
SPONSOR with intense earnestness.
NcMichacls i'm picturesque language.
corrobOratcd the allegations of NJ. NJ.
Mulhan. against McDermott and made
additional charges, az times shocking
The committee ana spectators with
Outburst- Of profanity ana slang. Tho
witness protested that for years he
had eXcrtcd every effort To support
McDcrmott. had loaned him money
had helped him in his campaigns
Now he said, McDermott had thrown
him down and he felt that he mus,
tell the truth
In addition 10 the charges already
mudc, McMichaels sworc that the Chi
Cago representative told him that he
received $500 out Of fund of
$4,000 raised by the pawnbrOkcrs
of Washington. 10 oppose bin pass
rd m the last congress, regulating in
tcrcst rates in the District of Colum-
bIa In this connection he told of
trip to New YORK when McDcrmott
conferred with +. McDermott, Of an
association Of brewers, and with
George u. llorning. local pawn
broker.
Concluding his testimony, MeMich-
acls testified that McDermott since
the Mulhall expose, had endeavorcd
To- get him TO conceal McDcrmotts
part i'm The transaction.
Il met MeDermott in the hall OF
This office building, said McMichacls,
his voice unsteady with emotion. and
he said: My God, lm a ruined man.
What am ! going to do. Do YOU sup
pose anybody viii believe this OH
guy said to him: I've worked hard
for YOU for six years. harder than 1
ever worked for any man. l tried TO
elevate YOU and help you TO a big
position.
II told him had done all / could
for him. He said: You've got nothing
TO lose, you don't live with your wife.
I'm congressman ana I've got
wife and children. Say you write those
letters unbeknoWn to me, and that |
didn't know anything about It. Even
IL they prove that YOU committed per
jury and forgery they can only send
YOU down the river TO the arr, for
two years ana I'm pay YOU 500 q
month while YOU are there ! said to
NM es' you're willing to pay me
$IVO month to 80 to jail for you
o"t you won pay me 'hc wages }oa
honestly owe me i've got eleven DOL
'dIS III my pocket thats an We Got
10 snow loI SIX years work but
won 10 'o's lof you
Apparently struggling to control
"IinSgll, McMlc"'tls 'oIu lne commit
zee oI furnishing 80 10 take Mulhal
W CHl0aSo 10 "iu N'Dc' lHot' III Ine
i'l- campaign
Where did YOU get that money
asked Representative Garrett
My mother had Just died, said
McMichacls. and | was executor for
my mothers estate. The money was
IN bank here to the credit of the
estate and ! gave Mulhall a check for
it, ! had to hustle to put it back.
never Got any of il from McDer-
mott
McMichae, told at length Of max
ing trips to various pawnbrokers i'm
Washington to secure money, either
for McDemott or himself
"McDermott told me-" he said
that the pawnbrokers had raised
$4,000 to fight the loan shark bill
ana later he told me ne got $500 of
IT, When / asked him why he did not
pay me what he owed me with part