Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-11
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papers that there is such man as
Louis Cass Ledyard. 1t seems to me
that when Mr.. Ledyard found out
| that Senator Stones name and mine
were being banded about by Lamar,
| the pseudo Palmer and LauterDach,
he ought to have let me know.
The speaker was not sworn ana
the committee did not ask him any
questions He left the room when ne
| finished reading his statement
Martin M. Mulhall, whose pup
lished charges of his activities
as lobbyist for the Natlonal
Association of Manufacturers, mas
named many congressman as
having been susceptible to infiu-
ences of lobby" was ready today
to begin his testimony when the SEN
ate investigating committee assem-
bled. Inasmuch as some witnesses
In the wool tariff phase OF the IN
quiry were waiting to be heard, Null
hall was forced to walt.
Winthrop L. Marvin, secretary OF
the National Association OF WOOL
Manufacturers. put in a synopsis OF
IL SldlciIlcUl olloWilB NAiS
operations of the association.
He was questioned about a special
$40, 900 fund raised several years ago.
He said he had mo record of how mat
fund was collected or disbursed. he
believed e. r. Green, of Boston, who
helped raise II, could tell how 1t had
been spent. No record had been kept.
but he was certain the money had
been spent in printing and travelling
expenses William Whitman, former
president of the association, took the
stand after Marvin. -
whitman explained a $4,000 gift
made to S. N. D. North, secretary of
the association in 1897 and g. clerk
to majority members of the Senate
finance committee. The gift was
made after the Dingley bill passed
Congress.
Many prominent wool manufac-
turers and others not connected with
the association contributed to the
fund.
whitman was questioned about the
$4,000 gift to North, an incident which
attracted nationwide attention when
1t was first disclosed several years
ago. He put in a letter to North,
dated at Boston, September 2, 1897
signed by himself, George Sykes, Ben
jamin Phipps, James Phillips, jr., and
Rufus Greedy.
It set out that at a meeting of
few members of the National Asso-
citation unanimous expression devel-
oped in favor of presenting to North
some substantial testimonial in rec
ognition of your past services to the
association and the wooden industry
of the country" 1t then went on to
say that a draft for $4,000 was in
closed, and concluded: This is a vol
untary and cheerful expression Of
of the high regard in which you are
held" The signatures followed.
81 want to say that while looked
upon the presentation of that sum to
Mr. North as a proper recognition Of
heis services" said Whitman, mo
thought had ever entered into my
mind before Mr.. Phillips came to me,
about making such a presentation.
When Mr.. North left the association
late in 1908 it made him another pres
ent in recognition of his faithful
service. That, howsver, was in the
form of a silver service, not in money,
because he wanted that present to
have a permanent form that could be
kept in his family"
Senator Walsh read into the record
of what purported to be letter from
North to Serene Payne under date Of
December 8, 1908. 1t read
FOLLOWING my return to Boston
after the passage of the tariff BILL
the officers of the National Wool
Manufacturers Association informed
me that in recognition of the ardu-
GUS and responsible work l had per-
formed for the committee, and the
serious injury to my health which
had resulted from an assignment en-
tire apart from my duties as secre-
tary of the association, they believed
! had been underpaid. and accord
ingly, as an expression of their per-
sonal goodwill and regard, they pre-
scented me with the sum of $1,000.
Shortly afterward my salary was in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 per an
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