Arizona republican., 1913-08-17
Says Representative McDer- mott of Chicago Received About Seventy-five Hun dred Dollars for Work Against "Shark Bill
NOT MUCH IS
 BROUGHT OUT
Abraham Bernstein, a Pawn broker, Said He Contrib uted to Fund, But Shows Lack of Memory When Urged to Give Details
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.-The house
 lobby committee centered its attention
 to the statement of I. H. McMichael
 one time the chief page of the house, that Representative McDermott of Chi
 cago has received about seventY-flVo
 hundred dollars for his efforts to defeat a bill affecting the local pawn brokers and s1oan sharks" After more than five hours hard work, the committee was not much nearer a definite con clusion about the seventy-five hundred dollars than when McMichael first made the statement. The one time chief page reiterated the statement that McDermott told him he got about seV- enty-ffve hundred from a loan shark and stuck to it through very severe cross examination at the hands of Jas
 Smith, an attorney for McDermott- Former Washington paWnbrOkers, who ouit business when this bill became law, gave the committee no Information regarding McDermOtt or connecting him with any such fund or disclosed that the pawnbrOkers raised any such fund for any purpose. Abrah ham Bern stein one of the brokers said he con
 tributed to a fund used in advancing
 the arguments of self and his fellows
 He showed a lack of memory for de-
 tail concerning the raising of the money
 although subject to long sharp lire
 of direct examination in which every
 member of the committee present took
 a part When pinned down, Bernstein
 denied that the brokers ever raised
 more than thirty-five hundred dollars
 and swore he would pay for attorneys
 to represent them before the officials
 here and for publicity work. Bernstein
 was asked to help and he sWore by George D. Horning, another local pawn
 broker. who, according to McMlchael, made arrangements for McDermott to work against the bill He said he gave two checks to Horning amounting to about seven hundred dollars He took no receipts and did not know how the money was to be used, but supposed it was for attorneys for McDermott- He said he knew about the year the salary was paid. He, Horning, and another pawnbroker called at McDermotts of flee on the capitol hill once but didn't 1 know the year and wasn't certain whether McDermott was in or not. The witness remembered less and less as 1 the questioning went on anl little in formation was gained from him. At the morning session of the committee ] McMichael continued his story.
 | McMichael said that he is now paid 1 q weekly salary of $75 by the New | York World, which printed the ari- l ginal Mulhall charges. He explained
 that he is being paid under an agree 1 rent to write a story about Twenty Years q House Employe" at the con 1 clusion of the lobby investigation. This information was brought out when Attorney J. F.. Smith, represent 1 ing Representative McDermOtt told | the committee that he would bring Allan A Irvine. government supply 1 contractor, to testify that McMichael 1 informed Irvine that he is to receive
 q weekly salary until he corroborated 1 Mulhalrs testimony.
 1 The witness denied that he had told | Irvine that if McDermott would pay | him $325 which he owed him. that l he (McMichaeD would not say a | word to hurt him.