The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-07-30
Big Sensation i'm
The Lobby Probe
MULHALL Is CALLED LIAR
AND BLACKMAILER BY
UNDERWOOD.
Speaker Clark Denies Any Con-
nection With Mulhall or
His Associates.

=, WASHINGTON. ID. c. July %
Martin VI. Mulhall practically finished
quay MS identification of letters be
~Io'e ana received in the ten years he
CIaIms TO have been the lobbyist for
the National Association OF Manufac.
tuIers' Tomorrow the Senate inyes.
eating committee viii turn its atten.
uon 10 the examination OF MulhaII.
| ana attorneys for the association ami
Ior the Ameican Fedeation OF Labor.
also involved In the correspondence.
~. oesih the cross-examination OF
Members OF the committee VIII a,.
tempt 10 strengthen MulhalIs story a.
MS political activities in Wasb,ngton
ana throughout the country willis tba
attorneys will do their best 10 breals
II down. Questions by the lawvars
ehuer the committees rule. will he
ni'ered TO the witness through i,a
chairman. Robert McCarter counsel
TOT the association. has about o5o
questions he wishes 70 ask the u,I,-
ness Attorney Jackson IT RaIs,or
lor 'ne Federation Of Labor. has nra.
pdred about 100 more. and no one
SHOWS now many separate suerfes
OF the committee will submit
~ MuihaiI before he is allowed to ouit
NItness chair In the Senate wing
oI'he capitol and face the snaciai
House committee that is eagerly n'af,
ing his appearance across the ro,unda
Lar and 6IsckmaiIer
Mnlhali last day as an identifer Of
proved the most exciting of HIS
VI "eeks on the stand He was
a.u ,a.,.' = Ilar and a blackmailer by Ma
JorItN Leader Underwood. of tho IJous.
or REPRESENTATIVES. and nc swora ,So.
ne had tried TO get Chairman Xvusor
OF the labor committee. Interested a.,
E "a" STORY he is now telling. and thar
SSpedNer Clark and Minority Leader
IaiH. o. the House. had turned doUn
an opportunity 10 conduct an fnvas,t-
ea'lon OF his activities. The sneste-
ana Mr.. Mann. he said. had bsen -
preached on this subiect bv Renresar,-
"'Ile JamesT .McDermott. OF IIIirois
Neithe' Mr.. McDermott nor anv-
"ouy else ever showed mo The Mini
nan ittte'S and papers," said SNEAK.
er lark In statement issued Iata
quay Neither Mr. McDermott nor
az Oouy else ever spoke To me about
never knew that Mulhall had
81. leler" or papers until saw in a
>SpdpfF that he had sold them 10
New York paper" ~
Mulhall brought the dav ,o ,i,-
by swearing that lIcDermo,t -
acknoWledeed 70 him that he had sir.
co Mulhalls name To a check for So5o
Mulhall made this Statement, ,,bon
NJ was questioned about frin 10
hIcaeo IN April. 1912. to helm Nc.
irIihou IN the primaries. He said
ma, harold J. Mccormick. son-in.Iaw
~ Johh - Rockefeller. had promised
10 contribute $3.50 10 tho NfcDerro,,
campaign He said Mccormick made
Hht "a check 10 him for this ar,o,,r,
cut mat hc did not receive Z, rr,iI
difer ne returned 10 Baltimore re-
taShed This check i'm baltimore brt
later the bank there and the ono ~
thicaep on which II was drawn On
termed him that duplicate bearing nj.
SIRnature had been honored also. Ne
'oid the committee he never kneu,
Wna' had happened until McDermott
Went In Record.
senator Cummins made an unavau.
ihG enort to keep the dfscussion =,
ne check out ~ the Record He sa,A
me question ~ whether McDermott
Fad signed Muihalrs name was not
Iertlnent 10 the committees investfea-
ZION bur Aiulhairs testimony and the
CORES pond"nCe on the matter wore
allowed 60 ro in.
Mnlhall told during 'he day tina, ba
'-I' ihe National Association of Man.
N'aci uTeTs late In 1911 but letters of
,.I- ana 1913 showed him still about
washington interested In the make.up
~ committees and in legislation Ue
apparently was lobbying on his own
hook