The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-16
Kept Busy in Fields
of Politics and
Labor.
BOOSTS FRIENDS;
BREAKS STRIKE
Self Confessed Lobbyist Tells in
What Close Touch He Was
With Bevcridge and Other Con-
gressional Leaders-Conmit-
tee Gets Through With
410 of His Epistles.

Washington. July 15.-The Senate
lobby Investigating committee made 40
knots to-day over the sea OF the Mar
tin NJ Mulhall correspondence It was
not n record run. bu, number Of fish
ere landed. Mulhall was in the wit =
ness chair, and Senator Reed at the
helm of the Investigating bark for most
OF the five hours IL was stcaining ahead.
Mulhall identified $40 letters. tclegrams
and memor;Slda put in the record b.
The committee with only a bit more
hesitancy than he evinced before. al
though he was cautioned by Senator
Feed TO look closely al the slips handed
to him
Mulhalrs attention was directed to-
day almost exclusively TO the last half
Of the year Of 1907 and the first part of
1905. He was jumped from Maine to
Missouri, from Baltimore to Indian
apolis. and up 70 Cleveland in those
few months. He told. or his letters
cid of his strik ebrcaking activities in
st Louis. of an effort TO aid former
CONGRESSMAN James L. Watson. of In
diana. politically. and Of how well he
knew former Senator Bevcridge. of that
state He gave details Of another visit
20 Maine and another effort 10 give po-
tical assistance 10 former Congress
man Littlefeid OF that State He men
TONED again former President Taft.
the late Vice President Sherman, the
late James W Van Cleave of the Ma :
tlonal Association OF Manufacturers.
and other men prominently connected
ut one time or other with that organi-
zation
The witness thought about So, 900
had been raised in Indiana for the Wat
son campaign and letter read just
before adjournment tonight told of
three millionaires" in the State. one
OF whom was willing to spend 100000
q "a 1atf RI
identify the millionaires and the com
lnittec didn't ask who they were.
beginning TO show Strain.
The days voyage was not entirely
I1onotonous. although members of tho
committee began to show the strain
this investigation. and the committee
adjourned two hours earlier than usual.
Many times in the course OF the day Y
there were passages that brought
smiles TO tho members Of the commit
tee and the spectators Mulhau him
self, usually close Tipped and curt.
CAUSED many OF the laughs. and letters
read. particularly those from DR.. George
l. Crockett. of Thomaston, Me. were
followed closely
while the Ovcrran committee sailed
along with Multall Chairman Garrett
and the House investigators began TO
look over the lobbyists" correspond
ence. James F. Emery. local counsel
for the national association. had not
turned over the papers under subpoena
to-day. declining TO do so until he was
assured that they could bc kept in a
fire and burElarproof safe. The Gar
rett committee probably will rent "A
deposit box for them
Chairman Overman, of the Senate
committee, had talk with President
Wilson to-day. He said tonight that
he did not discuss the lobby investiga- :
ton. II was said the conference had
been arranged at the Senator's re-
quest.
Senator Reed started Martin NJ Null
halls testimony to-day on letters writ =
ten in 1907 to the late James w. Van
Cleave as president OF the National
Association of Manufacturers One
from the late Vice President Sherman.
then member of the House. arranged
for meeting with Van Cleave and
Mulhall In New York on July 90, 1907.
Starts Rail- a-RoliinE.
In n letter TO Mr.. Sherman on July
16. Mulhall wrote:
Il have Just returned from the West,
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