Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-07-25
GOMPERS PLOT TOLD.
MuLHALL sWEARs N. A. M. HAD
SCHEME TO GET LABOR
CHIEF TO DESERT.
M. cLAvE DENIES CHARGES
Candidate for Congress Tells Senate
Lobby Committee That Witness
Perjured Himself in Testimony Be
fore Body.

Washington, July 21.-The senate
lobby investigating committee was
told on Friday night by s. Wood Nc
Claye. Republican candidate for con-
gress in a special election to be held
in the Sixth New Jersey district, that
Martin M. Mulhall had perjured him
self in his testimony before that body.
He also denied that Mulhall had raised
or spent money for him or had man
aged his campaign against William
Hughes in 1910.
Martin M. MulhalI gave the senate
lobby Investigating committee his
story of the alleged effort in 1S07-190S
to bribe Samuel Gompers, president OF
the American Federation of Labor, to
desert the cause Of labor and support
the policies advocated by the National
Association of Manufacturers.
Mulhall admitted he had no positive
information that an attempt to bribe
Gompers had actually been made, but
he said Atherton BrOwrell of New
York had outlined the plaets to him
and had told him of what was to be
done
The committee held a session at
night to hear the testimony of s. w.
McClav, of Paterson, N. j., now can
didate for congress, and with whom
Mulhall said he had worked through
out the campaign of 1910, when Nc
Clave was running against William
Hughes in the Sixth district.
The committee opened the Gompers
incident when newspaper clippings ap-
peared showing that Gompers had
made the bribery charges before a
court in 1908, and that President Van
Cleave Of the Manufacturers associa-
ton had denied all connection with
them. Mulhall said he had been re-
ferred by Van Cleave and Schwedt-
man, the latter secretary of the asso-
citation, to Mr. Brownell, in New York.
who claimed to be conducting a pub
hcity bureau for the association.
Brownell told him, he said, that a
man named Brandenberg was follow
ing Gompers; that they had plan
fixed up by which they expected to
get" the labor leader. and that they
were positive they could not fail. Null
hall said he warned them they would
not succeed, and later advised Van
Cleave to the same effect Van Cleave
left New York suddenly. the witness
said, after telling him that he had
nearly Fallen into a trap"
Inside views Of Republican national
politics as seen by Martin M. Mulhall
were presented to the senate lobby
committee Thursday. According to
MulhalPs correspondence read to the
committee and his statements, submit
ted in amplification of the letters, il
was the aim OF the National Associa
ton of Manufacturers at Chicago con
vention in 1908 to support former
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon for the
presidential nomination.
It was developed through series Of
letters placed in the record by the SEN
ate lobby committee Wednesday that
the more active workers of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
aimed to bring about the appointment
of prominent member Of the associas
ton, preferably Mr. Van Cleave, who
was then it's president, as member OF
the cabinet of President Taft, and
also to have representation on the
Republican national committee