Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-06
Manufacturers and LabOrers
Fight for Control of Legislation
develops in Mulhall Probe.

Toothpicks WILL of course. be an ait
er-dinner course at all cabinet recep-
tions and the demand for dress SUITS
will be confined to walters in the no
tells =
In this same letter Emery advised hlr-
by "If YOU have any idea that Iaft
would have vetoed this bill of his own
motion, get over it. list of public men
who had pie in this s113Go0,0oo appropri-
alton bill included many public men IN
both houses. :"
Kirby forwarded to Emery series OF
letters between William De Hertpurh
Washington of New York City and A b.
Farquhar. a manufacturer of YORK, "a.
and a director of the National Assocla-
ton of Manufacturers. Washington told
Farauhaf in a letter dater Jan. D. 1918
that he had recently spent three days
on trip to Virginia with the Presidents
elect and was satisfied that the tarffr
would be taken up at an extra session.
He proposed that currency reform be
coupled with the tariff at the present
session of Congress and asked the sup
port of the National Association for that
proposition
In a letter to Daniel Davenport of
Bridgeport, Ct. in March, 1911, Emery
told of interviewing with Mr.. Kirby. Ma
jority Leader Underwood on the organ
ization of the committees of the new
Democratic House.
I'VE have kept the South pretty busy
pounding the committee on committees
for the past two weeks" he wrote. Mr..
Kirby was here. Thursday. and we had
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wood. who is a decent, ievel-headed con-
sentative | easily believe now that We
will have a fairly conservative judiciary
committee as good as we could expect
from your Democratic brethren but We
are undoubtedly going to have a bad Ia
Dor committee. Underwood has frankly
told me that it does not please him and
undoubtedly would not please us. He
says it is the result of compromises that
have been made necessary by internal
dissession and when he is frank enough
to say that it won't please him l can
imagine how it will strike u.s.
The letters contained Illuminating de-
tails of the methods of the National As
ISOLATION of Manufacturers agents in
their opposition to anti-iniunction bills.
of labor, bills providing for jury trial of
contempt cases, and other legislation
urged by organized labor. The list of
letters presented, today, was about halr
of those called from Emery's files by the
committee. They were written to or by
Kirby, NJ. NJ. Mulhall. c. A. Post. For
mer Representative r. o. Moon of Penn
sylvania, d. NJ. Parry of Indianapolis,
George s Boudinot, secretary of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers, and
Fl. 5. Chamberlain of Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Mulhall letters presented related To
Col. Mulhalfs activities In the campaign
of Rep. Jenkins of Wisconsin for re-
election in 1908. The letters of Former
Representative Moon related to con-
/ troversy with Emery over legislation
| before the judiciary committee of the
| House in 1910 when Judge Moon was
chairman of the committee. At the morn
| ing session the committee briefly exam.
ined Louis Seybold, of the New York
World, who prepared the Muhall
charges for publication. Tomorrow. the
committee hopes to secure Mulhall and
to send Emery back to the Senate COM
mittee which is about to begin the ex-
animation of the officials of the National
Association of Manufacturers