The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-07-31
COMM|NS DENIES
MULHALL CHARGES
LOBBYIST DECLARED lOWt.N
TOOK HIM INTO PRIVATE
CONFERENCE.
TELLS OF GIVING MONEY
Says Messengers and illinois Solop
Were observation-disclosures is Prom.
ised Witness for Its Investioa.
ton Monday.

Washington, July 26.-One more de-
NAL OF the allegations of Martin NJ.
Mullal, former "lobbyist' for the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
and one more serious charge against
men close to the powers that were in
washington in the days when Mulhall
was working as political agent, mark.
ed the progress CT the senate investi
eating committee through his volum.
nous correspondence
senator Cummins, a member of the
investigating committee, declared by
Mulhall to have taken him into private
conference about public business, de-
MED fatty that he had ever held such
conference with the lobbyist
What Mulhali Swore.
Mulhall, in letters and on crossex
animation, swore that he had paid the
che1f page OF the house of representa-
yves, the messenger to the speaker of
the house and the messenger to the
house ways and means committee.
monthly, for little jobs they did for
MN. lie sWore, too, that he had given
money to J. II. McDer1nott, for eight
years a member of the house from I'll.
inois When questioned CLOSELY nv
Senator Nelson he said that this money
was borrowed" and never paid back.
development of the day indicated
clearly that the senate committee
does not intend to allow the attor-
heys FOR the manufacturers associa.
ton to cross-examine Muhall about
the charges he has made against of.
hcla's OF that organization and
against former members of congress
and men high in official life in Wash
ington.
House to Get Witness,
Chairman Garrett of the snecial
house committee that is ready to in.
vest1gate lobbying announced that
Chairman Overman Of the senate
committee had promised to turn Null
nall over to his committee Monday.
The professed National Association of
Manufacturers field agent will not
get through the Identification and ok.
pianation of his correspondence with !
the Oyerman committee before to-
night at the rate of progress made
yesterday and the associations law
yers could hardly make an impress.
sion upon him on Saturday if the SEN
ate committee sits on that day
Another feature of the day was the
activity OF Senator Nelson, Repub-
lican member of the committee, who
heretofore has allowed his Democratic
oN1 10ao11pc tn
branch of the inquiry almost at will.
senator Nelson searched Mulha]Ps
memory for particulars of many ey-
pense accounts and other matters
brought into the limeIight in the let,
,ers.
His Expense Accounts.
In speaking of his expense accounts.
Mulhall said they We're made out by
Katie NJ. Mulhall, who accompanjed
him on all his trips. He said she was
in one sense his wife," and that she
lad been driven insane by the cam.
)aign in the Sixth New Jersey dis
riot
One letter showed i'll feeling be.
Ween Mulball and Emery and Mul.
lall sWore that in an interview with
ohm Kirby, Jr., then president of the
association, he had refused to take
more orders from Emery, Later let.
ers showed a friendly feeling be-
ween the two men and Senator Mel.
ION wanted to know why there was
uch a discrepancy. Mulhall explain.
ID that he and Emery were friendly
enough except on matters of bust