The Washington herald., 1913-08-12
POSITIONS
ASKED BYN. A. N.
Wanted Good Representation
on Industrial Com
mission.
BY EMERY
Testimony Before Senate Probers.
Mulhall Questioned by Members
of the House Committee.

u tuS UOuSS NOmmNtSes
Two Congressional committees pound
ing away at the testimony Of Col NJ.
NJ. Mulhall. for ten years lobbyist, strike
breaker. and general field agent for the
National Association of Manufacturers.
failed yesterday to make any impression
upon The structure Mulhall had built up
| through his letters and testimony.
Col. Mulhall himself was on the stand
before the House committee all day.
" lille James A. Emery, general counse.
| for the n. A. NJ. and Mulhalrs direct
superior officer for nearly seven years.
vas before the Senate committee in the
morning.
The most important admission drawn
from Emery was that the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers had seven car
Gidates for the nine places on the In
duStrial Commission, created through the
eforts of their enemy, William Hughes.
then representing the Sixth New Jersey
District in the House. OF these seven
ca ndidates presented to President Taft,
two-Ferd c. Schwedtman and Senator
Sutherland-were nominated. failing of
confirmation with other Taft nominations
in the closing months of his admins
tration.
Mr.. Emery admitted. IN effect, that it
| troll the Industrial Commission by having
| in its membership representatives OF a
number of firms and associations In
which the N \. NJ. was interested. This
| meant that as many positions on the
board as the n. A. NJ. could contro,
would be filed by anti-labor men.
| Emery stated that it was the hope OF the
| association that three, and, possibly. SIX,
rien recommended by them would he
n, D1in3 cd nv Ia
The Candidate. Presented.
Among the candidates advocated by the
y. A. NJ, and whose names were sub
mitted to President Taft, were Senators
Smoot and Sutherland. stalwart Repub
lican leaders: Representative Moon of
Pennsylvania Fred c. Schwedtman, of
st. Louis: DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler.
of New York: Prof. J. Lawrence
Laughlin. Of Chicago: A. B. Farquhar.
of York. Pa: John Thix. of Detroit. and
James Bryce, OF Battle Creek, Mich.
you tried to pack the commission.
didn't you?" asked Senator Reed.
No. sir. We thought we had a right
to make suggestions, and don't think
farer men could have been found" re-
piled Mr.. Emery.
Here are some of the high points in me
testimony of Col. Mulhail before the
House Committee yesterday.
l. BY way of substantiating his charge
that the National Council for Industrial
Defense is little more than a paper"
or dummy" organization, he testified
that they had neither initiation fee nor
regular membership fee.
. II. f. Miles, of Indiana. was the only
prominent worker for A tariff commission
who favored downward revision, and Mr..
Miles, chairman OF the tariff commission
| committee of 1O, virtually was driven
out of town because of his convictions.
according to Mulhall.
3. Mulhall was successful several times
in preventing a quorum in the labor
committee when the eight-hOur bill was
in danger of coming out, and James A.
Emery recognized this in A telegram
which was read into the record.
4. 1t was the purpose of the y. A. NJ.
according to MuIhall. to control the tariff
commission, having friends and members
appointed to it. Miles and Schwedtman
were candidates.
Working Agreement.
:. The y. A. NJ, according to Mulhall.
brought about working agreement as
the result of which Representative Bar
tholdt of Missouri, and other liquor legis
lators. agreed to support the Littlefield
anti-pilotage bill, and bring it out of
committee if Littlefeld would keep his
bill regulating the interstate shipment
of liquor-enacted last session as the
b-kenyon bill-in the Judiciary Com
mittee.
s. Bartholdt was back fred by ST.
Louis interests into attending the meet
ing of the labor committee at which
the eight-hour bill was killed in the
winter of 199-1o Bartholdt desiring TO
avoid a vote because of representations
made by labor circles in st. Louis.
John w II. Grim, of New York, ap-
peared before the committee yesterday
afternoon as counsel for Mulhall. Rer-
resentative Roddenbery of Georgia, re-
signed from the committee and Repre-
sentative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, was
appointed to succeed him by Speaker
Clark.
Offering to answer by cable any ques
tons which the committee might desire
TO put 10 him. Representative Richard
Bartholdt has written the committee tell
ing of his connection with n. 4. NJ. Off
Gals.
Statement of Barthol!t.
Bartholdt was mentioned as one of
those susceptible to influence in Null
halls first published statement Repre-
sentative Bartholdt in his letter asserted
that never have representatives of the
National Association of Manufacturers
exercised, or attempted TO exercise. any
influence over me or my actions, but i
am frank to say that when in the cam
paign of 1910 my vote against exempting
labor organizations from the operation
of the Sherman law was made an is
sue against me by certain labor agitators
and a blacklist circulated by them in my
district on which my name appeared, !
brought this fact to the attention of the
st. Louis executive committee of the as
ISOLATION, and l was informed that, be-
cause of my courageous vote, 1 would
have their moral support for election,
put that was all. No campaign con-
tributions werc either solicited by my
campaign committee or made by the as
ISOLATION. As member of the Commit
tee on Labor l have naturally come in
contact with Van Cleave and Schwedt-
man, and also with Emery and Mulhall.
but / never looked upon the latter as
any thing but a messenger boy, and I
never dignified him by any serious dis
cussion of measures pending before the
committee"
WAS Mr. Bartholdt's attitude toward
measures in which the n. A. NJ. was in
terested influenced by the friendship of
the N. A. NJ. or was it the natural atti-
Representative Garrett.
HE was friendly because political in
fiuence could be brought to bear on
him in mis- district" replied Mulhall, who
stated that this information he received
from members of the n. A. NJ. in
Bartholdt's district.