The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-15
MULHALL AGAIN
BEFORE SENATE
ConfessedLobbyistTeIls How
Work Was Done.
MONEY WAS FREELY USED
Details Activity In Effort to Defeat
Senator Mccomas Of Maryland and
Tells OF Campaign Against Repre-
sentative Hughes Of New Jersey.

Tells Of Campaign Against Repre-
sentative Hughes OF New Jersey.
Washington, July 14-Under sub
poenas to appear at the same hour be-
fore two separate congressional com
mittees In sessions at distant ends of
the Capitol, Martin NJ. m~uihall, who
is testifying as to the alleged lobby
ing activities OF the National Asso-
claticn OF Manufacturers. faced a puz,
zllng situation.
The tangle was the result OF a clash
OF authority between the senate and
house investigators. AS the senate
subpoena antedated that issued by the
house committee and the witness was
In the custody OF a senate deputy ser
geant-at-arms, the upper house was
in a position to enforce its ultimatum
Mulhall and J. III. McMichael ap-
peared at the senate committee room
and were placed under guard OF an
assistant sergeant-at-arms. The house
committee, minus It's expected wit
nesses, went into an executive session
10 plan further action.
MuIhaII Resumes Stand.
Mulhall finally resumed the stand
and took up the Identification OF his
letters. which he began at the previous
session. James A. Emery, counsel for
the National Association of Manufac.
turers, made a formal request for the
right OF the association TO be repre-.
scented by an attorney. Chairman
Overman said the committee would
decide later whether Robert McCar
ter. attorney general of New Jersey,
should have tho general privileges of
an attorney for the association.
Mulhall identified more letters show
ing bis relations with Marshall Cush-
manufacturers. He testified he had an
understanding with Cushing that he
was TO receive 500 a week and $40 a
week for expenses for general field
work and lobby work In Washington
Mulhall testified further of how he
worked to defeat the late Senator Nc
Comas Of Maryland, although he posed
as the senator's friend. He said he had
received 500 letters from Cushing d.
rected against McComas.
Secretary In Opponents Pay.
II turned them over TO Carl M
Downs, secretary to McComas," he
added.
DO you mean you delivered those
letters against McComas to his secre
tary7" demanded Senator Reed.
Carl M. Downs was in the pay OF
Cushing" replied the witness, who
went on to explain that he quarreled
with Gushing before he was buying
out" the secretary of a senator.
Mulhall resnted any implication
that he had tried to play a double
game" on the labor men, such as he
frankly testified he played on Me-
Comas. In 1903 he took a paid up
union card and had no further con
nection with labor unions he said.
Harry G. Kurten, secretary OF the
Allied Building Trades OF Philadel-
phia. was engaged, Mulhall testified,
In the fight against William Hughes,
then q representative and now a sen
ator from New Jersey.
Were you sent to help beat Hughes
by the National Association of Manu-
facturers?" asked Mr.. Reed.
Yes, sir"
why did they want to beat
Hughes?"
Hughes Held Union Card.
"On account of his holding a union
card. being affiliated with the Ameri-
a Federation OF Labor and his &C
tivity on the floor of the house and
with the labor leaders in Washington"
Did o pose as a friend of the
labor organizations and thus work
against these organizations from the
inside?" asked Senator Cummins.
Not at that time"
Testifying further about the cam
paign against Hughes, Mulhall swore
he went to Paterson to aid Hughes
opponent. He hired six union men to
work against Hughes and paid them
about $1,000, which came from the
National Association of Manufactur.
ers, through Cushing.
The union men In the pay OF the
National Association of Manufactur-
ers, Mulhall said, took possession of
$4,000 circulars emf into the district
by the American Federation of Labor
to aid Hughes and turned them over
to the Republican campaign commit
tee.