The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-19

resolution directing the commissioner of
corporations to make a complete report
within four months on the cost of an
armor plate factory, and the cost of max
ing armor plate and gun forgings in fac
tories owned by concerns dependent upon
the government patronage. Mr.. Barton
said he believed the resolution could be
adopted because democrats and republi-
cans were united in their desire to curb
the .armor trust.
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viii form the basis of the House lobby
probe.
Chairman Garrett said that at an
executive meeting today the committee
decided not to call any witnesses until
they could secure Martin M Mulhan, at
the conclusion of his examination by
the Senate. The committee today sent
circular letter to members of the
House asking for suggestions as to
matters to be inquired into under the
blanket cause of the resolutions author
izing the investigation Former Rep
resentative Ralph Cole of Ohio, for
warded a request asking that he be al
lowed to appear to answer charges
made against him by Colonel Mulhan
before the Senate committee.
How the National Association of Man
ufaeturers proposed to concentrate its
energies If necessary for the reelection
of former Speaker Cannon in the 1908
campaign was described in one of the
first of the Mulhall letters brought be-
fore the Senate lobby committee today
The letter bearing on Cannon was writ
ten to Mulhall by Secretary Schwedtman
of the Manufacturers association on Au-
gust H. 1908, and declared all energies
would be concentrated in Cannons dis
triet, If there was the slightest occasion
for it.
Senator Reed questioned Muhall about
Congressman Bartholdt.
4 always understood Schwedtman and
Van Cleave looked after Barthodt's end
and that the brewery interests helped. ="
answered Mulhall.
The committee decided Immediately to
hear S. w. McClave. republican candi-
date for Congress in the Sixth New Jer-
sey district, where a special election is
to be held Tuesday
Mulhall testified yesterday that he had
run McClave's campaign against William
Hughes in 1910
The cross-examination of Mulhall on
McClave yesterday aroused the ire of the
two republican members of the commit
tee who declared it was an attempt to
play politics.
Schwedtman wrote Mulhall August 26
about the situation in Indiana, which,
he said was very critical, and added:
IF we win, most of the credit will
be due to your good work. If some of
our political friends should forget it later
on, we want to take a trip with YOU
into Indiana for the specific purpose of
laying these good people over our knees
and giving them the kind of a spanking
they ought to have
In August a fight in the Eleventh Wis
consin district, where John j. Jenkins
was up for reelection, apparently was
worrying the manufacturers although the
National Brewers association, through
its national chairman, wrote Mulhall it
was their noteworthy fight
Hines Figures in Case
Edward Hines, Chicago lumberman, who
figured in the Lorimer case, came into
the hearing for a second time.
Mulhall swore that in a letter to the
manufacturers August 81 Hines spoke of
a promise to send $1,000 to go in the right
direction to be used for legitimate pur-
poses in the Jenkins district.
Sehwedtman wrote Mulhall on Au-
gust 2S:
Il don't consider Teddy nor Taft nor
sherman nor Foraker. nor the rest of
those great men equal to Van Cleave,
Parry Kirby or the others who have
given freely of their energy and their
money to the great cause which is ex-
pected in the principles of the National
Association of Manufacturers to be ex-
pressly enunciated."
A letter of September /, 1905 from c.
B. Anthony, vice president of the man
ufacturers, to Van Cleave, asked if there
was any way for the association to laid
our good friend, Hon. Edward DENLY, of
the First Michigan distrct?'
1t added the suggestion was made with
out Denby's knowledge
An anonymous letter to Anthony Sep
tember which Mulhall said was from
Van Cleave, says:
I'VE must. of course. do all that is in
our power for Mr.. Denby"
September II, 1908, Mulhall wrote to
Schwedtman about visit to Cincinnati
and breakfast with A. l. Vorys, Mr.
Tafts chief of staff.
Norys was an entirely different man
to what he was in Chicago" the letter
says He is more than anxious to have
some of our people to see Judge Taft
and to get our people active at work
convinced Vorys that if he wished to get
large percent of our organization busy
he had better get Judge Taft to get in
communication with Mr.. Van Cleave, Mr.
Parry, Mr. Kirby, Mr. Schwedtman and
the other leaders. This he claimed he
would bring about in the very near fu-
ture and wanted me to aid him.
September IA, 1908, Mulhall wrote Rep
resentative j. Sloat Fassett of New York
that the manufacturers would be glad to
aid him If he wanted it,
''Fassett declined that proffer," Mulhall
said. He helped us on some bills but
only because he was good party man."
Il want to say something also about
Swager sherley, who was mentioned here
the other day." Mulhall continued. "All
| know about Sherley is the letter Emory
wrote. ] never approached Sherley; l al