The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-22
NULHAlL NEAR
COLLAPSE FROM
SEVERE Strain

Washington, July 21.-Martin
Mulhall, the confessing ex-agent Of
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, is threatened with nervous
prostration. He has undergone a
severe ordeal during the last week
in the witness stand before the Sem
ate lobby investigation committee,
but the chief reason for his serious
nervous condition, he alleges. is the
physiological intimidation to which
he claims he has been subjected by
the officials and legal advisers of the
N. A. M.
Day after day and hour after hour
former President Kirby of the asso-
citation and James A. Emery and
Robert McCarter have sat directly
posite Mulhall and fixed their un-
Tavering gaze upon him, staring
tixedly and increasingly directly in
TO his eyes.
Mulhall Near Collapse.
The strain told on Mulhall to such
IN extent that he broke under it on
Friday and made passionate pro-
test to Chairman Overman of tho
committee, Senator Overman diplo-
matcally pacified him, and urged
the witness not to look in the rect
ion of his tormentors. But there
is nowhere else that he can turn his
eyes, The witness chair directly
faces the three n. A. NJ, officials,
who, couriously enough, were given
this place at table at the beginning
Of Mulhall's testimony, and the en-
{ re seating arrangement will have
be altered If Mulhall is to have
'elief. These three officials. more
yer, sit with their backs to an open
indcw, the light from which
reams directly into the face of the
witness.
OF course the N A. NJ officials
deny that there is any concerted eff
n their fixed chances at Null
all.
lrt is It not natural that we
7aaa}d stare AZ him in wonder and
aae 1eu5 they say, considering
tn extraordinary statements he is
tnr
Lshn Hen T. Be Heard
9rg'so3 'abor's side of the
glaA NJ lhall has been telling
by investigat ng COM
aa-a m as a possibility of
resumed inquiry this week.
t. Samuel Gompers. president of
ration of Labor, and John
SOD under instructions to
4 av 25 to be heard. But
VIII be possible for the
to examine the two labor
Aa time denends upon
a rlan which Senator
5v Id he was trying to
G. Mulhall's story.
lear something will have
d the Senator. I'VE
..a Far about 1000 of the
crs furnished by Mulhall,
a.ess some way is found to
dings the investigation
Gr along to interminable
'hs"
Not only are there about 5000
more Of the Mulhall letters, but
about 10000 letters from the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
awaiting the consideration of the
committee in addition to car load
of account books, minutes, etc.
Some sort of cross-exam' nation of
Mulhall is also ahead of the commit
tee, in addition to the big list of i'm
portant witnesses who have been
summoned.
Watson Is Impatient,
Former Congressman Watson is
hare awaiting chance to be heard;
rmer Senator Foraker has declared
that he will demand a hearing, and
oy-Speaker Cannon is a possible wit
ness, not to mention dozen other
men of prominence whose names
have been dragged into the discuss
n.
The cross-examination of Mulhall
is also expected to begin before the
week s out, and from the manner
in which J. Woods McClave exposed
The weak spots in the narrative on
~ridav n sht there is belief in
~"~ters that the entire story
I'll be discredited before the in
'rv has proceeded much further.
Labor leaders are especially con-
erned over the repeated statements
Of Mulhall that he brihed union la
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