Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-14
HIDE AND SEEK.
Game Played Between The
House and Senate,
Each Wishes Mu|haII In Lobby
Inyesilgaiion-lin Senate, Today.
Debate on Tariff Gill Will Practical
ly Begin, Today.

w dSillHBlbH, JulN ID Martin NJ
] Mulhati, confessed lobbyist fer the
National Association Of Manufac-
tIrers, after successfully lodging
subpoena servers OF the House of
! Representatives, since Saturday after
noon. viii he before the Senate lobby
! investigating committee, tomorrow
and resume his revelations of alleged
| dealings and double dealings with
men Of affairs in and out Of Congress.
| Though Legislative affairs. chiefly
! tariff revision and currencN reform
/ still are progressing destined 10 take
On new vigor during the coming week,
! interest in them just now is over
! Swallowed by the Mulhal1 charges.
| hitting at public men right and left
| as the OVerman committee digs deep
er into the huge pile of correspond
ence carried on between this man, Of
ficiais of the National Association of
Manufacturers Labor leaders, con
| gressmen and others.
To enliven the interest in the lobby
| Investigation is the game Of hide and
seek with members of the House in
Vestigatng committee acting as seek
| ers.
As matters stand now in the con-
test between the Senate and the
House for jurisdiction over the per-
son and effects Of Mulhall, the Senate
claims nine points of the law, being
passessor Of both witness and docu
ments 1t is not the intention Of the
Senate committee 10 release Mulhall
from the subpoena Which ante dates
that issued by the House committee.
Members of the committee declared,
today, that they could not finish with
Mulhall in less than week and that
they might require his presence long
or ON direct examination.
In order To avert any possibility II the
witness getting away from the Senate
side. the committee contemplates holding
day and night sessions. The House in
vestigators will continue To watch for
an opportunity to catch Mulhal when ne
is not engaged before the Overman com
mittee and in the meantime they are
planning to examine acquaintance and
relatives of the Baltimore lobbyist In an
effort to get all possible information
about the man and his operations
President Wilson viii return to Wash
ington, tomorrow, from his vacation and
he will find the Senate ready to begin
debate on the long considered tariff bill.
He also will find that the bill has been
made a party measures, he desired il.
and that when it becomes law 1t will
have been placed in the statute book by
the Democratic party and not as the re-
suit of any particular effort by mai
viduai congressman or senator or clique
of Individuals
The tariff debate will really begin in
the Senate. Wednesday. although the first
Republican gun will be fired at the meas
ure tomorrow when Senator McCumber
of North Dakota attacks the agriculture
schedule. He will speak by unanimous
consent, because he is obliged to leave
Washington for some time The senator
viii return, however. in time 10 vote
against the bill. Senator Simmons. chair
man of the finance committee. will sub
init the majority report on the bill in a
day or two and he will make the opening
statement for the administration
Wednesday.
republican leaders intend TO fight each
schedule vigorously and substitutes for
each one will be offered In some cases
there will be made amendments to each
schedule. Senators Penrose. Smoot Bur
ton Smith of Michigan, Borah Cummns
La Toilette, Weeks and other Republic
cans already are prepared with amend
ments and arguments Democratic lead
ers say they do not expect to take up
much time and both sides hope to pass
the bill by Sept. l at the latest.
Action of the committee of l000 repre-
senting the members Of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen and Conductors.
employed by the Eastern railroads, rati-
flying in New York. today, the strike vote
taken by both organizations. is ealcu-
lated to hasten action in the House on
the bill enlarging the scope of the Erd-
man act. The Newlands bill which pass
ed the Senate is before the House for
passage, while Chairmay Clayton of the
judiciary committee has a bill or his
own, which he prefers. Owing to the
emergency brought about by the impend-
ing strike. it seems probable that the
House will pass the Senate bill in order
that means may be speedily provided
for arbitration of the threatened indus
trial struggle. The matter will be brought
up in the House, tomorrow.
Currency will be taken up again by the
House committee on banking and curren-
cy beginning, tomorrow. and there is n
slight prospect that the committee may
get together and complete consideration
of the bill by the end of the Week.
The owen committee in the Senate has
dropped Consideration of the currency
bill While the tariff debate is progress
ing. 1t will be taken up within a few
weeks. The bill probably will be passed
in the House by the time the Seante has
disposed of the tariff bill.
Despite efforts to assure legislation at
this session, sentiment against enactment
of the currency law continues To grow
in the Senate. Democrats and Repubn-
cans alike have been heard to say that
ble bill will get no further in the Sen
ate than committee consideration,
which will lead to its being taken up on
the floor, next winter.
surprise was expressed. Saturday, when