Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-01
LOBBYIST TO Be
QUIzzED BY
HOUSE
SENATE COMMITTEE EXCUSES hhUL-
HALL UNTIL MONDAY IN ORDER
THAT the congressman MAY
TAKE HIM AS AN IMPORTANT
WITNESS.
SENATE GOES after
Big GAME next WEEK

Washington, D. c., Aug. 1.-Cross
examination of Martin NJ Mulhall
confessed lobbyist of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers, ended to
day before the senate lobby commit
tee.
Mulhall was excused until Monday
and turned over to the house lobby
committee. The senate committee
will turn next week to the files OF
the National Association of Manufac
turers and an examination of it's Off
Cials.
The senate lobby committee started
out again today with another disagree
ment about the cross examination of
tive session the committee decided
that the attorneys for the National
Association of Manufacturers should
have an additional two hours to eX-
anime the witness. The committee,
However. put the questions.
The lawyers began to direct the in
quiry to the National Council for In
dustrial Defense. Mulhall previously
testified that collector for that Or
ganization had told him it raised be-
tween $5OO,OOO and 100000 for lobby
work. He stuck to the story that
the organization was solely a paper
one, in which few officials of the
National Association of Manufacturers
became members.
The lawyers We're just getting to
the question of the motives back of
Mulhall's exposure when the COM
mittee adjourned. The witness had
time, however, to deny that he had
"Enifed" the late Senator McComas,
of Maryland, several years ago, by
working against the senator for re
election while posing as friend He
admitted he sent out circulars to bus
mess men in Baltimore while seem
irely still friend to McComas, hut
swore tha' he did this under orders of
N arshall Cushing, at that time secre-
tary of the association.
The lawyers referred to a fatter-
ing, friendly letter Mulhall wrote
Gushing just after the secretary left
the associations employ and then
tad from another letter dated few
weeks later written to an official in
which Mulhall attacked Cushing bit
terly Mulhall said Gushing gave him
lis employment with the National As
socaton of Manufacturers and that
lie always thought him a friend until
the latter quit.
Then l found out wasn't even
known by name-that Cushing had
gwen me a number and that he was
taking all the credit for what was
done here" he said.
Members of the committee asked
Mulhall about items in many of his
expense accounts for the sum of $50
paid to" two party workers in a
New Jersey campaign which appeared
almost weekly in his statement for a
long period of 1910.
Mulhall swore the money was paid
to Frank keeney, Philadelphia Ia
bad serious disagreement with
Manager Bird and Attorney
Emery over these items or that dis
agreement had anything to do with
his resignation" He swore, too,
that the disappearance of this partic-
ular item from expense accounts rem
Cered after this interview was said to
have taken place was because the
was over and not because
lie had been warned to leave it out.
J. p Tumulty, secretary to Presi.
dent Wilson, was spectator in the
room for a short time.
The lawyers worried Mulhall by
asking him about blacklist of con-
sressmen put in the record two weeks
ago. He could not explain the names
Of several Republicans alleged to have
teen put ON the list by the Republi-
can whip of the house.
When the committee questioned
Mulhall on claims in his letters about
naming chairmen and committees, and
p.acing friendly congressman, the
lawyers tried to pin him down to di- I
rect answers on how he expected to
do those things. Mulhall said he
wasn't clear about 1t now but thought
Emery was to make the ar
Apparent contradictions in Mulhall's
testimony about an alleged offer for :
his letters by Samuel Gompers' came
up. Once he swore he offered the let
ters to the labor leader and once he
swore Gompers tried to get them from
him. He finally testified that the
American Federation of Labor Of
Hcials never offered him anything for
he letters.