The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-08-19
N'DERMO1T IS HIT
FORMER CHIEF PAGE OF HOUSE
SAYS HE RECEIVED $500
FOR SHAPING BILL.
TESTIFiEs IN LOBBY INQUIRY
Chicago Consressman's Ex.Employe
swears Representative Proposed
That He Go to Prison for Others
SHARK" Bill Up.

nat ne 1o 10 Prison TOR Others
Shark" Bill Up.
Washington, Aug. 18.-A story of
bribery, petty and large. of confer
ences with lobbyists and of campaign
funds raised by manufacturers, involv-
ing Representative James T. McDer-
mott of Chicago. was told by /. H.
McMichael, former chief page OF the
house. before the house lobby investi-
eating committee Friday
McMichael said that Chicago mem
bers OF the National Association of
Manufacturers raised $3.50 as a cam
paign fund for McDermott, told OF
numerous transactions between Mar
tin NJ Mulhall and the stockyards con-
gressman. He swore that McDermott
told him that he received $500 for
his efforts to have the loan shark bill
in the District of Columbia amended
so that it would not fnjure pawn
brokers, and told of numerous confer
ences between the congressman and
the lobbyist.
At one Of these conferences, at
which he was present, McMichael said
that McDermott told Mulhall he would
need $4,000 for his campaign ex-
penses, and that Mulhall said he
would try to get it for him. Shortly
after that, he said. Mulhall brought
to McDeTmott's office a list of the
Chicago members of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers and Nc
DermOtt marked who were in his dis
trict McMichael. in the capacity of
McDermott's confidential secretary,
then returned the list to Mulhall and
later gave Mulhall SIS to go to Chi
cago at the request of McDermott,
who said he was broke"
This was during the 1912 campaign.
After he had been elected McDermott
told McMichael that MulhaH had not
raised cent for him and had left
him $500 hotel bill TO pay.
Subsequently, however, Mulhall
showed McMichael list of Chicago
manufacturers and the amount they
had contributed to McDermott's cam
paign fund, aggregating $3.50. The
only name on this list that McMichael
could remember was that of the Link
Belt company Another check given
by Harold Mccormick of Chicago was
collected both in the original and on
a duplicate.
McMichael then told of grip taken
by him and McDermott to New York
where they met George D. Hornung, g
Washington pawnbroker, and John
McDermott, a New York brewer. He
said that McDermott registered II
New York as "McDougal' and in
formed McMiehael that he did no
want any one to know he was there;
The four mentioned held confer
ence about the loan shark bill In JohI
McDermott's office and Representative
McDermott agreed with Hornung tha'
the pawnbrokers should not be pu
under the same restrictions as the so
called ten per centers, the witnes:
said. Later McMichael learned tha
$4,000 had been raised by Washing
ton pawnbrokers to have the bill 81
amended and named Hornung ant
Helnheimer, Bernstein and Tribby al
contributors to this fund.
In concluding his testimony Nc
Michael said McDermott had come t.
him since the publication Of the Mul
hall correspondence. including letter
ascribed to McDermott He said:
81 met McDermott In the hall o
this office building and he said, M,
God, I'm ruined man. What am
going to do? Do you suppose any
body will believe this old guy?
q said to him, I've worked har'
for you six years, harder than I eve
worked for any man. / tried to ele
vate you and help you to big posi-
ton.
81 told him I had done all / coul'
for him. He said:
You've got nothing to lose; yo'
don't live with your wife. I'm cor
gressman and I've got wife and Chi
dren.
Say you wrote these letters ur
beknownst to me. and that didn'
know anything about 1t.