Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-07-13
LABORING MEN
 WERE THE GOATS Mulhall Tells Lobby Com mittee How They Were
 Used as Boomerang.
HE WORKED FOR TAFT
Men With Millions Struck Down Pulp lie Men Not Willing to Do
 Their Bidding.

Washington, July 12.-The trial of ] William Barnes, Jr., was struck in the Senate Lobby Investigation today In 1905 State Senator Page introduced in Albany a bill, under the provision of which the burden of proof was placed on the defendant in all actions of la 1 boring men to recover damages in which the contributary negligence was offered as a defnese. 1 According to Mulhall the confessing agent of the N. A. M., Marshall Cush- 1 ing, the secretary decided that this was the sort of measure that should be killed and he sent Mulhall to AL bany to make the killing.
 What did you do?" asked Senator Cummins.
 i Well, l didn't have to see many persons up there at that time," Null hall declared, "to take care of the bill; all I had to do was to see Barnes. l l knew him very we'll" The measure never was reported out of the judiciary committee. Though it was a bill primarily intended for tho advantage of the working man, Mui- hall. the friend of the working man. saw to it's slaughter.
 Did you oppose the bill?" asked Senator Cummins, because you thought it bad thing for the working man?"
 "No."
 "Then for what reason?"
 Gushing didn't want it passed" re- piled Mulhall.
 Another interesting picture present. | ed by Mulhall was that of former 1 Senator Nelson w. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, one time boss of the United States, appealing over the telephone to the head of the Bartenders' Union, in Providence, R. l., for support in his campaign for reelection. ] How the defeat of William Hughes, now a senator from New Jersey, then ! a representative in Congress, was en- 1 compassed by the secret methods of the N. A. M. with Mulhall holding the strings, was put into the record today l by means of the Mulhall letters and 1 the witnesses own cynical explana- l tiOns.
 It is another story of the working man sold out. Hughes was objection I able to the National Association of Manufacturers because he had favor ed the labor bill.
 Thereupon, working through Null hall, who had a pull with labor, the very men who Hughes had struggled to assist were used to bring about his defeat.
 Mulhall, as strike breaker, was also marched across the senate stage. Mulhall again was shown working l hand in hand with that we'll known patriot, former Senator Foraker, in the interest of William Howard Taft in Ohio.
 Anon Mulhall was in Maine, then back once more in Maryland, then in Pennsylvania, always according to his
 own story, working under the sur face, bribipg trusted labor leaders, | selling out his friends, distributing the money of the manufacturers where 1 it would do the most good or the l greatest harm.
 By this story of Mulhall the N. A. M., has for the past decade been one
 of the most powerful factors in Am
 erican civilization. It has made and
 unmade statesmen, framed laws
 moulded industrial and economic con.
 ditions.
 l Mulhall drew a picture of an or.
 ganization with millions of captal be-
 hind it reaching out in the dark te strike down a public man not willing to do it's bidding.
 So far 25O of the 5000 letters, con stituting Mulhall's documentary proof have been put in evidence and th! most damaging of them. senators de
 clare today, are yet to come. ~. |, One thing that Mulhall may clear il the course of his testimony was tha the N. A. M. knows no partisan poll
 tics. Republicans and Democrat