New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-12
MULHALL BARES
HIS LOBBY WORK
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Senator OVerman that the house COIL
mittee was going to subpoena Mulhall
to appear tomorrow, and the Senate
committe decided TO forestall the
House. So hurried was the decision
that Robert II. McCarter ex-Attorney
General Of New Jersey, who is here as
counsel for the National Association of
Manufacturers, did not find out that
Mulhal was on the stand until 10
o'clock.
When Mulhall entered the committee
room he was accompanied by T. ID. Sui
livan, of the Capitol police, who has
| been assigned to him as bodyguard.
| Mulhall is rather short and stout, and
looks like a Tammany Hall leader on
the East Side. His face was ford,
with small gray eyes, and his hair,
which once was blond, is turning gray.
| Mulhall was nervous when he took
the stand. He twitched his fingers,
and in reading letters that were
| handed to him by Senator Reed his
hands shook A grin-a sort of half
| Iaugh-played over his features all the
while he testified. and altogether his
! demeanor was that of a man who was
! getting square" on somebody and en-
| loved the way he was doing it,
In answer to the questions of Senator
Reed, Mulhall said he was born on Au-
gust g. 1850. He had lived in Balu-
more for thirteen years, and before
| connecting himself with the National
| Association of Manufacturers spent
three years in manufacturing brushes
and ten years doing political work for
the Republican National Committee.
The witness said he managed the
| campaign in Ohio in 1884, and in 1888,
at the request OF Mr.. Mckinley, spent
| his time in Albany and Rensselaer,
counties. in New York. He did some
more work there i'm 1892, afterward
going TO the Republican Congressional
COMMITTEE, when Mr. Babcock was
chairman. In 1900 he said, he went up
TO Maine to help Joseph Manley, at the
| latter's request.
the New Willard Hotel about the mid
die Of December, 1902. Previous to that
| time he had been member Of the Re-
tail Clerks Union, of Philadelphia, and
was sent AS delegate to the Central
Labor Union there.
Colonel Mulhall recognized tele-
gram from n. Carroll Downs. secretary
to Senator McComas. relative to the
employment Of two officers OF the
| Moulders' Union who we're prominent
| in the WorkIngmen's Protective Asso-
citation. Later letter from Booth was
read telling of the strength of the
Workingmens Protective Association,
and also Kicking" at the jobs Senator
McComas got for them, saying they
expected $50 a month, and instead got
| $40, shovelling coal and cleaning brass.
Asked to Aid Manufacturers.
Mulhall said he first met Mr.. Gushing
in 1888. when. he said, he was an edi
torial writer on The New York Press"
At their meeting in December. 1902. Mr..
Cushing asked him to do political work
for the National Association of Manu-
facturers.
His employment began on January
TO- 1903, Mulhall testified. for he got
letter from Mr. Cushing with an in
closure Of 500. This letter was not
1900 o-d Ap1holl eafd tho National
Association Of Manufacturers secre-
tary had habit OF sending letters in
that way.
Mr.. Cushing sent witness on Deem
sent to Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Yerkes, urging that Mulhall be
| kept in his post in Baltimore. In lead
pencil was written warning to Null
hall not TO let Senator McComas know
that Cushing had recommended him,
because the National Association Of
Manufacturers was then opposing Sen
ator McComas because Of his friend
ship for labor bills.
In the contest between the Wachter
and McComas factions, Mulhall said.
both sides wanted the support Of the
Workingmen's Protective Association.
but acting ON the advice Of Mr.. Cush-
ing. he stood pat" That is. he refused
TO take sides. so that pressure could be
brought on Senator McComas TO have
him hold up his eight-hou bill. Null
nf
pressure by getting union men to write
| to Senator McComas urging him TO
take no action, as they. felt that the
passage of the eight-hour bill would
reduce wages and drive the manufact-
urers into an organization OF their own
Well" said Senator Reed summed
up, your relations with Mr.. Cushing
were that he WAS trying to keep you in
political position, giving you some
money. and keeping up a political or
ganization?"
Yes, that's about IT," answered Null
| hall
Answering another question OF Senator
Reed. Mulhall said that Mr.. Downs, sec
rotary 10 Senator McComas. was working
with Mr.. Gushing, supplying him with in
| formation.
Mulhall said that during 1903 Mr.. Cush-
| ing i'm all his letters urged him 10 prevail
on Senator McComas 10 withhold his
eight-hour bill, and at Cushing's request
he had several Republican leaders write
letters 10 the Senator telling him the
state would go Democratic If he persisted