The Prescott daily news., 1913-07-26
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS DECIDE TO LET 5000 LETTERS SPEAK
 FOR THEMSELVES.
HAD INTERVIEW WITH TAFT
Mulhall's Letter to Foraker Says Pres ident Was Pleased With N. A. M. Activties-Has Tilt With
 Senator Nelson.

Washington, July 26-Martin M. MulhalPs story of his lobby activities for the National Association of Manu- lecturers, as unfolded before the sen- ate lobby committee, is to be allowed to stand virtually without cross-ques- tioning from Democratic members of the committee.
 Senators Nelson and Cummins, who began a severe questioning of the wit ness on many of his statements, prob ably will continue to demand more detailed statements on his letters as they are introduced into the record, but the Democratic members, Senators Overman, Reed and Walsh, expect to let the Mulhall story stand principally on the evidence presented in the 5000 or more letters
 Mulhall will go before the house lob by committee early next week, and it is expected that there he will be sub | 1ected to a rigid examination as to the charges contained in his mass of cor respondence, that members of the house were his close associates in po- | litical campaign work and in efforts | to head off labor legislation The senate committee also has indicated that it will not permit a general cross examination of Mulhall by attorneys or officers of the manufacturers and those officials will attempt to make Mulhall defend his statements before the house committee next week | Mulhall said he went to Massachu- setts in August, 1910, and wrote to General Manager Bird of the Manufac- turers of conferences with Senator Lodge and Charles F. Hatfield "chair- man of the state committed.
 Senator Lodge pays us all kinds of compliments for the work we are do- 1 ing, and l know we will have his aid more actively during the next cam paign," wrote Mulhall. In other letters that month Mulhall wrote, through our efforts we have beaten the Hon. T. D. Nichols of the Tenth Pennsylvania, and we also have. beaten the notorious George A. Pearre of injunction fame, in the Sixth Mary land"
 Aug. 30. Mulhall wrote to President Taft asking for an interview for Bird and himself.
 Tt will be a great help to have number of the leaders of the manufac- turing associations in touch with the leaders of our party throughout the country in the present crisis the let ter ran.
 Interview With Taft.
 Mulhall swore he received a reply from C.. D. Norton, the presidents secretary, arranging the interview fer Monday afternoon. Sept. 12, at Bever- ly.
 Senator Nelson questioned Mulhall closely about itemsin the expense ac- counts which frequently showed $S0, amounts paid to two party workers" for services in the Sixth New Jersey district Mulhall swore he dealt with man named "Feeny" and that he paid him the money in cash, usually meeting him in Philadelphia hotel. The items appeared almost every week.
 Oct 5, 1910, Mulhall wrote to for mer Senator Foraker about his talk with President Taft, saying he had submitted names of men who would help in the campaign.
 He seemed to scrutinize the list very closely" Mulhall wrote, "and talked as if John H. Taylor of East Liverpool and E. M. Hanna were not enthusiastic friends of his.
 He was greatly pleased with the work I told him had been done in Massachusetts and other states, and advised me to inform our people to do everything we possibly could to keep fin touch with leaders of the congress sional committee, so that we might be able to help in close congressional dis tricts.''
 Senator Nelson and Mulhall pro- vided a stir at the session of the com mittee when the Minnesota man sub- jected the colonel to a cross-f1re of questions tending to discredit his tes.