The Washington times., 1913-07-14
MULHALL TELLS
OF PEARRE FIGHT
More Letters of N. A. M. to Lob
| byist Read at Senate Hear.
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Mulhall what to do to beat him. Null
hall was told to 90 to the district, look
the ground over. encourage Lloyd
Iowndes. who was Pearres opponent.
and otherwise try to undermine Pearre.
In pursuance Of these instructions,
Nulhall made numerous trips to Pear
res district, to Cumberland, and other
points. He saw former Senator We'll
iington, Lowndes, and others, pushing
along the fight against Pearre in var
war on Pearre the same as on Senator
McComas
This is about the worst of the lot,
and he ought to be ashamed of himself
as lawyer for doing It," was the
way Gushing in one letter character
lied the Pearre anti-injunction bill.
Mulhall was told to Tight the fires
. little higher" in the region of Cum
berland and frighten Pearre off.
Pearre Himself Present.
The details of the war on Pearre oc-
cupied much of the time of the COM
mittee this morning, Pearre himself was
present, having answered the call of
the committee, but was excused until
next Monday. The correspond nee
showed that the n. A. NJ. was bitter
over the Pearre bill. Pearre was
dogged relenptlessly. Gushing hurled de-
nunciations at him and his bill In let
foot, as in the case of McComas and
Hughes Of New Jersey, to get the labor
men to double-cross him. Some of the
labor men We're induced to turn on
,Pearre and knife him while he was
working in their interest
Letters were sent out by the Working
mems Protective Association, MulhaH's
pet organization, to Pearre's district
attacking the anti-injunction measure.
Correspondence was disclosed between
Mulhall and Postmaster Holtzman, at
Cumberland, who was then fighting for
Lowndes, disclosing that the Lowndes
people were hand in glove with Null
hall in a scheme to get 1abcr organi-
zers put into the Sixth district against
Pearre. Some of these organizers were
union men.
All the while. when the fight was hot
ON Pearre, and while the y. \. NJ.
was using Mulhall in Philadelphia to
hire labor men there and head off
sympathetic strike in consequence of the
typographical strike in that city, close
relations were maintained between
Gushing and Mulhall. One letter of
Cushing's afludes to meeting in Wash
ington in the usual place" This, said
1fulhan. WAS in a small room curtained
OF near the bar of the New Willard.
Z MulQdu NcSumcS Slduus
MulhalI took the stand at a little
before 1880 He looked refreshed, and
wore his customary smile. Previously,
John Mitchell, former head of the
United Mine Workers. had come into
the rooms of the committee under sum
mons. He was excused by Chairman
Overman until July Is. This made II
plain that the committee feels II has
fo- Oh fhr0l0h
the Muihall correspondence.
As soon as the hearing opened, Sem
etor Reed proceeded again to question
the witness about letters. Several hum
tired Of the nearly 1900 in the hands OF
the committee have been identified by
Mulhall Those taken up In the early
part of today's session related chiefly
to the fight on Pearre and the Philadel-
phia strike situation, and further illumi-
mated Mulhall as a hired agent of the
n. A. NJ. passing himself OFF as friend
of labor, and employing the Working
mems Protective Association and vari-
Gus labor elements to serve the ends
of the manufacturers.
Stirred up by the newspaper attacks
upon him. Mulhall at the close of the
morning session demanded OF the COM
mittee that he be allowed to put in the
record the correspondence bearing on
his efforts to dispose of the correspond
ence which was finally turned over to
the New York World. He alluded es-
pecially to an attack upon him today by
the Baltimore Sun.
"Such attacks on me and my name
are entirely unjustified," said Mulhall
Indignantly.
Tells Of Selling Letters.
He then explained that, In the begin
ming, he was not seeking monetary con-
sideration for turning the correspond
anxious to show up the National Asso-
ciation of Manufacturers because of the
alleged crooked work II had done since
1893. He said that he had attempted for
the last two months to give the docu-
ments away.
He made three visits to William r..
Hearst at the request of Perraton Max
well, editor Of HeaTst's magazine. The
Hearst people would not publish the
documents, and they finally fell into
who was a newspaper tipster. Barry
the World, said Mulhall, and said he
could get at least $4,000 for them from
the National Association of Manufac-
turers. ! told him they were not to be
used for blackmail, and that the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers did
not have money enough to buy them.
Mulhall demanded that Louis Seibold,
of the New York World, and Mr. Max
well be subpoenaed. The committee did
not take action on this matter, but told
MUlhall that all the correspondence re-
lat!ng to the disposal Of the documents
would be put into the records