South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-14
Lobby Hunt EnIivened by Game
of Hide and Seek Played by
Members of Senate and
House in Chase For Big Man.
GARRETT AROUSED BY
TRICK OF SENATE COM.
Wilson's Return to Washington
Will Find Senate Ready to
Begin Debate on Tariff Bill.
Sen. MCCumber to Open.

WASHINGTON. July 14-Martin
NJ Mulhan, confessed lobbyist of the
National Association Of Manufacturers.
after successfully lodging subpoena
servers Of the house of representatives
since Saturday afternoon. was be
fore the senate lobby investigating
committee again Manday and resumed
his revelations of alleged dealings and
double dealings with men Of affairs
in and out of congress.
Though legislative affairs, chiefly
tariff revision and currency reform,
still are progressing and destined 70
take on new vigor during the coming
week, interest in them just now is
Overshadowed by the Mulhall charges,
hitting at public men right and left
as the Overman committee digs deeper
into the huge pile of correspondence
carried on between this man, officials
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers, labor leaders, congressman
and others
Enlivening the interest in the lobby
hunt, is the game Of hide and seek
that attends il, members of the SEN
ate committee IN the role of hiders
and members of the house investiga-
tors strenuously acting as seekers
after the arch-witness Mulhall and
his ten-year pile of correspondence.
Chairman Garrett and his colleagues,
directed by the house TO inquire into
Mulhall's charges, were considerably
aroused Saturday over the trick played
by the senate committee, which let
Mulhall get out of town, before sub
poena servers could round up the
witness for a Saturday afternoon ses-
sion with the house committee.
Ready For Debate.
Pres. Wilson returns to Washing
ton Monday from his vacation and he
Will be gratified to find the senate
all ready to begin debate on the long
considered tariff bill. He also will
find that the bill has been made
party measure. as he desired il, and
that when il becomes a law ii Will
have been placed on the statute books
by the democratic party and not as
the result of any particular effort by
an individual congressman or sem
ator or clique of individuals.
The tariff debate will really begin
on Wednesday in the senate although
the first republican gun will be fired
Monday when Sen. McCumber attacks
the agricultural schedule.
He will speak by unanimous consent
because he is obliged 10 leave Wash
ington for some time. The senator
will return, however, in time TO vote
against the bill. Sen. Simmons. chair
man of the finance committee viii
submit the majority report on the bill
in a day or two and he will make
the opening statement for the admin
istratiOn on Wednesday. Republican
leaders intend to fight each schedule
vigorously and substitutes Cor each
one Will be offered.
Acting on Erdman Act
Action Of the committee of 1000.
representing the members OF the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
and conductors employed by the east
ern railroads, ratifying in New York
Sunday the strike vote taken by both
organizations is calculated to hasten
action in the house on the bill en-
larging the scape of the Frdman act.
Currency will be taken up again by
the house committee on banking and
currency beginning Monday and there
is a slight prospect that the commit
tee has dropped consideration Of the
currency bill while the tariff debate
is progressing