Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-17
ambitions of
 Manufacturers
SOUGHT TO CONTROL CONGRESS.
 IoNAL CAMPAIGN.
RETURN IS UNCERTAIN.
Planned to Have One of Their Rep
 resentatives in Official Family of President-More MuIhaIl Testimony.

Washington, July 16.-Plans to make
 the National Association of Manufac-
 turers the controlling factor in cam
 palgns for congress, to defeat leg1s-
 lation in Washington, that It's mem
 oers aid not approve, to get the ears
 of men who were running presidential
 booms and to land a member of the association in the cabinet of presi-
 dent. were laid before the senate lobby
 lnVestfgatlng committee today Mar tin M. Mulhall, self-styled lobbyist for
 the association, swore to the authen-
 tlc1ty of nearly 400 letters which told or these plans and brought in the
 names of such men as former Presi-
 dents Roosevelt and Taft. the late
 Speaker Cannon, former Senators Al drich Hemenway. Foraker and others. Arthur l. Vorys, Ohio manager of the
 Taft campaign of 1908, and Frank H.
 Hitchcock. one time chairman of the
 republican national committee and
 postmaster general in Mr Tafts cab
 inet.
 Information Was Second Hand.
 Mulhall testified, too. that the Ma
 t]ona1 Council for Industrial Defense, an organization allied to the National Association of Manufacturers, had
 raised between $500, ,00O and $7oO,oOO year to be used in opposing Ieets- lation it's members Nid not like. He said this information came from a. col lector for the council and that he had no personal knowledge of 1t except that he had been paid for political
 work from such fund
 Mulhall showed the strain he has been under for four days during the afternoon session and the committee took him from the stand for a half hour and listened to testimony by J. F. Bird, general manager of the Man ufacturers' association and treasurer of the Industrial defense council. Bird brought half carload of books and papers with him to Washington and surrendered them to the committee.
 MuihafI's Letter to schwedtman. Along with the information that
 Bird had half carload of data to submit, the committee heard that F. c. Schwedtman of St. Louis. secretary
 to the late James w. Van Cleave, once president of the National Association of Manufacturers. had about 1300O0 letters bearing on the associations
 work. Schwedtman was in constant communication with Mulhall accord ing to the latter's evidence
 The committee expressed interest In 8 letter which Mu1halI swore he wrote to Schwedtman on April Is, 1908 It told of conversation Mulhall had i'll | Washington with former Representa- 1 tive Watson of Indiana, in which the | latter described 8 two hour interview at the White House between Mir. Roosevelt and himself In part the let ter read:
 Roosevelt Quizzed About Third Term
 He (Watson) said he was invited to the White House at 9.30 D. rn and was with the president until Il 80 D,
 n- The president wished him to cali so they could talk over the legisla< tive programme for the balance of this session, the president Knowing that 1 A "a | the other leaders of the house and sen ate. He stated that the main reason of the call was that Speaker Cannon, Vice President Fairbanks and several other leaders wanted to find out how the president stood in relation to & third term. He stated that there were four things the president wished. First that congress would stay in session | until the 18th of May to receive the | governors of the different states com
 ing to Washington on that day: sec ond, to amend the Sherman law. Third to have congress vote for four battle 1 ships. Fourth to pass a, ctild's labor 1 law for the District of Columbia, which would be model law for the states in general
 Discussed Sherman Law. "Mr. Watson says he told the pres tdent it was impossible for him to get through this congress two of those bills. First, that congress would only vote for two battleships. Second. that congress would not amend the Sher- man law. The president wanted to know why. Mir Watson told him that almost the entire manufacturing in- terests of the country were against 1t. The president wished to know if MT. Watson knew or had met Mir Van Cleave. MT. Watson told him he had and knew MT Van Cleave well and other leaders who were in touch with MT. Van Cleave and that MT. Van what the manufacturers wanted Hs stated that he talked along these lines with the president and finally ths president did not press to have the Sherman bill passed at this session of congress.
 Wanted Muihaii fr Congress. ''Ie then stated that they passed Ho
 the childI labor law and Mr. Watson
 asked the president who would draw the model bill. The president replied that he would have his labor com missioner, MT. Neil, draw it. the pres ident explaining that he merely wished this bill to be an academic bin for the states"
 Schwedtrnan told MuIhai in a letter early in 1S0s '1t is really a. pity that we cannot get you to congress or to the senate right away. You ought to be there. Each day teaches us how to do things better, and just another year of this harmonious cooperation will put us in g. shape where nobody
 can beat us.'
 The letter was dated Aprt1 i.
 FOUR DEATHS RESULT