The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-08-01
LODGE GIVES LIE
TO MULHALL TALE
Senator Makes Denial of Story
Told by Lobbyist.
END OF QUIZ IS IN SIGHT
National Association Of Manufacturers
Turns Over Letters and Say
They Are Ready to Aid
i'm Probe.

Washington. July 3u~-When the
senate lobby investigating committee
resumed it's session on Monday Sena-
tor Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu-
sets took the stand and gaveNthe lie
direct to the confession" made by
Martin NJ. Mulhall, professed former
agent for the National Association OF
Manufacturers.
MuihaH was taken off the stand
long enough to permit Senator Lodge
to put into the record his emphatic
denials of Mulhall's testimony.
The MulhaIl testimony started on
it's fourth week and the committee
now hopes to end 1t during this week,
although it probably will lap over into
the next.
The National Association Of Manu-
facturers turned over to the senate
committee almost 100000 letters, com
prising it's complete correspondence
files, subpoenaed in New York. 1t
took a special express car to carry
the sixty file cases to Washington.
officials of this organization say
they are ready TO do anything the
senators may ask, although they re-
sent the way in which they SO far
have been treated.
They charge that the entire matter
is an effort on the part of the Demo
Gratis to repay political debts to Sam
uel Gompers and the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, whom they have
been fighting.
They cite Indignantly the fact that
the political work in which Mulhail
engaged was only a small feature of
the labors of the Manufacturers asso-
citation.
An organization so vast and so I'M
portant to the industrial life of this
nation" said former President Kirby,
does not propose to be politically
chloroformed, nor Mulhalled by set
up job, such as the present one-sided
investigation has all the earmarks OF
being.
Mulhall correspondence read and
sworn to brought him into the year
1911 when the house became Demo-
cratic. In many of the letters that
year he wrote of interviews with Ma
jority Leader Underwood; William B..
Wilson, secretary of labor in Presi-
dent Wilson's cabinet. then chairman
of the house labor committee; James
t. Lloyd of the First Missouri dis
trict, chairman of the Democratic
congressional committee, and other
prominent men.
He wrote in the strain he used ali
through his letters to j. P. Bird, the
general manager of the association,
and other officials, of having men ap-
pointed to committees, of preventing
legislation and of generally having
much to do with the operations Of
government in Washington.
Mulhall mentioned in several let
ters with assurance that he expected
to have even greater success with the
Democratic house than he had boast
ed he had in the days of Republican
rule, but, questioned by the commit
tee. said he had been too optimistic
in his prophecy.
Mulhall took up his relations with
Representative ]. T. McDermott of
Illinois and l. H McMichael, one-time
chief page of the house and conf
Dental secretary to the representa-
tive. He identified what he said was
a receipt for $500 given him by Nc
Michael for services in September
and October, 1911, and reiterated that
McDermott borrowed money from
him which he never paid back
All through the DAVIS letters Null
hall appeared in opposition to legis-
lation favoring labor. He swore that
there was a labor lobby in Washing
ton then in which officials of the
American Federation of Labor were
conspicuous.
One OF the last letters to go into
the record was dated October %, 1911
from Mulhall to General Manager Bird
offering his resignation.