The Irish standard., 1913-07-19
PLANS TO control
LEGISLATION Barred
MANUFACTURERS EVEN SOUGHT
PLACE m TIE CABINET, sAYs
NULHAll.
LETTERS OUTLINE SCHEMES
Lobbyist Tells Of Lsres Sum Raised to
Defeat Leglsiatlen-tvitns Be.
qlns to Show ENeots Of
the 0traIN.

the Strain.
Washington, July 17.-Plans to make
the National Association of Manufac-
turers the controlling factor in cam
paigns for congress, to defeat logisla-
ton in Washington its members did
not approve, to get the ears 0f men
who were running presidential Blooms
and to land a member of the assooia.
ton in the cabinet Of president were
laid before the senate lobby fnvestt
eating committee.
Martin M. Mulhau. sslf-styled lob
byist for the association. swore 10 the
authenticity Of nearly 400 letters
which told of these plans and brought
In the names Of such men as former
Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. the
late Vice President Sherman, former
Speaker Cannon, former Senators Aid
rich. Hemenway, Foraker and others;
Arthur l. Vorys. Ohio manager Of the
Taft campaign Of 1908, and Frank H.
Hitchcock, one time chairman o9 tho
Republican national committee and
postmaster general in Mr.. TRft's cab
met.
Fund for Making Fights.
Mulhall testified, too, that the ma
tional council for industrial defense,
an organization allied to the National
Association of Manufacturers, h
raised between 100000 and $1,000
year to be used In opposing legisl
ton it's members did not like. He ga,
this information came from q cpllectc
Of council and that he had no persona
knowledge of 1t except that he had
been pail for political work from such
fund.
Mulhall showed the strain he has
been under for four days and the
committee took him from the stand
for half hour and listened to tes-
timony by G. p. Bird, general man.
ager of the manufacturers associa-
ton and treasurer Of the industrial
defense council Bird brought half
carload Of books and papers with
him to Washington and turned them
over to the committee He RI
to say who had contributed
fund of the council. but he
examined at length later al
committee will undertake to man.
toll what manufacturers contributed
and what amounts thoy gave.
Along with the Information that
Bird had half carload of data to
submit. the committee heard that F.
c. Schwedtman Of st. Louis, secre-
tary to the late James w. Van Cleave
once president of the National As
sociation Of Manufacturers. had about
10000 letters bearing on the asso.
cations work. Schwedtman was in
constant communication with Mulhall,
according to the latter's evidence.
| Certain Letter Interests.
The committee was greatly inter.
ested in letter which Mulhall swors
he wrote to Schwedtman on April 16.
1908. It told Of a conversation Null
Representative Watson Of Indiana, in
which the latter described a two-hour
interview at tho White House be-
tween Mr.. Roosevelt and himself.
Rooseveit's Attitude Dssorlhsd.
| In part tho letter read:
"He (Watson) said he was invited
to the White House at $3.50 p. m and
was with the president until 11:80
p. m. The president wished him 10
call 40 they could talk over the leg
islative program for the balance Of
this session, the president knowing
that he represented Speaker Cannon
and the other leaders Of the house
and senate. 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 rela.
ton 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 di1.
rerent states coming to Washington
on that day; second. to amend tho
Sherman law; third, to have congress
vote for four battleships; fourth, to
pass child labor law for the District
Of Columbia, which would be model
law for the states in general"