Arizona republican., 1913-07-10
LOBBY PROBE Is
 GOING DEEPER
More Scope is Given Inves- tigation Through Passage in Senate of Henry Reso- lution Calling for Special Committee of Seven
TAssoCIATED PRESS DIsPATCH1

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, July 9-A lobby inv estigation of extraordinary scope vas authorized by the house today t. supplement the senate probe al ready under way. With the pasSa ge of the Henry inVestiga tion resolution a special committee of seven was inn mediately appointed by Speaker
 Clark with Representative Garrett of
 Tennessee as chairman. The com
 mittee will meet tomorrow to make
 plans for the institution of the probe
 at once. While the house investiga-
 ton is prompted largely by the alle-
 gation of Col. M. M Mulhall regard
 ing the legislative activities of the
 National Association of Manufact-
 urers the resolution as finally adopt
 ed so enlarged the scope of the in
 quiry that all efforts to control the
 members of the house or to influ-
 ence legislation by any person or or
 ganization will be subject to the in-
 quisitOrial power of the committee.
 The speaker apointed with Chair
 man Garrett of Tennessee Represen-
 tatives Cline of Indiana, Russell of
 Missouri an1 Roddenberg of Georgia.
 democrats; Willis Of Ohio. Stafford
 of Wisconsin, republicans, and Nolan of California, progressive. Repre- sentatives Cline, Willis and Stafford were out of town but the chairman wired them to return at once.
 They will probably arrive some time tomorrow or Saturday. Chairman Garrett expects to begin the hearings on Monday. The special senate com mittee today continued it's inquiry into the activities of lobbyists con- cerned in the sugar, and wool sched- ules of the tariff bill. The commit tee has not yet begun to prove the Mulhall charges, although all cor respondence and documentary proof is classified and arranged for use as soon as witnesses are called for eX- 
 Many of the witnesses involved in l the Mulhan charges are already at i Washington and summoned to take l the stand before the senate commit l tee Among these are several former | members Df congress and officers of | the National Association of Manu- | facturers Later they asked that | Senator OVerman be called and about l forty former and present members i of congress, among them former Speaker Cannon, former Senator Al drich former Representative Watson of Indiana and others mentioned by | AIulhall. These witnesses VIII be wanted by both the senate and house committees. Printed copies Of the Mu1han spondence have been prepared by the house inquisitors. A resolution adopted in the house pro vices for all hearing of the commit tee to be open to the public. The fight against the resolution was led ov Representative Levy who opposed particularly the reinsertion of pro- vision allowing the committee to em- olov counsel. This was done by vote of 1O2 to 1O4. On Sunday, June ,9, said Representative McDermott' an article appeared in the press or he country, Mulhall accused me of oe:ng in the pay of the National As sociation of Manufa cturers. This IS m unjust and outrageous falsehood. never received a cent from any )Odv belonging to this association. always cast my vote on the side or abor and the votes will show this Q be fact I am willing to let nv record speak for itself to the people. I am ready to go before he committee at any time and rust the investigation will be most thorough The results will show the leep laid conspiracy by Mulhall anu others.