Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-10
MULHALL TO Be
FIRST ON STAND
His Appearance Will Be Fol-
lowed by Probe of Lob
by Activities.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-Mart!n
M. Mulhall, confessed lobbyist" for
the National Association of Manu-
faeturers. probably will be the first
witness called before the House lobby
| committee. which met today and
made preliminary plans for its in
vestigation, which probably will be-
gin Monday.
With a resolution passed without a
dissenting voice, by the terms of
which the House will make sweep
ing investigation of all so-called
lobbying in the House, both past and
lpresent, Representative FINS j. Gar
rett, of Tennessee, chairman of the
COMMITTEE on investigation which
Speaker Clark appointed, is waiting
today for the Oyerman committee in
the Senate to turn over to him the
lpapers in the Mulhall charges before
| beginning action.
Other members of the committee to
conduct the inquiry are Cyrus Cline,
of Indiana; Joseph J. Russell, of Mis-
souri,, and Seaborn A. Roddenbery, of
Georgia, Democrats, and William Fl.
Stafford, of Wisconsin; Frank B. Will
lis, of Ohio, and John l. Nolan, Of
California, Republicans.
Representative Richard Austin, of
Tennessee, a Republican, asked
whether the committee would inves-
tigate the charges of blackmail made
against David Lamar in the House
two years ago by Martin w. Little
ton. On that occasion Mr.. LittIeton
said that Mr.. Lamar was responsible
for published stories accusing him of
trying to Shape the work of the Stan
ley steel investigating committee. of
which Mr.. Littleton was a member,
to suit the United States Steel Cor
poration.
Representative Robert l.. Henry, of
Texas, who led the debate on the
Democratic side, replied that he sup
posed the committee would go into
the Lamar matter. Mr.. Garrett in
timated later that the question of
whether or not Mr.. Lamar was tell
ing the truth when he said he was
responsible for the Stanley steel in
vestigation would be investigated. ].
H. McMichaels, accused by Mr.. Null,
hall of being spy at the Capitol in
the employ of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, was removed.
from the government rolls today.
Little progress can be made by the
Garrett committee until the Senate
surrenders the documents of M NJ
Mulhall, one-time field agent" of the
| National Association of Manufactur
ers, author of the latest sensational
lobby charges. The Overman Senate
committee may hold on to the docu
ments for month or two.
United States Attorney Snowden
| Marshall, of New York, at the direc-
| ton of the Department of Justice, is
| investigating whether Mr.. Lamar vio-
lated any federal statute by the i'm
| PRESERVATION of members of Congress
in dealings with Wall Street inter-
ests. The investigation is confined to
| an analysis of the statutes, and the
question of a grand jury inquiry has
not yet been taken up.
William Whitman, of Boston, for
merly president of the National AS
ISOLATION of Wool Manufacturers, was
on the stand before the Senate COM
mittee. Mr.. Whitman told about his
interest in tariff legislation beginning
| in 1873. He got only as far as the
Dingley bill in 1897 when the COM
mittee adjourned.
William Whitman, of Boston,
| brought to the committee a large
! letter copybook, and much of its con-
| tents was put on the record and not
made public. Letters and kilograms
between Whitman and S. N. D. North,
an employee of the wool men, who
was clerk to the Senate finance COM
mittee and later became director of
the census. were put into the record
| by Senator Reed.