Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-07-17
TELLS SENATE OF USING
SPIES FOR ACCUSED ASSOCIATION


inevitable.
At present the senate committee Is
more concerned with the charges made
by Mulhall than in providing for fu-
ture contingencies. There is a gen.
erfl belief that enough material will
be forthcoming mex week to justify
the house in taking up at least one
case in concrete form and opening
the way for ventilation of scandals
that have not as yet been injected
into the senate proceedings.
Three Hours on the Stand.
Under agreement with the senate
lobby committee Mulhall spent only
three hours on the witness stand. On
the plea that he had some important
business to transact in New York, he
was permitted to leave the city, to
return and take up the thread of his
narrative.
The most important feature of the
colonel's testimony concerned his first
undertakings as lobbyist and strike
breaker for the National Association
of Manufacturers. His examination
was conducted entirely through the
medium of letters, kilograms and re-
ports which related chiefly to his eff
forts under direction of Marshal Cush-
ing and other officials of the N. A. NJ.
to defeat the late Senator McComas
of Maryland; the starting of fake la
Dor organizations to carry out the
N. A. MS political undertakings and
the methods pursued by him under
direction of Gushing and other N. A.
M. officials in breaking the strike Of
union job printers in 1906.
Letters Are Identified.
He identified letters rendered him
for scrutiny by Senator Reed, Illus
trating the devices of himself and
other N. A. M. agents in breaking up
the Philadelphia strike. These letters
contained the names of the alleged
disloyal organized trade u~nionists t o
whom money had been paid for their
treason and the dates upon which it
had been paid.
That the colonel was laboring un-
der intense excitement was shown
on frequent occasions, particularly in
regard to the Emery incident. EN-
ery's offense was in the i~nterpreta-
ton placed on it by the colonel. 1t
was a whispered question he ad-
dressed to Senator Reed, the purport
of which was whether a letter sub
mitted by the Missouri senator to the
colonel was on a letterhead or blank
paper. Before Senator Reed made an
attempt to answer, the colonel fig
uratively came up on his toes. He
almost bounded from the witness,
stand.
mo Laughing Matter"
With the index finger of his right
hand pointing straight at Emery, he
fairly shrieked a protest. Addressing
Senator Reed, he said:
Senator, | don't like this whisper
ing going on around here. Pm open
and above board, and If these gentle
men have got anything to say let them
stand up and say it."
The colonel meant by these gentle
men" Emery and McCarter.
i notice" he said, raising his voice.
that these people are going to have
counsel here. | ought to have coun-
sci. l notice that they're laughing at
me. | can tell them that this is no
laughing matter. This is a fight to a
finish between me and the worst gang
in the country"
senator Reed, admonished Emery
and McCarter and assured the colonel
that he would be protected against
annoyance. He afterward directed
that no person interested in the IN
quiry should be permitted to occupy
seats in front of the witness. Emery
and McCarter had crowded themselves
into chairs just behind Senator Reed.
who stood at the end of the table at
which the committee occupied seats.
After this outburst McCarter and EN-
cry a%ssiduously refrained from looking
at the colonel.
ouarreIed With Gushing.
/ Mulhall identified more letters,
showing his relations to Marshall
Gushing, secretary of the Association
OF Manufacturers. He testified he had
an understanding with Gushing that
he was to receive 500 a week and
$40 a week for expenses for general
field work and lobby work in Wash
ington." His arrangement with Cush-
ing began in the summer of 1904 and
he understood it to be permanent, al
though he had nothing to bind the
association. I.
Mulhall testified further Of how he
worked to defeat former Senator Nc
Comas of Maryland, although he posed
as the senator's friend. He said he
had received 500 letters from Cush-
ing directed against McComas.
Il turned them over to Carl M.
Downs, secretary to McComas," he
added.
DO you mean you delivered these
letters against McComas to his secre-
tary?" demanded Senator Reed.
Carl M. Downs was in the pay
Of Cushing" replied the witness, who
went on to explain that he quarreled
with Cushing because he was buying
out" the secretary of a senator.
A letter to Senator Foraker, Sept.
70, 1904, referred to a suggestion that.
Mulhall 60 to Rhode Island to help,
Senator Aldrich in his campaign. He,
testified he went later at the request.
Of Aldrich.
He asked me to get into touch
with labor men there to get their sup
port"
Mulhall resented any implication