The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-12

money for yourselfr'
Exactly" replied Mulhall.
Mr.. Cushing was sending messages to
Senator McComas through the witness
and others that strong opposition wa
developing to him at home because OF
an eight-hour bill he was trying to have
passed.
Cushing was trying to call McComa,
of from his labor work.. holding Null.
halls organization in reserve to use
against McComas II necessary. Hundreds
Of letters were written to the latter al
Mr.. Cushing's request to dissuade him
from pushing the eight-hour bill. 1t was
represented that such proposed legisla-
ton had led manufacturers to reduce
wages and that nonunion men were
overwhelmingly against II. The witness
said he had the Workingmen's Protective
Association pass resolutions condemnins
the bill.
On January .. 1904, Mr.. Cushing. In
a letter. warned the witness against die.
tating letters to stenographers n
hotels and saying 1t was not good
to confide in too many people
By 1904 Mulhall had come out into the
open in his fight on McComas, and with
a couple OF hired labor workers. at the
expense of the N. A. NJ, he went out to
Chicago to bring about the defeat OF
McComas for the National Committee
Mulhall was warned by Gushing to work
quietly. as he was to go to the Demo-
cratic convention in St. Louis to do some
work. One Of the jobs mapped out for
Mulhall at both conventions was to Sc
cure the passage OF resolutions against
the eight-hour bill. Through all this fight
against labor legislation. Mulhall was to
use his own labor organization.
Gushing was constantly warning Null
hall to be discreet and keep under cover.
I'VE need not only loyalty. but abso-
lutte secrecy and discretion" he wrote in
one letter Of instructions.
North ON Pay Roll.
William Whitman. Of Brookland. Mass.
yesterday admitted to the Senate COM
mittee that S. N. d. North. secretary
of the National Association OF Wool
Manufa cturers. continued to receive pay
from that organization while he was a
clerk OF the Senate finance Committee
and again when he " IS chief statistician
of the Census Bureau.
w. l.. Marvin, OF Boston. presented
the committee a summarized statement
of the receipts and expenditures of the
that none of the money had been spent
for political purposes. A special fund of
SIS. 00o was collected in 1911 and a larger
fund In 1903 to be used to protect the
wool interests when tariff legislation was
imminent. This money was disbursed
by ]. F. Green. Marvin thought most
of 1t was spent for printing.
r. d. Bowen. of Paris. Tex. who called
a meeting of officials of farmers unions
in New Orleans on April 30. which. II.
S. Mobley. president Of the Arkansas
Farmers Union. branded before the
committee as fake asserted that he
had a right to call the meeting. as he
was chairman of a committee Of the Ma
tional Farmers Union specially appointed
to augment the consumption of cotton.
Bowen's only tariff activity. he said.
was to urge a higher duty on jute. He
urges the substitution of cotton for jute
bagging.
He excited the committee by taking
from his hat a brown paper bag. which
he waved toward the Senators He then
withdrew from 1t an onion and declared
with emphasis:
This is an Egyptian onion
The committee was much relieved to
find what a harmless object 1t was.
Bowen explained that Egyptian onions
are flooding the American market.
Speaker Champ Clark appeared before
the committee Unexpectedly to read a
written statement. in which he denied
that he knew or ever had any dealings
with David Lamar. Edward Iauterbach,
Lewis Cass Ledysrd. or J. P. Morgan.
He criticised Ledyard for not informing
him of the use of the Speakers name by
Lamar and Lauterbach.
Timothy ID. Murphy. of Chicago. an
elevator man at the Capitol. was sub
poenaed yesterday. He is expected to
give sensational testimony regarding
in which interested per-
sons expressed a desire to get NJ. NJ.
ont of the way before he had
an opportunity to testify. Murphy has
been urged through Senator Lewis to tell
all he knows about the Mulhall case.