The Washington times., 1913-07-28
LODGE AND MULHALL
CLASH OVER LETTER
Senator Denies He Ever Held
g. Conference With N. A. M.
Lobby Agent.

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas.
sachusetts this afternoon became in.
volved in an argument with Col. NJ. NJ
Mulhall before the Senate lobby investi-
eating committee, as 10 the truth OF
Mulhalfs alleged conferences with him
In the fall campaign Of 1910, on Massa-
chusetts politics. AauIhali declaring he
didn't want to contradict the Senator,
who had just denied emphaticaIy that
he had ever even heard Mulhalrs name
until the investigation started. stuck to
his statement that he had conferred
with Lodge
/ 81 had a conference with you in your
office" he said. "A z. Cox, with
whom had correspondence. extending
over three years, sent me to you and
he later paid me $1,000 for coming down
into massachusetts, and helping out the
Republican fight"
There were hundreds of people
around my office and you may have
come in" answered Lodge, but you
never had a conference with me-"
I've written Chairman Hatfield. Of
the Republican State committee and
neither knows anything of YOU
Lodge Gets Surprise.
How about this" broke in Senator
Reed, quoting from a letter to Null
hall from A. E. Cox, of the Atlantic
Iron Works. Of Boston, in which Cox
wrote MulhalI that he was so inter-
ing to what the N. A M could do in
Massachusetts, that he was sending
portions of the letter to, Chairman
Hatfield, of the Republican State COM
mittee.
Lodge was plainly surprised
well, he may have sent the portion
relating to the N. A. NJ. to Hatfield, !"
he said, but 1 knew nothing of 1t.
The letter which Lodge declared un-
true was one written in the fall of 1910
to j. p Bird by Mulhall. telling of a
conference he had with Lodge. In which
the latter had agreed to help elect the
u. A. NJ. candidates, and in which
Lodge was quoted as promising to con-
tinue opposition to certain labor meas
ures obnoxious to the manufacturers
association.
Admits He Was Optimistic.
In January, 1911, Mulhall wrote ]. p.
Bird, general manager of the N. A. M,
that he had just finished a conference
with two Senator's. and that he was
certain J. A. Emery, of the n. A. M.
could name the chairman Of the House
Labor Committee and could control the
Judiciary and Labor and Judiciary
Committees.
Under Senator Nelson's cross-exam-
oination, Mulhall admitted that he was
too optimistic.
He was unable to remember on what
grounds he had made the assertions in
the letter.
my partner of twelve years had just
gone insane. and am not clear on some
of those details" he said.
Mulhall reluctantly admitted that he
ho eat MnnfQnQ
and Dick of Ohio were the Senators he
conferred with.
His Work On Navy Bill.
On February 8, Mulhall wrote to
Bird that the fight against the Hughes
eight-hour amendment to the naval ap-
preparation bill was progressing. and
that he hoped. IL it did pass. that 1t
would be so amended as to permit
outside shipbuilders to bid for war
vessels without paying any attention to
the eight-hour law.
In this letter, Mulhan claims to have
had an Interview with the then Sec
retary of the Navy, George L. Won
Meyer, at which time he gave him
list of Congressman who were against
the Hughes amendment.
In February, 1911, Mulhall, always a
Santa Claus where the wholesale distri-
button of Government documents and
seeds were concerned, sent out quantf-
ties of both to the directors of the
n. A. NJ. Somebody stole those intend
ed for Mrs. George S. Boudinot, wife
of the secretary OF the n. A. M, and
Boudinot wrote asking for more. Null
hall franked him another bundle of
flower seeds.
20 Thanked By Judge.
On March 2, .1sl1, Judge William II.
Speer, of the Hudson county. N. j.,
court. wrote Mulhall, thanking him for
a volume of the memorial addresses Of