Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-07-18
MULHALL AGAIN ;
BEFORE SENATE
Confessed Lobbyist Tells How
Work Was Done.
MONEY VERY FREELY USED
Details Activities in Effort to Defeat
Senators MeComas, Of Maryland
and Hughes Of New Jersey.

Washington, July 13.-~Under sub
poenas to appear at the same hour be-
fore two separate congressional com.
mittees in sessions At distant ends of
the Capitol Martin M. Mulhall, who
Is testlryfng as to the alleged lobby
Ing" activities Of the National Assoc
citation of Manufacturers, faced a puz-
| cling situation.
The tangle was the result of a clash
OF authority between the senate and
house investigators. AS the senate
| subpoena antedated that issued by the
house committee and the witness was
10 the custody OF senate deputy ser
Eeant-at-arms, the upper house was
q a position to enforce its ultimatum.
| Mulhall and J. III. McMichael ap-
5eared at the senate committee room
snd were placed under guard of an
| assistant sergeant-at-arms. The house
committee, minus it's expected Wit
| nesses, went into an executive session
to plan further action.
MuihaIi Resumes Stand. e.
Mulhall finally resumed THE stand
and took up the Identification of his
letters, which he began at the previous
session. James A. Emery counsel for
the National Association of Manufac-
turers, made formal request for the
right of the association to be repre-.
sented by an attorney. Chairman
Overman said the committee would
decide later whether Robert McCar-
ter. attorney general Of New Jersey,
should have che general privileges of
$40 attorney for the association
Mulhall identified more letters show
ing his relations with Marshall Cush-
ing, secretary Of the association of
manufacturers. He testified he had an
understanding with Gushing that he
was to receive 500 4 week and $40
week for expenses for general field
work and lobby work in Washington"
Mulhall testified further of how be
worked to defeat the late Senator NC.
Comas Of Maryland, although he posed
as the senator's friend, He said he had
received 500 letters from Cushing d.
rected agaiast NcComas.
Secretary In Opponents Pay.
u turned them over to Carl NJ
Downs, secretary to McComas," he
added.
do you mean yeu delivered those
letters against McComss 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 before he was buying
out" the secretary Of senator.
Mulhall resented any Implication
that he had tried to play double
game" ON the labor men, such as he
frankly testified he played on Nc
Comas. In 1903 he took paid up
union card and had no further con.
nection with labor unions" Ae said.
Harry G. Kurten, secretary Of the
Allied Building Trades of Philadel-
phia, was engaged, Mulhall testified,
| in the fight against William Hughes.
then a representative and now sen
ator from New Jersey.
Were you sent to help beat Hughes
| by the National Association of Manu-
facturers? asked Mr.. Reed.
| Eyes, sir"
| why did they want 20 beat
Hughes?"
| Hughes Held Union Card.
con account of his holding a union
card being affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and his &C
tivity on the floor of the house and
with the labor leaders in Washington
did you pose as a friend of the
labor organizations and thus work
against these organizations from the
,nside?" asked Senator Cummins.
Not at that time"
Testifying further aheut the cam
paign against Hughes, Mulhall swore
he went to Paterson to aid Hughes
opponent. He hired six union men to
work against Hughes and paid them
about $1,000, which came from the
National Association of Manufacture
ers, through Cushing.
The union msn in the pay of the
National Association Of Manufacture.
ers, Mulhall said, took possession of
5000 circulars sent into the district
by the American Federation Of Labor
to aid Hughes and turned them over