Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
MULHALu CANNED
FROM CLEVELAND
POLICE FORGE,
He ADMITS
Frying Into Lurid Past Causes
Star Lobby Probe Witness to
Wax Violent in Language
Before Committee.
LIVELY ROW BETWEEN
SENATOR AND ATTORNEY
10y Ieascd Wire b Escnlnr iroraId. \

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Wasninglon, July gi.---Msrtln M.
Muihaiis ctoh1-eAaElinaflon by alior-
neya f0r the National Association OF
Manufacturers before the senate iohs
by conmistec today opened with a
lively row between senator Reed and
Attorney Robert NcCarter. McCar-
ter insisted on HakinF questions him-
folf: Senator Reed Insisted that ali
questions should 20 through the COM
mittee; Chairman Ovcrman ruled
With Senator Reed,
McCarter procipllaied the outbreak
by asking Mulhnll II he had not been
discharged from the Cleveland police
force ten years ago for violation OF a
state law
Mulhail replied he was dismissed
for political reasont and demanded
counsel.
- was advised ~ friends 10 refuse
TO answer you" he said. II want
counsel. insist on H. and refuse TO
60 on until i have "a rll go to Jail
before Fll answer questions about
my personal affalrs thirty or forty
years aRo."
Instead of being Resigned 60 throw
light on this ease. MANY of these ques-
tiOns are designed I'D throw mud az
the Witness" said senator Reed.
This h an inNestleaslon; not a trial.
insist YOU have NJ right to say a
word here, he cOnpluded. addressing
McCartcr.
sIulhail wltbdrow his demand for
counsel and the heaTinR proceeded,
with the ATTORNEYS submitting their
questions 10 Chairman Ovcrman.
'fs u not tfuo hat samuel ~
Springer, who resides at your house,
tried "a dispose of these letters to
the philadelphia Prss and the Phil
adelphin Hecura7"
TITS vicious iici he shouted.
Mulhall denied thai he ever offered
the correspondents I'D two magazines
or 20 the New Ytrh Times. lie de-
nifo isuysue Huade statement TO
Richard Barry, who WIS Represents
ing him. that the manufacturers as
sociatiOn would pay Si5O.000 for the
documents. " they could not he dis
posed uf To papers or magazines.
Mulhall denied that he agreed Bar
ry should sell the letters to the New
York .Torid for $4,000 aud that he
would be content with $4,000, but
later hc testified that at Barry's sug-
ges,ion he did agree, ile never naid
Barry.
"Ilave YOU published all the letters
between you and the ,nssocintion Y'
asked Senator Cummina
~ believe I have not"
Mulhall swore that payment uf
monthly sums Ia j. H. McMichael.
one tine chief PAGE Of the house,
Harry Parker, messenger to the ways
and means committee, and the speak
er's do0rkeSIier were mnde with the
know ledge and consent of j, H. Em-
cry, counsel for the manufa Cturcrs.
He testified that the payments began
In 1903 and ran through most og
a.. a.
signed to show that Emery was on
tho Pacific coast and Ia Europe
many months in years. Mulhall con-
tended that when Emory WAS away
the three were not paid and the sums
were made up later.
Mulhali sw0re that samuel dom.
pers. president OF the American Fed-
GRAFTON OF Labor. and jackson "a.
Ralston, attorney for that oFganiza-
ton. tried more than year ago -
scCure the letters he laid before IN ,
senate committee The committee
rcud a letter from Mulhail 10 John
Kirby. Jr.. president Of the manu-
facturers. July ~. 1912. IN which he
spoke OF an interview with dOmperH
in Washington and telephone con
vcrEation with RalstOn In Baltimore
lie wrOt. Kirby that hc would never
sell out" "a enemies of the assOcia p
tion. RalsIon. he sworc tried hard
90 get the papers, but he refused 10
give them up.
Mulhall previously testified that ne
offered 10 give the papers a. Gom-
pors, who declined 90 take them.
Senator Nelson asked about pub
llahed statement that Mulhnll had
spent &20O. 600 hrihing voters and in
lobby work
Mulhall could not tell now Just how
much he had spent and Thought
$500, 900 must be- mistake.
LAWYERS asked 30 the total oi ais
expenditures was not S4s. s.OU0, pui
MulhHll said he did not know ~ That
amount was right The lawyers put
Ia a letter MulhnN Wrutc General
Manager Bird september ~ 1919,
saying samuel Goinpers, John Mitch
Ell and Frank Morrison % the AMER
lean Federation OF labor, had gotten
promise from President Wlls1n, he
governor of New Jersey, tO support
Representative Hughes for Hc.Ftor
John q Shrcvc. socretary T. Con.
gresham Gardner, was hls apurce 1i
information. hC SAID