The Washington herald., 1913-08-23
DAVIS TESTIFIES
NLOBBY PROBE
Washington Attorney Tells Of
His Connection with
Pawnbrokers.
FIST FIGHT THREATENED
LAWYER and Representative Nolan OF
California Almost Come
to Blows.
FIST FIGHT THREATENED

In tn. course Of testimony which al
onA tims threatened to end in nstcuns
between himself and Representative No
Ian of California, Henry E DAVIS the
veT-known local attorney yesterday
told the House lobby committee OF MS
connection with local pawnbrokers ana
note and chattel mortgage money lend
ers- ., -,
N the receipt for a 5000 fee he had
haen Maid bv George D. Horning, VINO
handled funds raised by the note brokers
10 hRht the loan-shark bill, and pawn
brokers, to fight the section lncluolhs
them in the provisions of the Dill.
Mr. Davis testified that he received
and receIpted for the 5000 ana then
turned back 500 to Horning, to be palo
Patrick J. Ryan, chairman OF the leels-
Iation committee of the Central LABOR
Union. He did this, he said because
Beidenheimer and Burnstine objected TO
the payment Of money to Ryan.
And Heidenheimer, few hours aL'et
leaving Mr. Davis office, testlned thaS
he still believed the latter had been paid
q zno desnite the fact that Davis had
believed" that morning that ne reCelNeu
5000 from Horning.
Testifes on Watson Charges.
More evidence relating TO Mulhall $
testimony and letters concerning toe et-
forts of the n. A. NJ. to procure tarln
hoerd IN 1909. through the services Hf
former Representative James T. W.
sor. was obtained by the Senate Lphpy
Committee Yesterday through the '.sti-
,,,onv of H. Z. Miles. formerly chairman
NJ the executive committee .of the Ma
tionsl Tariff Commission Association. Inc
Tariff Commission Association was III
effect. a subsidiary of tie \. A. NJ.
Mr. Miles testitied that he had ooE-
rowed $500 from Mulhall, with when 10
nav James T. Watson a retainer al
though strenuous attempts had oeeh
made by counsel for the \. A. NJ ~
break down this part OF Mulhall S tesu-
mony 1t was Contended. further' w
counsel that Watson received only IN
a week. without a retainer or a pom
issd bonus. Miles denied tnat Watson
had been promised $1,000 boHus II sue
cessfuL
4 sensational charge by Judge Robert
NJ McCarter. counsel for the n. A M,
that some Of the Mulhall documents hau
been tampered with since they came INTO
the possession of the committee, threat
ened to bring about the expulsion OF
Judge McCarter from the case at one
stage. but although McCarter refused to
detract in the face OF hot demands by
Senators Overman and Reed for an apol-
ogy, he smoothed things over by an
nouncing that he had intended no refec-
ton upon the committee. He based his
charge on the fact that in the case OF
one letter the date appeared to have
been written in with pencil
Wants witness Outside.
Mulhau continued his testimony before
the House lobby committee yesterday
after Representative Nolan, by way Of
diversion. had offered to waive his con-
stitutionaI privileges Of protection as a
member Of the House in case Attorney
Henry E. Davis desired to meet him
outside
Mulhall was led through his Senate
testimony and failed 10 develop anything
startling. He reiterated his testimony
concerning his attempts to secure through
McDermott a Congressional investigation
Of the n. A. NJ, stating again that it had
been his plan to extract from the cor
respondence he would have turned over
for the investigation any papers and doc
uments touching upon McDermott or
McMichael
Telling of a trip to his home in Balti-
more. when McDermott and McNichael
had examined a part of the correspond
ence, Mulhall swore that on that occa-
sion McMichael had warned him to be
careful: that McDermott wanted to steal