The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-01
INVESTIGATORS TO
BEGIN THIS week
INSTEAD Of NEXT
Developments Come SO Fast
AS to Necessitate Change
Of Plans
AFTER TELEPHONE.
MYSTERY AT FIRST
All Men Mentioned By Col
onel Mulhall. Who Are
Still Alive Are to Be
Summoned

WASHINGTON. June 3o.-Develop-
ments have been coming so fast for
the senate lobby investigators they
have decided to pick up the thread
OF their inquiry again this week in
stead of waiting until July 7th.
At an executive session today men,
beers of the committee came TO the
conclusion that the charges OF Colonel
Martin NJ. Mulhall have piled up such
q mountain of work before them
that they cannot longer postpone the
completion Of the other ends of the
lobby Investigation that were dang
Ling when the genial colonel advanced
with his $4,000 blast
Accordingly kilograms were dis
patched tonight to Paul D. Cravath.
Lewis Gass Ledyard, and Maxwell
Evarts. New York lawyers, and to
David Lamar. the Wall Street ope-
rator, summoning them to appear be-
fore the committee In Washington
on Wednesday morning. The COM
mtttee intends to pick up the story
Of tho Union Pacific hold-up where
It was dropped by Representative A.
Mitchell Palmer and Edward Lauter-
bach. and to rush this phase of the
inquiry to a prompt conclusion
To Unravel Telephone Mystery.
From the testimony OF Mr.. Led
yard the committee expects to be
able to establish the identify Of the
mysterious individual who represented
himself over the telephone at one
time. az Representative Daniel J.
Riordan. and again as Represents
tive a. Mitchell Palmer, OF Fenn6yl-
lvanta-
From Mr.. Crawath and MT. Evarta
the committee will obtain additional
Information in regard to the man who
was so busy with the telephone in
Wall Street, and who recommended
so earnestly the retention of Ed
ward Lauterbach as counsel for the
Union Pacific. From Lamar the COM
mittee expects to obtain much in
Iteresting hight on his career, and on
his alleged relations with members
OF congress.
AS TO the Mulhall charges. the SEN
ate committee is more determined
than ever to sift them to the bottom.
To Summon All Alive.
The senate committee at its execu-
tive session today decided to sum-
mon Immediately all the individuals
now alive whose. names were used by
Mulhall as having been connected
National Association OF Manufac-
turers.
The Mulhall charges have stirred UP
bigger hornets nest in the house
than on the senate side. Several
conferences were held today with a
view to authorize special investi-
cation by the house into the Mulhall
charges, so far as they affect mem
bers and former members OF the
lower branch of congress.
Reed Is After Papers.
Senator James A. Reed. who Is
one of the lobby investigators on the
senate side. left this afternoon for
New York city on business connected
with the investigation. 1t is believed
he is headed in the direction of some
of the original Mulhall documents.
The sergeant-at-arms of the senate
subpoenaed tonight ]. N. McMichael,
who is now an elevator man at the
capitol, but who formerly. as chief
of the pages on the house side, &C
ccrding to Mulhall. conducted spy
ing system. and was paid by the
National Association OF Manufac-
turers 1t required considerable
search to locate McMichael
swager Shirley Indignant
Probably the most indignant man
on the house side is Swager Shirley,
of Kentucky. Mr.. Shirley will bring
the matter to the attention of the
house when II assemblies on Wednes-
day. and probably will demand an in
vestigation.
Senator Nelson. OF Minnesota. is
another who Is boiling mad over the
use of his name by Mulhall.
so far as my memory serves me"
said Senator Nelson tonight, Il do
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