The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-02
COMP PERS WILL
TESTIFY AS To
bR|bE ATTEMPT 7
Entirely New Phase Is Added
to the Lobby Probe, Now
Being Conducted by
the Senate.
OPPONENTS OF LABOR
UNIONS ARE INVOLVED
Former Heads of National AS.
sociation of Manufacturers
Also Will Go on
the Stand.

WASHINGTON, July with wit
nesses headed for Washington from
many directions to testify On the
newest developments in the aenate
lobby Investigation, Chairman Over.
man tonight gave hint Of further
| sensations in the committees activi.
ties, An inquiry has been under way
for some time, it is understood, into
operation of paid press bureaus con.
Quoted by large corporations and
"interests, and the committee ex-
poets to determine to what extent paid
publicity agents are employed to at
tempt 10 influence public opinion or
direct federal legislation.
The charges by Martin NJ. Mulhal,
former representative Of the manu-
facturers association, regarding his
lobbying operations. will not be
formally opened until next Tuesday
Tomorrow s hearing will be devoted
primarily to the testimony Of Wall
street men believed TO have informa.
tion as to lobbying activities in New
York in which the names of congress
men were freely used.
Senate Officers Busy.
Developments today indicated that
officers Of the senate and members of
ho 1o1,
ly busy for several days securing the
new information, the nature Of which
is now concealed. Senator Reed, who
went to New York yesterday, is
said to have acted for the committed
unofficially in the obtaining Of informa-
tion and the names of desired wit
nesses.
Interest centered again today about
the charges involving many present |
and former members of congress con
tanned in the correspondence Mulhall |
has made public, covering his eight |
years of service as an agent of the |
National Association Of Manufacturers.
Former Presidents Parry and Kirby
of that organization, who were to have
sailed today from San Francisco for |
Australia, cancelled their passage on
the demand of the senate officials, and |
will come to Washington to testify
Tuesday.
Demand To Be Made.
A demand will be made in the house
tomorrow by Representatives Sherley
of Kentucky and Neeley of Kansas for
an immediate investigation of the Null
hall charges by that body. Both rep
resentatives propose special commit
tee Of five TO take up the allegations
made by Mulhall that the mannfactur-
ers' association financed campaigns,
elected and defeated congressman, die
tated legislation and controlled the
makeup Of communities,
The senate committee has secured
the Mulhall papers, however, and pro
poses to hold onto them for its inquiry.
A subpoena served on Louis j. Seibold
OF the New York World required him
TO produce the mass OF letters and doc.
uments turned over to the World by
Mulhall, and James A. Emery, repre-
sentative Of tho National Association
of Manufacturers in Washington. also
has been subpoenaed to bring all his
papers bearing on Legislative activities
Overman Secretive.
Senator Overman declined to reveal
the extent Of the proposed investiga
tion into paid press bureaus further
than to say that "otber developments
are coming The committee learned
during its interrogation Of so-called
i" sugar lobbyists" that large sums had
been spent for publicity, and for con-
tracts covering certain kinds of nows
service 1t is understood that efforts
will be made to determine the extent
and character Of all paid news services
that are connected with the influenc-
ing Of legislation
by Gompers.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation Of Labor. who
figured prominently in Mulball Is story
as the object OF n long continued at
tack by those who attempted to bribe
him and force him to give up his .
/; pbt in behalf Of labor legislation. has
made public detailed report of the