The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-02
MULHALL AGAIN ON STAND.
VERACTTY OF SELFSTYLED IOR.
BYIST QUESTIONED RE.
PEATEDLY BY HEAR
ERS.
underwood Brands Witness as Liar
and Blackmailer and Denies Hav-
Ing Had Anything to Do With Him
identification of Letters Finished.

Washington, July 29.-Martin M.
Mulhall practically finished today his
idetification Of letters he wrote and
received in the ten years he claims to
have been the lobbyist for the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
Tomorrow the senate investigation
committee will turn it's attention to
examination of Mulhall and ATTORNEYS
for the association and for the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, also in
volved in the correspondence will be-
gin cross-examination of Mulhall.
Members of the committee will at
tempt to strengthen Mulhalrs story of
his political activities in Washington
and throughout the country, while the
attorneys will endeavor to break it
down. Questions by the lawyers, un-
der the committees rule, will be fill
tered to the witness through it's chair
man.
Robert McCarter, counsel for the
association, has about $50 questions
he wishes to ask the witness. Attor-
ney Jackson II. RalstOn for the Amer
lean Federation of Labor has pre-
pared about 100 more, and no one
knows how many separate questions
members Of the committee will sub
NIT to Mulhall before he is allowed to
quit the witness chair in the senate
wing Of the capitol and face the spe-
cial house committee that is eagerly
waiting his appearance across the ro-
tunda
Mulhall's last day as an identifer
OF letters proved the most exciting Of
his two weeks on the stand. He was
called liar" and a "blackmailer"
by Majority Leader Underwood Of the
house and he swore he had tried to
get Chairman Wilson Of the labor
committee interested in the story he
is now telling and that Speaker Clark
and Representative Mann, minority
leader Of the house, had turned down
an opportunity to conduct an investi-
cation of his activities.
The speaker and Mr.. Mann, he sadi.
had been approachd on this subject
by Representative James #. McDer-
mott of Illinois.
Neither Mr.. McDermott nor any
body else ever showed me the Null
hall letters and papers," said Speaker
Clark in statement issued late, to-
day. Neither Mr. McDermott nor
anybody else ever spoke to me about
them. l never knew that Mulhall
had any letters or papers until saw
In newspaper that he had sold them
to q, New York paper"
Mulhall brought the day to a cli-
max by swearing that McDermOtt. had
acknowledged to him that he had
signed Mulhall's name to a check for
$3.50.
Muihall made this statement when
he was questioned about a trip to Chi
cago in April, 1912, to help McDer-
mott in the primaries. He said Harold
r. Mccormick, son-in-law of John ID.
rockefeller, had promised to con-
tribute $3.50 to the McDermott cam
paign. He said Mccormick made out
check to him for this amount, but
that he did not receive it until after
he returned to Baltimore. He cashed
this check in Baltimore, but later the
oank there and the one in Chicago on
which 1t was drawn informed him
that duplicate bearing his signature
mad been honOred also. He told the
committee he never knew what had
happened until McDermott told him
senator Cummins tried to keep dis
cussion OF the check out of the record
lie said the question of whether Null
hall had signed Mulhall's name was
not pertinent to the committees in
vestigatiOn but Mulhalls testimony
and the correspondence on the matter
were allowed to go in. A letter read
later showed that Mulhall took the
$z6O given him by Mccormick and
used 1t himself, although he said Nc
Cormick had given it for the McDer-
mott campaign. Mulhall explained
that he had spent n lot OF money in
chicago and that McDermott had
never paid him back