Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-10
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the sagge stien Of Chairman Dingley he
said he had tried to get the wool grow
ers and manufacturers To get together
on wool duty agreeable to all.
Senator Reed tried to make him
agree that the duties he wanted APP
peared in the bill.
II never got what ! wanted" insisted
the witness.
Whitman said he enjoyed friendly reia :
tions with Senators Aldrieh Allison and
Plat of Connecticut and with Rep. elf
ton r. Breckenridge of Arkansas. Sena-
tor Allison, he said, he knew best OF all
the men on the ways and means OF
finance committees of Congress. lie
talked with these men about the wool i'll
dustry and made suggestions to them.
He did not attempt to write wool sched-
ules.
Whitman produced more than 100 letters
and kilograms that passed between him.
self and S. n. D. North, in 1sg6-y7, when
North was secretary of the association
and also clerk for majority members
of the Senate finance committee. Senator
Reed read many of the letters into the
record. although they had been brought
out before in the Senate and elsewhere.
They show North's relations with Whit
man while he was working for members
of the finance committee.
Whitman promised to produce more
correspondence mentioning other public
men, tomorrow. They may be made pub
lie.
Whitman testified that the Arlington
mills at Lawrence. Mass, with output Of
100000 pounds of cotton yarn and 100000
pounds of wool week, hau not been
running at capacity on account or poor
market conditions first noticed, in i9e9
Conditions are worse now, he saids then
he had ever known. From 1891 10 1877,
the mills had run practically on full time
He did not know just how the National
Wool Association raised its funds.
Winthrop Marvin of the Wool AS
ISOLATION took the stand after the noon
recess to tell the committee some of
the things Whitman did not answer.
Senator Reed appeared anxious to get
the records of the association and
Marvin said vouchers and receipts
books and other memoranda of finan-
cial transactions were always kept by.
him.
Marvin said the association collect
ed about $4,000 in 1902 and, in 1903,
the same sum. In 1911, the
collections were about $4,000 and in
1910 and 1909, about $4,000 a year.
Il never knew of single dollar ex-
pended for political purpose" he
added
The witness said that in 1909, some
money was used to send some one
not named--toi Washington. He
thought this fund might have been
raised in some way outside the reg
ular channel of contribution to the
annual fund. Another fund-about'
sa5 .U00-to meet extraordinary exig
encies in connection with tariff leg.
islation-was raised about two years
ago. All was turned over to Ed. F,
Greene of Boston, wool man. and
was Contributed by manufacturers.
The witness denied that this $4,000
was raised To defeat Canadian reci-
procity.
When Marvin left the stand he was
instructed to wire for his books COW
ering all operation back to 1895.
Whitman. resuming the stand,
denied that he or any of his CON-
panies was connected with the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
When the House prepared to vote,
To-Day. on the proposal TO have a spe-
cial committee investigate the charges
of Col. NJ M. Mulhall. once chief
Lobbyist" for the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, Republican
Leader Man branded as Bald lies
Mulhall's published statements that
Former Reps. Pearre of Maryland.
Vreeland of New York and Bannon
of Ohio were removed from the judi
eiary committee "At the behest of the
association through the influence of
Former Rep. Watson"
Pearre's health had to do with his
failure to reinstatement, Mann de-
clared. Vreeland never was a mem
Der of the judiciary committee and
Bannon failed of re-assignment be-
cause he was not reelected to Con-
gress.