The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-07-24
MANUFACTURERS EVEN SOUGHT
PLACE IN THE CABINET, SAYS
MULHALL.
LETTERS OUTLINE SCHEMES
lobbyist Tells Of Large Sum Raised to
Defeat Leqislation-Witness Be-
Gins to Show Effects Of
the Strain.

paigns for congress, to defeat legisla-
ton in Washington it's members did
not approve, to get the ears of men
who were running presidential booms
and to land a member Of the associa.
laid before the senate lobby investi-
eating committee.
Martin NJ. Mulhall self-styled lob
byist for the association, swore to the
authenticity of nearly 400 letters
which told of these plans and brought
in the names of such men as former
Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, the
Speaker Cannon, former Senators Aid
rich, Hemenway, Foraker and others;
Arthur I. Vorys, Ohio manager of the
Taft campaign of 1908, and Frank H.
Hitchcock, one time chairman of the
Republican national committee and
postmaster general in Mr.. Taft's cab
met.
Fund for Making Fights.
Mulhall testified, too, that the ma
tional council for industrial defense,
an organization allied to the National
Association of Manufacturers, had
raised between 100000 and 100000
year to be used in opposing legislal
ton it's members did not like. He said
this information came from collector
of council and that he had no personal
knowledge of it except that he had
been paid for political work from such
fund.
Mulhall showed the strain he has
been under for four days and the
committee took him from the stand
for half hour and listened to tes;
timony by G. p. Bird, general man.
ager of the manufacturers associa-
tion and treasurer of the industrial
defense council. Bird brought halt
a carload of books and papers with
him to Washington and turned them
over to the committee. He refused
to say who had contributed to the
fund of the council, but he will be-
examined at length later and the
committee will undertake to make him
tell what manufacturers contributed
and what amounts they gave.
A1OA6 Will CHC llllOA nAdJIOIl Ludt
Bird had half carload of data to
submit, the committee heard that F.
G. Schwedtman of st. Louis, secre,
tary to the late James w. Van Cleave,
once president of the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers, had about
100000 letters bearing on the asso.
cations work. Schwedtman was in
constant communication with Mulhall,
according to the latters evidence.
Certain Letter Interests.
The committee was greatly inter-
ested in letter which Mulhall swore
he wrote to Schwedtman on April 16,
1908. 1t told of a conversation Null
hall had in Washington with former
Representative Watson of Indiana, in
which the latter described two-hour
interview at the White House be-
tween Mr.. Roosevelt and himself.
Rooseveit's Attitude Described.
In part the letter read:
"He (Watson) said he was invited
to the White House at $3.50 p. m. and
was with the president until 1880
D. m. The president wished him to
call so they could talk over the leg
islative program for the balance OF
this session, the president knowing
that he represented Speaker Cannon
and the other leaders of the house
and senate. He stated that the main
reason of the call was that Speaker
Cannon, Vice President Fairbanks and
several other leaders wanted to find
out how the president stood in rela-
tion to third term. He stated that
there were four things the president
wished: First, that congress would
stay in session until the 18th Of May,
to receive the governors of the diff
ferent states coming to Washington
on that day; second, to amend the
Sherman law; third, to have congress
vote for four battleships; fourth, to
pass a child labor law for the District
of Columbia, which would be model
law for the states in general"