Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-25
MULHALL FORCED
NTOBACKGROUND
Recent Tariff Activities Occu-
py Attention of Lobby
Pr0berS.
IMPORTERS ACCUSED
OF SEEKING LOW DUTIES
Colonel" Says He Was Offered Re-
peaters in Fight on
Hughes.

peaters IN Fight on
| Hughes.
| The tariff debate was carried into the
Senate lobby Investigating committee
| today when Senators Walsh and Nelson
engaged in a short argument about
whether the importers Of the United
| States had lobbied in behalf Of lower
duties in the present bill. The argu-
ment was friendly. but every member
Of the committee got into 1t before 1t
was over. and Martin M. Mulhall, the
| lobbyist" for the National Association
| of Manufacturers, who had been on the
stand all morning. was relegated to a
| back seat for q few minutes.
Senator Walsh started it by reading
! into the record a long letter from
Thomas o: Marvin, secretary of the
Home Market Club Of Boston, who re.
Gently testified before the committee.
Sends Importers Names.
Marvin suggested that the committee
should investigate the Tariff Reform
League. and sent the names Of import.
ers he said had appeared before the
| ways and means and finance commit
! tees. Marvin suggested also that the
committee look into the activities OF
| the Golden Club In 1870, 1880 and
1884. recalling that william Whitman
the Boston wool man, had been ex'
amined about his activities here fol
more than twenty-five years back.
Senator Walsh read his reply to Marvin
in which he declared that such a sugges.
ton was cynical" but added that II
there was anything to indicate that i'm
LoA hnnS ut, iv, ani
Congress to reduce duties he, for one
would be glad to have the committee &c
| into the subject Senator Walsh sale
that nothing had developed before the
porters or foreign manufacturers to have
duties reduced, except in the instances Of
| glass and sugar.
Tells Of Goods in Bond.
cit is unusual to PREJUDICE a case be.
| fore you get through" said Senator Mel
son in reply. Il want to say to the
committee that there is a report that eX-
| tensive importations have been made and
that importers have placed millions OF
dollars worth of goods in bond in New
York in order to get the advantage OF
the tariff bill. l am told that $1OO.OOO.ON
worth has been put in bond with a view
of getting the benefit of the tariff.
$50
| porters."
Chairman Overman declared that
every senator had been sworn and had
given his testimony, and that 1t had
not developed that importers or foreign
manufacturers had appeared in Wash
| ington before this Congress to have
lower duties.
Il sincerely hope that it is true.
said Senator Reed, referring to Senator
| Nelson's statement. II hope that the
Am Onf the hen eft
Offers to sift Matter.
Senator walsh closed the debate by
stating that II any information were
offered on the subject Of foreign lobby
ing or activity of importers the COM
| mittee would go into 1t. He said the
list furnished by Marvin was useless, In
his opinion.
tivities for the National Association of
Manufacturers, as unfolded before the
Senate committee, is to be allowed to
stand practically without cross-question-
ing from democratic members of the
committee.
Mulhall will go before the House lobby
committee early next week. and it Is ex-
pected there he will be subjected to a
rigid examination as to the charges con-
tanned in his mass of correspondence.
that members OF the House were his close
associates in political campaign work
and In efforts to head off labor legisla-
ton
The Senate committee also has indicat-
ed that 1T will not permit general cross
examination Of Mulhall by attorneys or
officers of the manufacturers: and those
officials will attempt to make Mulhall de-
fend his statements before the House
committee next week.
Causes Mild Sensation.
MulhaH on the stand all morning,
caused a mild sensation just before the
recess by swearing that a list of re-
peators from New York had been offered
him In the 9Th New Jersey campaign
against William Hughes, in 1910, by a
Mr.. Conklin. who he said was repub-
lican county chairman in that district.
Il refused Them" he said. He told
me both sides them"
Several of Mulhalls expense accounts
about the time of 1910 election showed
large amounts paid for work at the polls.
Questioned by Senator Nelson he swore
that he had not paid any of this money
directly" to voters.
He said it had gone to party workers.
Conferences With Lodge.
Mulhall today said he went to Massa-
eral Manager Bird Of the manufacturers
Of conferences with Senator Lodge and
Charles E. Hatfield, chairman of the
state committee"
Senator Lodge pays us all kinds of
compliments for the work We are doing,
and know we will have his aid more
actively than ever before in the next
campaign" wrote Muihall. In other let
tiers that month Mulball wrote: Through
our efforts we have beaten T. d. Nichols
of the tenth Pennsylvania, and we also
of Injunction fame in the sixth Mary
land"
Wrote President Taft.
August 80 Mulhall wrote President
Taft asking for an interview for Bird
and himself.
TT will be a great help to have a
| number Of the leaders of the Manufac-
leaders of our party throughout the
country in the present crisis" the letter
ran.
Mulhan swore he received reply from
C. D. Norton, the Presidents secretary.
afternoon. September IL. at Beverly.
October g. 1910. Mulhall wrote former
Senator Foraker about his talk with
President Taft. saying he had submitted
names OF men who would he p in the
campaign. "He seemed to scrutinize the
items very closely" Mulhall wrote. land
Liverpool and HI. M. Hanna were not en-
thusiastic friends of his.
He was greatly pleased with the work
] told him ! had done In Massachusetts,
and other states. and advised me to in
form our people to do everything we