The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12

HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY
was backing He said he sent them to
/ business men in Baltimore. He said
! Gushing was interested in Nav 1901. in
| mis- candidacy for election as alternate to
the republican national convention that
| year. At that time Gushing sent him an
extra large check TO aid in his expenses
and Mulhal1 was elected as alternate to
| General Agnus of Baltimore.
Scheme to Control Vote
"Agnus was in New York at that time .
said Mulhal and Gushing was using
his influence to keep Agnus at home away
from the Chicago convention, so that
would have a vote in the convention and
| SO that ne could control that vote"
In this connection Mulhall told of re-
lations against McComas sent him by
Gushing, which Mulhall was to have
! signed by officers of labor unions to be
/ used to defeat MeGomas at Chicago.
i An unsigned communication purportng
to be from Cushing TO Mulhal on June
/ 13, 1854. gave Instructions for the visit of
Mulhall and two labor men to Chicago.
! They We're to do their best to prevent
the Endorsement of the eight hour law by
the republican, convention. Any slip up
by any of your friends II said. might
be fatal"
Gushing spoke of scertain resources in.
the usual form.
What were these resources" askea-
Senator ReedI
Five hundred dollars" said the wit
ness.
Il was to see TIVE active organized, la
Dor men and pay their expenses as we'll
as my own
What were you going for?.
| I'VE were to work against active men
| of organized labor. Gompers and the
Others
Letter to Roosevelt
| One letter identified by Mulhall was
addressed to Theodore Roosevelt when
| President, urging the appointment of
| postmaster at Baltimore 1t was from
| Mulhalrs organization, the Working
mems Protective association. and result
| ed, Mulhall said, in President Roosevelt
| receiving a delegation of 100 citizensi at
the White House.
The letter told Mr.. Roosevelt that this
organization. representative of 81 asso-
| Citations of organized labor, earnestly Pc
| titions you to appoint to the office of
postmaster for this city Hon. Stephen r.
| Mason, chairman of the republican city
committee and that I'VE believe that
the appointment of MIR. Mason will do
much toward reuniting the republican
party and bury all factional differences
In this locality
! letter which caused considerable
amusement in the committee was den-
tilted by Mulhall as from Cushing. In
part 1t read: WHO was the best friend
of the laboring man? Mark Hanna, who
fought the eight hour bill tooth and nail,
| as long as he lived-and Gompers knows
it-because Hanna realized that it would
only make trouble between employer and
a.
would be put off 20 years by these meth
ods or L. e. McComas who endangers
the success of the republican party and
it's protective system and high wages by
making 1t hard or impossible for it to
| win the next election and Who in addi-
tion, While posing a republican and
decent and honorable man who would
not deceive anybody. nevertheless tries
to hand out to labor, organized or un-
organized a gold brick, a humbug a
false pretense in the way of piece Of
legislation which nobody can understand
and which cannot possibly accomplish
anything that he promises that it will?"
Clark on Stand
Speaker Clark made a statement relat-
ing to the use of his name by David
Lamar and Edward Lauterbach.
He testified he had never had anything
to do with Lamar Lauterbach or any of
the men mentioned by them. j. Pierpont
Morgan. he said he saw at a Gridron
dinner in Washington several years ago.
when former President Roosevelt and
Senator Foraker engaged in a joint de-
bate.
TT was the hottest debate ever heard
in the United States.' said the speaker
Speaker Clark put in this statement;
'I.edyard says that Lauterbach told
him that he was in communication with
me through Senator Stone. Lauterbach,
| al, lid f1aO
that he had lied said that Lamar gave
him the information. Lamar confessed
the whole tale was a lie to force Morgan
& Co. to take Lauterbach back into their
employ"
"Al discaim any acquaintance or com
munieation with me.
Senator Stone justly and properly
characterized the Lamar -Lauterbach tale
as a lie, in which he was entirely cor
rect. He and never in our lives in
any wise spoke or mentioned to each
other Morgan & Co, and the steel trust
inquiry.
Never Spoke to Morgan
| 81 never spoke to j. Pierpont Nor
gan or any member of his firm in my
life, never communicated with him or
them in any manner whatever; never au-
thorized anybody else to do / was.
to my best knowledge and belief, never
introduced to him or any of the firm. To
my best knowledge ana Delle1 also L never
saw any of them except Mr.. Morgan him
self and that was across the large hotel
dining room at a Gridiron club banquet.
"I was, several years ago, introduced
to Lauterbach here in Washington in the
presence of several gentlemen and passed
the usual salutations with him. That was
all / never saw him before or since
and never communicated with him in
any manner whatever about any busi-
ness matter whatever.
| II had never heard of Lamar and knew
only by seeing his name in the newspa-
pers that there is such a man as Louis
| Cass Ledyard 1t seems to me that when
Mr.. Ledyard found out that Senator
Stones name and mine were being band
led about by Lamar the pseudo Palmer
/ and Lauterbach, he ought to have for
mulated the plan OF letting me know
The speaker was not sworn and me
committee did not ask him any ques-
tons
Whitman Questioned
whitman was questioned about the
$4,000 gift to North an incident which
/ attracted nation wide attention when Il
was first disclosed several years ago.
He put in evidence letter dated Bos-
ton. 1907, signed by himself. George
sykes, Benjamin Phpps, James Phil
Hips, Jr., and Rufus Greedy written in
September.
1t set out that at a meeting of a
few members of the national associa-
tion unanimous expression developed in
favor of presenting to North some sub
Lee testimonial in racnRpitipn of