Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-24
NEARLY FINISHED
NULHALL PROBE
INpECT TO FINISH DIRECT EN-
AMIN ALTON on THE Lob
BNISr FRIDAY.
REPUBLICAN Senators QUIT
Claim Democrats on investigating
Committee Are Using the Probe
for Campaign Purposes.

WASHINGTON. July 23.-The sen
ate lobby committee put on full
speed ahead today and in an unus-
uull5 short session got into the rec
ord nearly five hundred letters of
Martin NJ Mulhall, alleged political
worker and legislative detective for
the National Association Of Manulac-
turcrs
Mulhau was on the stand only
about an hour after the noon recess,
but the committee made rapid pro-
grpss and members hoped tonight to
get through with the correspondence
seem time l'riday
The committee will decide then
whether attorneys for the association
shah be permitted to cross examine
the witness From the way in which
Senators Reed and Walsh already
have referred to cross examination, il
Is probable that the only way the
lawyers will be- able to get at Null
hall will be by questions filtered 10
him through the senator's
Tried TO see Murphy.
Nulhalps testimony today covered
slack period In the summer and
fsl Of 1903 and the early part Of
IN his line except to work on strikes,
tlnkc rat few odd jobs IN politics
and keep things gdne4ally moving
In Washington.
In several Of his letters Mulhall
told Of II desire on his patr to see
Charles J.. Murphy boss of Tam
many hall, in the interest of the cam
didacy Of George Gordon Battle for
governor Of New York.
Aulhal was trying to see Murphy
through Herman Black, who appear
go in the correspondence as an attor-
ncy for III Broadway Mulhall swore
that Black was a sort of "cOnhdential
laNNer TO Murphy. A letter signed
Battle and Marshall" acknowledge
ing receipt OF q letter from Mulhall
gave the only indication so far az
he committee had been tonight, that
battle ever heard ot the interest
Mulhall took In Battle.
Many OF the letters today spoke Of
am effort to land +. C. Schwedtman,
board. Several others told of pub
lie documents officers wished Mulhall
10 get, in connection with the report
~ the national monetary commission.
Could Get Anything.
MNlnau Salu the dSSoclatloH was
interested in that report, but he did
not know just how. lie swore that
copies Of the Congressional Record
were franked TO most of the promf-
neut members of the National assOci-
alton of Manufacturers and in one
letter boasted that he and JamesA .
Emory, counsel for the association,
could get almost any document and
frank It out.
Neither Senators Cummins nor
Nelson, republican members of the
committee, appeared today at the
hearing. Although neither would
discuss the matter, it is generally
known that they claim the demo-
Gratis have been playing politics with
the Investigation, particularly in the
case Of s. W. McClave, republican
candidate for congress In the Sixth
New Jersey district defeated In n
special election yesterday.
McClave was brought into the case
II few days ago by Mulhall. Senator
Nelson declared publicly the next day
that he did not know the committee
was bein gused for campaign pur-
poses, and Senator Cummins has not
been present at any hearing since,
except for a few minutes.