The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-30
House Leader Makes
Dramatic Denial Be-
fore Committee.
ALSO BRANDED BY
PEA AKER CLARK
Self-Confessed Lobbyist Has Bad
Day as Witness Before Inves-
tlgators-His Last Hours as
Identifler of Letters Most
Exciting of Two Weeks
on Stand.

washington. July 2e-Right after
representative Oscar Underwood had
denounced Martin NJ Mulhall as A
ilar' and "blackmailer'' OH the witness
stand before the Senate lobby COM
,nlttee to-day. Speaker Champ Clark
branded another important statement
oy the witness as false
Mulhall had testified that before
ae!hns MS letters to u New York news
paper ne onered them free TO Samuel
Gompers, president OF the American
Federation OF Labor. for such use =
ne might see Tt to make OF them
,hat after Gompers rejected the offer.
ne tried TO get Congress to take hold
or them and Investigate the National
Association OF Manufa cturers' lobby,
anu tnat they were shown for this
purpose TO Speaker Clark and other
members Of Congress to no avail
Inc Speaker gave out the. following
formal reply TO this:
Neither McDermott (Representa,,ve
from the Fourth Illinois) nor ANYBODY
else ever showed me the Mulhall lot
ters and papers. Neither McDermott
nor anybody else ever spoke to me
about them. l never knew that Null
nall had any letters or papers until 7
saw IN the newspapers that he had
sold them TO New York paper"
Bad Day for Witness
The dramatic denial by Mr.. Under
wood that Mulhall had ever conferred
with, or interviewed him on any sub
1ect. or that an employe OF the WAYS
and Means Committee had been on
Mulhall's pay roll, with Speaker Clark's
reply, made the day an exceedingly
bad one for the self STYLED LOBBYIST
and strike
Mulhall practically finished to-day
his Identification of letters he wrote
and received in the ten years he claims
10 have been the lobbyist for the Na-
tional Association of Manufacturers.
Tomorrow the Senate investigating
committee will turn its attention 10
the examination OF Mulhall. and at
iorneys for the association and for
the American Federation OF Labor, also
involved In the espondence. will
begin the cross-eXamination of tn.
witness
Members of the committee will at
tempt to strengthen Mulhalrs story of
his political activities in Washington
and throughout the country. while the
attorneys Will "ndeavor to break il
down.
Mulhalls last day as an identifler of
letters proved the most exciting OF his
two weeks OH the stand. He was called
liar and a blackmailer by Majority
Leader Underwood. of the House ana
he swore that he had tried TO get
Chairman Wilson, of the Labor Com
mittee, interested in the story he is
now telling. and that Speaker Clark
and Minority Leader Mann. Of the
House had turned down an opportunity
To conduct an investigation of his ac-
tivities. The Speaker and Mr. Mann,
he said. had been approached on this
subject by Representative James T
McDermott. of Illinois
Brings Day to Climax.
Mulhall brought the day to climax
by swearing that McDermott had ac-
knowledGed to him that he had signed
Mulhalfs name TO a check for S250.
Mulhall made this statement when
he was questioned about a trip TO Chi
cago in April, 1912. to help McDer-
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