Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-12
MULHALL SHOWS
UNION CARD WAS
N. A. NJ. RED RAG
Possession of One Caused Or
der to Defeat Hughes as
Congressman.
NEVER DOUBLE-CROSSED,
LABOR INFORMER AYERS
Robert Mccarter, of Newark,
Manufacturers Attorney,
Enters First Objection.

sional committees in session at
distant ends of the capital, Martin
NJ. Mulhall, who is testifying as to
the alleged lobbying activities of
the National Association of Manu-
facturers. today faced a puzzling sit
uation. The tangle was the result of
clash of authority between the
Senate and House Investigators
The Senate body insisted that it
had prior rights in the examination
of Mulhall, who began his testimony
last night. AS the Senate subpoena
antedated that issued by the House
committee and the witness was in
the custody of the Senate deputy
sergeant-at-arms, the upper House
was in a position to enforce its ulti-
matum.
When the Senate committee met it
was provided with a mass of cor
respondence and documents dealing
with the alleged lobby" Mulhall
charges was maintained by the man.
ufacturers' organization.
Both committees met at o'clock,
but Mulhall and J. H. McMichael ap-
peared at the Senate committee room
and were placed under guard of an
assistant ergeant-at-arms. The
House committee, minus its expected
witnesses, went into an executive ses-
sion to plan further action. The
Senate committee, fearful of further
attempts by the House to get hold
of Mulhall or his voluminous 'lobby
ing" correspondence, held a short
executive session and issued IRON
clad instructions to the officers of
the Senate that any attempt by the
House to take the witness must be
resisted.
While the Senate committee retired
for its executive conference three en-
ployees from the sergeant -at-arms
office, three Senate clerks and a page
boy kept guard over the original and
duplicate papers on the committee
table and watched the witnesses to
prevent the serving Of any House
Bubpoenas upon them.
Senator Reed called a 10-year-old
page boy: Here. boy, keep watch
of those papers. and if anybody tries
TO get them, shoot him."
The House lobby committee, being
unable to get Mulhal1, held an open
session at which James A. Emery,
counsel for the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers. promised that
ORGANIZATIONS cooperation in the
probe. Chairman Garrett issued sub
poenas for two men named Springer
at Baltimore, said to be relatives of
Mulhall's. The committee did not di-
vulge any details regarding them.
They will appear probably next Tues
'day
Chairman Garrett announced that
witnesses would be allowed counsel,
but that counsel could not cross
examine except by permission of the
Committee.
McCarter Attorney.
RI Mulhali finally resumed the stand
and took up the identifications of his
letters, which he began at last nights
Session. Before he could begin. how
lever, James A. Emery. counsel for
The National Association of Manu-
sfacturers, made formal request up
on the committee for the right of the
association to be represented by an
attorney, Robert McCarter former
attorney general of New Jersey, was
presented as the attorney.
Chairman Overman said the COM
nnittee would decide later whether
Mr. McCarter should have the gen.
q eral privileges of an attorney for the
q Aassociation. Mulhall identified mora
s letters showing his relations with
Marshall Cushing. secretary of the
association of manufacturers. He tes-
titled he had an understanding with
Gushing that he was to receive $100
week and $40 a week for expenses
for general field work and lobby
work in Washington" His arrange
ment with Gushing began in the sum
{ mer of 1904 and he understood it to
be permanent, although he had Moth
ing in writing to bind the associa-
tion
More McComas Testimony
Mulhall testified further of how he
worked to defeat the late Senator
McComas, of Maryland, although he
posed as the senator friend. He said
he had received 500 letters from Cush-
s ing directed against McComas
"I turned them over to Carl M.
Downs, secretary to Mccomas,' ne
@added.
do you mean you delivered these
4letters against McComas to his ssecre-
tary?" demanded Senator Reed.
Carl M. Downs WAS in the pay of
Cushing," replied the witness. who
went on to explain that he quarreled
with Cushing because he was buying
out the secretary of senator.
A letter to Senator Foraker Sep
tember 19, 1904, referred to a sug-
gestion that Mulhall go to Rhode
Island to help Senator Aldrich in his
campaign. He testified he went later
at the request of Aldrieh. ''He asked
met to get into touch with labor men
there, to get their support
Letters from c. E. Alden, then sec
retary to Foraker, and Arthur B.
Shelton, secretary to Aldrich, showed
that Mulhall's suggestion to go to
Rhode Island had been the subject
of some correspondence. Alden and
Shelton knew he was employed by
the association and he had mot tried
to conceal the source of his employ
ment, even from the labor leaders, he
testified.
Mulhall resented any Implication
that he had tried to play "a double
game" on the labor men such as he
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