The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-26
Pleads With Senate
Lobby Committee to
Let Him Go.
1000 LETTERS
STILL TO BE READ.
Probers Hear of lobbyists Con
ferences With President Taft
and Senator Lodge-Admits
He Failed to Get Expected
Results When Demo
Gratis Got Control.

Washington. July 25.-with only
about 1000 more OF Martin A. Mul.
halts letters to read into the record,
the Senate lobby Investigating commit :
tee adjourned o-day until Monday. cx
pectinr to Wind up the correspondence
of the lobbyist"
Towards the close of the dav's sos
sion. Mulhall showed signs of the strain
he has been under He became con
FUSED during the reading OF one letter.
and when senator Walsh suggested
that nc needed a rest. exclaimed:
I'm just about broken down. For
Gods sake do let me leave here. IL YOU
can l don't want TO say I'm breaking
down. but don't want to answer gucs-
tions II you'll let me go"
Chairman overman announced to-day
that attorneys for the National Asso-
citation OF Manufacturers and the Amer
lean Federation of Labor would be al
lowed TO question the witness through
the committee. provided they submit
questions twenty-four hours before
hand and receive the committees APP
proval Senator Nelson had a talk with
the Democratic members before the de-
cision was announced, and 1t is known
that he protested vigorously against
allowing Mulhalrs story to stand with =
out examination by the lawyers for
the organizations involved
During tho hearing to-day sharp
debate occurred among members of the
committee about whether foreign man
utacturers and importers had Influenced
tariff reduction in the present bill
Friendly With Lodge.
MuihaIl went to Massachusetts In
August, 1910, and wrote General Man
ager Bird. of the manufacturers, OF
conferences with Senator Lodge and
State committee"
Senator Lodge pays us all kinds OF
compliments for the work we are do
ing. and know we will have his aid
more actively than ever before In the
next campaign" wrote Mulhall.
In other letters to friends written
that month. Mulhall wrote: Through
our efforts. we hav. beaten the Hon.
T. d Nichols, in the Tenth Pennsyl-
vania and we also have beaten noto-
rious George y. Pearre. OF injunction
fame, in the Sixth MARYLAND"
on August 30 Muihall wrote to
President Taft asking for an inter
Wow for Bird and himself
1T will he a great help TO have y
number OF the leaders OF the manufac-
turing associations in touch with tho
leaders OF our party throughout the
country in the present crisis" the let
ter ran. Mulhall sworc he received n
reply from c. d. Norton. the Presi-
dents secretary, arranging the inter
View for Monday afternoon at Beverly
October 3. 1910. Mulhall wrote for
mcr Senator Foraker about his talk
with President Taft. saying he had
submitted names OF men who would
help in the campaign. "He seemed to
scrutinize the items very closely"
Mulhall wrote. and talked as if John
II. Taylor, of East Liverpool, and II
NJ. Hanna, were not enthusiastic friends
of his.
lie was greatly pleased with the
work 7 told him I had done in Mnssa
chusetts and other states. and advised
me to inform our people TO do every
thing we possibly could TO keep in
touch with leaders Of the congressional
districts"
Mulhall caused mild sensation just
before the recess by swearing that Il
list of repcatcrs from New York had
been offered him in the sixth New Jcr
sey campaign against William Hughes
in 1910 by a Mr.. Conlilin. who. he said.
Continued on Third Pagc)