The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-30
MULHALL Altar,
SAYS UNDERWOOD
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II any money had been sent to the Capt.
tol to pay him the conveyor had gone
south wild It."
Unsworn, Mr.. Underwood said: IT have
come here in the public interest. II this
mans name Mulhall?"
YES" interposed Mulhan before the
committee could inform Mr.. Underwood.
But the latter ignored the source Of his
Information and said to the committee:
life. OF course. he may have seen me.
But think in the interest Of the public
la man who takes liberties with public
men as he does ought to be confronted.
Now tell you mat as far as / know.
OF course. I meet q great many men
whom I do not know. / do not know
what Mulhall has said in these letters
that he has written. I have not read
them. I only know what have read in
the papers: but / regard a man Of this
kind as purely a blackmailer. That man
has never been in my committee room
since was chairman Of the committee"
Definition of Matchmaker.
Senator Reed told Mr.. Underwood that
the definition Of a blackmailer was a
man who did certain things to extort
money by holding over a person the
threat OF exposure.
do you know of that having been
done?' the Senator asked.
NO" replied Mr.. Underwood. with
considerable heat. but I conclude that
from his testimony here. l say he makes
statements of this kind. i mean that he
is Matchmaking his own people and I
think Che was only getting the money
out of his own people. But i do not
want to make a statement that Is not
under oath"
At the suggestion of the chair and
Of Senators Nelson and Cummins, the
letter of Mulhall In which he described
his conversation with Mr.. Underwood
was produced and Mr.. Underwood was
sworn. The letter. in SO far as 1t con-
cerned Mr.. Underwood. dwelt upon his
alleged statements to Mulnali In the mat
ter Of the selection of the House Com
mittee on Labor in the Sixty-second
Congress and particularly upon the
choice OF William B. Wilson Of Pennsyl-
vania, Tor the chairman. The letter was
discussed between the committee and
Mr. Mulhan Then Mr.. Underwood made
his statement. He said:
What I make this statement for is
not to correct myself. because the state
ment could go without correction. I can
comes up here and makes q statement
to a great manufacturing association
about what public men are doing and
the letter itself manifestly shows that
he had been lying to them about II. /
will say that do not know Mr.. Emery
and / would not know him II I saw him.
do not know Mr.. Kirby: 1 have never
met him. II he is in this room i do
not know which he is. These men have
never been in my Office. None Of them
mentioned in that letter. The whole
statement is a lie, made UP out of whole
cloth about them ALL"
Mr.. Underwood related the whole story
OF the selection of William B. Wilson
for the chairman Of the Labor Commit
tee expla ming that no one else had ever
been considered for the craftsmanship and
lie wound up his statement by saying:
1T is clear from this letter that this
man was simply writing to these people
trying to convince them that he was
down here doing something to earn his
money. and he was writing up about this
conversation that never occurred. !
think that when a man who is posii.s
in public life and Is trying to goldbrick
his own employers by stating things that
are absolutely untrue, the public should
be made aware Of that fact This MAI,
never saw me except to see me pass
down the corridor. / never had a con.
versation with him In my life
Urged to Go to Chicago.
Letters from J. H. McMichael to Null
Michael. who was McDermotts conf
Genital man. urged the colonel to go out
to Chicago to take part in McDermott's
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