Evening journal., 1913-07-29

HITS BACK AT
COL. MULHALL
House Floor Leader Declares
Confessed NAM. Lobby
iSt Is a BIaCkmaiIer
DENIES CONFERENCE
AND WANTS TO BE SWORN
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
WASHINGTON, July Shaking
his finger accusedly at Colonel NJ. NJ.
Mulhall, Representative Oscar I'm
derwood, House floor leader, today
told the Senate lobby Investigating
committee that the self-confessed n.
A. NJ. lobbyist was a liar and black
mailer. Underwood was angerde at
MulhalIs confessions concerning
alleged conferences he had with the
Alabama member.
He interrupted the committees
proceedings In dramatic appeal
shortly after the session convened.
is that Mulhall?' he demanded,
Ter saw him before.
II tell yom IL isn't righ. 90 let a man
like this attack public men, particularly
When he is backmailing the men whom
lac worked for. That man was never in
my committee room
"Nou say blackmail, Mr.. Underwood 90
pieried senator Reed. "Ihat means a
demand for money!
"Ncn." said Underwood. II don't
want TO merely make statement.
want TO be put under oath. sent my
ianitor here TO deny Nlulhall's state.
ments and he was sent back
"Othcr subordinatcs have denied Null
halls testimony. too" rctortcd Reed
but afterwards saw receipts for money
paid them
In his sworn statement Underwood
verbally lashed Mulhall repeatedly
accusing him of telling untruths and
OF -four flushing"
"This letter itself manifestly shows
he is lying" he asserted. referring 10
one IN which Underwood's name was
mentioned. II don't know Mr. Emery
and John Kirby, Jr, and ! positively
never talked TO either of them on
labor matters His whole statement
I Is made out Of whole cloth. To show
you how this man lied. he states there
was an issue about making Repre-
sentative Wilson. of Pennsylvania
lchairman OF the labor committed
There was no such issue.
"This man was lying He wa
merely trying to make these peopl
lbelieve he was doing something
earn his money I'd know that man
face n had seen H. IT'S an unusu'
lone.r
Senator Reed called Underwood
attention TO the fact that in Mulhall'
ilettcr. Mulhal was merely repeatin
what Kirby was supposed to hav
told him Of a conference he had hai
with Underwood
There must have been some bas
is to this. he insisted
81 never conferred with Kirby.
L..
talked TO him in the corridor. Bu
the personnel Of that labor commit
tees In 1910 shows that II could no
have been satisfactory to an anti
labor organization
Republican members OF the com
mittee and Mulhall himself we're In
clined to argue the question viii
Underwood
Senator Walsh read a letter from
~. A. Emery to Mulhall enclosing two
checks for S25 to be given to Harry
Neal and Harry Thornton. janitori
of the speakers aud ways and meanl
committee How about these?' h
asked
Did the janitors get the money.
Underwood demanded meaningly d"
lam not defending the n. A. NJ. Thei
conduct has been reprehensible, bu
when this man Mulhall writes what h
docs of me he is committing a libel.
Mulhall, replying. insisted he pai'
lUnderwood's janitor regularly for tw'
Years.
Il know when ! produce other wit
inesses, Mr. Underwood will admi
THAT part Of his statement is a viciou
lie" the lobbyist continued.
Mulhall objected to being called
liar without being given a chance &
defend himself, and Senator Reed sup
ported him.