Arizona republican., 1913-07-18
Mulhall Questioned as to Accuracy of Wide Core spondence With Which He Has Been Entertaining Senate Committee
ONE OF VICTIMS
 WANTS ON STAND
A Former New Jersey Man Whose Name Has Been Freely Used Denies Any Acquaintance With the One-time Lobbyist
ASSOCIATED PRESS nTsPATCuI

WASHINGTON July 17-Martin NJ. Mulhall, late lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers was cross examined today about the truth his correspondence, for the first time since he began to tell the senate in VeStigating committee the story of his doings. Senator Reed questioned Null hall about his relation with $. w. Me- Clave in 1908 when McClave was a candidate in the Sixth New Jersey dis trict where special election will be held on Tuesday. c. Hart democratic candidate in this district was endorsed today by the president.
 Senator Reed announced that Me CIave denied an acquaintance with Mulhall and said he wanted to prove who was telling the truth, Mulhall or McClave. Mulhall identified many let ters from McClave to himself written in 1908 and he said he went to the Sixth district to help McCIaVe fight Hughes and he gave the details of his work there. He said the National As sOCiatiOn of Manufacturers furnished him $39O0 for his fight and a man named Barber put up $2O0O more. He told about taking McClave to lunch and dinner. about riding around in cabs with him on political tours and in other ways, helping him out in the fight one item in the expense ac- count which Senator Reed put in the record spoke of a dinner for twO' and the. witness was asked who the other person was.
 T think it was McCIave. He was always on hand" said the witness.
 MulhalI swore that he took McCIave around the shops in the district He
 
 intendent said he would rather give $500 than let them in. 'McClave growled all the way home because we didn't take the money and try to get into the place afterwards he added.
 The last three days of the campaign he and I slept together said the wit ness. illustrating how close he was to McCIave.
 MuIha1 said McClave was in the lumber business and members of the committee wanted to know if he didn't have money. Mulhall said he had heard so but he added T have been campaigning 30 years among all sorts of men but I never saw such a tight listed wad in my life"
 MulhalI said he furnished the head quarters and paid for McClaves meals three times a day.
 What did you aid to elect such a man for he was asked.
 He was a con man, that's the only way I can explain it., said the witness.
 Mulhall said man named Burke, collector of international revenue at Paterson had been paid by him $40 a week regularly for his services in this campaign.
 The testimony about McClave waS the climax to a rather sensational day even for the committee which had wad- cd through almost daily sensations for two months. Mulhall identified hund- l reds of letters bringing in dozens of the most prominent men in the republi- 1 can party in 1908, speaking familiarly of making platforms, throwing influ- 1 ence to men for nominations to all sorts of offices and working to elect or defeat others for congress.
 As the year progressed the interest i of Mulhall in the national campaign be- | gan to show plainly. His letters to ! Secretary SchWedtman of the N. A. NJ. l to James w. VanClave it's president and to men in congress, showed that | he was active preceding and during 1 the republican convention held in Chi 1 Cago that year. Arthur L VOrys, one | of Taft's managers; Wade H. Ellis, the | man then credited with writing the l platform and afterwards chief trust | buster of the department of justice; | Frank H. Hitchcock. former Speaker l Cannon, Representative Mckinley of , Illinois as well as many others of prom l thence were mentioned. and Mulhall | boasted in the letters of his acquaint- |, ance with most of them.
 Towards the close of the session, i Senator Reed put in a letter Mulhall l swore he wrote to former Congressman i Ralph D. Cole of the Eighth Ohio dis 1 trict in which he said: We suppose 1 you are aware of the miserable treat | ment we received from Attorney Gen. | eraI Ellis, A. l. Vorys and other of the 1 Taft managers and although there were several officers of our organization ] who were friends of Taft still over ! forty thousand manufacturers of this l country are today well organized who l are very sore on account of the work ! done by Ellis, Hitchcock, Vorys and 1 others at Chicago"
 The committee wanted Mulhall to eX- ! plain what caused the soreness.
 "They were having a conference in | Ellis room in Chicago he said and l we went up, knocked on the door and | for quite a while there was no answer. 1 Then Taft's brother came to the door 1