Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-07-03
MAY START
LOBBY QUIZ, TOO
INVESTIGATION PLANNED AS RE-
SUIT OF SWEEPING CHARGES
BY LOBBYIST MuLHALL.
GENERAL DENIALs ENTERED
Statement Branded by Manufacturers
Counsel as Tissue Of Lies"-
Records Dlscredit Some
of His Claims.

WaSh1ngton.-AS the result OF
charges made by NJ. NJ. Mulhall, con-
fessed lobbyist, involving the integ-
rity of many senators and representa-.
tives and other public men and pur-
porting to expose a widespread and
corrupt manufacturers lobby in
Washington, the house is expected to
enter upon a lobby Investigation of
it's own, irrespective of the Overman
investigation of the senate.
General denials were entered by
persons who we're mentioned in a de-.
rogatory way in the alleged expos.
ure" by Mulhali, who says he was the
chief lobbyist for the National Asso.
citation of Manufacturers for ten years.
Some Of the men whom he was able
to reach and influence for political,
business or sympathetic reasons" &C.
cording to his public statement, were
President Taft, Curtis Guild, ambassa-
dor to Russia, Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts, Uncle Joe"
Cannon, erstwhile speaker of the
house, and Representatives James T.
McDermott, Swagaf Sherley of Ken.
lucky, Richard Bartholdt of Missouri,
William NJ. Calder and George w.
Fairchild of New York, and many
other public men.
Called "TooI of Trusts"
McDermott was charged with being
the tool of the trusts although
posing as the friend of labor on the
Democratic side of the house. He
was further charged with having OBJ.
tanned money on a check of Harold
Mccormick, in Chicago, in an irregu-
lar way.
angry about the matter that they are
angry about the matter that thty are
proposing a special investigation OF
the Mulhall charges. The Overman
lobby committee Of the senate has
already summoned Mulhall as a wit.
ness, and he will be asked to prove his
assertions.
l.. White Busbey, for many years
secretary to Speaker Cannon, pooh,
poohed the statement of Mulhall that
the latter had induced Cannon to APP
point three members of the house
judiciary committee suitable to the
Manufacturers Association. He said
Cannon had refused to permit Mulhall
to use the speakers office to inter-
view members.
Denounced by Emery.
James A. Emery, counsel for the
National Association of Manufacture
ers, said that the statement of Col.
Mulhall illustrates the most danger
GUS and malicious form of falsehood-
that which ''fabricates a tissue of lies
on a slight foundation of truth
Mulhall tells of unsuccessful efforts
to bride Samuel Gompers. Gompera
refused to discuss the subject.
Speaker Clark was mentioned in
the Mulhall statement as one who
could not be influenced and who there
fore was singled out for political
slaughter.
Records Discredit Story.
Examination of official records here
discredited some of Mulhall's claims
and these instances Of error were so
pronounced as to weaken the whole
story. For instance, Mulhall states
that he and James A. Emery, whom
he ~designates as general counsel and
chief lobby at Washington" secured
the nomination of James E. Watson
for governor of Indiana in 1908, and
that In return for this Watson, then
Republican whip of the house of rep
resentatives, had three members of
the judiciary committee who were
opposed by the association removed
and three subservient members ap.
pointed in their places.
Among those Mulhall a y were re.
moved we're former Representative
George A, Pearre of Maryland and
among those appointed were former
Representative Edward B. Vreeland
of New York and Harry M. Bannon of
Ohio.
Record Tells Different Story.
The official records tell an entirely
different story. Pearre was transferred
from the judiciary committee to anoth.
er committee at the organization of
the Sixtieth congress In December,
1907, long before Watson was nom
mated for governor. Former Repre-.
sentative Joseph g. Cannon of Illinois,
then speaker, did refuse to reappoint
him to the judiciary committee, one
of the most important committees In
the house.
Wall and Seaffold Fall.
Cleveland.-A portion of the wall