The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-08-06
CHECKS PAID To
WATSON Shown
Placed IN Evidence Before
the Senate Lobby
Committee.
DENIAL BY MIR. FORAKER
Says No Conferences Were Held at
His Home Is Heard
BY House Probers.
DENIAL BY MIR. FORAKER

The guns Of House and Senate lobby IN
vestigating committees yesterday were
trained upon the invisible government
disclosed through the publication OF tie
statement and letters Of Col. Mulhan.
formerly chief lobbyist. strike-breaker,
and field agent of the National Associa.
ton of Manufacturers.
Following on the heels Of Mr.. Wat
sons refusal to appear voluntarily be-
fore the Senate lobby investigating conf
mittee two checks for $500 each, made
payable to James Z. Watson, and by him
Endorsed and cashed at the Riggs Ma
tional Bank of this city, were placed in
4 evidence before the committee yester-
: day. The checks were dated April "a,
1909. and were cashed four days later
The following receipt also was intro
duced in evidence:
"St. Louis. Mo.-Received Of the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers s, 900
in two $500 drafts on New York, to be
used for the payment Of Watson on tar
if work.
"FERD G. sCHwEDTMAN.
Secretary to the president"
The checks read as follows:
Third National Bank. of ST. Louis:
Pay to the order of James E. Watson
$500.
'FERD c. SCHwEDTMAN,
Secretary to the president"
Ex-senator Foraker yesterday denied
that he took Mr.. Mulhall seriously either
before or after the expose, declared that
he did not consider Mulhalrs references
to him, insofar as they were true, as
rejecting upon him and admitted that
he had been friendly to Mulhall, who
always had supported him in State and
national politics.
Did Not Take Him Seriously.
''You know. when a man is supporting
you for the Presidency he looks awfully
good to you.'' explained Mr.. Foraker
with laugh, Especially when he has
all the labor organizations under his
thumb. I retained my good opinion OF
Mr.. Mulhall until learned that he had
sold his letters to the New York World.
''Of course, I did not take Mr.. Null
hall as seriously as he took himself. nor
did believe he welded as great an in
duence as he seemed to think he COM
manded."
Ex-senator Foraker denied unequivo-
cally that Mulhall had ever been in his
house or that any conference of Repub-
1ican leaders hostile to the candidacy of
then Secretary of War Taft, such as
Mulhall described in one Of his letters
ever had taken place in his home In
a number of other details Mr.. Foraker
denied Mulhalrs testimony.
Before the House investigating commit
tee yesterday afternoon, General Coun-
sci James A. Emery, of the n. A. NJ.
admitted that the National Council for
Industrial Defense had contributed, on
his recommendation, 500 to the campaign
fund of Niels JUL. Republican opponent
of Representative Frank Buchanan, of
Chicago, in the Congressional campaign
Of last year. because I'VE believed that
Mr.. Buchanan was inimicable to all the
interests of the business men of Chicago.
We thought that his relations with the
National Ironworkers' Union. which had
been involved in the Mcnamara dynamit-
ing case, were such that every business
man in Chicago ought to oppose him."
Letters of Manufacturers.
That methods bordering on the intimi-
dation of their employees were adopted by
some of the Indiana manufacturers dur
ing the campaign of James Z. Watson
for Governor of the Hoosier State in
1905, was indicated in letters written by
them to c. c. Hanch. Watson's manager
in answer to a circular letter from the
latter.
Letters from more than 100 ~manufac-
turers of Indiana are included in this
collection. More than 80 per cent Of them
announced themselves as favorable to
the Republican State and national ticket
Edwin E. Doles wrote from Green's
burg. Ind. in part:
watson is a personal friend Of mine.
MY employees understand my position
thoroughly.
IF Bryan is elected this plant closes
down until spring.
IF Taft and Watson are elected, II
runs on every day possible at is has done
all year thus far"
A large number of letters which Null
hall hitherto had withheld, were intro
duced yesterday. Among them were
several daily reports made to Mulhall by
William Walsh, the member of the
boilermakers' Union whom MulhaIl en-
ployed for the n. A. N. for eight months
to work for Watson in the latter's Guber-
material campaign in 1905. These reports
show that Walsh's activities as far as
detailed, for the days they covered, were
confined to sounding out labor leaders
and business agents of various unions.
Members of the House committee
seemed to enjoy the reading of Mr..
Emery's letters yesterday afternoon.
The letters were generally character
lied as ''literary illusions" Most of
the letters were written following the
Congressional victory OF the Democrats
in 1910, and show the impotence with
which Mr.. Emery viewed the changed
conditions. Many of them were written
following the late inauguration, in a
keenly satirical vein, and contained
caustic comments on passing events.