Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-07-04
Will GO BEFORE
LOBBY PR0BERS
Committee Summons Former
Agent Of Manufacturers.
WITNESS WRITES ARTICLE
Martin NJ. MuIhall Publishes Story
Of His Doinos as Field Agent Of
Employers Association.

Washington, June 30.-Further sen.
sations in the senate's lobby investi.
cation were foreshadowed when it
became known that subpoena had
been served upon Martin NJ. Mulhall
of Baltimore, reported to have been
for years the active field agent" and
lobbyist of the National Association
of Manufacturers.
The subpoena was ordered by
Chairman Overman of the lobby COM
mittee after representations had been
made to him that Mr.. Mulhall was
willing to give the committee impor-
tant facts regarding attempts to in.
fiuence legislation, to elect or defeat
candidates for congress and to con-
troll the makeup of committees in
congress. A sergeant-at-arms of the
senate served the subpoena upon Mr..
Mulhall in Washington.
The nature and extent of the dis.
closures that are expected were out
lined in an article published.
Article eristIes With Names.
The statement purports to be Mr..
Mulha]ls personal history as the rep.
resentative from 1903 to 1912 of the
National Association of Manufactur.
ers and bristles with the names Of
congressman whom he alleges were
"subservient" or who we're punished
for their opposition to legislation ia
voring the association.
The allegations that he had helped
to defeat congressman who opposed
the interest of the manufacturers;
that this organization had spent thou
sands of dollars to elect congress.
men expected to be sympathetic to
their influences; that he had aided in
procuring favorable members on COM
mittees that handled labor legisla.
ton; and that his associates had
used great efforts to secure the estab.
lishment of federal tariff commits
sion in 1908, as a means of delaying
tariff revision, are contained in the
long article, under Mr.. Mulhall's
name.
{ The facts alleged in the striking
story of legislative lobbying and po-
.itical campaign were not laid before
Chairman Overman prior to their
publication.
viii Sift Allegations. $.
He declared, however, that the
story was so circumstantial in its de-
tail that he expected the committee
to go to the bottom of the allega-
tons and to uncover any new angle
Of "insidious lobbying" or PERM
cious" political campaigning that
might be disclosed.
The Mulhall article named many
former and present members of con-
gress, who were alleged to have been
active agents in support of legisla-
ton desired by the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers.
Senator Overman declared sub.
poenas would also be issued for
James A. Emery, representative Of
the National Manufacturers associa.
ton at Washington, whom the Null
hall article designates as chief lob
byist" for the association at Wash.
ington; and for former Congress-
man James E. Watson Of Indiana, re-
ferred to in the Mulhall statement
as an "insidious lobbyist" and for
members of the Manufacturers asso.
citation who were leading the fight
for a tariff commission in 1908.
He said the committee would de.
termine at q meeting Monday, July 7,
as to the summoning of other con.
gressmen or former congressman.