Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-29
A Secret Room
 al the Capitol
MuLHALL SAYS McDERMoTT
 MAINTAINED ONE
LODGE MAKES A DENIAL.
Massachusetts Senator Declares He Does Not Know MulhaII and Never Heard of Him Before investigation

Washington, July 2S.-Martin M. MulhaIl sat on the witness stand be- fore the senate lobby committee today and listened to, another senator deny his statement Senator Lodge, men toned as one of those with whom the former lobbyist for the National As sociation of Manufacturers had held political conferences, declared he did not know the witness and never had heard of him until the present investi- gation began.
 Interviewed Underwood.
 MulhalFs correspondence read today brought him into the year 1911, when the house became democratic. In many of his letters that year he spoke of interviews with Majority Leader Un- derWood William B. Wilson, secretary of labor in President Wilson's cabinet, then chairman of the house labor com mittee, James Lloyd of the First Mis- souri district, chairman of the demo- cratic congressional committee, and other prominent men.
 Expected Great Success With Demo-
 crats.
 He mentioned in several letters with assurance that he expected to have even greater success with the demo- cratic house than he had boasted he had in the days of republican rule, but questioned by the committee said he had been too optimistic in his prophe- cy.
 MuIha1l took up his relations with Representative J. T. McDermott of Illinois. He produced what he swore was a receipt for $10o given him by and October, 1911, and reiterated that McDermott borrowed money from him which lie never paid back,
 Secret Rocn1v at the Capitol
 Senator Reed became deeply inter- ested In talk about a secret rooms which Mulhall said McDernott se- cured for his use on the lower floor of the west front of the. capitol, on the house side, He described 1t as quite mysterious place and the com mittee will inspect 1t later, Muihall went to the length of making arrange meffts for 9 sten6gFa piaer whom he in tended to place in that room,
 The enaRs1YraeAt of B. Etendgfai1if CT end heating her in that room, said General Manager Bird. in reply to this suggestion, siwozld place me In da41l9t- accept. feeling that the association cannot afford to lay itself liable to the slightest suspicion"
 A Labor Lobby.
 Mulhall said he, McDermott and Me
 
 frequently made long distance teie- phone calls from the room and called up senators and members of the house there. All through today's letters Null hall appeared in opposition to legisla- ton faVoring labor. He swore that there was a labor lobby in Washington then in which Samuel Gompers. Frank Morrison and other officials of the American Federation of Labor were conspicuous figures. Questioned by Senator Nelson. he said that the labor people were trying to do about what only working in the opposite direction.
 Little Progress Made.
 The committee made little progress today Senator Reed read extracts from dozens of letters referring to the. franking of books and seeds and other things through the mails to friends of the association.
 One of the last to go in was dated Oct. 12, 1911, from MulhalI to General Manager Bird. offering his resignation. The committee did not finish it's ex- animation of Muihall on the subject, but he declared that he got into diff culty with the executive board of the organization after he made campaign trip to Maine. He will tell the whole story.
 Muihaii Fald $4os9Io-Zr
 J. P. Bird. general manager of the National Association of Manufactur- CTS. issued a statement from the as- sociation's headquarters here tonight declaring that a careful examination of the books showed that Mulha1l was paid during the entire ten years he was in the service of the association S48, ,97627 or less than $5.000 a year. Of this, the statement said $14,127 rep resented Mu1ha1l's salary and the re- snainder his general expenses, includ- ing transportation and hotel bills. Null hall has testified that he spent about s260, ,000 carrying on the associations lobby political work.