Arizona republican., 1913-07-13
Senate and House Investi- gators Pursuing the Same Lines and Need Wit nesses to Carry on Their Work of Inquiry
HOUSE WINS
 ADVANTAGE
Now Appears Lower Body Will Have Privilege on Monday of Examining the Men Previously Summon ed Before Senate
TAssoC1ATEr PRESS DIsPATCHl

! IASSOCIATER PRESS DlSPATCH1
 1 WASHINGTON, July 12. - When
 the senate and house lobby investiga
 tors adjourned today to fight for the
 possession of Martin NJ. Mulhall, J.
 II. McMichaeI and other witnesses, it finished with the odds strongly in favor of Chairman Overman and his l senate committee. OVertures for l reace passed back and forth by spe- 1 cial messengers during the day and
 the last exchange of ccurtesies seem
 ed certain that the house investiga- tors will be given an opportunity to start work next week with McMichael or some other witness, provided they made a request upon the senate for his production. The fight which came to a head late last night when an officer of the house tried to take
 Muihall away from the senate com mittee and the evenings nearing was resumed as soon as preliminaries
 could be dispensed with this morning.
 With Mulhan, McMichaeI and other witnesses safely in a room and the witnesses and papers guarded by sorgeant-at-arms and senate employ es, Chairman Overman and his com mittee retired and indicted epistle to Chairman Garrett of the house committee. This called the attention of the house committee to the cap ture of MulhaH the night before and asserted the determination of the senate to hold the witnesses and pa pers until they got through with them. Chairman Overman said that no disrespect was meant to the house and there was no desire to hamper the other body's investigation.
 Chairman Garrett replied that the house committee might take hold of McMichael for when MulhalI alleged | he took pay from the National As | sOciation of Manufacturers it was while he was acting as chief page ! of the house of representatives and ] they wanted to know whether it was l true the senate committee had told l McMichael not to testify before the 1 house until they got through with ] him.
 Again a council was held behind | closed doors and a new letter was | drafted. In it Overman intimated | that the senate committee intended l to keep every one of it's witnesses l under direct surveillance, but if the house should present a proper re- 1 quest for some of the witnesses who l did not happen to be then engaged | the senate of the committee would | give courteous consideration to the 1 applications.
 In the meantime Mulhall who had | progressed only far as the latter 1 part of 1906 and his documentary | recital of his lobbying work for the ! National Association of Manufactur- 1 CTS had been released from the senate l committee room.
 At 2:30 Chairman OVerman said | the committee would recess until 10 1 o'clock on Monday. With the consent l of the committee Mulhal has depart ed for New York to spend Sunday but the senate committee remained technically in session so that he could 1 be recalled if the house committee attempted to subpoena him for testi- mony this afternoon. Overmans let ter was later gone over by Garrett and his committee in a secret ses- sion late this afternoon. But no answer was made. The house com mittee will reconvcne at 1O:3O a. m. l Monday.
 James A. Emery, the counsel of the national association of manufacturers and referred to by Mulhall in his pub lished statement as the "chief of the lobbyists of the association al Wash ington had been re-subpoenaed by the house committee. He arrived today
 He told the house committee he had previously been summoned by the sen ate committee who had also command ed him to produce his papers, and he said the senate committee was in pos session of all the papers as well as those of Mulhall and other witnesses. If McMichael is put on the stand by the Garrett committee Monday that body will plunge at once into the Null hall charges of spying work done in the house for the manufacturers assO- citation. MulhaIl alleges that Me Michael received $50 weekly and extra amounts to secure information when chief of the house pages and he used the staff of Pages to aid him. In one of his replies to Chairman Garrett today Chairman Overman of the senate com mittee said that the body of investiga- tors did not expect to enter into any special investigation of the charges ployes.
 It is expected that the two investiga-
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