Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-07-16
MULHALL HELD
BY SENATE BODY
Committee Defeats Plan of House
to Secure Witness.
RESUMES HIS "CONFESSI0N''
Declares Secretary Of N. A. M. Agreed
to Pay Him Stated Sum for "Gen-
eral Field Work and Lobby
Work in Washington"


guard, Martin M. Mulhall was placed
upon the stand again by the senate
lobby investigating committee, to de-
feat any plan the house committee
might have.
After Mulhall had been on the stand
for nearly five hours the committee
took a recess. Senator Overman ex-
cused Mulhall for the day and permit
ted him to go to New York, where he
had important business.
MuIhalI Got $40 a Week.
On resuming the stand Mulhall took
up the Identification of his letters. Be
fore he could begin, however, James G..
Emery, counsel for the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, made a for
nal request upon the committee for
the right of the association to be rep
resented by an attorney. Robert Nc
Carthy, former attorney general of
New Jersey, was presented as the at
torney. Chairman Overman said the
committee would decide later whether
Mccarthy should have the general
privileges Of an attorney for the asso-
citation.
Mulhall identified more letters show
ing his relations with Marshall Cush-
ing, secretary of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers. He testified he
had an understanding with Gushing
that he was to receive 800 a week
and $40 a week for expenses for gen
eral field work and lobby work in
Washington"
McComa's Secretary Traitor.
Mulhall testified further of how he
worked to defeat the late Senator Nc
Comas of Maryland, although he posed
as the senator's friend. He said he
had received 500 letters from Cushing
directed against McComas.
81 turned them over to Carl M.
Downs, secretary to McComas," he
added.
do you mean you delivered these
letters against McComas to his sec
retary?'' demanded Senator Reed
Carl M. Downs was in the pay of
| Cushing" replied the witness, who
went on to explain that he quarreled
with Cushing because he was buying
OUT the secretary of a senator.
Worked to Aid AIdrich.
A letter to Senator Foraker, Septem-
Der 10, 1904, referred to suggestion
that Mulhall go to Rhode Island to
help Senator Aldrich in his campaign.
He testified he went later at the re-
quest of Aldrich. 'He asked me to get
into touch with labor men there, to get
their support"
Letters from G. E. Alden, then sec
rotary to Foraker, and Arthur B. Shell
ton, secretary to Aldrich, showed that
MulhalPs suggestion to go to Rhode
Island had been the subject of some
correspondence. Alden and Shelton
knew he was employed by the associa-
ton and he had not tried to conceal
the source of his employment, even
from the labor leaders, he testified
Mulhall resented any implication
that he had tried to play "a double
game" on the labor men, such as he
frankly testified he played on Nc
Comas.
SIN 1906 took a paid-up union card
and had no further connection with
LABOR unions, ne SalQ.
Tells of Fight on Hughes.
A letter of introduction for Harry G.
Kurten given by the Council of Allied
Building Trades of Philadelphia was
offered in evidence It was signed by
Kurten as secretary. Kurten was en-
gagged, Mulhall testified, in the fight
against William Hughes, then a repre-
sentative and now a senator from New
Jersey.
"Were you sent to help beat Hughes
by the National Association of Manu-
facturers?" asked Mr. Reed.
Eyes, sir"
"Why did they want to beat
Hughes?"
ION account Of his holding a union
card, being affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, and his activ-
ity on the floor Of the house and with
the labor leaders in Washington"
Kurten was given credentials, Null
hall said, so he could get into union
labor meetings to oppose Hughes.
'The work of this kind was always
secret" said Mulhall. ct was done
under cover"
Taft Is Brought In.
A reference to President Taft came
in connection with notaHons on the
back of one of the Mulhall envelopes.
The following names appeared: &C.
D. Firestone, Columbus Buggy COM
pany; Col. w. H. Morgan, Alliance,
o.; John N. Taylor, East Liverpool;
D. j. Sinclair, Steubenville; H. M.
Hanna, Cleveland, O."
These five names were submitted
to me by Senator Foraker Of Ohio to
hand to President Taft at an interview
| was to have with him at his sum-
mer residence in 1910 concerning the
campaign in Ohio" Mulhan testified:
The committee did not develop the
point further.
Buys Up Union Men.
Testifying further about the cam
paign against Hughes, Mulhall swore
he went TO Paterson to aid Hughes op-