The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-22
MULHALL NEAR
COLLAPSE FROM
SEVERE STRAIN

ldCtuIeiss Is threatened with nervous
prostration. He has undergone a
severe ordeal during the last week
in the witness stand before the SEN
ate lobby investigation committee,
but the chief reason for his serious
nervous condition, he alleges, is the
physiological intimidation to which
he claims he has been subjected by
the officials and legal advisers of the
n. A. NJ.
Day after day and hour after hour
former President Kirby of the asso-
ciation and James A. Emery and
Robert McCarter have sat directly
posite Mulhall and fixed their un-
~ayering gaze upon him, staring
fixedIy and increasingly directly in
10 his eyes.
Mulhall Near Collapse.
The strain told on Mulhall to such
IN extent that he broke under 1t on
Friday and made a passionate pro-
test to Chairman Overman of tho
committee. Senator Overman diplo-
matically pacified him, and urged
the witness not to look in the direct
ion OF his tormentors But there
is nowhere else that he can turn his
eyes. The witness chair directly
faces the three N. A. NJ. officials.
who, couriously enough, were given
this place at table at the beginning
of Mulhall's testimony, and the en-
re seating arrangement will have
be altered if Mulhall is to have
elief These three officials, more
yer, sit with their backs to an open
indcw, the light from which
reams directly into the face of the
witness,
OF course the N. A. M, officials
deny that there is any concerted ef-
i n their fixed glances at Null
aau.
3rt is It not natural that We
tagld Stare at him in wonder and
a Henr they say, considering
he a.ra1rdi0ary statements he is
tuE.
Letnl Men T. Be Heard,
Dr.&a...d labor's side of the
Hate1 Mllhall has been telling
a la by inyestigat ng COM
ace up as a possibility of
resumed inquiry this week.
~ Samuel Gompers, president of
ration of Labor, and John
al under instructions to
aa Euy 25 to be heard. But
n VIII be possible for the
he examine the two labor
chat time denends upon
rlan which Senator
id he was trying to
'ta hearing the
Mulhall's story.
lear something will have
d the Senator I'VE
Yr about 1000 of the
tcra furnished by Mulhall,
ness some way is found to
dings the investigation
along to interminable
~ths"
Not only are there about 5000
more Of the Mulhall letters, but
about 10000 letters from the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
awaiting the consideration of the
committee, in addition to a car load
of account books, minutes, etc,
Some sort of cross-eXam nation of
Mulhall is also ahead of the commit
tee, in addition to the big list of inn
portant witnesses who have been
summoned.
Watson Is Impatient.
Former Congressman Watson is
hore awaiting a chance to be heard;
rmer Senator Foraker has declared
that he will demand a hearing, and
ex-Speaker Cannon is possible wit
ness, not to mention dozen other
men of prominence whose names
have been dragged into the discuss
n.
Tho cross-examination of Mulhall
is also expected to begin before the
week is out, and from the manner
in which J. Woods McClave exposed
the weak spots in the narrative on
'ri1av n sht there is a belief in
tiers that the entire story
az Il be discredited before the in
'ry has proceeded much further.
Labor leaders are especially con-
erned over the repeated statements
of Mulhall that he hribed union la
hor men right and left, and the COM
mittee will be requested either TO
force Mulhall to furnish proofs in
the way of dates, names and places
of these bribes, or else officially ac-
quit organized labor on the record of
treaChery ascrihed to it.
1t has practically been decided by