Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-07-16
.N||IUIHAIl AGAIN
BE t! R SENATE ] !. |
Confessed Lobbyist Tells How
Work Was Done.
MONEY VERY FREELY USED
Details Activities Ia Effort to Defeat
Senators Mccomas Of Maryland I
and Hughes Of New Jersey.

Washington, July 13.-Under sub
poenas to appear at the same hour be;
fore two separate congressional com
mittees in sessions at distant ends OF
the Capitol, Martin NJ. Mulhall, who
Is testifying as to the alleged lobby
ing activities Of the National Asso;
citation of Manufacturers, faced a puz-
cling situation. IS. .<..> ~.
The tangle was the result of a clash
of authority between the senate and!
house Investigators. AS the senate
subpoena antedated that issued by the
house committee and the witness was
in the custody of senate deputy ser
geant-at-arms, the upper house was
in position to enforce it's ultimatum.
Mulhall and J. H. McMichael ap.y
peared at the senate committee room
and were placed under guard of an
assistant sergeant-at-arms. The house
committee, minus its expected wit
nesses, went into an executive session
to plan further action.
MulhalI Resumes Stand.
Mulhall finally resumed the stand
and took up the Identification of his
letters, which he began at the previous
session. James A. Emery, counsel for
the National Association of Manufac.
turers, made q formal request for the
right of the association to be repre-.
sented by an attorney. Chairman
Overman said the committee would
decide later whether Robert McCar.
ter, attorney general of New Jersey,
should have the general privileges Of
an attorney for the association.
Mulhall identified more letters show
ing his relations with Marshall Cush-
ing, secretary of the association of
manufacturers. He testified he had an
understanding with Cushing that he
was to receive 500 a week and $40 a
week for expenses for general field
work and lobby work in Washington"
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 d.
rected against McComas.
Secretary In Opponents Pay.
II turned them over to Carl M.
Downs, secretary to McComas,": he
added. :-~..- :.-s~@ 1919
do you mean you delivered those
letters against McComas to his secre.
tary?" demanded Senator Reed.
carl M. Downs was in the pay of
Cushing" replied the witness, who
went on to explain that he quarreled
with Gushing before he was buying
out" the secretary of a senator.
Mulhall resnted any implication
that he had tried to play double
game on the labor men, such as he
frankly testified he played on Nc
Comas. In 1903 he took a paid up
union card and had no further con-
nection with labor unions" he said.
Harry c. Kurten, secretary of the
Allied Building Trades of Philadel-
phia, was engaged, Mulhall testified,
in the fight against William Hughes,
ator from New Jersey. :
Were you sent to help beat Hughes
by the National Association of Manu-.
tacturers?" asked Mr.. Reed.
eyes, sir" ~| 49,
"Why did they want to beat
Hughes?" -.
Hughes Held Union Card. -.
con account of his holding union
card, being affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and his &C.
tivity on the floor of the house and
with the labor leaders in Washington -
did you pose as a friend of the
labor organizations and thus work
against these organizations from the
tnside?" asked Senator Cummins.
"Not at that time" IL. ,~.5-. :. e.
Testifying further about the cam
paign against Hughes, Mulhall swore
he went to Paterson to aid Hughes
opponent. He hired six union men to
work against Hughes and paid them
about $1,000, which came from the
National Association of Manufactur.
ers, through Gushing. - :
The union men in the pay of the
National Association of Manufactur.
ers, Mulhall said, took possession OF
$4,000 circulars sent into the district
by the American Federation of Labor
to aid Hughes and turned them over