Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-07-04
N|ll|||lG0 BEFORE
LOBBY PROBERS
Committee Summons Former
Agent Of Manufacturers.
WITNESS WRITES ARTICLE
81, --.-----
Martin M. MuihaI' Publishes Story
Of His Doings as Field Agent OF
Employers Association.

Washington, June 30.-Further sem
sations in the senate's lobby inyesti-
cation were foreshadowed when it
became known that subpoena had
been served upon Marin NJ. Mulhall
of Baltimore, reported to have been
for years the active .'.field agent" and
lobbyist of the National Association
of Manufacturers.
The subpoena was ordered by
Chairman Overman of the lobby COM
mittee after representations had been
made to him that Mr.. Mulhall was
willing to give the committee impor-
tant facts regarding attempts to in
auence legislation, to elect or defeat
candidates for, congress and to con-
troll the makeup of committees in
congress. A sergeant-at-arms of the
senate served the subpoena upon Mr..
Mulhall in Washington.
The nature and extent of the dis
closures that are expected were out
lined in an article published.
Article Bristles With Names.
The statement purports to be Mr..
Alulha]ls personal history as the rep
resentative from 1903 to 1912 of the
National Association of Manufacture
ers and bristles with the names Of
congressman whom he alleges were
"subservient" or who were punished
for their opposition to legislation ia
vcring the association. 1.--.. -
J.. The allegations that he had helped
to defeat congressman who opposed
the interest of the manufacturers;
that this organization had spent thou.
sands of dollars to elect congress-
men expected to be sympathetic to
their Influences: that he had aided in
procuring favorable members on COM
mittees that handled labor legisla-
ton; and that his associates had
used great efforts to secure the estab-
lishment of a federal tariff commits
sion in 1908, as a means of delaying
tariff revision, are contained in the
long article, under Mr.. MulhalPs
name. %
The facts alleged in the striking
story of legislative lobbying and po-
litical campaign were not laid before
Chairman Overman prior to their
publication.
Will sift Allegations.
He declared, however, that the
story was so circumstantial in it's de-
tail that he expected the committee
to go to the bottom of the alIega-
tons and to uncover any. new angle
of ''insidious lobbying" or PERM
cious'' political campaigning that
might be disclosed
The ATulhall article named many
former, and present members of con-
gress;; who were alleged to have been
active agents in support of legisla-
ton desired by the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers.
Senator Overman declared sub
poenas would also lie issued for
James A. Emery, representative OF
the National Manufacturers associa-
ton at Washington, whom the .NIul.
hall article designates as "chief lob
byist" for the association at Wash.
ington; and for former Congress-
man James i. Watson Of Indiana. re-
ferred to in the AIulhall statement
as an "insidious lobbyist" and for
members of the Manufacturers assoc
citation who were leading the fight
FOR tariff commission in 1903. 49,
He said the committee would de-
termine at a meeting Monday, July !,
as to the summoning of other con-
gressmen or former congressman.