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DENIAL BY LODGE
STIRS MULHALL
Says He Was Paid $4,000 to
Take Part in Campaign
TELLS OF A CONFERENCE
Lobbyist Also Declares Money Was
Paid by A. &. Cox-looked to Dem. |
ocrats For Favors. |

Lobbyist Also Declares Money Was
Paid by A. E. cox-Looked to Dem.
ocrats For Favors.
Washington July 20. - Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
appeared before .he senate lobby in
vesiigating commi.tee and denied that
he ever knew or ever conferred with
Colonel Martin NJ. Mulhall, whose let
ters, read before the committee, indi-
Gated that Mulhall had played a con-
siderable part in the campaign OF
1910, when Senator Lodge was seeking
reelection.
Senator Lodge said that Charles E.
Hatfield, his campaign manager, had
denied, in a long distance telephone
conversation, that he had conferred
with Mulhall This reused Mulhall to
denial.
Il cannot tell you, senator, every
detail of the inside and outside of your
Office" said Mulhall, "and I want to
repeat that l did have a conference
with Hateld and that saw him many
times and was paid 10000 to take
part in that campaign
This payment was made, declared
Mulhall, by A. E. Cox, who has been
in Massachusetts politics for many
years.
Il saw newspaper statement,
said Senator Lodge, that the witness
Mulhall said he conferred with Mr..
Hatfield in 1910. l do not remember
ever having heard Mulhall's name un-
til this investigation. l never praised
his work. | have consulted with Mr..
Hatfield, who said he never talked
with Mulhall or ever had q conference
with him."
In January. 1911, Mulhall wrote to
General Manager Bird, of the National
Association of Manufacturers:
Il am positive we will fare very
much better with the incoming Demo
Gratis of the house than we have with
the present congress. l assured Mr..
Emery Counsel for the manufacture
ers) that if he would select some man
we could agree on for chairman Of the
labor committee we could have him ap-
pointed.
81 also told Mr. Emery am positive
we will control the judiciary commit
tee and it's subcommittee, and also
the labor committee and it's sub-com-
mittees in the next congress. am not
making this statement until am fully
convinced that those facts can be ac-
complished."
this statement" demanded Senator
Nelson. Il can't just recall at the
present time. had broken down about
that time" said Mulhall.
''Is that all the information you can
give the committee as a basis for
these statements?" "All at this time.
1 think the letters will show"
Frequently in his correspondence
Mulhall referred to the labor lobby"
"Who did you mean by the labor
lobby?" asked Senator Nelson. Com
pers, Morrison and members Of the
executive board of the Federation of
Labor" said the witness. Il always
found them busy. / saw them fire.
quently about the capitol"
Mulhali swore that ]. H. McMichael,
one time chief page of the house,
came to see him in Baltimore to get
800 and was to give half of 1t to Rep.
resentative ]. T. McDermott, Of ILL
nois He testified that McDermott as
serted later that he got only $40.
In aonther letter to Bird. Mulhall
spoke of an interview" with Repre-
sentative Underwood. He explained
that the majority leader merely re-
nlied to his questions