Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-12

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turer5 attorney said In view Of the heat
did not need to go into these matters.
God Almighty furnishes the weather
and the committee will find the time.
The committee paid no attention TO Nc
Carriers suggestion and kept on talking
about the strike.
| Letters of Appreciation.
Letters were produced showing the
| appreciation Of Philadelphia employers
for the work Of Mulhall in getting print
ers to go back to work. Mulhall ex-
planned that one Of the firms (the Win
ston Company which published Bibles
| needed the services of one expert type
setter who could set type in nine Ian
guageS.
MulhaI1 said he Influenced him to re-
turn to work
What was the influence" asked SEN
ator Reed.
Two hundred dollars" answered Null
| hall, with a laugh.
Just before the committee took re-
cess Jackson III. Ralston. a Washington
attorney. appeared for the American Fed
| Grafton of Labor and announced that it
| wished to be represented by counsel.
Ralston said the federation would aid
the committee in every possible way and
| give all books and information in its pos
session bearing on the Inquiry. His re-
quest for appearance was taken under
Amusement with that Of McCarter.
Again Sends Refusal.
In reply to Chairman Garrett of the
House committee this afternoon Chairman
Overman again declined to give UP Null
hall, McMichae) or the documents, but
said the Senate would give due considera-
ton to any requests the House may make
The Senate committee spent a half hour
In consideration of the answer to the
House. 1t dsclaimed any intention to
embarrass or delay the House committee
but insisted that all the Senate witnesses
should remain in the committee room
subject to call.
The Overman letter apparently left 1t
open for the Garrett committee to ask
for q particular witness, such as Nc
Michael, the Senate committee then to
decide whether he should then be tempo
rarily turned over to the House.
The committee took recess.
Identifies Letters.
The testimony of Mulhal1 was begun be-
fore the Senate lobby committee last
night Much of the time the witness
in the record.
His testimony showed that his relations
with Marshal Gushing, former secretary
of the association. began back in 1903.
Mulhall said that he was employed to
work against an eight-hour labor bill ia
vored by the late Senator McComas of
Maryland. He admitted that he worked
to defeat McComas in MARYLAND. even
while posing as McComas' friend. Null
hall told also of efforts to help settle the
anthracite coal strike in Pennsylvania In
1902 and of attempts to arrange meetings
between the labor leaders and Gov. Stone
OF Pennsylvania.
Clash Over Witness.
As the committee was about to adjourn
a deputy sergeant-at-arms of the House
appeared and served a summons on Null
hall to appear before the special lobby
committee Of the House at o'clock this
morning.
Senator Overman, chairman Of the Sen
ate committee. Immediately announced
that the Senate committee also would
meet at 9 o'clock this morning. and that
Mr.. Mulhall was due to appear before
that committee.
They are making themselves ridicu-
lous." said Senator Overman, referring to
the House committee.
Refused Bride Of $4,000.
Senator Reed. who 10 designated by
Chairman Overman to examine Mulhall,
proceeded to examine the witness at the
night session. Mulhall said he was born
in 1850, and lived in Baltimore more
than thirteen years. Before he went with
| the ~ A. NJ he gave his time to politics,
he said, and was connected with the re-
publican national committee. He declared
that he refused bride of 5000 and
life position in the naval service in 1892.
bof he On he ha nf
republican campaign in Albany and Rens-
salaer counties. n. Y. Previous to that he
had charge Of the Mckinley gubernatorial
campaign In Ohio he testified.
tons with labor, the witness said that
the late Senator Quay Of Pennsylvania
sent him to confer with John Mitchell
during the anthracite strike in Pennsyl-
vania in 1902.
A letter OF March Is. 1902. from Null
hall to Mitchell declared that the lead
ers Of the republican organization
could do more for the miners union
than any arbitration board in exist
ence." A letter dated May II. 1902.
from Mulhall to Mitchell told OF a con-
ference between Mulhan and Gov.
stone at which Stone expressed SYM
pathy with the miners.
II think you could make a grand
stroke the letter said. In suggesting
meet Gov. Stone and make him your
- iCAAs nc WILL DS OI great A5SlSI-
ance to you In the event Of an anthra
cite strike
A letter Of August. 1901. from N. Car
roll Downs, who Mulhall said was sec
rotary to the late Senator McComas
of Maryland, WAS put in the record by
Reed 1t related to the employment
Of two men In the Treasury Depart
ment in Washington. Mulhall said he
enjoyed close political relations with
Senator McComas and that the men
for whom the employment was secured
were officers Of the MOlders Union In
Baltimore.
McComas Voted Right.
A letter of July IL. 1903. to Mulhall
as head Of the Workmen's Protective
Association from an officer in an ASSOC
citation of engineers In New York was
read by Senator Reed. The letter said
that Senator McCOmas has voted right
in the interests Of labor on every
measure that has come before the
United States Senate in the last six
years.
AT this time, Mulhali said. Marshal
Cushing was secretary OF the National
Association Of Manufacturers. He had
known Gushing in 1903. when the latter
Cushing game to see him in Washington,
services In doing organization work for
the National Association Of Manufacture
ers. Speaking Of letters from Cushing,
Senator Reed found one without q sigma
ture, and wanted to know II the National
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