The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-07-18
MULHALL TELLS Of
LIFE AS LOBBYIST
ALLEGED RELATIONS WITH FOR
MER SECRETARY OF MANU-
FACTURERS.
SOME LETTERS INTRODUCED
These Show Former ActivIties-in'
quiry Into Witness Confession
Staged Before the Sen
ate Investigators.

Washington, July 14.-Martin NJ.
Mulhall. who claims to have been
the active lobbyist for the National
Association of Manufacturers for
many years, is now the witness be-
fore the senate lobby investigating
committee.
The committee has made only a
faint impression on the huge pile OF
letters. but enough was read into
the record to show Mulhall's alleged
relations with Marshall Cushing, for
mer secretary of the manufacturers
association.
Relations Began in 1903.
These relations the testimony
showed began in 1903 and Mulhalf
was first employed to work against
an eight-hour bill favored by the late
Senator McComas of Maryland.
Mulhall admitted frankly that he
had worked to defeat the McComas
forces in Maryland while he was still
posing as the senator's friend. He
said he received many checks from
Cushing for small amounts, which
We're to be used in paying the ex-
penses of a labor organization in Bal
timore which was opposed to Nc
Comas.
Mulhall told also of efforts to help
settle the anthracite coal strike in
the Pennsylvania fields in 1902 and
spoke of attempts to arrange o n
ferences between the then governor,
Stone, and the labor leaders.
Distributes Many Letters.
The witness told about the distri-
button of the bundles of letters in
Maryland, sent by Cushing from New
York, protesting against the eight
hour bill that McComas was backing.
He said he sent them to business mep
in Baltimore.
He said Gushing was interested in
May, 1904, in his candidacy for cleo
ton as alternate to the Republican
national convention that year. At
that time Gushing sent him an extra
large check to aid in his expenses
and Mulhall was elected as alternate
to General Agnus of Baltimore.
"Agnus was in New York at the
time" said Mulhall, "and Cushing
was using his influence to keep Ag-
nus at home away from the Chicago
convention, so that l would have a
vote in the convention and so he
could control that vote"
Against the Eight-Hour Law.
In this connection Mulhall told OF
resolutions against McComas sent
him by Gushing which Mulhall was
to have signed by officers and men,
bers of labor unions to be used to de-
feat McComas at Chicago.
An unsigned communication, pur-
porting to be from Cushing to Null
hall on June IS, 1904, gave instruc-
tions for the visit of Mulhall and
two labor men to Chicago. They
were to do their best to prevent the
Endorsement of the eight-hour law
by the Republican convention. "Any
slip-up by any of your friends it
said, might be fatal"
Cushing spoke of certain resources
in the usual FORM"
What were these resources?" ask
ed Senator Reed.
Cash, $780," said the witness. II
was to take two active organized Ia
Dor men and pay their expenses, as
well as my own"
What were you going for?"
I'VE were to work against active
men of organized labor-Gompers and
the Others"
A letter which caused considerable
amusement in the committee was
identified by Mulhall as from Cushing.
In part, it read: Who was the best
friend of the laboring man? Mark
Hanna, who fought the eight-hour bin
tooth and nail as long as he lived.
and Gompers knows it, because Han
ma realized that it would only make
trouble between the employer and the
employe, and the shorter workday
would be put off 20 years by these
methods; or l.. E. McComas, who en-
dangers the success of the Republic
al party and its protective system and
high wages by making it marc or i'm
possible to win the e election, and
who, in addition, while posing as a
Republican and a decent and honora-
BILE man who would not deceive any,
body, nevertheless tries to hand out
to labor, organized and u~norganized. a
gold brick, a humbug or a false pre-
n In the way of a piece of legis-
lation which nobody can understand
and which cannot possibly accomplish
anything that he promises that it
will"