The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-07-16
MULHALL STARTS
ON LOBBY STORY
Senate and House SquabbIs
Over Star Witness
UPPER CHAMBER THE WINNER
Confessed Lobbyist Fears Bodily In.
jury and Has Guardian Near by All
the Time-1s Statements Startling,

Confessed Lobbyist Fears Bodily In.
jury and Has Guardian Near by All
the Time-His Statements Startling.
After a squabble of many hours as
to whether the senate lobby investi.
gators or the house probers should
stage the inquiry into the confession
of Colonel NJ NJ. Muihall, confessed
lobbyist, negotiations we're broken off
and Senator Overman, chairman Of,
the senate committee, called Mulhall
to the stand. -.l<
Colonel Mulhall has expressed to his
associates here in Washington that he
is fearful of his life. That the co.onel
is prepared for certain eventuaiities
and perhaps rough treatment at the
hands of some OF the men whom his
statements have injured was evi.
denced when the colonel took his seat.
In his right hand hip pocket there
was suspicious looking bulge. If it
was not what 1t looked to be 1t GER
tainly was the largest bunch of keys
ever carried by a plain business man,
as the colonel styles himself.
Besides the bunch of keys Colonel
Mulhall now has a guardian. The
guardian is person of six feet, three
inches high, weighing 300 pounds.
Colonel Mulhall opened his testi-
mony with the story of part OF his
life. He said that In 1892 he was
offered a bribe of $4,000 and a life
position in the United States navy.
Who offered him the bribe the colo
mel neglected to say and the commit
tee did not ask him.
Mulhall's time in the witness chair
was taken up chiefly in introducing a
batch of letters into the record, all OF
which connect the Manufacturers rs
sociation with lobbying and have here
tofore been published
A few letters heretofore unpub-
lished were introduced in evidence,
They had passed between Mulhall and
John Mitchell, president of the mine
workers, back in 1901 at the time OF
the anthracite coal strike. Through
this correspondence it was shown that
Mulhall was striving to bring Mr..
Mitchell into treaty relations with the
then governor of Pennsylvania, Will
liam NJ. Stone. Mulhall purported TO
be working at the instigation of Sen
ator Quay.
Mulhall explained that these nego-
tiations were to be for the benefit OF
the Republican party.
The mineworkers we're to fall in
behind the Republican machine and
the Republicans on the other hand
were to aid the mineworkers in their
struggle. Mr. Mitchell, as the letters
disclosed, consistently refused to meet
Governor Stone.
Seemingly it was during the cam
paign in the Sixth New Jersey con-
gressional district waged against Rep
resentative now Senator Hughes thai
Colonel Mulhall first came into the
open as the representative OF the
National Association of Manufacturers.
"Why did the association wish to
defeat Representative Hughes?" asked
Senator Cummins.
"They wanted to get Hughes be-
cause of his floor activities on behalf
of the American Federation of Labor"
replied Mulhall.
Colonel Mulhall's activities on be-
half of Senator Aldrich's candidacy
for reelection to the senate in 1901
were disclosed by some letters written
by Marshall Cushing, secretary of the
association, to Mr.. Mulhall, Mulhall
told that he had spent several weeks
in Providence lining up the labor
succeeded in the things he attempted
to do
Only once did New York state poll
tics get brought into the discussion
This was when letter from Mr.. Cush-
ing was introduced telling Mulhall to
go to Albany and see what he could
do to defeat bill of Senator Pages
relating to liability of employers.
"And you were sent to see the
leaders in the legislature and have
that bill killed."
"Yes sir" said Muhall. THAT was
it. did not have to see very many
leaders, though, to get that accom-
plished. 1t was not much of job
only saw the man"
"Who was that?' demanded Senator
Cummins.
BOSS Barnes" was the reply.
Mulhall talked of inside" work and
Outside" work; of a bookkeeper at
the American Federation of Labor
whom he charged with later becoming
a paid spy for the Manufacturers as
sociation and of N. Carroll Downs
private secretary to former Senator
McComas of Maryland, who he alleged
was taking pay from the Manufacture
ers association when it was trying to