The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-02
Overman Wires That Sail
ing Would Be Con-
tempt of Court
GOMPERS WILL
BE A WITNESS
More Letters Published, In
Guiding One from Elk
! Congressman Haskins

Washington, July Following the
receipt of message from John Kirby,
former president of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, protesting
he couldn't appear before the Senate in
yestigating committee, in connection
with the Mulhall charges, without los
ing passage money he had paid for a
voyage to New Zealand. Chairman
0verman yesterday telegraphed the
United States marshal in San Francisco
TO admonish Kirby that if he sailed it
would be in contempt OF the Senate
subpoena and a punishable ofiense.
The Senate committee resumed its
hearing of testimony this morning, in
stead of waiting for another week. The
members of the committee feel that the
charges made by Col. Martin M. Mulhall,
former lobbyist at Washington, are SO
important that they must be thoroughly
investigated at once. For this reason,
the committee plans to clear up other
phases of the inquiry as soon as pos
sible, so as to be in position Tor a
thorough probe of the Mulhall charges
in a few days.
The committee will devote its time for
the next few days to investigating the
charges made by Judge Lovett in con-
nection with the Union Pacific dissolu-
ton. This phase of the inquiry ranks
in Importance with the Mulhall charges,
and important witnesses are to be exam
med. The Mulhall charges have deeply
stirred members of Congress, and the
Senate committee is determined that
they shall be sifted to the bottom. In
accordance with this determination, ev-
cry man named, who can be reached,
will be summoned to Washington to
testify before the committee. 1t was
said yesterday that Vice President Mar
shall would be witness to tell of Incl
dents in the campaign in Indiana, when
he ran against James =, Watson for
governor in 1908.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, made
public a report OF President Samuel
Gompers in November, 1907 to the an
nual convention of the federation, in
which Gompers told of alleged activities
on the part of the National Association
Of Manufacturers in an effort to dis
credit Gompers and injure the labor or
ganization. Gompers reported on an in
terview he had in New York with
Broughton Brandenburg, now in Sing
NUlpy DblIR CAREFUL W ndfb OiHtI lhpol
leaders present at the conference.
Gompers in his report said that Bran
denburg tried to get him to sign strange
confession" He was told, he said, that
the officers of the National Association
of Manufactures were aware of many
evil things in his life, but would take
care of him financially for life if he
would sign the document and later re-
sign from the presidency of the organi-
cation and give up its secrets.
Members of the committee hope that
by July s, the time originally set for the
resumption of the inquiry, they viii
have cleared up the testimony on the
Union Pacific charges. They intend to
rush this part of the Inquiry at once.
Accordingly, kilograms were yesterday
dispatched to Paul d. Cravath, Lewis
Cass Ledyard and Maxwell Evarts, New
York lawyers, and to David Lamar, the
Wall street operator, summoning them
to appear before the committee in Wash
ington to-day. The committee intends
TO pick up the story of the Union Pacific
hold-up where it was dropped by Repre-
sentative A. Mitchell Palmer and Ed
ward Lauterbach and to rush this phase
OF the inquiry to a promt conclusion.
From the testimony of Mr. Ledyard
the committee expects to be able to es-
tablish the identity of the mysterious
individual who represented himself over
the telephone at one time as Representa-.
tive Daniel ]. Riordan, the Tammany
congressman, and again as Representa-
tive A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania
the Democratic leader.