Evening star., 1915-03-04
COL. MULHALL URGES
ANOTHER LOBBY QUIZ
Declares in Letter to Federal COM
mission That the 1918 Inquiry
Was a Farce.

| Col NJ. NJ. Mulhall, formerly a repre-
! sentative of the National Association
| of Manufacturers. has made public in
Washington, New York and Chicago an
appeal he has addressed to the federal
| commission on industrial relations,
! urging that that body make another
investigation of his famous lobby"
charges. Col, Mulhall precipitated the
| first congressional lobby" investiga-
! tion in 1913, which was the talk of the
! country for a while. as the result of
letters he furnished New York and
q Chicago newspaper
| Col Mulhall. who is now connected
with a Baltimore business concern,
| declares that he has called several
times on Senator Overnan, who was
chairman of the lobby" investigating
committee, in an unsuccessful effort to
| learn why no report has been made on
the congressional investigation Of 1913
Copies of the appeal for another in
Nestigation have been sent to the White
House and to Senator Overman
! Declaring that the congressional in
Vestlgatlon was a farce. in a lengthy
letter To Frank p. Walsh. chairman Of
! the industrial rela ton commission. Col.
Mulhall says, in part:
"A few months after the investiga-
tion was over the old lobby began to
come back and they are stronger to-
day In Washington and at the state
capitols than they have ever been be-
fore.
Conditions Awaiting Probe.
The writer was overjoyed at the 4p-
pointment of your mission, believ-
ing that the time would come when
your commission would thoroughly in
vestigate the workings of the lobby
in Washington and all other cities, and
it is my belief that if you do that it
| will be an easy matter for your com
mission to find out the true reason of
what keeps down the working classes.
what keeps the grog shops open all
over the United States, what keeps
the combination called the United
States Brewers Association together.
afford to spend, in the campaign
in the state of Maine in 1911.
over 100000 to have the constitution
of that state changed, permitting the
| manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors III that state; who keeps the
criminal trusts thoroughly informed,
and how they are kept Informed by
their agents in the capital cities
throughout the country, and how
money, at the present time, is collected
from the trusts to elect their tools to
the Congress of the United States and
the state legislatures.
Secret Ring-Managed Lobby.
You can gather from my testimony,
which / gave before the United States
Senate committee, that the ten men
who managed the lobby for the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
and who formed ring, or, in other
| words. a secret society to manage the
criminal lobby. collected over $1,5oo,0O0
| year for expenses for the lobby.
This combination was so secret in
| their dealings that there were thou
sands of business men all over this
country, who contributed to this ring,
that thought they were supporting, un-
der the heading of the National Asso-
| citation OF Manufacturers and the Ma
tional Council for Industrial Defense.
| clean business mans association, and
my main effort in Washington in 1913
| was to show up the criminal end of this
association.
Il was not fighting the manufactur-
ers OF the country, for there was very
small percentage of them that knew
the workings of this association, and
there are thousands of splendid organi-
cations in this country today built up
| by business men who would not sup
port such effort as was made by the
| criminal lobby.