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Show OVERMAN SEES WILSON ON LOBBY PROBE Many Letters to and From Mulhall Read Into Record. WASHINGTON, July 15. Before th senate lobby committee minimi taking testimony today. Chairman Overman went to th White House to confer with President Wilson. He declined de-clined to say what he had discussed with the president. WASHINGTON, July 15. Senator Reed started Martin L. Mulhall 'a tea timony today on letters written in 1907 to the late James W. Van Cleave, as president of the National Association of Manufacturer. One from the late vice President Sherman, then a member mem-ber of the house, arranged for a meeting meet-ing with Van Cleave and Mulhall in New York on Julv 20 1907. In a letter to Mr. Sherman on July 18 Mulhall wrote: ''I have just returned from the west and I feel that I have put the ball rolling in Indiana, so that it will help Watson to renomination. " Doctor Was Skeptical. Senator Reed read ltter to Mulhall from nr. G. Langtry Crockett of Thoi ma-ton. ma-ton. Me., dated July 4. lilt. Crocket! was one of th men who worked with Mulhall In th fight to re-elect former Congressman I.lttlefleld. The doctor's letter wes In part: i have Just rsd your confession In th New fork World. I believe It sll excepting your statement that you are doing It for the good of humanity. This humanity business of your I cannot wallow. Whether you do any good or nor time atone can tell; hut you surely have l.i'-.(i up a stink In thla neck of the woods. Now. I want the whole atory. Will you send ir to me? 1 hope vou sre getting n good thing out of this, for you surely 'have bedaubed yourseir. "On the ahole the people down here believe It. I know 11 Is true. Oliver Otis s clamoring for me to be taken to Washington. D. C. and there be pumped dry. I am ready to go. I hops you are setting a good thing out of It or are putting the knife into some of the pirates that did not like you. You and know they were an ungrateful bunch. Advised to Stand by Colors. "Now. don't back down? fltaod by your colors ! If you need me just call on me. I don't care If you eolfl my letters, let-ters, but if. you Just gave them away It is mean of vou If vou get enough out of It and need the price, why, all right Any way. we will not quarrel." Fred C- Schwedtman, secretary to President Van t'laave, wrote Mulhal on August 9 107: "There are some large things brewing and ther is every indication that In our tariff campaign we have with us ths ma -Jorlt y of t he Rep u Mica n leading congressmen con-gressmen and senators and man higher up than that, too." R-hwedt'oen wrote Muthalt on September Septem-ber 6. 17. bringing in tha name of Mr. Taft, then secretary of war. Uses Taft a Name. "You saw, of course, where Secretary Taft referred to the National Association of Manufacturers at great length In his Qataasksaj address. If we succeed in getting get-ting the council plans thoroughly estab- llahed i f en our power for good will grow right along until neat year during the;. prcshientlsl campaign we will pg a factor , (Continued on paga 8.) ) OVERMAN SEES 1 ontinned from page 1.) of national Importance that cannot be overlooked." t "In the lav of f'uahlng." testified Mulhaii, on another point, "there were never any haoke-and there never wae any designation hy name. Wa all had numbers. I was eleven. Llttlefleld was nine and Bherman wraa eight." Senator Reed wanted to know more . about the aaaoclatlon'a tariff and reciprocity reci-procity grtliitlee. "The National Aaaoclation of Manufactured Manu-factured created and solely created the tariff commlaalon," declared Mulhall Cox Correct Story. C. t . QajL who wan erroneouely de-. de-. scribed aa a former treasurer of the 9 aCaaaachutetfs state commlaalon In the lobby Investigation at Washington yea tarda v, i the father of Alfred K. Cox of Maiden, who was chairman of tha Re-I Re-I publican state finance committee ten . years ago Col Martin M. Mulhall wai quoted a saving In hla testimony that C. C. Cos told him of ralalng fin.nou in and about Boston for tha fight for Conareaaniar Llttlefleld of Maine and against Samuel Oompera. The younger t'ox, whoae firm la a member of the National Aaaoclation of . Manufacturer, aald today. "1 knew Colonel Mulhall when ha came on to Host on I don't remember any such thing aa be itatea. 1 never knew htm while X waa chairman of the finance committee of the atate committee. It waa not until aome time afterward that t met him I did not know him aa a pol ltlrlan; only In connection with the National Na-tional Aaaoclation of Manufacturers, of which our firm are member. My father. . C C. Cox. waa never treasurer of the Republican atate committee, or anything like It." |