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Show CHIEF AGENT EMERY ATTACKS MULHALL Lobbyist Scorched For Betraying Friend and Foe Alike Washington, Sept. 15 Tho dofenso of tho Notional Association of Manufacturers Manu-facturers to tho charges of a checkered check-ered and Improper political career In Washington hnd elsowhcre, mad." by its former "lobbyist" Martin M. Mlilhnll, was concluded tonight by James A Emery, chief agent of the nssoc'atlon in tho capital. For nearly threa hours Emery addressed ad-dressed tho houso lobby committee. He mndo n detailed denial of Mul-hall's Mul-hall's charges that tho association packed ccigrcsslonal committees; that It rode nugh shod over those Jilcmbe s tthb opposed Its legislation will; that It campaigned with frequency fre-quency and nt great expense to elect its favored congressional friends and t'ial it spent several hundred dollars W'lobb work, through Mulhall him-yif. him-yif. jWith impassioned orntory, Emery declared tha't tho association never 'tried improperly to Influence legislation. legisla-tion. Ho pointed to tho testimony of Samuel Gompers, president of the 'Atnerlcan Federation of Labor before the committee to Bhow that tho manu. facturcrs merely opposed tho ideas or labor favoring legislation which Mr. Gompers and tho unions championed cham-pioned bo vigorously to get from congress. Referring to Mulhall himself, Emery Em-ery surpassed in condemnation any of the public men who have taken the stand In the nvestlgntlon to attrcl: the lobbyist's remarkable story. ; "The evidence before thlB commit-too commit-too conclusively demonstrates tba' die chnracto- of Mulhall destroys evcry right to be'leve him, nor Is his Written word worth more than his ral Btatemenls," said lie. "By his iwn testimony against that of h's letters, let-ters, by the falsity cf their contents, Stovcd by Independent wltnctses; by io deception, treachery end ta'ai-hood" ta'ai-hood" that underlies every relation o hls'Ufe, ho Is utterly unworthy of belief. be-lief. j "Dfsm'sscd from his cmplcynnn tjwo years ago, ho undertook to betray be-tray his employers while still In their ljay to representatives of organized labor nnd while pleading for relnstati-menfro relnstati-menfro was manufacturing evident to vilify Teenier benefactors. Hy tV evidence which ho h mself has pro duced, I19 portrays himself tg assailing assail-ing with Impartiality those fcr whom ho professes gratitude, equally Willi those who nro tho evident objects cf malicious and Idng plotted revenge." |