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Show MULHALL WORRIED Confessed Lobbyist Cannot Remember Names and Easily Confused By the Lawyers, Law-yers, Who Put Witness Wit-ness Under Cross-Examination Washington. Aug 1 The senate lobby committee started out again today to-day with another disagreement about the eros6 examination of Martin M Mulhall After an executive, session, the committer com-mitter decided that the attorneys for the National Association of Manufacturers Manufac-turers should have an additional two hours to examine the witness Tlv commmittee, however, put the ques tions. The lawvers began to direct the inquiry in-quiry to the National council for industrial in-dustrial defense Mulhall prevloush testified that a collecter for that organization or-ganization had told him It raised be-tween be-tween $50.i,o00 ami Tun.ono for lobby lob-by work. He stuck t. his storv that the organization was solely a paper one in which a few officials of the National Association of Manutactur-ers Manutactur-ers became members The lawyers worried Mulhall by asking him about a blacklist of con-j-'ressmon put in the record two weeks ;il He could not explain the names 1 1 1 several Republicans alleged to have been put on the list by the Republican Re-publican whip of the house. hen the committee questioned Mulhall on claims in his letters about naming chairmen and committees and placing friendly congressmen, the lawyers tried to pin him d"wn to di reel answers on how he expected to do those things Mulhall said h-wasn't h-wasn't clear about it now but thought Attorney Bmerj was to make the arrangements ar-rangements Apparent contradictions In Mulhall Mul-hall s testimonv about an alleged offer of-fer for his letters by Samuel Gompers came up Once he swore he offered the letter to ihe labor leader and once he swore Gompers tried to get them irom him. He finally testified that American Federation of Labor officials never offered him anything for the letters |