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Show FORMER PAGEI AS LOBBYIST McMichael Makes Charge of Corruption Against Representative Representa-tive McDermott Says He Had Loaned Him Money For Many Years Washington. Aug. 16. I h". McMichael, Mc-Michael, testified before the houso lobby committee that he was now being be-ing paid ; weekiv salary of $7". bv . i XT I. ll'nrl,! V. . . ine ;ew ium " men prinien I the original Mulhall charges. Mo- j Michael explained he was being paid; under an agreement to write a Btory about "Twenty Years A House Employee" Em-ployee" after the lobby Investigation was over. Attorney J. Easby Smith, representing Representative McDermott, McDer-mott, told the committee ho would bring Allen rvin, a government Blip-ply Blip-ply contract of this city, to lestify that HcMlchael had informed Irvine he would receive a weekly salary until un-til he had corroborated Mulhall's testimony. tes-timony. "I bae a contract to becln after this hearing, bul I don't think you have any right to inquire jutn mv private business," retorted McMichael McMich-ael when pressed for details. The committee finally required a fuller answer. "I am under a verbal agreement not onp In writing." began McMichael. McMich-ael. I am out of a job and must make a living So I agreed to write a story of T went Years a House Employe, Em-ploye, but It was expressly understood under-stood I was not to write it until af-thls af-thls investigation " "And you received $75 a week?" ' Ves sir." '"Didn't you tell Irvine you were to receive the salary for corroborating Mulhall?" "No sir, 1 did not." "Didn't you tell Irvine that If Representative Rep-resentative McDermott would pay you $32o he owed you, that vou would ' not say a word to hurt him"" demand" ! ed Smith. "Did you Intend to aup-1 prpss all you have told if McDermott paid you $325?" ' Absolutely not." said McMichael. "1 Intended to do Just what I am doing, tell the unvarnished truth." Washington. Aug. 16. I. H. McMichael Mc-Michael former chief page of the house( continued his recital today before the house lobby committee, of his relations with Martin M. Mulhall. one-tinir lobby worker for the National Na-tional Association of Manufacturers, and with Representative J. T. McDermott. Mc-Dermott. McMlchael's sensational testimonv which accu:-pl Mrormott of baying received some $7000 of a corporation tund raised hy local pawnbrokers to defeat a federal loan shark law already al-ready has resulted in th subpoena of four Washington pawnbrokers and the committee intends to follow the lead. McDermoU'e attorney had an opportunity op-portunity to cross-examine Mc- rMlobael when the committee meet today. Washington, Aug. 6. In a dramtlc statement 1. H. McMichael, dismissed dismiss-ed chiei page of the house of representatives, repre-sentatives, tonight presented to the house lobby lnrestlgating ommittee a sweeping charge of corruption against Representative James E Mc-Detmott Mc-Detmott of Illinois for years his uponsor. 'Hie witness protested that for years ho had exerted every crfort to SUPPOrl McDermott, had loaned him money, had heiped him in UIS campaigns. cam-paigns. Now, he said. McDermott had "thrown him down" and he felt that he must tell the truth Mi Michaels swore that the Chicago representative told him that he re- Ived $7500 out of a fund of 110,0001 raised by tho pawnbrokers of Washington Wash-ington to oppose a bill passed in the last congress regulating Interest rates In the District of Columbia In this, connefUon McMlehaels told of a trip to New York when McDdrmott conferred con-ferred with John McDermott of an association of brokers and wi'h Georiv II Horning a local pawn-broker pawn-broker Concluding his testimony Mc-Mlchael Mc-Mlchael testified that McDermott, mi the Mulhall expose, had endeav . ored to get him to conceal McDer-mott's McDer-mott's part in the transaction. "I mei McDermott In the hall of this Office building," said McMichael "and he said 'My God. I'm a ruined man. What am I going to do? Sav mi wrote those letters unbeknown to me and that I didn't know anything any-thing about It. Even if they prove that you committed perjury and forgery for-gery they can only send you down the river to tho ark to two years and I'll pay you $100 a month while you are there.' T said to him, 'Yes. you're Willing to pay mo $100 a month to go to jail for you, hut you won't pay me the wages you honestly owe me. I've got eleven dollars in my pocket, that's nil I've got to show for six yearn work, but 1 won't do this for you." Nattily attired in a summery outfit out-fit of blue and white serge. McMichael McMich-ael blew clouds of cigarette smoke in the faceB of the members of the committee com-mittee from the witness chair, while he discoursed in vivid adn picturesque language. From the fall of lftOit until January 1912. McMichael said, he was almost constantly on the pay roll of Martin Mar-tin M Mulhall, the National Association Associa-tion of Manufacturers' field agent, at Ko a month, while he was succes-Blvely succes-Blvely Democratic chief page of the house, attendant in the house pres.-gallery pres.-gallery and elevator conductor In the capital He told of Introducing Mulhall Mul-hall to Representative James E. McDermott Mc-Dermott df Illinois, for whom he worked as a kind of secretary, and said that McDermott worked with MulhaU and provided tho latter with a room in the basement! or the cap-itol. cap-itol. when McDermott, McMichael and Mulhall conferred. oo- - |