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Show REFUTE MULHALL STORY. Senators Nelson and Clapp or Minne sota Take Witness Chair. Washington. Senators' Nelson and Clapp of Minnesota took the stand Monday night before the committee ol their colleagues investigating thw "lobby" and denied the truth of statements state-ments made by Martin M. Mulhall, former for-mer political worker? accelerator ot congressional opinion and all around field worker for the National Association Associa-tion of Manufacturers. In letters read into the record Monday Mon-day Mulhall told of his alleged conversations conver-sations with Senator Nelson, a member mem-ber of the lobby committe, in relation to the rejection early in 1909 of a bill amending the Sherman anti-trust act, by a senate sub-committee of w-hich Mr. Nelson was cnairman. Mulhall wrote to F. C. Schwedtman, secretary to Jhmes -W. Van Cleave, president of the association, that he had seen Senator Sen-ator Nelson and that the senator had told him what transpired in his subcommittee. |