Show Mulhall's l Statement Flatly Denied b by y Leader Underwood Washington ton July 29 Majority Majority Leader Loader Lead Lead- er Oscar Oscr Sv W Underwood of or the Hous Houe toda today appe appeared tred before beCore tho Senate lobby lobby lobby lob lob- by committee to deny that Mulhall had ever talked to him about legislation before Congress After one look 1001 at tho the witness t ho saidI said aid I 1 never nevel saw sat him before belore in my life UCe I think said the majority leader that it is in the tho int interest rest of the tho public that a man n who h has s taken liberties with public men mon as this man has should be contradicted I re regard rd a man mai manof manor of or this kind as a n. blackmailer Thaman That Tha man nan has never been in tho tiro ways t and means committee room since I have havo bc been n chairman He may have had conversations conversations con con- with me but when ho he says ho had an Interview I want to sa say that statement is a lie He Chairman Underwood read Mulhall's letter about tho the alleged interview in which Mulhall wrote that Underwood Und had told him that he could not do otherwise oth oth- than appoint William B B. Wilson Wilson Wil WIt son son now secretary of ot labor to the House committee on labor because there was t no other candidate before the ways was and means committee That whole statement Is s a lie llo out of whole cloth not cloth not a word of or truth in to It declared Mr It Underwood There Thero I never ne was wan a question about Wilsons Wilson's selection as ns head of or that th committee sol solely ly because of ot his capacity and qualifications It is clear cleal to me this man was down dOn here hero writing these things to his people trying to make out ho he was doing great things s. He never nevor had an any conference with me The statements In his letter can be disproved disproved dis dis- proved pro by er e every member of tho House wa ways s and means committee I am sure Bure I never met this man Ho has a n. face faco I could not forget Mulhall reiterated d ho had talked with Un Underwood erwood briefly in tho corridor corridor corri corri- dor and had written to his employers about conditions as I found Cound them at Washington at that time The Tiie incident created a flurry that had not wholly subsided when tho the committee committee committee com com- settled d down to ta the further identification iden Iden- of letters |