Show CASH TO Tn CONGRESSMAN mOM FROM liQUOR INTERESTS DESIGNATED AS LOANS I Member of Washington Association Association Association Asso Asso- Tells Lobby Committee Committee Com Corn of Transactions Aug MartIn A. A W vy Mulhall testified to tho the House lobb lobby committee today that Representative McDermott of ot Illinois told him he had received 2000 2000 from brewery In Interests Interests interests In- In during the 1912 In campaign for something that was to be bo done here Mulhall swore that John A. A McDermott McDermott McDermott McDer McDer- mott of ot New Now York a a. cousin of tho the representative representative rep rep- Mr Fleming a n brewers brewer's agent and law in of ot the tho congressman con con- gressman and L I. H. H McMichael Mc one onetime onetime time chief page pae of ot the tho House also told him about tho the 2000 Representative McDermott his cousin promIsed promIsed promised prom prom- him Mulhall told th tho House committee that McDermott's cousin said the was paid to Representative McDermott for tor his part in the tho Cannon fight of 1910 by b the Brewers Browers association Mulhall repeated his charge chargo that Representative tive McDermott had forged his Indorsement Indorsement Indorse Indorse- ment mont to a O check given to him In Inthe tho the 1912 campaign by Harold F. F Mc- Mc Cormick Hugh F. F Harvey Hane of or the Washington Retail Liquor Dealers Dealers' association told the committee the organization had loaned GOO to Congressman McDormott last September and never had bean been re re- re paid Harvey Harve said ald McDermott McDormott gave a nine nine- day ty-day note for the The Tho note was put in a a. bank He Ho kne know knew of ot no serious effort to collect It although It had haden been en running L now for tor almost a a. year ear 1 Members or too ino U VIO MU surprise that McDermott McDormott had borrowed money from Washington liquor dealers when he ho might have got Jot It In his home city Harvey agreed It did look strange now although he had no thought of It at that time He denied McDormott was asked to aid the liquor men against the District of ot Columbia excise law la when It was up last session Ho lie HeId said Id ho he kno know of ot no other loans to con congressmen by his 38 association If It Congressman McDermott has over ever overdone done lone an anything for tor us ho said emphatically em em- I r dont don't know it Has hIas Mr McDermott ever over expressed nn any intention of paying the note noto ho he was asked as I r asked him today if It ho Intended to topa pa pay it it said Harvey and ho said he did The Senate committee will begin Tuesday with continuous sessions until it has finished tho Mulhall end of ot its Investigation |