He says he had 23 men drunk in this clubroom. I want to say my attention was never called to it, and I never heard of it until Mr. Mulhall stated it upon this stand. I also find another transac tion, where he says there were 135 men kept intoxicated and kept in some ice house, or some other place, which must have made a reduction in the Democratic vote of somewhere between 150 and 160, in the city of Rockland alone, as a result of Mulhall's activities.

Mr. RUSSELL. You do not mean the Democrats are the only people who drink up there? [Laughter.]

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. No. I understand he contends he had this number of Democrats so drunk they could not vote. He did not get the Republicans drunk down there in that campaign, as I understand it. [Laughter.] No; you are right about that, Judge. The universality about imbibing intoxicating liquors is rather general and by no means confined to gentlemen who unfortunately, from my point of view, vote the Democratic ticket on election day.

Mr. CLINE. Was your attention invited to the fact that Mr. Gompers also testified to that?

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. Yes; but that does not add anything to the weight of the statement.

Mr. CLINE. That is purely a matter of opinion?

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. Sure; yes, but I did not notice Mr. Gompers was very vigorously cross-examined as to where he saw it.

Mr. FERRIS. He testified he went in there.

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. Where was he located-Rockland or Lewiston? Far be it from me to make any suggestion that might detract from the purity and morality of Lewiston, but the testimony seems to be centered on the scene in Rockland, where I happened to live. The record does not show Mr. Gompers testified whether it was Rockland or elsewhere. I might say here that this was not the only political club in existence in the campaign. Perhaps there were half a dozen, or 8 or 10 or more. I knew nothing about Mulhall-that he would try to debauch the people by the use of a club any more than any other people who ran a club. This club would not claim my attention any more than any other resort or any other club that would be carried on in my district. There were some six or eight of them. We had a Republican club in the city of Rockland, and others in the districts. Yes, I know that is what Mr. Gompers said, and Mr. Gompers said he was there two weeks before the campaign, as I understand it.

The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Mulhall, in his article in the World, did not say anything about men being drunk on the street?

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. No; he testified to that here the other day.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes; he testified to it on the stand?

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. Here is what I have in my mind, Mr. Garrett. On page 1939 of the hearings before your committee, I find the following:

Mr. STAFFORD. But that is the only basis, then, of the charge that Mr. Littlefield knew that whiskey was being used in that campaign?

Mr. MULHALL. Well, any Sunday morning as Mr. Littlefield was going to church, if Mr. Littlefield was around he would generally find outside that ball quite a crowd, and the boys, as a rule, were pretty drunk, because there

was free whiskey, and they could get it at any time, and a "long neck" or "short neck" in Maine is always at a premium, particularly when the fishermen come in from the islands.

Mr. STAFFORD. You do not mean to say, now, Mr. Littlefield ever used liquor to influence voters himself there?

Mr. MULHALL. I do not say direct, but I say his managers did-his workers did.

Well, if what he said is true, Mr. Mulhall himself did. Whether he did or not, I would not undertake to say except I give you the information I have.

Now, I call the attention of the committee to his statement that something like 160 or 175 unfortunate Democrats were kept so drunk on election day that they could not vote, and I would like to call your attention to the result of the election in Rockland and Knox Counties, in 1902, 1904, and 1906, as bearing upon the probabilities of influences of any large amount of that character having been brought to bear in 1906.

In 1902 the Republican candidate for governor received in Rockland 879 votes. I received 881. In Knox County the total Republican vote for governor was 2,768, and my vote was 2,785. My majority in Rockland that year was 142.

The Democratic candidate for governor received 742 votes in Rockland, and for Congressman, 739. The Democratic vote in Knox County for governor was 3,198, and the Democratic vote for Congressman was 3,175. The Democratic majority in the county was 390. In 1904, which was the presidential year, and when in my country (I do not know how it may be with you) we get out the largest vote, the Republican candidate for governor received in Rockland 1,064. I received 1,034. The Republican candidate in Knox County for governor received 3,200 and I received 3,181. The Democratic candidate for governor received 697 and the Democratic candidate for Congress received 721 in Rockland. The Democratic vote in Knox County was 3,207 for governor and 3,184 for Congressman. My majority in Rockland in 1904 was 313 and the majority of the Democratic candidate in the county was 3.

In 1906, the campaign referred to, the Republican candidate for governor received in Rockland 902 votes. I received 918. The Republican candidate for governor in Knox County received 3,011, and the candidate for Congress received 3,080. The Democratic candidate in Rockland received 915 votes for governor, and the Democratic candidate for Congress received 896. The total Democratic vote for governor was 3,586 in the county and for Congressman 3,511. My majority in Rockland was only 22, as compared with 313 two years before. The Democratic majority in the county was 431, as compared with a Democratic majority of 3 in 1904.

Of course, these figures do not show very much, but they do show there was not any very pronounced falling off of the Democratic vote. The Democrats threw more votes in the city of Rockland for Congressman by about 175 than they had thrown in the two preceding elections, notwithstanding the diminution of the vote by the wholesale intoxication of the unfortunate Democrats.

Mr. CLINE. I might suggest that they might have been doing that right along in Maine lately.

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. I have not heard of it in Maine, Judge, that anything of that sort had been going on in the campaigns of 1902 and 1904. I want to say a word right here as to Mr. Mulhall's statements in relation to Dr. Crockett. He says that Mr. F. W. Wight paid Dr. Crockett $500.

The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Littlefield, before you begin on that, it is now 1.15 and I suppose it will be some little time before you are through. We will take a recess until 2.30 o'clock p. m.

(Thereupon, at 1.15 o'clock p. m., the committee took a recess until 2.30 o'clock p. m.)

AFTER RECESS.

The committee reassembled, pursuant to the taking of recess, at 2.30 o'clock p. m.

TESTIMONY OF HON. CHARLES E. LITTLEFIELD—Continued.

The CHAIRMAN. You may proceed, Mr. Littlefield.

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. Mr. Mulhall claims that some $500 was paid by him to a gentleman by the name of Dr. G. Langtry Crockett for making a speech in this campaign. Now, Mr. Chairman, I desire to say first that I never had any relations, direct or indirect, political or otherwise, with Dr. G. Langtry Crockett. I have known him for a long while, but nobody representing me, with my knowledge or consent, ever had any relations with him of any sort, political or otherwise. He is the gentleman who wrote a letter to the Senate committee directly after this investigation started, commending Brother Mulhall for his zeal in making his disclosures, and trusting that he would run the knife in and turn it around. Up to that time Mulhall had not made this statement, but after he did make it Dr. Crockett jumped into the public prints with this statement:

I want to say now that if Martin Mulhall had not lied about me on the stand in Washington I would not have opened my mouth. He lied when he said that he paid $500 through Collector Wight for making a speech in the Arena against Samuel Gompers.

I wish to state I never heard of this previous to this investigation. That is all the knowledge I have about it. I never knew it was pretended that he was paid. Nobody representing me ever made any arrangement with him with my knowledge or by my consent or approval.

In that same interview Dr. Crockett says:

Mulhall, as far as I can see, has ruined everyone who has come in contact with him. One of the things which disturbed Mulhall more than a little was the way Congressman Littlefield used him. He treated him like a political leper. I saw the meeting between the two and I know what took place.

I saw Dr. Crockett just before I left Rockland. He was in the office of the Knox County Law Library Association, and reference happened to be made to this particular statement. I told him I did not remember ever treating anybody in that way, but he seemed to think it was when he came down there in 1907, an instance I will refer to later, but whatever the fact may be, I do not remember the charge. That is all I know about it. I never heard of it until this investigation and its disclosure by Mulhall.

I have here the whole interview given by Dr. Crockett, and so far as I am concerned, I have no objection to its all going in, if the committee wants to put it in the record. I would like to say this in regard to it, that so far as the attacks upon distinguished gentlemen now in public life which it contains are concerned, so far as I am concerned, I do not wish to be understood as indorsing what he says. I have no objection to putting it all in the record, if the committee desires it to go in, but I would like to have it distinctly understood that I do not want to stand behind anything he says about certain distinguished men now in public life.

Mr. WILLIS. You have read all of it that pertains to this investigation?

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. Yes; I have read all I care to read out of it and said all I care to say about it.

The CHAIRMAN. Will you let me see that? (After examining paper.) It seems to be only a newspaper interview.

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. Yes; that is all it is. Mulhall says that there was $60,000 contributed to this campaign, and endeavors to leave the impression that it was contributed by the National Association of Manufacturers. I have already stated that the financial part of the campaign was handled by Mr. Wight, who was then the collector of the port of Waterville, and who has been appointed, within the last few weeks, as steward and treasurer of the Maine Insane Hospital at Augusta. He had entire charge of the financial end of the campaign. I knew, in a general way, what was going on. So far as contributions were concerned, they were made to him, with the exception of some few instances when the contributions were received by me and turned over by me to him, but he had all the disbursing of them. I do not know that I ever knew who all the men were who contributed to this campaign fund. I think, so far as I know, the National Association of Manufacturers, as an association, never contributed anything. I have here, and I will give it to the committee, a letter from Mr. Wight, inclosing a sworn statement of the cashier of the Rockland National Bank, where he carries his account, showing the amount of contributions and disbursements. The aggregate amount given is $20,661.

Now, I hold in my hand

Mr. RUSSELL (interposing). What was that amount?

Mr. LITTLEFIELD. $20,661. I will not stop now to read the letter and the sworn certificate from the cashier of the Rockland National Bank, where the account was kept, showing the contributions, beginning July 31, 1906, and ending September 11, 1906, the aggregate amount being $20,661, and showing the amount deposited each day. I hold in my hand a copy of a circular letter which I prepared at the close of the campaign and sent out to acknowledge to the various parties their assistance in the campaign. I will not stop to read this letter now, because there is nothing in it which is significant, except a general statement or description of the results and giving my thanks to them. Perhaps I ought to say in that connection that the election occurred on the 10th of September. On the 13th, or within a day or so thereafter, I started on a trip to the Pacific Coast, which took about 30 days. This letter I dictated and left with my clerk. and I have here the list of the names of the people to whom the letter

was sent. I do not remember now whether Mr. Wight turned this list over to me or whether I asked him to turn it over to my secretary. I suppose the committee would like to have me read the list. I will say this about it, gentlemen: I think Mr. Cushing interested himself quite actively in the collection of funds for the prosecution of this campaign. My understanding is that a substantial part of it came from men who were probably members of the National Association of Manufacturers, and came from them individually, not as members. If there is no objection, I would like the letter and that list, together with Mr. Wight's letter and the sworn statement of the cashier of the Rockland National Bank, to go into the record. The CHAIRMAN. They may go into the record.

(The documents referred to are as follows:)

Hon. CHARLES E. LITTLEFIELD,

MAINE INSANE HOSPITAL, AUGUSTA, ME., September 15, 1913.

11 Pine Street, New York City.

MY DEAR SIR: I inclose herewith sworn statement of H. E. Robinson, cashier Rockland National Bank, showing my account as treasurer from July 31 to September 11, 1906, covering all the receipts in your campaign for election to Congress in that year.

Respectfully, yours,

FRED W. WIGHT, Treasurer.

Capital, $150,000; surplus, $100,000.
Rockland National Bank, Rockland, Me.

G. Howe Wiggin, president; H. E. Robinson cashier;

I, H. E. Robinson, cashier of the Rockland National Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true and represents a correct list of deposits, under the several dates, made by Fred W. Wight, treasurer, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

H. E. ROBINSON, Cashier.

Sworn to before me this 8th day of September, 1913. [SEAL.]

Hon. A. S. DRAPER, Hopedale, Mass.

H. W. THORNDIKE, Notary Public.

ROCKLAND, ME., September 13, 1906.

MY DEAR MR. DRAPER: I desire to acknowledge in a formal way the valuable assistance that you have rendered me in the campaign just ended. It has been the most vicious, bitter, and determined fight that I have ever known in the