In 1906 I first met Mulhall. He came to Oneonta, having been sent there not by the National Association of Manufacturers, but, as I have ascertained since I testified before, by the national congressional committee. I had asked the committee, to whom that year I contributed $500, for some one to do detective work for me. Mulhall was sent. He came to Oneonta, found me ill in bed, got certain information for me which was of no importance in my campaign, but which was what I wanted, and left that afternoon for New York. I subsequently complimented him on his work. In my campaign of 1908 I did not need Mulhall. In my preliminary campaign of 1910 I had a lively contest for renomination. I again wanted certain information from my opponents and sent for Mulhall. At that time he remained in my district one day. In my campaign of 1912 I was told that my Democratic opponent was being financed by Republicans who had always been bitterly opposed to me. I sent for Mulhall, who was not at that time connected with the National Association of Manufacturers, and he met me at the Guardian Trust Co., New York City. I handed him $200, told him to go to Albany and then into Otsego, Broome, and Chenango Counties and to see altogether four men and report to me later. As I have already stated in a telegram to your committee, this was all I wanted Mulhall to do. I was obliged to be out of my district most of the time during the month of October. On my return from an extended absence I found that Mulhall had been to my home city of Oneonta, registering at the principal hoted as "M. M. Mulhall," and also registering a woman with him as Miss Mulhall." They occupied adjoining rooms in the hotel and had been traveling about the county in an auto for which they paid $25 per day. I located Mulhall as soon as possible in Binghamton. I asked him what authority he had for the work he was doing, and he said he "supposed" I wanted him to do it. I asked him what expenses he had incurred. He said he had two workers with him, one of whom I assumed was his woman friend; that he had agreed to pay them $100 each and expenses, and that he had also paid $200 to some one in Utica to prevent literature relative to my record on labor votes coming into the district-something that I cared absolutely nothing about. Investigation never disclosed, and we made careful inquiries, that he had any workers with him. I did not believe that he had paid $200 to any labor organization in Utica, and yet after careful consideration of the matter, myself and friends, we decided that it was better to pay him and let him go. I did not suggest to him that he need not report the money as campaign expenditure. The matter was gone over carefully by men of broad political experience and good judgment and their unanimous decision was that the money given to Mulhall under the circumstances had no legitimate place in my campaign expenses. Mulhall's entire testimony before your committee as to his relations with me in the past are absolutely without the slightest foundation. I make a quotation from his testimony: "Mr. WILLIS. Did Mr. Fairchild hold frequent conferences with yourself and other high officials of the National Association of Manufacturers? “Mr. MULHALL. As a rule I used to meet Mr. Fairchild when he was in the city here whenever I wanted to see him on the administration. I would go to see him at his hotel and wait for him to come downstairs. He was pretty regular; he used to come down about 9 o'clock." The inference to be drawn from this statement is that Mulhall was in the habit of seeing me either at the New Willard Hotel, where I lived, or elsewhere relative to matters pertaining to the National Association of Manufacturers. There is no truth in his statement. He never came to the New Willard in his life to see me by appointment. He was never in my room in the New Willard, and he never had any conference with me relative to the National Association of Manufacturers at the New Willard. While I knew him and if I met him in the lobby would speak to him, I did not like him and had absolutely nothing to do with him. His entire testimony relative to relations with me is a fabrication pure and simple. There is no truth in it and no semblance of truth. Apparently he was trying for his personal advantage to make the National Asociation of Manufacturers believe that he had some active connection with men of standing. His statement and the statement of MeMichael that I gave them 1,000 of my franks are untrue. Never since I have been in Congress have I authorized anyone to use any of my franks nor have I given any of them away. There is no Member of the House who has been more scrupulous in his treatment of both his legislative and telegraphic franks than I. I do not recall that Mulhall was ever in my office in the House Office Building but two or three times in his life. The last time he called was to tell me that he was "down and out; " that he had had a great deal of trouble in his family, and he wanted to know if I would not see Mr. Kirby, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, and ask him to employ him again. I subsequently met Mr. Kirby at the New Willard Hotel and perfunctorily told him what Mulhall wanted. Mr. Kirby replied that Mulhall was absolutely undependable, and under no circumstances could the association give him work. I subsequently met Mulhall and told him that it was not necessary to tell him what Kirby had said about him, but I was satisfied that there was no chance of his getting back again with the National Association of Manufacturers. His remark was, "I have thousands of letters in my possession, and I will make it hot for those fellows." Very truly, yours, G. W. FAIRCHILD. "APPENDIX E." The affidavit referred to on page 2754 is as follows: STATE OF MAINE, County of Kennebec, ss: I, Fred W. Wight, of Augusta, Kennebec County, Me., on oath depose and say, that I am a resident of Augusta, Me.; that I moved from Rockland, where I had always resided up to that time, to Augusta, Me., on September 1, 1913, having been on August 12, 1913, appointed treasurer of the Augusta Hospital, at Augusta. Me.; that during the campaign of 1906, when Hon. Charles E. Littlefield was a candidate for reelection to Congress at a regular State election, at which were elected a governor, a iegislature, and various county officers, I was then residing at Rockland, Me., and was the chairman and acted as treasurer of the seeond district Republican congressional committee; that as such I had the entire charge of the finances of said campaign; that with a few minor exceptions, when sums were paid direct to Mr. Littlefield and by him in turn paid to me, all of the contributions for the campaign were made directly to me: that I kept my account as treasurer in the Rockland National Bank; that the certified copy of my account already filed with the committee showing the receipt from July 31 to September 11, 1906, of $20,661, is a true statement of all the sums that were received by me for use in said campaign; that my attention has been called to the following statement of Mr. Mulhall: "That I told him that I had all the money that I wanted and that I had $60,000 for campaign purposes." I never told Mr. Mulhall that I had received $60,000 for use in the campaign. and never talked with him about the funds I had received for that purpose. I never gave to him or to anyone to be delivered to him $3,000, or any sum for use in said campaign. I never paid Dr. C. L. Crockett $500 or any sum for making a speech in that campaign. I never told Mr. Mulhall that we had 135 or any number of men locked up on election day so drunk that they couldn't vote, and no such incident occurred. I did not have charge of his activities, and if he had 23 or any number of men in a clubroom so drunk that they couldn't vote, I did not know it, nor never heard of it. I did not use or authorize the use of any liquor with voters in that campaign. Such portion of the $20,661 as was not used and disbursed by me was distributed to the various committeemen for use in the campaign. Sworn to before me this the 24th day of September, 1913. STATE OF MAINE, County of Kennebec, ss: FRED W. WIGHT. Personally appeared before me, this 24th day of September, 1913, Fred W. Wight, of this city, whom I know to be a credible person, and made oath under due form of law to the truth of the foregoing statement subscribed to by him. MANNING S. CAMPBELL, Notary Public, Augusta, Me. INDEX. Abrahams, Louis: 752. Accident-Prevention Relief: 167. Adair, John A. M. Representative in Congress from the eighth Indiana district, 451, Adams, C. G.: 308. Adams, Emmett L.: 2661; communication to Ralph D. Cole, 2660. Adams Express Co.: 855. Addams, Jane: 83. Admiralty law (H. R. 15812): 123. Agricultural Yearbook, United States: 1484, 1492. Aldrich, A.: 311. Aldrich, Nelson W., former United States Senator from Rhode Island: 16, 208, 295, Alexander, D. S., former Representative in Congress from New York: 203, 369. Allen, Alfred G., Representative in Congress from the second Ohio district: 61, 1011, Allen, Amos L., former Representative in Congress from Maine: 1848, 2026, 2028, 2314, Allen, Andrew J.: 1896. Allen, Hugh A.: 304. Amalgamated Sugar Co.: 2238. American Association of Flint and Lime Glass Manufacturers: 309. American Brewing Co., Indianapolis, Ind.: 1909, 1910, 1913. American Car Co., Chicago, Ill.: 1604. American Car Foundry Co.: 1127, 1141. American Economic Society: 219. American Federationist: 2149, 2262, 2272, 2273, 2274, 2275, 2276, 2283, 2285, 2286, American Federation of Labor: 18, 105, 111, 208, 229, 230, 232, 234, 246, 469, 615, 618, 2937 American flag: 1914. American Hardware Corporation, New Britain, Conn.: 1096, 1405. American Industries: 259, 268, 2357, 2859. American Injector Co.: 92, 2339. American Lithograph Co.: 2920. American National Bank, Washington, D. C.: 870. American Sugar Refining Co.: 2237. American Tobacco Co.: 1972, 1975, 2223, 2338. American Trade Index: 2183. American Woolen Trust: 2228. Ames, Adelbert, former Representative in Congress from Massachusetts: 2891. Ames, Everett: 309. Anderson, Carl C., former Representative in Congress from Ohio: 2287, 2515. Anthracite Coal Strike Commission: 2241. Anti-Boycott Association of America: 121, 122, 326, 2209, 2406, 2410, 2510; constitu- Anti-injunction bills (H. R. 21100, 23635): 85, 88. Antitrust amendment to Sundry Civil Bill: 2361. Anti-Trust League: 718, 2059. Appendix A: 2809; extract in parallel columns of New York World and Chicago Appendix B: 2818; testimony of F. C. Schwedtman before Senate Lobby Committee, Appendix C: 2909; testimony of David L. Frawley before Senate Lobby Committee, Appendix D: 2833; letters and telegrams exchanged between the committee and Appendix E: 2936; affidavit of Fred W. Wight concerning campaign expenses in the Arkansas City Commercial Club, Arkansas City, Ark.: 305. Arnold, Lynn J.: 1826, 1829, 1831, 1833. Arnold, Olney: 1925. Arnold, William A.: 835. Arp, Edwin L.: 219. Ashbrook, W. A., Representative in Congress from the Seventeenth Ohio district: 674. Association of Hat Manufacturers, Orange, N. J.: 2921. Associated Press: 125, 126, 128, 211, 2157, 2184. Atkinson, J. A.: 307. Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta, Ga.: 244. Atlantic Coast Deeper Waterways Association: 250. Atwood, Benj. S.: 305. Audit Co., New York: 2929. Austin, A. S.: 304. Austin, Calvin: 2742, 2745. Babcock, J. W., former Representative in Congress from Wisconsin: 319. Babcock, W. M.: 306. Backus, Alexander: 309. Bacon, Augustus O., Senator from Georgia: 82, 2361. Bacon-Bartlett bill: 2243, 2286. Baer, George F.: 1249. Bagg, E. N.: 306. Baggs, Frank M.: 309. Bailey, Edward S.: 685. Bailey, E. S.: 811. Baillie, Thomas G.: 240: communication from C. E. Townsend, 240, 241; communi- cation from James A. Emery, 242. Baker, Fred L.: 304. Bakewell, Paul: 223; communication from Richard Bartholdt, 223, 224. Ball, Frederick L.: 303. Ballard & Ballard: 2742, 2777, 2778. Baltimore Metal Trade Association: 306. Bancroft, W. T.: 307. Banking Trust, the: 1239, 1972. Bannon, Henry T., former Representative in Congress from Ohio: 15, 312, 1021, 1023, Barker, Harry L.: 639, 1436, 1437, 1441, 1443, 1444; testimony of, 1447 to 1453, in- Barnes, J.: 2261. Barnes, W. B.: 308. Barnhart Bros. & Spindler: 47; communication to National Association of Manufac- Barry, Richard: 11, 1275, 1276, 1277, 1341, 1954, 1955, 2002, 2003, 2004. Barry, Thomas: 2373. Barry, W. D.: 1179. Bartholdt, Richard, Representative in Congress from the tenth Missouri district: 211, Bartlett, A. C.: 1132, 1318. Bartlett, A. C., & Co.: 1604. Bartlett, Charles L., Representative in Congress from the sixth Georgia district: 84, 164. Barton, A. T.: 307. Bassett, Arthur F.: 306. Bassford, Wallace: 1729. Batchelder, M. J.: 2773. Bates, politician in the thirty-fourth congressional district of New York (the Bathrick, Ellsworth R., Representative in Congress from the nineteenth Ohio dis- Battle, J. G.: 309. Battle Creek Industrial Association, Battle Creek, Mich.: 306. Battle, George Gordon: 274, 1927, 1928, 1930. Bayard, James: 1829, 1831. Bayonne Improvement Society: 2071. Beall, Jack, Representative in Congress from the fifth Texas district: 2610. Becker, - campaign worker in the thirty-fourth congressional district of New York (the Fairchild district): 1797, 1798, 1799, 1826. Bede, J. Adam, former Representative in Congress from Minnesota: 2277, 2293. Beef Trust, the: 1246. Belden, George K.: 306. Bell, J. W.: 304. Bell, Thomas M., Representative in Congress from the ninth Georgia district: 1710, Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore, Md.: 158, 159. Beloit Iron Works, Beloit, Wis.: 311. Bennett, R. M.: 839, 912, 913. Bennett, William S., former Representative in Congress from New York: 158, 630, Benton, B. P.: 2656: communication to Ralph D. Cole, 2656. Berger. Victor L., former Representative in Congress from Wisconsin: 2287, 2552. Bethlehem Steel Works, Bethlehem, Pa.: 2307. Beveridge, Albert J., former Senator from Indiana: 164, 166, 2279; communications 2280, 2281; 2353, 2382, 2568, 2569, 2603, 2616, 2617, 2690, 2705, 2828; correspond- Beverly Board of Trade, Beverly, Mass.: 305. |