Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-16

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durable He had expected at first to
get only copies, he said, but when de-
! livery was made during the summer,
beginning about last May, he found
that he kept the papers in his pos
! session during the summer, he said,
led him to discount the Mexican gov
ernment's denials of their authenticity,
since on one occasion it had been
stted in a denial that an offer was
made in August to sell the collection
back to the Mexican government 1t
self
Asked directly whether he had any
evidence indicating that any senator
accepted payment, the publisher re-
piled:
"Have you any reason to believe that
any senator did accept any such
money!" continued Chairman Reed.
ct have no reason to believe it at
all,". was the reply GAS a matter of
fact, I do not believe it,"
why did you not make an effort to
determine whether the payments had
been made?" asked Senator Robinson
of Arkansas.
4 sAny such investigation, carried on
Int any length, would have revealed
entirely the documents"
"You intended to reveal them lin
Eally?"
II did not intend to publish any
! names, and did not" Gas the docu-
lments appeared in facsimile recently
in the Hearst papers, the names had
been marked out).
| "Why?" continued Senator Robin
SON.
'Well, because personally l agreed
with the statement which Mr.. CAark
said the president made, that in all
probability this was merely a blind for
the distribution of that money in some
other direction"
4 When the witness said a little later
that he had been surprised that no
congressional investigation was order
ed sooner, Senator Robinson asked II
a, congressional inquiry was one OF his
objects.
/ t"That is what I thought it would
result in," said Mr. Hearst.
The publisher also was questioned at
length by SEN or Robinson, regarding
his own holdings in Mexico, which he
said probably would be quite unsafe
! now tlIt the Hearst newspapers had
published its Mexican expose. He de-
clared he could not give details of his
properties from memory, but supposed
they amounted to "three or four mil
lions"
Senator Heflin, conspicuous figure
in all senate discussions of Mexico be-
cause of his repeated attacks on the
/ attitude of Roman Catholics toward
the Ci,lles government, took the wit
ness stand as soon as Mr.. Hearst had
left it. The senator was not sworn,
but after he had made his statement
he returned and asked that the oath
be administered to apply to what he
alreI dy had said, and the committee
acquiesced. He made a sweeping de-
nial that he ever had been approach
ed.
j "I have not received cent from
any source except the money that was
paid me to pay my expenses when I
: went around the country lecturing on
the Mexican situation, the same line
that. 1 spoke in the senate, and cover
ing the lecture charge that made.
the checks that received for that
service we're cashed through the dis
bursting office of the senate"
! ''They were not checks from the
| Mexican governments" asked Chair
man Reed.
ooh no. A hundred or hundred
and fifty dollars, wkEtever the amount,
!! that was given to me by various people
where lectured- Protestant preachers
!. of various denominations, Masons,
i Junior Order of American Mechanics,
and some Ku KluX Klansmen and
i various Protestant orders, that invited
me to come and deliver my address on
!, the Mexican situation"
i The Alabama senator declared that
4 when Senator Reed offered his resolu-
ton for a senate inquiry into the
| Hearst documents, he himself was on
the point of doing the same thing.
j A request that the committee prose-
cute the investigation Ito the limit
also was made by Senator LaFoAette,
! who testified under oath at his own
request. He said he was not unmind-
Eful that the charges had appeared in
, the papers published by Mr.. Hearst
and "among the most ardent supporters
!, of the present administration" or that
:. he himself hid repeatedly attacked
: the administrations policy toward
: Mexico.
) 'The dastardly attempt to link my
| name with the charges pending before
= this committee" he continued, will
not cause me to deviate SO much as
7 hairs breadth from the course ] have
t marked Sout for myself"
) Senator Borah smiled when the
chairman informed him that he hac
lfbeen named as the intended recipient
: of half million dollars He ther
= denied the charges in the document
: singly and as a whole, saying he die
t not know Consul General Elias, anc
E had not seen Dudley Field Malone MOI
: had any communication with him dur
: ing the past five or six years.
"This is all Geek to me or Spanish
o anyway" said the Idaho senator. 20
e course, as 1 said before, this matter
: has never reached me in any shape
3 or form. I know nothing about it, ex
:, cept what is being developed here II
this hearing"
+ Tn addition to denying that intinh