New Britain herald., 1927-12-15
FOUR SENATOR'S
 NAMEDBY HEARST
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Robinson of Arkansas, the demo- cratic floor leader, told the commit tee that in his judgment. there | isn't any one who would think that any one Of these senators received i or would receive one dollar for any action touching their service"
 Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, chairman Of the committee. added 1 that there was no evidence that | any senator had received money from the sources named. ! In his testimony Senator Hefin did say that he had received some 1 payments for expenses while he was lecturing on Mexican affairs, ] but that the checks came from Protestant ministers, K. K. k. men and others interested in the lectures. Borah and La Toilette said they had received money from no one,
 1 Malone began his testimony by saying he did not know and never | had seen Arturo M Elias the Mex ican consul general at New York, with whom he was represented in the documents as having worked. | He never heard of the alleged transactions described, he said nor ] had he ever acted as interme edlary i between Mexico and any other gov ernment. any members of congress, or any individual,
 T have no idea why my name was mentioned" he said. T have never been to Mexico nor associ- | S1,20o, 900 in my possession from any source whatever.
 T have not seen Senator Heflin since 1913. have not seen Senator Borah for five or six years, haven't seen La Toilette since he came tC the senate, haven't seen Senator Norris since 191S."
 Taking the stand as the first wit ness in the committees inquiry into the charges. MT. Hearst said l.. E Coblentz, one of his New York edi. tors. decoded the documents which were in code and which he claimed came from the Mexican official archives.
 MT. Hearst said that some of the documents came to him about May this year and some as late as 6 month before their publication. Donors Name Secret Declining to make public the name of the person who gave them to him he said that it would no! be healthful for this man in Mex. ico.' He gave the name in secret to the committee on a slip of paper
 Chairman Reed, republican, Penn sylvania, questioned MT. Hearst about the documents, which have been appearing in the Hearst news papers and which have been de- clared 10 be forgeries by Mexican officials. They have dealt largely with alleged propaganda efforts by Mexico against the United States. Explaining how he got the docu. ments. Hearst said:
 This man I have named to yo, communicated information tha, these documents were available in. dicating unwarranted interference He gave this word to Edward Clark manager of my mothers estate Finally he said that for expenditure of 1000 10 s2,000 he could ge, copies of the documents relating tC tho United States senate. This mar never said he had seen them. 1 Later I authorized expenditure of about sl.oO0. That was in Apri of this year."
 Ten Documents Produced This secret man and John Page a Hearst reporter, produced abou ten documents Hearst said. They were original document. and seemed of great importance. : Hearst declared. "They said the, had made every effort to determine their authenticity.
 They said they had submitteC the documents to Ambassador Sheffield and to the counsellor 0, the embassy and had been unablt to find anything wrong.
 They said the persons who de. livered them from the archives bu. reau were going 10 leave Mexico and probably would bring othe, documents with them I told then would like any further document. these clerks might get tending tc corroborate those We already had Page and the other man met these clerks at San Antonio and got moro documents"
 Hearst said the method taken tc get the papers was unknown 10 him
 Saw Serious Situation.
 After getting the San Antonio documents, Hearst said "the situa. ton was increasingly serious"
 T was pondering what to do," he sad. T asked Clark to take then to the summer White House, He did. I understand he was informe ! 'tt''t ll!dt dllHuugll the preSld en' believed the accusations serious, tha1 the money never reached any ol those named"
 Are you sure any senator ac. ccpted the money?" Reed asked,
 'No,' MT. Hearst replied, "I have no evidence nor do I believe they did get the money"
 He said in all he paid about s15.. GOO or $1G,000 for the documents. ] Replying to Senator Robinson democrat, Arkansas, Hearst said he thought he owned some large busi. ness interests in Mexico, mines and ranches. He did not recall th, name or location of the mines. Onl, one was good, he said.
 Did you learn of grammatical errors in the documents?"
 Yes, but l am informed that is not unusual, as government clerks