Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15
Hearst Reports of SLIPS.
600 Bribery Plot Investi-
gated by Special Commit
tee of U. S. Senate.
INDIGNANT DENIAL MADE
BY THREE LEGISLATORS
Friends of Norris, Who Is III, Also
Brand Statements as False.
Publisher Says He Does Not Be-
lieve Lawmakers Got Money,

By the Associated Press
Four United States Senator's
Borah, Hehin, La Toilette and Nor.
riS-were named today as the mys-
FERROUS quartet recently described
anonymously in the Hearst news
papers as the intended recipients of
a $l,2l5,O00 Mexican government
slush fund.
Immediately their names were dis
closed, Borah. Hefin and La Toilette
appeared before the special Senate
committee investigating the charges
and denied that they ever had re-
ceived money from such a source or
had been approached by any one
who might have been interested in
such an offer.
Senator Norris is i'll at his home,
but his friends on the committee
denied the charge also on his behalf
and secured statement from him.
Gist of Charges.
Senator Borah. who is chairman of
the foreign relations committee, was
named in documents submitted by
William Randolph Hearst as having
been destined to receive $500, 600.
Helm was to have received $3.50, 900.
according to the documents: La Fol
lette. $4,000. and Norris, presumably,
the remainder of the $1,215 900 fund.
All of these four Senator's have been
actively interested in Mexican affairs
and at one time or another each of
them has disagreed with the Mexican
policies of the Coolidge administra.
tfon
The American pay.off man for the
slush fund was said in the documents
to have been Dudley Field Malone
the New York lawyer. Malone also
took the witness stand and denied con.
nection with any such project.
The documents were submitted 10
the committee by Mr.. Hearst. with
the comment that although he had
reasons to think they had come from
the official files of the Mexican gov-
eminent, and were authentic, he did
not believe any of the money had been
paid over.
After Heflin and La Toilette had
taken the stand in turn and had de.
MED involvement in any slush fund
ana demanded prosecution OF those
who had made the disclosure, Sena-
tor Borah took the witness oath and
was informed by Chairman Reed that
ne was supposed. according to the
documents. to have been designated
to receive 100000.
Charges Cause Laugh.
As Reed read the amount. the crowd.
nearing
and Borah smiled.
My first information of this reach.
ed me about the time the documents
We're first published" said the Idaho
senator. Mr.. r. E. Mcfarland.
to it,
He said he had heard of those
documents while he was in Mexico.
tie said he understood one of the
documents purported that four SEN
ators. including myself, were sun
posed to have received money.
NO one ever approached nue. i'm a
matter of this kind. I had no COM
munication from any in connection
with this. either by mail. wire. word
or any other manner
Reed said that Dudley Field Ma
lone of New York, was 'supposed'
TO have been the intermediary.
Il have had no conversation with
Malone of any kind about this.
knew him five or six years ago. Has
he been subpoenaed ?"
Hearst Is First Witness.
Taking tie stand as the first witness
In the committees inquiry into the
charges, Mr.. Hearst said E. B. Cob
lentz. one Of his New York editors,
decided the documents, which were in
code and which, he claimed, came from
Mexican official archives.
Mr.. Hearst said that some Of the
documents came to him about May
this year and some as late as a month
before their publication.
Declining to make public the name
or the person who gave them to him.
ne said that ut would not be health
ful" for this man in Mexico. He gave
the name in secret to the committee
on slip of paper.
Chairman Reed, Republican, Penn.
sylvania, questioned Mr.. Hearst about
the documents, which have been ap-
pearing in the Hearts newspapers and
which have been declared to be forser-
les by Mexican ofiicials. They have
dealt largely with alleged propag nda
efforts by Mexico against the United
States.
Explaining further how he got the
documents, Hearst said
This man / have Ilamed to Won
informal ton that these
documents were available, indicating
interference. He gave
his word to Edw lrd Clark, manager
If my mothers estate. Finally he
aid that for expenditure of 1000 or
$1,000 he could get copies of the docu.
nents relating to the United States
Senate. This man never said he had
;een them.
Pays for Documents.
Later authorized expenditure of
bout $1,000. That wa. in Aprii of
his year"
This secret man and John. Page. a
Hearst reporter, produced about 10
Hearst said.
They were original documents and
eemed of great Importance" he de.
Jared. ''They said they had made
very effort to determine their au
They said they had submitted the
documents TO Ambassador Sheffield
nd to the counsellor os the embassy
nd had been unable to find anything
grong.
They said the persons who delivers
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