The Washington times., 1928-01-11
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toned in the documents had been
given any opportunity to see the
documents before publication or to
deny the implied accusations con-
tanned in them. He stated that he
had instructed his representatives.
to verify the genuineness of the
documents as far as possible.
Each of the Senators in ques-
ton took the stand and denied
under oath that he had been paid
or promised or offered any sum
of money whatever by any person
for or in behalf of the government
! Of Mexico.
Heard Many Witnesses
'SThe committee then heard a
considerable number of witnesses.
including one Avila, who claimed to
have bought these documents from
clerks in different Mexican govern.
ment offices. and various represent
atives of the Hearst newspapers.
The testimony OF these witnesses is
printed and available for the use
of the Senate.
1.-THE committee submitted the
documents to two impartial hand
writing experts whose services were
made available to the committee by
| the Treasury and Navy Depart
unents. Both of these experts re-
| ported with positiveness that the
documents purporting to be signed
by President Callas, thirty-fiye in
number, and those purporting to ne
signed by L. Monte De Oca. secre-
tary Of the Mexican Treasury, three
in number are plain forgeries. The
Hearst representatives then asked
permission to submit the documents
to three hand writing experts
was granted: the Hearst experts
studied the documents thoroughly;
they were unanimous in pronOunc-
ing these signatures to be forgeries.
Photographs showing these sigma
lures compared with genuine sigma
lures will be found at the conclusion
Of the printed testimony.
Messages Fakes"
'"The committee then submitted
to the code and cipher experts
of the Navy Department the seven
ALLEGED code messags and thir pre-
tended translations, included among
the documents submitted by Mr..
Hearst. After exhaustive study
these experts reported that the code
messages were obvious fakes; that
the code words were meaningless
reiterations of letters, chiefly eight
letters found in one corner OF the
typewriter keyboard.
''The committee subjected the
documents themselves to a carefu1
study to determine whether there
is any significant coincidence in
the many mistakes of grammar,
spelling. and punctuation to be
found in them. A table showing
some of these will be found at
the conclusion OF the report OF the
last hearing.
"The committee had the benefit
of the assistance of a large num-
Der of eminent scholars Of the
Spanish language, most of them OF
American birth and allegiance,
whom the committee consulted sepa'
rately from one another
Errors Unusual
The only errors listed in this
table are those which all of these
authorities pronounce unusual and
unlikely to occur in the writings
Of several different stenographers.
in different offices and different
cities. The committee believes 1t
to be incredible for example that
SO many different stenographers, in
seven different offices in Mexico
and New York, should all abbre-
yiate listed (you) as 'ud'--an error
equivalent to the use of Mr., in
stead of Mr. as the abbreviation
of the English word Mister.
Representatives of all telegraph
and cable companies handling bust
ness between Mexico City and New
York city all testified that they
could find no record whatever OF
the transmittal of the pretended
kilograms between those cities, nor
any record of the Geographic trans
fers of money mentioned in several
Of the documents.
No Such Sale Shown
THE committee did not feel jus
titled in taking the time or incur
ring the expense of securing wit
nesses as to various ledger charges,
appearing in the same ledger sheet
as that which showed these sup
posed payments to Senators, al
though the committee was advised
by the Buick Motor Company that
no sale suck as shown on the ledger
sheet was ever made, nor any such
payment made to that company.
Similarly the account books
showing the Mexican consul gen.
erals bank accounts in New York
were examined in behalf of the COM
mittee without disclosure of any con-
fIrmatory evidence OF the charges in
the Hearst documents; but the
falsity of the charges and OF the
documents was already so clearly
proven that the committee did not
feel justified in summoning these &C
count books or the various witnesses
necessary 10 prove them.
Similarly, evidence seemed to
be available to show that paper
bearing the watermarks found in
the Hearst documents had never
been sold to the. Mexican govern
ment, but this meant the summon
ing Of many paper dealers from dis
tant cities, and did not seem to be
justified under the circumstances.
The committee is unanimous in
finding:
II. There is not a scintalla Of evil
dence that any United States Sena'
tor has accepted, or was promised.
or was offered. directly or indirectly,
any money or other valuable thing.
by any officer or representative OF
the government of Mexico.
20. The pretended evidence that
$1.215, 900 was Withdrawn from the
Mexican treasury and sent to the
Mexican consul general in New
York City to be paid to United
States Senators is not genuine but
is spurious and fraudulent, and in
so far as it purports TO be signed