GRAFT CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 91, 11 January 1929, Page 9

GRAFT CHARGES

INVESTIGATED BY AMERICAN SENATE COMMITTEE ALLEGED BRIBES FROM RUSSIA AND MEXICO REPUTATIONS TRIFLED WITH (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. January 10, 9,45. p.m.) Washington, January 10. A sensation has been caused here by the announcement that a Senate Committee has been secretly investigating documents here and abroad pretending to show that Senators Borah and Norris received 100,000 dollars each from the Soviet ambassador in Paris, and that Senators Borah, Norris, La Follette and Heflin also rceived 1.215,000 dollars from the Mexican Government. The committee to-day rendered a unanimous declaration that the charges were absolutely false and the documents an utter forgery. While documents relative to the Mexican matter had been under investigation for over a year, the rushing aspect came as a complete surprise, and the Senate report indicated the existence of an elaborate system of dissemination of such forged documents. The • chairman of the committee, Senator Reed, described the system as a "nefarious traffic,” adding that the whole matter would be amusing if it “did not trifle with the reputations of distinguished Americans, reputations that it is to the interest of all America to hol'd above suspicion.”