GRAFT CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 11

GRAFT CHARGES

AGAINST UNITED STATES SENATORS INVESTIGATION BEGUN BY BORAH (Australian Press Association.) Washington, January 11. Senator Borah began an independent investigation to ascertain the perpetrators of the forged documents containing allegations of bribery. The contents of the documents were published to-day. They disclosed that he and Senator Norris ostensibly received a sum to obtain American de jure recognition of the Soviet. Senator Borah also declared that the State Department should call upon the Russian Government to run the matter down. “My Government owes it to me to clear it up,” he said. [A message from Washington published yesterday stated that a sensation had been caused by the announcement that a Senate Committee had been secretly investigating documents pretending to show that Senaors Borah and Norris received 100,000 dollars each from the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, and that Senators Borah, Norris, La Follette, and Heflin also received 1,215,000 dollars from the Mexican Government. The committee rendered a unanimous declaration that the charges were absolutely false and the documents an utter forgery.]