ALLEGED BRIBES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 January 1929, Page 2

ALLEGED BRIBES

FORGED DOCUMENTS SYSTEM.

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

WASHINGTON, January 10. A sensation has been caused here by the announcement that the 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 Pdr'is, arid Senators Borah and Norrib, La Follette and Heflin also received 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 the documents relative to the Mexican matter have been under, investigation for over a year, the Russian aspect came as a complete surprise, and the Senate report indicated the existence of an elaborate system of such forged documents. Chairman Reed, of the Committee, dedscribed the system as “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 hold above suspicion.”