GRAFT CHARGES.
AMERICAN INVESTIGATION. WASHINGTON, Jan 10. A sensation has been caused here by the announcement that .a Senate Committee lias been secretly investigating documents here and abroad pretending to show that Senators Borah and Norris received 100,000 dollars each liom the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, anci that Senators Borah, Norris, La ij oilette and Heflin also received 1,M0,000 dollars from the Mexican GovernThe committee to-day rendered a unanimous declaration that the cliarg. were absolutely false and the do - ments an utter forgery. While documents relative to the Mexican mattei had been under investigation tor ov a year, the rushing aspect came as . complete surprise, and the Senate report indicated the existence of an elaborate system of dissemination or 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 it V “did not trifle with the reputations ot distinguished Americans, reputations that it is to the interest of all America to hold above suspicion.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3894, 12 January 1929, Page 1
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169GRAFT CHARGES. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3894, 12 January 1929, Page 1
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