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...Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, as go-betweens (TIME, Dec. 19). Indignation flared last week when the names of the four Senators were published-Borah of Idaho (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee), LaFollette of Wisconsin (youngest Senator, upright Progressive), Norris of Nebraska (chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and Heflin of Alabama (who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope). Indignation flamed when Publisher Hearst admitted that he had given none of these Senators a chance to deny knowledge of the alleged efforts by Mexico to bribe them. Publisher Hearst admitted that he himself had not for an instant believed...
...four Senators quickly cleansed their names of the Hearstian smear, in downright statements. Senator Heflin was most agitated. He roared about "scalawags, crooks and scoundrels." In the course of his protestimony he was obliged to tell about receiving money from the Ku Klux Klan for his anti-Roman Catholic orations...
...investigators reported to the Senate that there was "not one scintilla of evidence" that Senators Borah, LaFollette, Norris and Heflin had been paid, or even offered one cent. The Mexican Government pronounced Mr. Hearst's documents total forgeries. The Senate Committee proceeded therefore to try to find out who did the forging and why. To this end U. S. Secret Service men were called in. The investigators also sought evidence of the messages and money supposed to have been telegraphed from Mexico to Consul General Elias. Such evidence, to prove the validity of Hearst-published documents, was lacking. Investigation...
...Democratic attack was blunted by Maryland's crotchety Senator Bruce, who bumbled repetitiously, and by Alabama's astounding Heflin, who bawled like a sick steer about the wicked plutocracy...
...with the most important-looking one. Swart Curtis of Kansas is most important because, from his quiet aisle seat in the back row, he leads the majority party. Most-important-looking, a veritable redundancy in statesman-hood with his elephantine frame, florid face and canary waistcoat, is Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...