All Untrue, Says Senator.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 29, 1913:
Except That He Does Own Property in Mexico.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, June 28.— The United States Senator accused by Mexican Government officials of having contributed to Mexican revolutionary funds chuckled several times to-night while he read a dispatch telling of his alleged revolutionary activities.
    He said that the whole report was a lie except that he did own considerable property in Chihuahua. He never contributed a cent either directly or indirectly to any revolutionary agent, in any of the Mexican revolutions, he said.
    As to Félix Diaz, he said that he never met him and never communicated with him either directly or indirectly.
    He said he could think of no business transaction with any Mexican that might have been misunderstood as a subscription to a revolutionary fund. For several years, he said, he had done no business in Mexico on a large scale. The only single deal involving anything like $200,000, he said, occurred about eight years ago in the City of Mexico. And in that case, instead of giving a check, he paid part in bonds. Later he sold these bonds for the man to whom he had given them, through the Pearson Syndicate, and the Pearsons paid the money for him.
    The Senator has always spoken freely of his former relations with Pascual Orozco, Jr., who headed the second revolution against Madero and who has now made his peace with the Huerta regime. Orozco was a contractor for forwarding mining properties, and as such had relations with many Americans, his friendship with the Senator being particularly close.
    But the Senator said to-night that the last time he had seen Orozco was about five months before his outbreak against Madero. At that time Orozco asked his recommendation in obtaining some of his old work. The recommendation was given and the work obtained.
    When Attorney General McReynolds was seen at the Department of Justice a few minutes before midnight and told of the report that the Department of Justice had photographic records alleged to show that the Senator had contributed a large sum to the Orozco revolution party in Mexico, he replied:
    "I don't know a thing about it. If there are any records of the sort in the department, and, mind you, I don't say there are not, because there might be without my knowledge, I have never heard of them and know nothing of the matter. I think it is highly improbable that there is any evidence of the kind indicated in the possession of the department."