U. S. Senator Is Accused Of Aiding Rebels.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 29, 1913:
Mexican Government Officials Charge He Has Given Large Sums.
HAS INTERESTS IN REPUBLIC
Photographs of Letters He Sent to Revolutionists Asserted to be in Washington.
DYNAMITE FIGURES IN TALE
National Lawmaker Alleged to Have Promoted Shipment of Explosive Rebels Got.
AMERICANS LEAVING MEXICO
Alarmed by Effect of Senator Bacon's Suggestion That "White Men" in Capital Take Arms.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    MEXICO CITY, June 28.— Reports of the speech made by Senator Albert B. Fall of New Mexico in the United States Senate yesterday, in which he denounced Gen. Victoriano Huerta, Provisional President of the Mexican Republic, as a "traitorous and treacherous assassin" and demanded repeal of the joint resolution permitting the President of the United States to forbid shipment of arms or ammunition into Mexico, caused a sensation here to-day.
    Almost as much excitement resulted from the assertion made by Senator Augustus O. Bacon of Georgia in the upper house of the American Congress that the solution of the present difficulties in this country lay in the white men of the Republic constituting the educated classes, taking up arms to establish order, and that there were enough white men in this capital to establish order throughout Mexico.

Americans Flee Mexican Capital.
    Senator Bacon's statement demoralized Americans here. Many citizens of the United States living in Mexico City left the capital in consequence of the Senator's remarks on the floor of the Senate in Washington. It was reported that the American Smelting and Refining Company was making inventories of its properties, preparatory to depositing them with the American Consuls in various parts of the republic and withdrawing from Mexico.
    Particular interest was expressed here in that part of Senator Fall's remarks in which he said that the American President's order prohibiting shipments of arms into Mexico had destroyed the friendship for Americans that formerly prevailed here, and that he was convinced no money had been sent from the United States to finance Mexican revolutionists. As a member of the committee, headed by Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, appointed to investigate charges that American capitalists had financed both of the recent revolutions in Mexico, Senator Fall said his conviction that no American money had been sent to the rebels here was based on information from private sources which he dared not divulge.
    Officials of the Mexican Government stated to-day that not only had American money been used to foment revolution in Mexico, but also that a United States Senator from a Southwestern State had contributed large amounts and was implicated personally.

Senator's Big Stake in Mexico.
    This Senator is interested personally in Mexico, having large property interests here.
    The assertion was made to-day that there existed in the files of the Department of Justice in Washington photographic records of letters from this Senator to revolutionary leaders who figured in Mexico's affairs in the uprising headed by Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., and also records of letters that passed between Mexicans, and which implicated the Senator.
    It also was stated that a stenographic record of a meeting of a revolutionary junta existed in which a prominent revolutionist said:
    "Don't be afraid of —. He is with us."
    The further charge was made in this city that the Department of Justice had a photograph of a check signed by the Senator and made payable to a man known to be an agent of the revolutionists. It was stated that the check was for a large amount — equivalent to $200,000.

Say He Aided Dynamite Shipments.
    Nor were the foregoing the only statements made in defense of President Huerta's Administration. In what purported to be a review of the Senator's alleged connection with Mexican affairs it was asserted that e was instrumental in procuring shipments of dynamite to mines, which shipments were confiscated by the Mexican rebels.
    On one occasion, it was said to-day, this United States Senator accompanied a representative of the mining company, who showed to the State Department in Washington a letter in Gen. Orozco's writing guaranteeing protection for a shipment of dynamite from El Paso, Texas, to the mines. The State Department authorized the shipment, it was related, on the strength of that letter. As a result, five carloads of dynamite were sent under a heavy rebel guard from El Paso.
    The text of Gen. Orozco's promise was carried out, it was stated, inasmuch as the five cars full of dynamite, guarded by rebel troops, reached the mines safely. As had been guaranteed by the insurgent leader, the big shipment of dynamite was delivered to the company official in charge of the mines. But that same shipment was confiscated by the rebels two hours after its arrival.

Accused of Writing to Diaz.
    The Senator, it was asserted, was known to be corresponding at the present time with Gen. Félix Diaz, nephew of the ex-Dictator, and to be attempting to obtain the allegiance of Gen. Diaz to the cause of Col. Venustiano Carranza, rebel Governor of the State of Coahuila.
    Evidence against the Senator, it was said, was collected by the Department of Justice of the Mexican Republic in the Administration of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., who was deposed from the Presidency by Gen. Huerta and Félix Diaz. It was related that on a certain occasion the personal secretary of President Madero attempted to induce a news association in the United States to distribute a so-called exposure of the Senator, but was unsuccessful.
    A strong intimation was given today that the evidence collected by the Mexican Department of Justice against the Senator might be made public by the Huerta Administration. It also was believed to be possible that the alleged correspondence between the Senator and Gen. Diaz would be given out for publication by the General.