Mexicans Insist Fall Aided Rebels.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 2, 1913:
Evidence Against U.S. Senator Exists, Say Felix Diaz and Secretary Pereyra.
FALSE, DECLARES SENATOR
If There Are Any Documents They Have Been Manufactured, Is His Answer.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    MEXICO CITY, July 1.— Statements were made by Gen. Felix Diaz and Carlos Pereyra, Acting Secretary of Foreign Relations, to-day in regard to United States Senator Albert B. Fall's formal denial that he had given aid to Mexican revolutionists.
    "I have no personal evidence against Senator Fall," said Gen. Diaz to the Mexico City correspondent of The Times, "nor has he ever directly communicated with me. I know that such evidence exists in the Foreign Office, and will assist to have it published. I consider an exposé of Senator Fall important to Mexico."
    An explanation of the failure on the part of the Mexican Foreign Office to make public such evidence as it might have was given by the Acting Secretary.
    "The Foreign Office." said Señor Pereyra, "does not think it opportune to make public the evidence against Senator Fall, owing to the special conditions existing in the relations of the two nations and to the fact that Mexico is involved only indirectly. This does not mean that the Mexican Government will not do so at some other time.
    "Evidence exists here," Señor Pereyra continued, "and agents along the border are following up the case and reporting to the Foreign Office. I believe the facts now in the hands of the public are sufficient to prove to all serious-minded persons that the activity of Senator Fall to procure the lifting of the embargo on shipments of arms to Mexico, thus assisting the rebellious elements of a friendly nation, is notorious.
    "I do not believe that the United States Senate," added the diplomat, "knowing this, will approve Senator Fall's resolution. The honor of the highest legislative body of the United States and that of the American Government is at stake. Doubtless an investigation will be made bringing to light Senator Fall's complicity in revolutions in this country."
    It has been previously stated in these dispatches that Mexican officials said the Department of Justice in Washington had photographic copies of letters from an accused Senator to rebels, and also of letters between insurgents implicating the Senator in question. The further assertion was made that there existed a photograph of a check for a large amount, understood to be $200,000, drawn by the accused Senator to the order of a known revolutionary agent.
    In addition, it was said the Senator to whom the dispatches referred had visited the State Department in Washington with a corporation representative, who obtained permission for the shipment of five carloads of dynamite from El Paso, Texas, to mines in Mexico under a safe conduct from Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., the rebel chieftain, and that, although the explosive actually was delivered at the mines, it was seized by rebels soon afterward. It also was said the accused Senator had tried to win Gen. Diaz over to Gov. Venustiano Carranza, present insurgent leader.
    Senator Fall, New York dispatches to this capital showed, told the Washington correspondent of The Times that he was not the United States Senator who aided insurgents, If any Senator had done so, and that the charges were "all rot" so far as he was concerned. He asked why, if the Mexican Government had charges to make against a United States Senator, it did not publish such evidence as it might have. It was in answer to Mr. Fall's inquiry that Gen. Diaz and Señor Pereyra talked to-day.