Wilson Takes Up Mexican Affairs.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 1, 1913:
On Visit to Capitol, He Discusses Situation with Senator Bacon.
DENIAL BY SUTHERLAND
Answers a Report That He Has Evidence of a Senator Aiding the Revolution.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, June 30.— There is reason to believe that President Wilson showed his interest in recent Mexican developments to-day when he visited the Capitol to discuss patronage with Senators. Senator Bacon of Georgia, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, was among those who talked with him, and it was reported that the Senator went to his committee to bring to the President, for reference in their conversation, a copy of the Congressional Record containing the speech of Senator Fall denouncing Provisional President Huerta as an assassin and his own speech in reply to Mr. Fall.
    Nothing came to light here to-day to sustain the charge made in the City of Mexico that a photographic copy of a check for a large sum, given by a United States Senator to a Mexican revolutionary agent, was in the possession of this Government. Secretary Bryan said it was not in the State Department, and Attorney General McReynolds, who had been told of a report that the alleged photographic copy was in the Department of Justice, explained that a search of the Department files had failed to reveal its existence, and none of the officials there had ever heard of it.
    A report that Senator Sutherland of Utah had evidence of the complicity of another Senator in fomenting the Mexican revolutionary movement was denied by Mr. Sutherland to-night.
    Senator Sutherland said that about a year ago he had prepared a speech on certain phases of the Mexican situation, but that in view of circumstances then arising had not delivered it. The report that the speech contained criticism of the course of any Senator for fomenting revolution or contributing to the war chest of either faction was erroneous, Mr. Sutherland said.
    The Senator said that in preparing his speech he had read several letters relating to conditions in Mexico. None of these letters, he said, inculpated any Senator, and he denied that any information had come to him reflecting upon any Senator. Mr. Sutherland conveyed the impression that conditions were changing so rapidly in Mexico at the time that he thought a public discussion in the Senate would be unwise. To-night he refused to say what was the nature of his speech, as the subject as he then presented it was dead.
    State Department officials said to-day that it was quite true that a United States Senator had been instrumental in obtaining the department's permission to send a supply of dynamite from this country to American-owned mines in a portion of Mexico controlled by Gen. Orozco. the rebel leader, but they insisted that similar permission had been granted in several instances as part of a general department policy, and that the Senator had not been guilty of any impropriety.
    In order to enable American-owned mines in Mexico to continue in operation, it was said the department adopted the policy of permitting dynamite to be sent from American territory to those mines if safe conduct appeared to be assured. When satisfactory evidence was obtained that such shipments would not be molested by the rebels in passing through rebel-controlled sections, the department permitted the shipments to be made.
    Of the particular shipment in which the Senator was interested on account of a mine-owning constituent it was explained that several carloads were delivered at the mines in safety, Orozco having seen that they had safe conduct; but about a month after most of the shipment had reached the mines one carload and a portion of another were seized by revolutionists.