Show Sen Norris Denies Knowledge of Fund WASHINGTON Dec 15 AP AP- AP Senator Norris of Nebraska from his sick room today denied any knowledge of a Mexican slush fund which was described in documents presented to a senate investigating committee today by William Randolph Randolph Randolph Ran Ran- dolph Hearst Informed that Senator Johnson California was coming to him fo foa foia for foi fora r a statement Senator Norris arose aros e from his bed and was sitting i in n his library in a dressin dressing gown when n the Californian arrived Senator Norris who appeared d very ill said All I know about this matter i is what I saw in the Hearst papers I have no other knowledge of it it I Ido Ido do not know Mr MI Elias Ellas lIas and never was visited by anybody representing represent represent- ing him He referred to Arturo M M. Elias Elms Mexican consul general in New Nee NewYork v York who was named in the documents documents documents docu docu- ments presented by Mr Mi Hearst an and which purported to be from th the e Mexican o official arc archives hives The They Y named Senators Norris Borah Hof- Hof lIn and La LaFollette 10 II e He as projected re ie- ie lents 1 of funds from Calles RECEIVED NO MONEY I have never received any money moncy y or emolument or anything of value from anybody In connection with Mexico the Nebraska senator con con- I have never had an any y offer or any intimation Uon that thit anybody anybody anybody any any- body contemplated offering m me e anything If I 1 had the public would have heard of it without 1 waiting for Mr Hearst to publish L the fact It It seems to me now to be th tile the duty of tho the committee to gO KO to the th e bottom of ot this this' matter and particularly particularly particularly par par- ee to trace the source o of e these documents If any of these thes e I documents are arc authentic the Mexican texI Mex tex ican jean government s Is guilty of a an n I offense which cannot be described describe d in words If It they are false falsI the man mar I who perpetrated them on the public pub pub- lie lic and blackened the tho reputations o of Amei American ican officials and Mexican o of officials officials of- of alike deserves deserve exposure an and a punishment to the full limit t of th the law lawIn In view of the fact that that my name has tas Jas been mentioned I feel I have the right to ask the committee commit commit- tee to go to tho the bottom of it ft It |