Heading: (U.S.-Mexico border conflict)
Author: [Fall, Senator Albert]
Title: Investigation of Mexican Affairs / Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations
Place Published: Washington, DC
Publisher:
Date Published: 1919-1920
Description: U.S. Senate, Parts 1-7. 971 + 10 pp. Illustrated with a folding map of Mexico showing 317 "instances of major disorders"; lacking the "Murder Map of Mexico". 7 parts bound together, with black cloth and red leather outer boards and heavy ties. September 8, 1919 - January 2, 1920.
Senator Albert Fall's specially compiled copy, with his name handwritten in top margin of each Part. Important association copy of the first half of congressional hearings of the "Fall Committee", instigated and chaired by Senator Albert Fall, to investigate outrages against U.S. citizens in chaotic, revolutionary Mexico after the end of World War l. Specially compiled for Fall who was to become the first presidential cabinet officer jailed for misconduct in office.Fall first gained notoriety as defense counsel for the "ranch hand who killed Pat Garrett, once the fatal nemesis of Billy the Kid. He was elected one of the first two U.S. Senators from New Mexico. In the fall of 1919, he opened these headline-grabbing hearings which offered juicy accounts of murder and mayhem in the tumultuous Mexican revolutionary days of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. A recent bibliography described these hearings as valuable for "first hand information" about "conditions of anarchy" south of the Mexican-American border - "although heavily weighted with testimony unfavorable to the revolutionaries" accused of the murder of hundreds of US citizens.
The year after the hearings concluded, Fall was appointed Secretary of Interior by President Warren Harding - and a year after that, implicated in the Teapot Dome oil scandal; he was found guilty of bribery and conspiracy and sentenced to a year in prison.

Few pages detached; good.