The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-08
War Department Rushes
 Army To Mexican Frontier
NEW TARIFF BILL
 BEING FORMED. Democratic Committee Hard At Work But Make No
 Announcement

| ways and means made some progress to- day in their work of considering tariff procedure and considering committee l chairma nships, but after two sessions they had no announcement to make as to concrete results. Much of the time was spent going over the relative merits and fitness of the various men who expect to become heads of the committees.
 There were various reports in circu- ] lation about what the committee had l done so far, including a vote of seven for Fitzgerald of New York and six for | Burleson of Texas with one member wob- bling, for the chairmanship of the power full appropriations committee, but mem bers of the committee declared that no | final vote had been taken. Mir Fit . | gerald is generally expected to land o> chairmanship of the committee. ,S 6 has been some talk that MT. = 0 g. might be placated with the cb 5 dip of the committee on agricp' 1t he stated today he would nN e 1t if offered him. The choice fois the agri- cultural committee is expected to rest between Leever of South Carolina and Ball of Texas.
 | It was stated that the committee has reached no conclusion as to the tariff procedure and that nothing definite is to be expected until after all the demo- | cratic members of the ways and means committee return here on Monday. |
 He has talked more or less about gen. eral conditions in Mexico, but on the sub ject of most interest at this juncture has been dumb to interviwers. As to what he may have told his superiors at the state department about the rumored crisis in the health of President Diaz, not one syllable could be ascertained.
 Assistant Secretary Huntington Wilson | would not say a word as to what Am bassador Wilson might have said to him | on that subject.
 Trouble Admitted
 It was admitted at the White House this evening that the Mexican insurrectos had been giving considerable trouble to the contractors engaged in work of dam ming the Colorado river across the line from the Imperial valley in California and that Mexico was sending, by way of the Gulf of California, a regiment of federal troops to guard the work which was undertaken by the United States to prevent floods in the Imperial valley and
 
 Mexican soldiers. sent through Yuma, | Ariz,, some time ago for this purpose. were captured by the insnrrectos.
 The President told callers today that Texas and the adjacent country offered an admirable field for maneuvers at this time of year but vouchsafed no further information.
 No such secrecy has marked the prep aration for previous maneuvers-quite the contrary-at other times the participat- ing officers have been only too glad 10 draw public attention to and arouse pub lie interest in the work of the army and navy. Furthermore, 1t was said today that the appropriations for army maneu- i vers for the current fiscal year are all but exhausted, and it is pointed out that in ordinary circumstances no such move ments as those sprung on the army and navy during the last IS hours would be thought of. Hence 1t was inevitable that Washington should be skeptcal toward the explanations given officially and | should look to conditions in Mexico, | known or suspected, as explaining more plausibly this concentration of an army close to the border with a goodly DOT l tion of the navy at hand in either oc- caslon.
 White House Statement l The White House itself gave out a statement after the meeting of the cab | inet in explanation of the massing Of troops and read as follows
 "The war department is mobiizing a division at full strength at San Antonio, Texas, for the purpose of field training | of officers and men and for the further purpose of holding maneuvers involving operations against Galveston. l "There will be assembled at Galveston | a force of three regiments for the de- fense of that place against theoretic at tacks by the navy. On the Pacific | coast the mobilization will involve a brigade of infantry in the Los Angeles l<listrict for the purpose of defendinP San Diego and San Piedro against pos sibe attack by the navy.
 ''The mobilization of these troops will furnish an excellent opportunity for the instruction for number of senior off, ficers for higher command. It will also put to a practical test the preparedness of the staff department for the mobilza- ton of troops
 Major General William H. Carter will command the provisional division.
 ''The brigades. at San Antonio will be commanded by Brigadier Generals M. F. Maus, r. A. Smith and Ralph w. Holt. The troops at Galveston will be under the command of Brigadier General A. l.. Mills. The troops in the Los Angeles district will be commanded by Brigadier General Tasker il. Bliss. v
 Detail of Army
 In detail the orders to the army pro- vide for the dispatch of the following troops to San Antonio, Texas, will com prise the full division to be commanded by Major General Carter.
 Headquarters and two battanons' Eighteenth infantry, from Fort Macken- zie, Wyoming.
 First battalion, Eighteenth infantry. from Nipple barracks, Arizona and Fort Wingate, N. M.
 Fifteenth infantry from Ft. Douglas, Utah.
 Eleventh infantry from Fort D. A. Rus sell Wyoming.
 Thirteenth infantry from Leavenworth, Kan.
 Headquarters from Ft. Benjamin Har- rison, Indiana.
 Company B. Tenth infantry, from Ft. Thomas, Ky.
 Twenty eighth infantry from Ft. She'll ling, Minn.
 Fourth Field artillery from Ft. D. A. Russell Wyoming.
 Second battalion. Third Field artillery, from Ft. Meyer, Virginia.
 Ninth cavalry from Fort D. A. Rus sell. Wyoming
 Eleventh cavalry from Ft Oglethorpe, Georgia.
 Company D. signal corps. from Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.
 | Leavenworth, Kan.
 These troops will be sent to Galveston, Tex:
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