Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-08
President Sends Special Commu-
nication To Congress
TELLS OF PATROL
OF MEXICAN BORDER
Relation With Russia and Chinese
Situation Are Also
Discussed

is the keynote of President Taft''
special message on foreign rela
tfons, which was sent to Congress:
today. After directing attention
to the fact that the United State:
il at present on the most cordia
terms with all the other world pow
ers President Taft lauds the ar.
bitration treaties which this coun
try has negotiated with France ant
Great Britain and expresse!
the sincere hope that the Senat.
will ratify them at once.
Arbitration Treaties.
Upon the topic of Arbitration
the. president has the following te
say: "The year just passed mark.
an important general movement OF
the. part of the powers for broader
arbitration. In the recog
milton of the manifold benefit
to mankind in the extension o.
the policy of the settlement of in
ternational disputes by arbitra
tion rather than by war, and in re
ponse to widespread demand
for an advance in that direction
on the part of the people of the
United States and of Great Brit
ain and of France, the terms o
which were designed, as expressed
in the preamble of these treaties
to extend the scope and obligation:
OF the policy of arbitration adopted
in our present treaties with thes
governments. TO pave the way fol
this treaty with the United
States Great Britain negotiated al
important modification in its al
lance with Japan, and the Frencl
government also expedited the ne
gotiations with signal good will. Tho
new treaties have been submitted
to the Senate and are awaiting it;
advice and consent to their rati
fication. All the essentials of thest
important treaties have long beer
known. and it is my earnest hope
that they will receive prompt ant
favorable action"
Guarding the Mexican Border.
The message contains the first
official explanation of the movement
of United States troops along the
Mexican border at the time of The
Madero revolution in Mexico Tho
President stated that advices from
Henry Lane Wilson, United State
ambassador at Mexico City, indicated
that the situation at Mexico was
much graver than press dispatches
implied Fearing for the lives ot
the 10000 Americans in Mexico, Mr.
Taft ''took a good deal of response
bility," as he phrased it, and ordered
out the soldiers and warships. Al
the same time President Taft noti
fed President Diaz of Mexico that ne
alarm need be felt as the. troop:
WcIc " NC uoSu Ollly " OAIOl " ASu
trality and to prevent the shipmen
of arms across the Rio Grande from
the American side.
'sIt seemed my duty" said Mr.
Taft, ''to put troops where, if Con
gress had directed that they en+e
Mexico, effective movement coz
have been made promptly"
President Taft declared that
presence of the troops had a go
feet. He further explained the
restraint of the United Stat
ernment, even after casu7,ti
resulted from bullets fired =
international line, was nc.
lack of force, but a desire tc as.
Intervention.
The friendship of the Uni,ed State
with Mexico is now closer than ever
the message says. Touching upo1
the anti-Madero revolution, inaugu
rated by General Bernado Reyes
who was arrested by the Fedora
authorities for plotting an insurrec
tion against a friendly power OF
United States soil, the President de
clared that this country was merel.
following out a policy of respectin,
the cotemporaneOus recognized con
stitutional authority in Mexico.
President Taft also voiced hi
pleasure that war had been prObabl.
averted by the United States in act
ing as mediator in a boundary dis
pute between Haiti and SantO Do