The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-18
TAFT REFUSES TO
CROSS THE BORDER
Replies to Urgent Telegram
Sent by Governor of Arizona
Asking Intervention.
Continued From Page One.

mediate assurances that there would be
no more fighting that endangered Amer
also WAS requested as to what measures
the authorities had taken TO prevent flu
ture combats OF this kind. few hours
after the department announced II had
issued this second demand dispatches
from Douglas began TO come into the
war department showing that the second
battle OF Aqua Prieta had begun. No
reply had been received tonight from the
Mexican authorities.
President Taft Worried.
The president plainly Is worried. He
talked but little. the White house folks
said. about Mexico today. but the bulle-
tins that came through the war DEPART
ment and through the press were taken
to him wherever he happened to be and
were read with interest He did not con
ceal the fact that he was intensely in
terested.
The president talked with Secretary
Knox in the afternoon and tonight ne
had conference with Embassador Bryce
OF Great Britain. The, official eXplana-
came TO talk about the proposed arbitra-
ton treaty.
figured in the conversation, 1t is be-
ieved the ambassador explained TO Mr..
Taft the landing OF the British marines
at San Quentin; Mexico: last week. He
landing made only after Americans
had made tho request. and 1t was ex-
planned that Americans came first and
British subjects asked for protection.
No Joint Intervention.
In connection with Mr. Bryces visit a
intervention in Mexico by the United
States and England was discredited L,
was pointed out that any such joint
intervention would be construed as an
o,rl.n nnyla a5 sDf hty q fda
that this nation is unable to handle the
situation. and that 1t would be almost
an abandonment OF the Monroe doctrine.
President Taft has told callers that he
does not contemplate sending a special
message TO congress relating 10 affairs
in Mexico. He has shown TO leaders OF
both the senate and house the conflden-
tlal correspondence dealing with Mexico.
II efeels that few. II any OF those who
have been taken into his confidence have
failed to agree with him that the move
ment OF troops 10 Teas was justified.
He thinks that since leaders In congress
have practically all the information he
has it is their duty to take any further
action.
Intervention Means War.
The president himself has let It be
known that no troops would cross the
line unless authorized by congress and
Secretary Dickinson confirmed that state
menJ tonight.
No one doubts that Intervention would
mean war. War in Mexico. the presi
dents advisers say, would mean a con-
flict that would rage for months. prob
the mountains. the insufficient means OF
quick communication and dozen other
things would have 10 be overcome.
Intervention would mean a long -dra wn-
out struggle in which the Mexican fed
erals and the Mexican insurrectos might
soon be found fighting side by side. Fur
thermore. intervention would be likely
TO dissipate all the good feeling that
years of careful diplomacy has created
between the United States and the Latin
American countries.
Third Assistant Secretary Of State
Hale said that Senior Manuel de Zama =
coma. the new ambassador from Mexico.
would be presented 10 President Taft at
the White House on Wednesday,
One OF the dispatches made public at
the White House from Colonel Skunk.
the commanding officer at Douglas, said
three insurgents without arms "surren-
dered 10 us and that they are now held
as prisoners.