Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-09
MADERQ ANXIOUS.
His Government I bought
To Be TOiteTing,
|GiVenPermissiOniO Send Troops
Through llniiedi States
To Reae! chihuahua--ho lnteryen-
ton Intended by the States.

Mexico city. Feb. s.-stirred by the
rebellion in northern Mexico, Presi
dent Madero asked the permanent
committee of Congress, today, for
permission to call a special session Of
the National Senate. From the Sem
ate the President desires authority to
communicate with the American gov
ernment relative to sending troops
through American territory to enter
Chihuahua from the north.
President Madero told the committee
conditions were such as to make it
Impossible to invade the rebel inIest-
cd regions without great delay unless
sHeh routing Of troops was permitted.
The committee also considered, Today,
the petition of group of deputies,
who asked that a special session of
Congress be called to consider the
best means of coping with the grow
ing revolt The committee sent both
petitions to a suit committee, which is
expected to report within eight days.
Dispatches received in the capital,
today, shew that railway communiea-
ton between Torreon and Chihuahua
- sun bA'A'iR anu tiiett t7''-N~ H'''-'
day Torrcons only way of reaching
the north by railroad was stopped
when three bridges ON the line con-
Meeting that city with Monterey Were
bufred Another bridge was demoiish-
ed on the International Railway whose
northern terminus is the border town
of G. p. Diaz. known since the Ma
derC regime as Piedras Negras.
Another temporary blocking of traf-
ic occurred when the rebels deraled
a Mexican Central Railroad train of
IA freight ears q short distance north
OF Irapuato. On the same road, last
night at Nllazenor rebels raided the
station Reports from Torreon say
that the number of rebels is increasing.
From southern Mexico the reports
Indicate little improvement in the sit
uation. The report that Gen. Felix
Diaz, nephew of the deposed President.
had arisen in revolt has proved to be
untrue.
Washington. Feb. S.-A request by
the Mexican government that it be al
lowed to move its troops through
American territory so as to reach
points in the interior to which rebels
had several railroad connections vas
acted upon by the state department
here, today. Both the treasury and
war departments were advised that,
tomorrow, regiment of Mexican SOL
diers would travel through southern
l'Texas from Eagle Pass to FL Paso in
an effort to reach Chihuahua and vi
cinity, the storm center of rebel ac-
tivity.
Gen. Wood, chief of staff OF the
army, said tonight, that he had order
ed detail of American officers 10 ac-
company the Mexicans as an honorary
escort The arms of the Mexican
troops will be shipped as a commercial
consignment, but will be passed by the
customs officials in accordance with
orders from the treasury department
Tile American government has twice
permitted Mexico TO transport troops
through United States territory and
today's request was acted upon as a
matter of routine.
Washington, Feb. S.-Intervendon i'm
Mexico by the United States is not in
tended by any mobilization of troops
which may be made again along the
southern border. This was the messag
which the state department telegraphed,
today, TO various consular and diplomatic
representatives in Mexico, who has COM
planned that talk of intervention was
fostering a dangerous aHti-Amoricaii sen
timent.
The state department reiterated en-
phatically that this government had no
interest in Mexico beyond the safety OF
American lives and interests, but from
the same consular agents came reports
| far from reassuring as to the stability ri
the Mexican federal government
Anticipating possible orders from Pres
| ident Taft to move troops once more, the
general staff has complete plans for q
military movement. if that becomes nee
| essary.
Rebels are said to be in control of the
situation from Juarez to Casas Grande,
although no news of fghtiug has reached
here.
Torreon, Coahuila, Mex, Feb. S.-4Abram
Gonzales minister of the interior, who
| left the capital, Monday, for Chihuahua
! to pacify the rebels, is mafooned here.
After escaping from the santa Rosalia
| insurrectionists on a handcar, he was
forced to return because of burned
His captors were outwitted, however by
an American conductor, who hid the min
lister in his car and took him to Jiminez,
where there is a4heavy federal guard.
Last night, the minister, travelling in
cognito, arrived in Torreon and, lnls
| morning. he boarded a train bound tor
c. p. Daiz, en- route to Chihuahua, via
Eel Paso. Forty miles north of Matamo-
ris the train ran into an open eulvert,
The engineer was killed and the fireman
injured, but the minister, uninjured, was
| brought back to Torreon on relief
train. The rebels have declared they
will never permit the ministerial peace
| maker to confer with Orozco.
A national society of Polish priests wno
will act in a body against amy attempt
to secuiarize the Polish parochial schools
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