Arizona republican., 1912-09-08
WILL DO NOTHING
 WITHOUT CONGRESS
Conditions Along the Bor- der That Additional Regi- ments Will Be Sent; Mex ican Federal Troops May Cross American Soil
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH


 BEVERLY, Sept. :. - Although President Taft will not intervene in Mexico without the fullest delibera tiOn on step that may mean war, his friends declared tonight that in, tervention is nearer than it has been since the first American troops were rushed to the border eighteen m0nthD ago. It can be stated on the high est authority, however, that should the president decide that interVen- tion is the only course open to him, he will call congress in special ses- sion. and demand of it authority to send an American army across the border. Under no circumstances, he has told his friends, would he do an unfriendly act against Mexico with out consulting congress.
 Friends of the president realize that he would give the order to invade Mexico only with the greatest re- mctance. They are aware that it has already been charged by senators that the president might send an army across the line and make himself a war president" and rely on that to bring victory to himself and the re- publican party in November.
 Taft has said that such a charge is utterly without foundation and he has declared to his advisors that it would be hard to conceive of presi- dent who would get his office by throwing his country into a war that experts have predicted could not end in less than two years and would cost millions and mean the sacrifice of thousands of lives. ruin for years to come,the basis of this nations friendship with the Central and South American republics.
 The president today authorized General Leonard Wood. chief of staff |. S A, to despatch two more regi- mentS of cavalry to the Texas bOr- der. Regiments will be sent from Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort D. A Russell. Wyoming. So far as the president is informed there will be nc immediate need for more troops in Texas, but conditions along the west ern border have grown worse in the last few weeks. It is in the southern part of Mexico, however, that the president has learned that intolerab conditions affecting Americans. There the Madero government, according tC Washington information, is utterly unable to cope with the revolution ists, and there seems little prospec that the situation will improve.
 The president in the last few day! has communicated a demand tha President Madero be more effective in the protection of Americans. H. is hopeful that this reminder. mean for the ears of the Mexican president and the Mexican foreign office a well, will be fruitful of results in bOtl southern and northern Mexico. Tn situation south of the Mexican capi tai is regarded as particularly dan gerOus to Americans because tn revolutionists there apparently hay much less to fear from an Americal invasion than their brothers in tn north.
 The only favorable plan for tn protection of Americans in southerl Mexico, MT Taft has been told, vii be to send troops to some gulf DOT of Mexico The trouble is in the in terior, and the landing of troops at Mexican port would mean interven tion and war There is no such op portunity in south Mexico to displa troops in force and thereby insta1 respect for the United States as alon the Texas border.
 Only one solution of the probler has been put forward today and tha is intervention. MT. Taft is still hope ful, however, that President Nader will improve conditions so that sue step will not need to be taken.