Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-13
President Taft and Cabinet
Agree 1t Shall Share Re-
SpoosibiIities for AIMED In
vaSion.
.EXPEDITI0NARY FORCE
NOW READY TO SAIL
BattIeshipS Steaming al Full
Speed for Mexican Ports
While Transports Are Held
at Docks,

IBy Morning Juurns- special Leased Wire. =
Washington, Feb President
Taft and the cabinet are in accord
that congress shall share the respon-
sibility for Intervention In Mexico. \
day of conferences between the pres
ident and advisers ended with the
understanding that. should conditions
in Mexico CITY become go much
worse as to demand the landing OF
American troops Mr TAFT viii las
before both houses Of congress the
full facts OF the situation In a special
message Every preliminary was ar
ranged today for the action which
might follow such a course THIRTY
five thousand men of the army navy
and marine corps were put In readi-
ness for movement The First bri-
gade of the First army division, just
created in the military reorganization.
1000 men in Wl. the nucleus of an
eXpeditionary force Of $1,000, WAS put
on marching orders. ready To cntiain
for Newport News, Va. where army
transports wait under steam Between
$500 and 1000 marines nf the At
lantic batteship fleet and AT the
Guantanamo naval station were pre-
pared for immediate movement to
Vera cruz where they might he kept
aboard ship. ready for landing to
blaze an avenue of escape from Mex
leo city for foreigners. as they did at
Pekin.
Six dreadnOuahts, with approx
mately 5000 iackies and officers. now
are rushing under fun steam for Mex
lean ports, -four on the Atlantic and
two on the Pacific The first should
arrive az its destination Friday the
last, sunday Ten other crack fight
ing ships of the Atlantic battcship
fleet, swinging at anchor seventy
hours off Guantanamo, are ready for
sea They have Approximately 5000
Officers and men. Five other smnller
craft in Central American waters are
within call OF the wireless.
The nayys plans today show.
Georgia, l5,000-ton battleship, Cap
tain Marbury Johnson, due al Vera
Cruz Friday. Vermont, 1 ,00O-ton bat
tleship flagship of Rear Admiral
Fletcher, commanding the second di-
vision Of the Atlantic fleet. Captain
Harry Mel. r. Huse, due at Vera
Cruz Saturday. Nebraska, l5.000-ton
battleship. Captain Spencer S Wood
due al Vera cruz saturday Virginia,
5,000-ton hattleship flagship of
Rear Admiral Usher commandins
Third division, Captain John -. Me-
Donald. due at Tampico Saturday
Colorado, 14,O0O-ton armored cruiser
flagship OF Rear Admiral Southei
land, ommander-in-ehief of Pacific
fleet Captain William l. Gilmer, due
at Mazatlan Friday. South Dakota.
ID, ,000-ton armored cruiser Captain
Charles +. Plunkett. due al Acapulco
sunday
Within wireless call to supplement
this force are the cruiser Denver, cn
route to Acaiitla Salvador; transport
Buffalo, at C0rnto. Nicaragua, cruis
er Des Moines. en- route to Bluefields,
Nicaragua, and due there Saturday
gunboat Nashville, en- route to puerto
Cortez. Honduras, and gunbOat AM
napolis, en- route to Amapala, Hon
duras.
The battleshins Wyoming, Utah
Florida, Arkansas. North Dakota,
Michigan. South Carolina, Minnesota.
Idaho and Ohio. seventeen torpedo
boat destrOyers and many auxiliary
crews of the Atlantic fleet remain
with Rear Admiral Badger. COM
the Atlantic fleet al Guam
tanamo.
It is the feeling Of the administra-
tion that these plans embody an that
can be done I'd this time ara that Il
sufficient number of warhips has
been dispatched, not only to observe
but practically to Gre
ate neutral zones at ports where they
lie, in which Americans and other
foreigners ia Mexico may find safety
II had been suggested In some quar-
ters that 10 land troops In Mexico
VIII be az mhch Of an act Of war as
can be justified only with the ap.
proval Of congress.
Many military officers fail To sec
any distinction between such landing +
Of troops on foreign soil Ia case Of /
anarchy and the employment of ma I
rines for the same purpose, as was
done in Nicarasua recently.
70 meet the constitutional objection /
IN case the transports Were sent 10
Vera Cruz. IL is understood that the
officers would be in
,tructed not TO land troops except
upon congressional authorization.
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