The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-01
SECOND MESSAGE
ON MEXICO LIKELY
President Declared to Be Stand
ing for Independent Action
by United States.
UNLESS HUERTA IS DEPOSED
Complete Records From State
Department May Be Sent
to Congress.
UNLESS HUERTA IS DEPOsED
Especial to The rImes-Disn,,c, !,

INi'tSistt 10 Inc ItmeS- DiSDatch
washington, October 3l.-A well.ip
| formed official of the State D.n,rtno,,,
sara today. following conferences
~ inc white House on the Mexican
situation. that the next step of the nd
ihihistration would be n second mes
49, 90 CONGRESS on Mexico and, per-
haps its last one
rms official declared the President is
now standing for action and indepond-
cnt action, by the United States i'm Mnx-
leo. " 'N
These same officials do not hesitate
70 "a! that the conditions of to-day
IN MEXICO arc strikingly parallel with
NOSE which preceded the Spanish War.
in 1898 ""''
The only thing that would prevent
tne message 10 Congress, telling that
the conditions have become intoicrnh,o
To tho United states and foroi,rn -
mons. is that the Mexican people or
We McNican Congress shall take away
me executive power from Huerta and
ms immediate friends and lodge the
Lover IN some person or persons whom
president Wilson can recognizes
IL Is pointed out that action H.. ~,
president must refer to the use OF tho
arinS' ana the army cannot be used
without request to Congress I'm y
ncsslge and without express authority
from Congress.
Not Intervention.
What President Wilson has done and
what President Taft has done in the
way OF action has only been BIZ the
navy. and what the navy does is not
regarded as intervention either by
Congress or 10y the President
IT is believed that the President will
scnl this time with his message to
1iohsEess tho complete records from
thing il may have giving the View Of
!"reiSn powers. and 1t il admitted ,hat
Certain ,.ansrn nreiiminn,ary views Of foreign
months ago
The, data relating 10 the Mexican
Sltuntion wns today in the. hands OF
state Department, ana Of I!oaz Long.
Thief Of the Latin bureau of the state
we ?aroi"tn IN w hGtn of these officials
thelr information up To date, at the
request OF the President.
The state Department declared that
~ hnd nothing to show that American
citizens were in panic and were ily-
me win their pockethooks only out
y was pointed out that the President
hita advised Americans long ago to
leave Mexico City and elsewhere in tie
Counselor Moore also stated that tho
siaie bcPartinrnt had 40 knowledge
o. me visit Of the members OF the dip
ininittlc corps 10 John Lind ut Vera
Gruz or That Italy had started one OF
her b"ttleships To Mexican waters
Ut WAS, announced. however. TINT for
nounco 10 The United States that they
are sending or will send warsiips to
H!cNlco. III this matter Of courtesy
FRANCO has been the exception
War Department officials rclterato
inc statement to-day that the govern
mcnt Is not IN consultation with the
National Guard These officials saw
mat they caunot move the army ono
step across the border without tho au-
thori"ation of Congress. and that tho
.$atIonal Guard cannot he utilized by
81 presS without IA public declaration
OF the fact ON the floor of the House
o. Representatives.
lnfnntr! Ready to Embark
War officials say that III there wcro
an emergency at any particular place
III Mexico 1900 infantry are ready 10
cnntrk at Galveston and that the four
nattleshipS which left the United
states on Saturday would he in M.xi-
can waters by Monday night or Tues
DAY morning. Two thousand anon could
pc had from these four hattleships ANA
an unusual number from the OIL her
ships now in Mexican waters SO That
thc TWO brieadcs OF sailors and marines
Souid pc formed on the shore of Mex.
zee within less than ten days
In all the departments however tho
opinion prevails that President Wilson
meant what he said when he affirmed
that there would Toe no announcement
or action until after the rcsnl; OF the
elections IN Mexico became definitely
known. -