Gilpin observer., 1913-08-07
WILSON AND SENATORS
CONFER OVER CHAOTIC coNpI.
TIoNS IN MEXICO.
President and Secretary Of State op.
pose and Some Senators Urge
Limited Recognition Of Pres
ident Huerta.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Amba Henry
Lane Wilson's conference with mem
bers of the Senate committee ON for
eign relations resulted in stronger
support for his plan to recognize the
Huerta government in Mexico than
he has yet received. After a three
hours questioning Of the ambassador
many members Of the Senate com
mittee expressed the opinion that
serious consideration should be given
to his recommendations for guard
ed and restricted recognition Of
Huerto, to bolster up the present
government until elections can be
held October 26.
The determination Of the govern
ment's Mexican policy does not rest
with the Senate, however, and there
was nothing in the situation to ,indi
cate that President Wilson or Secre-
tary Bryan had wavered in their de-
termination not to recognize the Huer.
to government at present.
The matter presented to the Senate
committee by the ambassador already
had been laid before the President and
secretary Of state, and their attitude
against recognition had been based up.
on information from other confidential
sources, many at variance with those
Of Ambassador Wilson.
The conference at the capital dis
tinctly was presentation of "his side
of the case" by the ambassador to
Mexico. AS result of the generally
favorable impression he created it is
believed the administration will be
urged to furnish the Senate commit
tee at once with its private informa-
tion. gathered by William Bayard
Hale. Reginald F. Del Vale and by
consular agents at various points.
Two principal points of difference
have been developed between Ambas-
sador Wilson and the administra-
ton. These relate to the present
control of Huerta over Mexican af
fairs.
Ambassador Wilson told the Sen
ate committee that the Huerta gov.
ernment dominated affairs through.
out the republic and had driven the
constitutionalists out of many OF
their strongholds. including the
states Of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.
The president, 1t is understood.
has information considered reliable
by himself and Secretary Bryan.
which shows the constitutionalist
strength to be greatly in excess OF
the estimates of Ambassador Wilson,
and indicates that the Huerta gov
ernment dominates the situation only
in small part of the republic.
The need for immediate recogni-
tion of the Huerta government, as
laid before the committee by the
lief that President Huerta could not
long retain control of governmental
machinery under present conditions.
1t is claimed the government is run
ming behind monthly financially and
that American recognition is neces-
sary to enable Huerta to secure cred
it for immediate governmental neces-
stiles.
Should the Huerta government fail.
in the opinion of Ambassador Wilson,
conditions in the republic would be
worse than at present and American
lives and property would be in great
er danger.
The fact that many members OF the
senate committee took the same view
at the end of the days conference
probably will result in President VIII
sons submitting the information IN
his possession upon which he bases
his belief that the recognition of
Huerta is not necessary to the pro-
lection of American life and proper
ty.