Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-15
PENROSE ASKS
ABOUT HALE'S
MISSION
DEBATE ON MEXICAN SITUATION
STARTED IN SENATE TODAY BY
RESOLUTION CALLING ON PRESI.
Dent FOR INFORMATION ON
STATUS OF VIM. B. HALE.
SENSATIONS PROMISED
IN SENATE NEXT week

Washington, ID. c., Aug. 15.-Sen
ator Penrose forced another debate or
the Mexican situation today by intro
ducing a resolution calling on Presi
dent Wilson to inform the senate
whether William Bayard Hale is In
Mexico City as the agent of any eX
ecutive department official Of the gov
ernment, if so, by what authority he
was appointed and what compensation
he has been given.
The White House explanation OF
Hales presence in Mexico has been
that he was there as a personal friend
of President Wilson, awarding infor-
nation.
Senator Penrose declared that he
had no desire to further complicate a
delicate situation or to indulge IN
iingoism He referred. however, to
dispatches from Mexico telling Of the
serious plight of Shirley c. Hulse.
son-in-law of Lieutenant Governor Ray
nclds of Pennsylvania. who, with his
wife and little daughter. are believed
to be in danger from revolutionists
rear the city of Chihuahua. The SEN
ator declared that unless the mission
of John Lind developed a marked
change in conditions IN Mexico. he
would address the senate next week,
laying before it certain information he
did not disclose today.
Things are getting pretty close to
home" declared Senator Penrose
"and are becoming serious when Am
erican citizens are molested and their
lives and property endangered Ped
sonally am willing to wait a few days
to see if the mysterious mission OF
Lind produces any tangible result. In
the event that it does not, early next
week | expect to address the senate
on conditions in Mexico and will offer
a resolution which, / hope, will go
someway toward asserting the dignity
of the Tn ted States and its firm in
tention to protect the lives and prop
erty of Americans in Mexico"
Mr.. Penrose asked Chairman Bacon
of the foreign relations committee, IT
he would reveal the status of Hale.
''I decline to answerr," replied Sen
ator Bacon.
Declining to answer will not con-
tinue to be satisfactory to the senate
or to the people of the country" re-
joined Senator Penrose.
Hale, Mr.. Penrose declared had
been active in Mexico City, convey
ing the impression that he is the rep
resentative of President Wilson, and
had been in conference with Mr.. Lind
since the envoy's arrival.
Senator Penrose added that he had
known Hale several years and that he
left Ardmore, Pennsylvania, about !
thirteen years ago under circum'
stances which he need not more than
mention"
1.-THE sooner Mr. Hale's connections
are severed the better for the unfor-
tunate Americans now in Mexico he
concluded.
The resolution calling for informa. |
ton went over until tomorrow
Senator Lodge charged that the
Mexican question as a party affair. His
statement, made in bitter terms, fol-
lowed a declaration by Senator Bacon
that force meant war"
Everything is being done that cah
be DONE" Senator Bacon declared.
short Of using actual force, and force
means war and war is not u thing to
be rushed into hurriedly and rashly,
not to be encouraged by Incorporate
speeches at this time. Attempts by
Democratic leaders to stop the Mexi-
can discussion and turn the senate
back to the tariff bill brought an out
burst from Senator Lodge.
II want to support the president in
every possible way on this Mexican
matter" he cried, addressing the
Democrats. 'He is not your presi-
dent alone; he is the president of the
American people, as much mine as
yours But want no partisanship in
the handling of this serious situation.
You can't have -partisanship on
party lines, and that is what you are
trying to do.
"You can do nothing worse than to
exercise the power of your majority |;
on this Mexican question. This ques-
tion cannot be disposed of that way.
1t cannot be dismissed with smile
and a sneer." ]
Another resolution by Mr. Penrose ,
calling for consular reports as to hap '
penings at Durango since January /; {
one by Senator Poindexter calling for
information as to measures to protect '
Americans in Mexico, and one by Sen.
ator Brandegee calling for joint in {
vestigation by the house and senate
naval committees to determine what I
Sc in the navy was being made {
s That naval program was under t
.H Iteration, were introduced. t
/ demand that the senate should t
pass or consider the resolutions
the foreign relations committee t
n opportunity to take them p
lator Bacon urged that all posi- d
uDport he given to the president. y