Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-08-09
MIsslSsIPPIAN DECLARES LOBBY
IN WASHINGTON WANTS CON-
FLIcT WITH MEXICO AND IS
USING LOTS OF MONEY
NOT ALL MEXICAN Cash.
SENATE ELIMINATES POLITICS
FROM DISCUSSION; SMITH COM
MlTTEE's REPORT TO BE PRE-
sENTED MONDAY


Washington, Aug. 9.-Another
/ threatened outburst in the senate ever
/ the Mexican situation today was
squelched by emphatic disapproval
ircm republicans and democrats who
joined in declaring that the senate
should not by discussion lend weight
u any efforts to intensity feeling in
Mexico.
After Senator Smith of Michigan
had opened the subject by declaring
that the constitutional junta here had
the ear of the state department and
was influential in bringing about the
resignation of Ambassador Wilson,
Senator Williams Of Mississippi re-
piled with the charge that there
was an organized syndicated effort"
to bring about war with Mexico. He
declared there was money behind it
and not all Mexican money"
Senators must hold themselves in
check" said Senator Williams. Gas
we read many of the metropolitan
papers, there is a sameness Of state
ment, expression and opinion in GER
tain Of them that shows syndicated
money effort behind it. 1t is time we
should pause. don't feel brave
when talking about war with Mexico,
a country disrupted, broken and torn
with dissension. This question is too
important to be discussed here for
any personal advantage; for any small
advantage to any persons"
Senator Smith, after announcing he
would make to the senate Monday
report from the special committee
which worked along the Mexican bor-
der last year yielded to expressions
OF approval and agreed to submit the
report first to the foreign relations
committee.
Senators Crawford and Kenyon
joined demands in declaring the SEN
ate should not by its discussion lend
weight to the efforts to intensity the
Mexican feeling.
Senator Crawford expressed the
highest confidence in President Will
son and the state department saying
that they were entitled to the sen
ate's united, sympathetic, loyal and
complete support.
fT regret to observe any disposition
or evidence of a desire to hinder or
make more difficult the work Of the
foreign relations committee" said he.
THE administration may commit er
ror; probably it will. 1t win have to
be subjected to criticism; that is in
evitable. But the senate, as a body
which must participate in the settle
ment of international questions. has
duty that compels it to rise above
partisan criticism.
Senator Williams declared Senator
Crawford's cool, dispassionate state-
ment would be applauded7 by all
Americans
Senator Williams declared he be-
lieved an organized effort was being
made to bring on war with Mexico.
"In my deliberate opinion" he said,
there is now an organized and syn
dicated effort to bring about war be-
tween the United States and Mexico,
organized with a lobby here, and Or
ganized and syndicated through news
papers, with money behind it, and
not all Of it Mexican money.
/ Senator Smith, in opening the de-
bate, said that S. G. Hopkins, wash
ington lawyer, as representative Of the
constitutionalist forces "had the ear
Of the state department and had
much to do with the removal of Am.
bassador Wilson
Senator Smiths statements we're
part Of a general charge that the con
eitutionalists with an organized junta
in Washington were conducting a pro-
pagaranda to influence government ac,
tion.
After Senator Smiths speech there
was an apparent attempt by democrat
ic leaders to shue off discussion. Sen.
ator Swanson. however. sharply as.