The Arvada enterprise., 1913-08-07
WILSON AND SENATOR'S
CONFER OVER CHAOTIC CONO''
TONS IN MEXICO.
President and Secretary Of State Op'
pose and Some Senators urge
Limited Recognition Of Pres
ident Huerta.

Western Newspaper Union News Service,
shington.-Ambassad HeH'S
Lane Wilson's conference with neH'
hers Of the Senate committee on LOT
eign relations resulted in stronger
support for his plan to recognize the
Huerta government in Mexico thah
he has vet received. After three
| hours questioning of the ambassador
MANY members of the Senate com
mittee expressed the opinion tAaI
serious consideration should be given
| to his recommendations for a guard
ed and restricted recognition Oh
! Huerto. to bolster up the present
government until elections can Do
| held October 20.
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 SecFe-
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
CT Ambassador Wilson.
The conference at the capital dis
tinctly was a presentation of his side
of the case" by the ambassador TO
Mexico. AS a result of the generally
favora BILE impression he created it IS
believed the administration will be
urged to furnish the Senate commit
tee at once with its private intorma-
ton, 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
eminent dominated affairs through
out the republic and had driven the
constitutioralists out of many OF
their strongholds. including the
states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.
The president, it is understood,
has information considered reliable
by himself and Secretary Bryan,
which shows the Constitutionalist
strength to be greatly in excess of
and indicates that the Huerta gov
eminent dominates the situation only
in a small part of the republic.
The need for immediate reCogni.
ton of the Huerta government, as
laid before the committee by the
ambassador, was based upon the be
lief that President Huerta could not
long retain control of governmental
machinery under present conditions
Il 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
! sites.
Should the Huerta government fail
in the opinion of Ambassador Wilson
conditions in the republic would BIZ
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
1T the end of the days conference
probably will result in President vii
sons submitting the information II
his possession upon which he base
his belief that the recognition o
Huerta is not necessary to the pro
lection of American life and proper
ty.