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INTERVENTION IS
STOUTLY OPPOSED
Foreign Relations Committee
Discusses Move.
IS VERY DIFFICULT PROBLEM

Present Administration Passes Deli.
cate Complication to Successive One.
Madere Said to Be Unbalaneed-Ap-
pointment Of Huerta Not Thought
: End Of Mexican Trouble.
| BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
! Washington. Feb. 25. - [Special1 =
Prominent members Of the foreign re-
lations committee Of the senate have
been discussing the probable interven-
ton in Mexican affairs, and they do
not take kindly to the prospect. They
say that Intervention will not be
popular move for any administration.
Yet 1t would be almost impossible, it
was said. to prevent Intervention In
case an attack was made upon Ameri-
can citizens. The administration which
would hesitate to send IN army to
Mexico In that case would be severely
criticised. it was asserted.
. Within less than two weeks Of a
change Of administration the situation
II anything but pleasant to contem-
plate. II Intervention can be avoided
until after MIR. Wilson becomes presi
dent 1t may be possible to still further
postpone. II not prevent, such q move.
No doubt that every influence Mr. Bry-
an can hiring to bear will be against
Intervention. Without any intention
Of SO doing the present administra-
tion passes on to its successor very
difficult foreign complication.
Former Diax Adhersnts.
It Is plain that most Of the opposi-
tion to Madero was from the adher-
ents Of the old Diaz regime. This can
be ascertained by talking with the
friends Of the old dictator. many Of
whom are now in Washington and
some Of whom are found in congress.
/ One Of those prominent in public life
asserts that Madero's mind Is not
right and that he would have been in
no condition to rule the country even
II be had not been ousted. The SUB
stitution Of General Victoriano Huerta
temporarily In his place, it is thought.
may not have helped the solution
much.
| Ono on Mendell.
Congressman Mondell Of Wyoming
was trying to get al appropriation at
tached to a bill providing 100000 for
the destruction of predatory wild ami
mnls on national reserves and game
preserves. Congressman Roddenbery
OF Georgia. remembering Mondelrs
several days attack upon the river and
harbor bill. said:
"From the gentleman's statement It
u evident there is nothing for the gov
eminent to appropriate for in Wyom-
ing except predatory wild animals. ma
tional forests, sheep. army posts and
reservations. public buildings and the
salaries of able statesmen"
Az Mondell and his able Wyoming
senator's have secured something like
&26.O 100000 for the things enumerated,
the shot Of Roddenbery created con-
siderable amusement In the house.
Sims Sympathy.
Il was during the discussion Of the
anti-liquor bill that number of men,
bers expressed their adherence to the
general principles Of liquor reform. but
doubted the constitutionality or the
rights Of the government or something
Of that sort: anyway there was some
reason they could not support it.
a rise to express my sympathy"
said Congressman Sims Of Tennessee
when he addressed the house. 'for
those great constitutional lawyers who
t-~n the constitution as hobble skirt
and fall down every time they try to
20 forward and fall down every time
they try to 20 to the right or left. who
can only stand where they are until
they shrivel up or turn to a pillar of
salt, like Lots wife"
Texas and Kentucky.
! Sherley of Kentucky and Henry OF
Texas were having a little skirmish.
'Since l heard the gentleman from
Kentucky said Henry. Il do not
know that ought to let my assertion
stand. because infe: that Mr.. Sher-
ley Is a great lawyer and Will admit 1t
himself upon the slightest provoca-
tion."
A Real Temperance Lecture.
Few speeches on the Kenyon liquor
bill will be more quoted than that OF
Senator Webb of Tennessee. who Is
serving n short term from bis state.
He told how General Lee made the
army q temperance organization and
thereby strengthened it. He told about
The boys he had known who had be-
come great men. while those who had
become liquor drinkers. though bright
and intelligent. had fallen by the way
side.
1t have spent more than sixty years
In a boarding school for boys" said
this man, who did not look that old as
be was speaking. and then he told
about some Of the men who had gone
from his school. The brilliant Senator
Carmack was one Of his pupils.
The Way Champ Put It.
Lloyd Of Missouri had control of the
time on proposition in the house. and
Fitzgerald wanted time to ask Pujo of
investigation fame a few questions.
Lloyd yielded time to Pujo. "The gen.
tlemau from Louisiana" said Speaker
Clark. 'is recognized for ten minutes
In order to give Mr.. Fitzgerald an op-
portunity to catechise him."