New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-26
INTERVENTION TALK
RAPIDLY DYING OUT
President Confident There Will
Be No Developments in Mex
leo Compelling Action.
BELIEVE CRISIS IS OVER
State Department Officials Un-
derstand Huerta Has the
Situation Well in Hand
in the Republic.

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Feb. 25.-While reports
Of revolutionary activity and depreda-
tons in the northern part Of Mexico
are reaching the Department Of State.
advices from Mexico City indicate :ha.
General Huerta has the situation well
in hand and that normal conditions
are being rapidly restored.
State Department officials have
! adopted policy Of Withholding COM
men. on developments in Mexico. oe-
claring that Ambassador Wilson is
twatching ehe situation and probably Is
in a position to obtain impressions more
accurate than can be CLEANED at this
distance.
1t is denied that Ambassador Wilson
expresses the attitude of the admins
tration in his statement accepting the
Huerta version of the Madero murder.
and officials are careful to make IT
plain that his apparent friendship for
the new regime does not indicate that
official recognition has been accorded
the new government
The declaration was made to-day that
the question Of recognizing the Huerta-
| Daz administration has not yet been
taken up" This is taken to mean that
no action in that direction will be taken
by the Taft administration, but tina,
/ the whole problem will be passed TO
the Wilson administratio
Denials were made to-day at the
White House and the state, War and
Navy departments that President-elect
| Wilson had communicated either di
rectly or indirectly with the officials
regarding the Mexican situation.
Less Intervention Pressure.
! Pressure for intervention has some
what relaxed. and President Taft is
onfdent there will be no developments
compelling him to take that step. With
J the assassination of Madcro and SuareZ
II is believed the crisis In the situation
has passed and that the possibility OF
intervention Is remote
A band of about seventy armed ban
ditti sacked and partly burned the
Copper Queen mine, owned by the
American Shelters Securities Company.
near Vclardena, on Sunday night, ac
cording TO a message from the consul
at Durango. The American IN charge
of the property was beaten and es-
capped death only on the payment Of
$500 (Mexican).
| The consul also reports that about
two hundred volunteers have deserted
the garrison at Torreon, presumably
10 fight against the new government,
and that bridges on the Mexican Cen
trail Railroad have been burned north
and south of Torreon and between Tor
reon and Saltillo.
The attitude Of the rebels in the
| Durango district toward the Huerta
government is still open to question.
There is an increase in brigandage IN
the vicinity Of San Luis Potosi, the
consul at that place reports, but rail-
roads are operating to the south and
east Of the city.
Ambassador Wilson reports that John
Kenneth Turner, for whom fears were
entertained, is in no danger. John L.
Chapman is reported safe at Pearson,
and Consul Shanklin, at " co City.
reports that II. Il. Pond and family are
safe and that DR.. Harrison has left for
Dallas
Consul Garrett telegraphed from
Nuevo Laredo that he was attacked in
the street by a saloonkeeper because he
had caused the arrest of criminals who
were operating from the saloon and
were robbing Americans.
Senator Morris Sheppard Of Texas,
made rcpresen lions. to the State De-
partment to-day about what he con-
siders the unprotected condition Of
parts Of the Texas-Mexican frontier.
Senator Sheppard recently sent tele-
grams to the Texas county judges
lalong the Rio Grande from El Paso to
BROWNSVILLE and his statement to Sec
rotary Knox was based on the replies.
IThey contend Tor the necC OF more
troops in two sections. one of about
three hundred miles between Browns
| Vile and Laredo and the other Of al
most as great length between Del Rio
and FL Paso.
One thousand troops. the Senator
said, were required to protect that
country. 1t was believed that not so
many would be necessary along the
lower Rio Grande. but ii was repre-
scented that there were many rowing
bands OF Mexicans just across the river
on the Mexican side from Cameron.
Starr and Hidalgo counties and it was
feared some Of them might cross at any
time