New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-08
,ected to see the Secretary of State

pected to see the Secretary Of State
soon.
The report from Mexico City that
Huerta is about to make formal neg
alive reply to Americas most recent
representations, declaring that the
United States has no right TO MAKE
such demands and that DE has no right
20 accede to them, aroused great IN
terest in Washington. 1t is considered
highly probable that Huerta is framing
such reply and that this is the cause
of Mr.. Linds trip to Mexico City
1t develops that the report in the
newspapers Of the killing of an Amer-
can named Weniger at Torreon re-
Gently is untrue. He was SWISS
MIR. Weniger was one of the reheI
marty that went from Mexico City 10
Torreon with DR.. Ryan, an American
They carried supplies and medicines 10
the foreigners who were STRANDED IN
Torreon.
II was said at the Navy Department
to-day that no orders had been sent 10
marines TO be ready for service IN
Southern chimes. Such a report had
come from Portsmouth, \. II. me
marines are preparing for service at
Culebra and Guantanamo in January
when there will be advance base ana
revolutionary exercises, but that, 1t is
officially asserted, has nothing TO do
with the Mexican situation.
Representative Richard Bartholdt,
consistent advocate Of peace, intro
duced a resolution to-day asking the
Foreign Affairs Committee of the
House to investigate the origin of the
published story that this government
recently delivered an "ultimatum' TO
Mexico. Mr.. Bartholdt asserts that he
greatly deplores the publication OF such
stories. as they may infiame the pub
lie mind and bring on international
trouble. Mr.. Bartholdt's resolution
reads:
Whereas. The American as well as
the foreign press recently published
simultaneous report TO the effect that
ultimatum to Mexico. demanding the
immediate resignation of the present
de facto President of that republic
and.
Whereas, The truth of that report
was Immediately denied by the Secre-
tary of State; therefore, be 1t
Resolved. That the Committee on
Foreign Affairs be directed to cause an
investigation to be made with view
10 ascertaining the source of the news
declared by the Secretary of State 10
be erroneous and fictitious. and to re-
port the facts to the House without
undue delay"
The gunboat Annapolis arrived to-
day at Santa Rosalia. Lower Califor-
MIA, where she is guarding, at the re-
quest of the French Foreign Office, a
band of French colonists.
Berlin dispatches referring to a plan
to recall Minister Miguel Covarrubius.
representative Of Mexico at st. Peters
burg, that he might be appointed Min
lister of Foreign Affairs and succeed to
the provisional Presidency in success
sion to Huerta caused more than lit
tie interest among diplomatists and
other observers of the situation.
Covarrubius recently resigned but
was asked to continue at his post I'M
til a success n was appointed. He is a
relative of Juan Sanchez Azcona, pri-
vate secretary 10 the late President
Madero, who is now connected with the
Carranza movement, and is said by
Constitutionalist agents here TO be one
of the few men who would be accepta-
BILE to them while regular elections were
being held.