Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-28
CRISIS IN MEXICO |
. NOT YET REACHED.
SAYS PRESIDENT.
Ambassador Wilson Denies He
Has Submitted or Even
Written Plans.
SAYS CONSUL EDWARDS
MISREPRESENTED STATUS
Many Americans in Grave
Peril, Which Official Is Said
to Have Mininnized.

WASHINGTON, July 2s.-Presi-
dent Wilson does not believe the
public mind in the United States
is excited over the situation in
Mexico nor is he convinced that a
crisis has been reached in the revo-
luton itself.
This information was obtained in
official circles today with an authors
tative denial that any proposal
looking toward a cooperation be-
tween American military forces and
the Mexican government for thds
restoration of peace had been sug-j
gested.
Those who approached the presi-
dent today on the Mexican situation
found him disinclined to discuss 1t,
as later he was to confer with Am-
bassador Henry Lane Wilson
Secretary Bryan arranged to see
the president before the conference.
The secretary also continued his ret
icence on Mexican affairs
Cooperation story Unfounded.
! 1t was learned at the White House.
however, that reports crediting AM
| bassador Wilson with having advo-
Gated a set of proposals contemplate
ing military cooperation with Mexi-
co or Intervention were unfounded-
The president has received from Ann
bassador Wilson a historical account
| of events In Mexico in the last three
years.
The ambassador himself declared
i l.. i - -.
remedies on the situation to any one
and had not even put on paper the
plans he had in mind. He had re-
served these, he said for his per-
sonal interview with the president.
Contradictory information has
reached the Washington government
regarding the stability of the Huerta
administration. 1t was said today to
be a question of reliability of infor-
nation.
Won't Say Whom They Believe
Officials declined to state which re-
ports were being credited. 1t was said,
however, that in the last ten days
there had been little or no change In
.the status OF affairs In the southern
republic.
! Charles B. Dixon, the American
immigration inspector who was shot
in the back, supposedly by Mexican
| federal soldiers last Saturday after-
noon, was released from the Juarea
Hospital without bond yesterday,
| following demands made by the
United States government Two de-
mands were made-one through the
| Charge dAffaires at Mexico City,
and the other through Consul Thom-
as D. Edwards at Juarez.
| At the White House 1t was said
the United States would pursue a
course of diligent inquiry into the aft
fair and would insist on summary
action toward the guilty.
Bryan Seeks Information.
| Secretary Bryan after call at the
White House sought information
| through a conference with President
Brown of the Mexican National rail-
ways on traffic conditions in Mexico
and their relation to the paralyzed
condition of commerce and industry.
| Latest reports from the embassy in
Mexico City have reflected the finan-
oial situation.
/ The battleship South Carolina arr
rived at Vera Cruz today to resume
patrol duty after having been at Gall
| venton, Tex, to give officers and men
shore leave. The battlship New
Hampshire is en- route from Vera
Cruz to Galveston to give officers and
men shore leave. The gunboat Wheel
| ing reporting from Frontera makes
no mention of disorders there.
| Senator Pomerene called at this
State department to press for atten-
| ton to the case of Bernard Mcdonald,
under sentence of death at Chihuahua
Senator Pomerene was told that the
department had already taken ag-
gresive steps for the relief of Mr..
Mcdonald, but that no report had
| been received since the embassy at
Mexico City and the consulate at
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