The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-08-21
To Pay for Projecting Amer
lean Lives and Property
in Mexico.
WILL ACT AS POLICE
Resolution Says Of the Troops
and Be in No Way Hos
tile to the Factions.

suY ASSOCIATED rrErs1
WASHINGTON, Aug 21.-senator
Penrose introduced today resolution
recurring President Wilson to take the
necessary steps to place United States
troops in Mexico to protect American
lives and property, such a step to be
decreed by the Senate as in no way
an unfriendly act toward Mexico.
Senator Penrose introduced also an
amendment to the deficiency bill for
an appropriation Of $4,000, 900 to be
expended as the president might di-
rect for the protection Of the lives OF
Americans in Mexico. He made no
effort to obtain Immediate action up
on his resolution and at the sugges-
ticn of Senator Lafollette II went
over a day under the Senate rules.
The amendment for the emergency
appropriation, Senator Penrose ex-
planned, was similar to provision in
an appropriation act just prior to the
Spanish wa and he asked that the
amendment lie on the table in the
Senate until the bill comes over from
the House.
For Protection of Lives.
THE administration has asked for
100000 to take Americans out of
Mexico" said Senator Penrose after
announcing he would not discuss his
resolution. Il think they have a
right to be in Mexico. / think they
have right to be there under our
treaties and under international law.
We have no right to attempt to break
up their homes and occupations.
Rather than appropriate this pittance
OF 100000 to make this wholesale re-
moval l would appropriate this $685.
100000 TO keep them where they are
and to protect them
The Penrose resolution draws at
tention to the Monroe doctrine and To-
the possibilities that continued de-
struction OF property in Mexico would
Involve international complications
and Intervention by European ma
tons"
Suggests Police.
The resolution especially declares
that it is not the policy Of the gov
eminent OF the United States to rec
ognize or assist any faction or fac
tions in the Republic of Mexico" and
proposes that the president of the
United States be required to take such
steps as are necessary to place
sufficient number of United States
troops as a constabulary in the Re-
public of Mexico wherever and at
such points as in his opinion they
may be needed properly to police and
protect citizens OF the United States
and their property and ii is hereby
declared that such employment of
United States troops for the protec-
ton of lives and property of Ameri-
can citizens is not made with any in
tent that such policing and protection
shall be construed as an act of hos
tillty or unfriendliness toward the
Mexican nation"
- do not want to stir this mat
ter up unduly,' said Senator Pen
rose. There is hardly day that
am not appealed to by people from my
state urging action TO furnish pro-
lection TO Americans in Mexico. l.
is not a sentiment. it is a condition.
Senator Nelson declared it seemed
unwise at this jurcture to agitate
the question. Such agitation"
said he, is an embarrassment to the
president, who Is doing everything
he can to bring about peace. This
resolution should 90 to the commit
tee on foreign relations and not be
used here to exploit speeches Of an
embarrassing character to the ad-
ministration. We agitate interven-
tiaa and Intervention means war,
We should do everything we can to
avoid war and give Mexico the same
chance we asked for and were given
In the Civil war"
Senator Penrose replied that po'
litical intervention vas not contem-
plated and that American citizens
demanded pes:ce protection in Mex
leo particularly along the border
such as had been Afforded in Mica
rae1a and other Central American