Webster City freeman., 1913-11-11
President Spends Ali Day Sunday
In Discussing Next
Step.
EMBARGO MIGHT BE RAISED.
Several Senators Advise Letting
Carranza Have Plenty Of
Arms.

Contrary to his usual custom Of put
ting aside official business on Sun
day, President Wilson worked all
day yesterday on the Mexican prob
lem. He summoned Senators Borah
and McCumber, republican members
of the senate foreign relations COM
mittee, yesterday afternoon and dis
cussed the situation with them for
almost two hours. He had a confer
ence with Secretary Bryan last
night. ::
From the way the presidents cal
lers talked, the situation is rapidly
approaching a climax and some def
mite developments are expected i'm
mediately. Officially no copy Of the
statement of Provisional President
Huerta to the diplomatic corps Sat
urday night had been received, nor
had the formal reply to the Ameri-
can demand that Huerta resign, ar
rived. =" That the United States had
given Huerta until tonight to reply
was the general belief in official cir
cles. = "r..
The next step, in the view of some
of those who have talked recently
with the president, probably will be
an announcement by the United
States, not only reiterating it's refus-
al to recognize the Huerta govern
ment, but making it clear to the
world that it also shall refuse to rec
ognize any acts of the new congress
soon to be convened by Huerta.
The Washington government, it is
understood, will not undertake to
guarantee any business or CONNER
cial relations with the Huerta reg
ime, and will probably stand by any
legally constituted government which
in the future may repudiate the
loans, or transactions Of the present
government.
Senators McCumber and Borah de-
clined to talk of what the president
had told them in their conference
yesterday, but they expressed their
own views later. Senator Borah told
the president in his opinion even
should Huerta accede to the Ameri-
can request for his resignation at
this time there would be no respon-
sible person or persons to establish
a government. The Idaho senator
suggested, if the embargo on arms
were lifted the constitutionalists
probably could take possession of the
reins of government in Mexico City
in about thirty days and that the
United States should give them an
opportunity to establish themselves.
Should they fail, he believes, the
United States might consider other
steps:
Senator McCumber said he be-
lieves the embargo on arms should
be raised, but realized the position
of the president. in being unwilling
to send munitions of war into the re-
bellion-torn republic. The Huerto
regime, he said, was in such fnan-
cial distress that it would collapse of
its own accord.
: Senator Bacon, chairman of the
foreign, relations committee, said
last night he believed a majority of
the members of that committee
were in favor of raising the embar-
go. To the suggestion that raising
the embargo would be inhuman.
some senator's have declared that
such an act, on the other hand.
would put an end to the revolution
in a short period and spare the
country the bloodshed of an indefin-
itely prolonged struggle.
No developments from Mexico City
were announced from the state de-
partment or White house. Press dis
clared the presidential election null
and void left doubt in the minds of
some officials as to whether the cleo
tion of members of congress also
would be so considered by Huerta.
The United States government al
ready has made it clear in its repre-
sentations to Huerta that it believes
the members of the new congress not
to have been legally chosen.
" The president began comforting
with members of the foreign rela-
tions committee at the suggestion of
Chairman Bacon. The discussions
thus far. it was learned, have been
mostly an Interchange of views, the
president relating to the senators
what has been done in the last week