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wilson STIRRED
1OAj;Tj)i. MEXICO
Foreign Powers Insist on Know
ing Where u. S. Stands.
MAY HALT bHYAh'S TRIP
Wilson Adrlinistration May Now Be
Compelled t. Recognize the Huerta
Government.

Washington. July II. - President
Wilson, after a cOnierrn with Sec
retarv Bryan over the latest aspects
OF the MeNican situation presented by
the Inquiries OF foreign powers, par,
ticularly Germany. il is said. as TO the
attitued OF the Emitted States, ordered
Ambassa dor Henry Lane Wilson al
Mexico City to proceed to Washington
Immediately for a conference.
Ambassador Wilson will hurry north
on either the batleship Michigan OF
the Louisiana from Vera Cruz, If any
delay would be entailed by waiting for
a commercial steamer.
A dispatch from Mexico City an
nounced that the ambassador would
start for Washington at once.
Officials at Washington believe that
the almost total interruption OF rail
road traffic between Mexico City and
the United States Will force the am
bassador to make his trip by water
He is not expected TO reach Washing
ton before July 23 at the earliest.
The announcement OF the action
taken was made by Secretary Bryan
as follows
Ambassador Wilson has been ask
ed to come 10 Washington to confer
personally with the president regard
ing the situation in Mexico. During
his absence the embassy will be left
in charge of the first secretary, Mr.
O'Shaunessy.
1t is believed in official and diplo
matte circles in Washington that ar
important announcement of the attl
tude OF the United States in the pend
ing situation will follow the ambasSa
doris conferences with the president
and Secretary Bryan.
The presidents action following
closely the unofficial announcement
that some OF the foreign powers, thai
already have recognized the Huerta
government were pressing for some in
dication of this governments attitude
toward the continued disorders II
Mexico leads to that belief.
Secretary Bryan positively declined
to add any inforna ION TO his bare an
call to Washington.
1t is assured that the adminiStra
ton desires to learn from the ambas
sad0r directly what Influences actual
ed the foreign diplomatic representa-
tives in Mexico when they joint!
agreed to address their governments
with what Amounted to a formal com
plant against the attitude of the Unit
ed States in its relations with the
Huerta regime which it thus far ha!
shown no inclination to recognize.
President Wilson has kept an opeI
mind on the subject and is though
to feel himself bound to adhere to the
policy announced early in his admin
istration OF lending moral encourage
ment only to such governments II
rfatia America as were founded upor
constitutional law and practice.
1t is. understood nevertheless. thai
he is ready to give due weight to any
representations Ambassador Wilson
may care to make.
The president has had the bench
of private reports from several of hi:
personal friends who have travelled il
Mexico recently but they We're unof
fetal and not sufficient to form the
basis of formal attitude if there were
to be any change in policy.
Secretary Bryan was asked whether
the coming OF Ambassador Wilson tt
Washington would change his project
ed lecture tOUr.
"The newspaper men, he replied
Knight have assumed that my lee
ture dates would not interfere will
businessa instead of assuming tina
they would All my lecture dates
were made subject TO cancellation"