Arizona republican., 1913-11-11
STILL CONSIDERING
 EMBARGO MATTER
Question Is Raised Wheth-
 CT President Could By
 Official Act Allow EX- portatiOn of Arms or Whether Congress Should
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

ASSOCIATED PRESS DlSPATCHI
 WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. To- Developments in the Mexican situation today emphasized the determination of the Washington government to re fuse to recognize any acts of the new Mexican congress. It also showed that President Wilson is considering the question of permitting the eN- portation of arms to all the factions in the southern republic.
 Secretary Bryan had long con ference with SenOr Algara, charge d'affaires of the Mexican embassy. It is understood that MT. Bryan said the United States will consider the election of the congressman as in valid as the voting for the president and vice president The secretary summoned the ministers of five Cen tral American countries and outlined to them what had been done by the United States in it's diplomatic par leys with the Huerta government. Later he also announced that he had been in communication with the dip- lomatic representatives of the Euro pean countries, and informed them in general terms of the steps taken by the United States thus far.
 It is reported that some of these diplomats transmitted long dispatches to their home governments, describ- ing the situation as approaching closer a complete break between the United States and Mexico than at any time since the Mexican problem became troublesome. The state department made public Huerta's statement to the diplomatic corps in Mexico City at midnight last Saturday, the burden of which was that the presidential elections would be declared null and void but that the newly elected mem bers of congress would be installed and the national legislature would soon resume the legislative powers which General Huerta had seen fit to assume during the interim between the arrest of his deputies for sedi- ton. and the induction of the new members of congress.
 The trip to the Arizona border of William Bayard Hale, on previous o@.- casions of personal representative of President Wilson in missions in Mexico, and the wide discussion of the question of raising the embargo on arms has excited considerable interest. Secretary Bryan. when questioned about Hales status, said merely, MT. Hale is at Tucson"
 He was unwilling to be pressed fur ther Hale's visit to the border is thought to be one of the unofficial ways by which the Washington gov ernment hopes to get information about the strength and purposes of the con stitutiOnalists movement and perhaps the efficiency of raising the embargo on arms.
 Bryan denied incidentally that any negotiations are being conducted with the constitutionalists by the United States government The question of exporting arms to Mexico raised a point in official circles as to whether the president, by executive authority could let down the bars or whether action by congress would be necessary. The president told a caller that he had no present intentions of saying any thing to congress on the Mexican sit uation, as he is waiting for things to take definite shape as a result of last weeks diplomatic parleys.