Arizona republican., 1913-02-18
Taft Sends Two Thousand
 Marines to Guantanamo; Though he Has But Sev- enteen More Days as
 President, Taft Will act
DOES NOT WANT TO
 LEAVE TT TO WILSON
Night Meetings of Cabinet
 Discontinued as They May Lead to Fear of In tervention in Mexico and
 Precipitate Trouble There
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHI

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Two thousand marines from various bar racks along the Atlantic coast were ordered today to Cuba to be held in readiness for possible use in Mexico Half of them leave tomorrow night. The Philadelphia army transport, Mead, with the second thousand will start from Norfolk, with the naval transport Prairie which will proba- bly clear Wednesday.
 The marines will be drawn from barracks at Norfolk, Washington, Philadelphia, Newport, Portsmouth, Boston and Charleston.
 Guantanamo is the present ob- jective point of the marines, who will be established in camp in connection with the fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Bagger. Whether these men will get farther than Guam tananamo will depend on Mexican de- velopments.
 The marine brigade will be com- manded by Col. Lincoln Karmany. the first regiment by Col. George Barnett of Philadelphia, with Lieutenant Colonel John A. La Jeune of New York, second in command, and the second regiment, sailing from Nor folk by Joseph H. Pendleton, who was active in the recent activity of Ameri- can marines in Nicaragua. Lieu- tenant George H. Long. who also in Nicaragua, will be second in conn., 1 mand.
 The withdrawal of a large number of marines means, it is said, that a branch of the defensive service of the I country will probably be obliged to ! go entirely unrepresented in the inau- gural parade.
 l President Taft is plainly worried 1 by the fact, although he has only seventeen more days to be president. that the situation in Mexico shows little sign of becoming less trouble some The president has no desire to leave for Wilson the settlement of this country's relations with Mexico. but is decidedly opposed to taking measures himself unless on extreme provocation. such as the wholesale murder of Americans to drive him to it.
 The president told friends today he realized what a difficult thing it would be for a new administration to gather up the reins of government anu ulluti SldIlu SObNiNloliS HI NAN southern republic in a few weeks or for months He is of the opinion it will take at least six months for Will 1 son and his cabinet to grasp the details of diplomatic negotiations and of troops and battleship movement that he and the cabinet have ac quired by two years close study of the condition that never ceased to ' confront thn11 He informed his an- visers if intervention is demanded by congress the last day he is in office he will not hesitate to concur. But he hopes he will not have to act then Land leave the new president. mex perienced in administration to strug
 gle with the real problem.
 Night sessions of the cabinet to consider late developments from Mex
 leo probably will not be held in the future. Several of the presidents cabinet suggested to him today that
 these meetings might be misunder stood throughout the United States and that in Mexico their significance might
 be magnified
 Further precautionary measures
 were taken to safeguard the lives and
 property of Americans in Mexico, so
 far as could be done. without actual
 ly dispatching military force to the country. The problem has been great , ly complicated by the act of the Ma
 dero government, possibly without
 the actual direction of Madero in
 sending broadcast through Mexico news that armed intervention from
 America is about to occur. in the
 hope of inducing malcontents to drop their temporary quarrel with the government and respond to the pa
 triotic call to repel a foreign inva
 sion
 For this reason the state depart ment was obliged late today to cable
 and telegraph directly to all Ameri- cans in consular offices who could be reached. an unequivocal denial of any intention on the part of the United States to send troops into Mexico or any change in policy on the part Of this government.
 It is felt the safety of Americans , scattered throughout Mexico is jeo- l pardized by these false reports. While Tafts message to Madero referred = to export orders given the land forces | in Mexico as inaccurate" it is mo- ? ticeable no pledge is held out as to 3 the future nor was any engagement r in the ordinary preparatory measures
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