The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-26
PRESIDENT PREPARED
 TO READ HIS MESSAGE


 Washington, Aug. z6-AII hope that
 the Huerta government would recede
 from it's refusal to entertain the sug- gestfonS of the United States for peace
 in Mexico had practically vanished up to 10 o'clock today, and President
 Wilson prepared to appear before a Joint session of both houses of Con
 gress at 3 p. m.. to read his special
 message defining the policy of this
 movement in the present situation.
 It was the first time since George Washington s day in the White House
 that a President of the United States had determined to appear personally
 before Congress on a question of for eign policy.
 So closely was the Presidents mess
 age guarded that no copies were giv- en in advance to the press as is the
 almost invariable rule with such docu- ments.
 No action had been taken in Con gress for a joint session and it was necessary for the House to assemble at noon, hurriedly pass a resolution providing for the joint session, recess and await the action of the Senate. The expression of the American pol icy follows a long and unusual effort to persuade the de facto authorities 1 in Mexico City to suspend hostiIities, convoke a, constitutional election and secure freedom of choice by eliminat- Ing the present N1CIOTIucO E100E- ta.
 In view Of the rejection of those | suggestions, the United States has not felt compelled to impress it's ideas by arms but, having obtained the moral | support of the civilized world, the
 American government has decided to issue a policy of absolute non-interfer- ence. From the first it has realized l that only two alternatives of action
 were available, friendly nediation or
 armed intervention. The United States, 1 therefore, will remain a1oof, hoping moral suasion eventually will prevail.
 Arms will be denied all warning fac ttops. Americans will be assisted to leave trouble zones and the United l States will patiently await the esteb- 1 1ishment of 8 secure, stable and con i stitutiona1 government
 President Hayes, in 1878, saw fit to order General Ord to the border with power to cross into Mexico with Amer ican troops to suppress maraud1ng bandits who were plundering the prop erty Of Americans and retreating 1 across the Rio Grande. On that oc-
 casion the federal government had l been lax in giving border residents l protection but as troops were ordered south the Diaz government indignant 1 lv announced that the entrance of any | American soldiers into Mexico would
 be regarded as an invasion and act of war.
 The views of President Hayes as ex- pressed by Secretary Seward to John
 Foster, American minister to Mexico, and from which President Wilson takes precedent for his policy, were:
 The government of the United States in it's dealings with the Mexi- can republic has aimed to pursue not merely a just but a generous and friendly course. While earnest to guard and protect the rights of its own citizens and the safety of its own territory, it does not seek to in tervene in political contests or changes of administration. It is accustomed to accept and recognize the results of popular choice in Mexico and not to scrutinize closely the regularity or | irregularity of the methods by which Presidents are inaugurated- In the present case it waits before recog- nizing General Diaz as the President of Mexico until it shall be assured that his election is approved by the Mexican people and that his administration IS
 possessed of staility to endure and or disposition to comply with the rule
 of international comity in the oohga-
 tions of treaties.
 Such recognition, if afforded, would
 imply something more than mere
 formal assent It would imply a be-
 lief that the government so recognlz-
 ed will faithfully execute it's duties
 and. observe the spirit of it's treaties.
 The recognition of a President in Mexi-
 co by the United States has an inn
 portant moral influence which, as yon
 ernlained, is appreciated at the capi-