Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-11-03
Foreign Relations Com
mittes Head Says Peo-
pie Will Approve.
NOT AFTER TERRITORY
Senator Replies to Intimation
That Administration Has
Intervention in View.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 3.-A declar-
alton that the policy of the administra-
ton in the Mexican situation would
meet the approval of the American
congress and the American people"
was made in the senate today by
Chairman Bacon of the foreign rela-
tions committee. Bacon was speaking
of a letter read into the record by
Senator Bristow, who said he had re-
ceived it from "a friend of 80 years
standing" in Mexico. The writer urg-
ed the United States to keep hands
off and allow the Mexican factions to
adjust their own difficulties; condemn
ed the neutrality policy which keeps
thousands of American soldiers on
the Mexican border" and declared that
if the United States intervened by mil
itary force it would mean only con-
quest and acquisition of Mexican ter
ritory by the loss of hundreds of lives
and hundreds Of millions of money
Il think l can assure the senate,
said Bacon, that nothing is further
from the thought of the people or of
the officials of the United States than
conquest or acquisition of Mexican
territory. ] can give assurances that
the matter is having most careful con-
sideration, and whatever may be done
will meet with the approval of the
American cQRgEasssaRd the American
people,
HUERTA MUST RETIRE.
Though every Or. .cial of the United
| States government has been cautioned
! to maintain absolute silence while the
| plans of the Washington administra-
ton for solving the Mexican problem
are worked out, it became known
! from many well-informed sources that
a supreme effort is being made to
/ bring about Gen. Victoriano Huerta' S
retirement from the provisional presi-
/ dency.
/ The success of any plan for a con-
stitutional election that may be pro,
posed, especially insofar as it would
contemplate participation by the con.
stitutionalists. depends, in the view OF
the United States government, on the
! elimination of Huerta. Huerta prom
! listed to turn over the executive pow
J er, after the election, and the Amer
[ lean government is now waiting fol
some declaration on his part. Should
Huerta retire in favor of another. there
is a possibility that the United States
may attempt to compose the situation
through his successor. But if the elec
tions are declared invalid by Huerts
so that he may continue in power, the
Washington administration, it is point
ed out, would look upon such procla
nation as an evidence of the incapac
ity of the provisional authorities Il
conduct an election and might come
forth with definite proposals to assis
in rehabilitating the governmental ma
chinery of the country.
ARE BREAKING 1T GENTLY.
Just now, the future policy of tn
United States is being quietly and in
formally made known in diplomatic
circles abroad and there are inumd
tions that before many days foreigl
/, governments generally will hav'
been apprised of the Amer
can attitude. 1t is unlikely tha
J there will be any publication o
the American policy until Europe ha
been formally sounded out. What tn
J United States desires, it is believed, i
that the powers shall indicate thei
{ support Of its effort TO solve the prot
lem, so that it may approach the Me,
5 leo City administration in a final re
, port to secure the elimination c
i, Huerta.