Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
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believe the situation can best be met. and
this is being urged with renewed yigor
upon the President and Secretary Bryan.
II is believed that before the Washing
ton government takes any step an under
standing through informal ana unoHicial
channels may be reached as to the exact
purposes of the constituencies so that
any act of sympathy toward their cause
might be pTedicated on assurances OF
very definite character. To thi send. IT
is reported that agents OF the United
States government are gathering lnfor-
nation along the border of the strength
of the constitutionalsts and the program
which they have mapped out.
No Word From Huerta.
That no final word had come from
Huerta as to the American demands
presented by Charge O'Shaughnessy was
admitted last night by State Depart
ment officials. The next step il is be-
lieved will not be decided until Huertas
reply is actually received. In the mean
time. the President expects to keep
members of Congress closely Informed.
He did not take his customary Satur-
day afternoon automobile ride. but re-
manned at the White House. absorbed i'll
the dispatches from Mexico. BESIDES
Senators Stone and Swanson, Speaker
VI
but declined TO say whether he had
talked about Mexico.
The President expects to forego his
usual Sunday customs of banishing OFF,
cial business for thes day and will see
some of the members of the Senate for
eign relations committee. The President
Is said to be fmpresSing upon all those
who discuss the subject with him that 1t
Is the duty of the United States to see to
Ii that the arbitrary assumption of pow
er by Huerta followed by his dictatorship
should not be permitted to- ripen into
precedent in Latin America.
Thinks Downfall Is Sure.
Absolutely no official comment was
forthcoming last night on the dispatches
fro mMexico City announcing that HUI
erta would be aided by English financial
interests In meeting immediate expenses.
Prominent senators said, however they
did not believe the Huerta government
could be sustained long by private inter-
ests
Information of the part the English
financial interests are said to have played
In supporting the Huerta government has
been i'm possession of the United States
government for some time and persons in
the confidence of President Wilson declare
he had this phase of the situatio in mind
when he made his Mobile speech attack
ing the influence of material interests OF
foreign nations In the political affairs of
Central and South American republics.
Many Military Movements.
Many evidences of activity in the army
and navy and in the militia reported in
each days dispatches from different
points III the country have led to more
or less comprehensive denals in official
quarters that these have any connection
with the situation in Mexico. For in
stance, the Washington navy. yard is
now engaged in helping the sarmy to
make good its tremendous deficiency in
ammunition for the field artillery by
employing its drawing plant TO turn
out brass shells which are being shipped
In quantities to the frankfort arsenal
near Philadelphia. to be loaded with
smokeless powder and capped. with steel
shells and thus turned into fixed am
munition FOR the three-inch army field
guns. That is explained as a mere act
OF reciprocity on the part of the navy
rs the army arsenais are now engaged I'm
making heavy guns for the navy.
At the Frankford arsenal the whole
force is turning out ammunition at an
exceptional rate of speed. That ammuni-
ton is being shipped to western arsenals
and army posts. The explanation for
that activity Is that the ordnance of
ncers, for the first time in recent wears
nave succeeded in securing liberal an
preparations from Congress to accumu-
late a store OF ammunition for the field