The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-04-22
Wilson ASKS CONGRESS TO APPROVE
HIS PLANS.

SreSS MOnuay III tueSe WoroS:
"Gentlemen of the Congress:
1t is my duty to call your
attention to a situation which
has arisen IN our dealings with
Gen. Victoriano Huerta at Mex
leo City which calls for action,
and to ask your advice and CO.
operation in acting upon it. On
the 9th, of April a paymaster of
the U. S. S. Dolphin landed at
the Iturbide bridge landing at
Tampico with a whaleboat and
boats crew to take off certain
supplies needed by his ship, and
while engaged in loading the
boat was arrested by an officer
and squad of men Of the army
of General Huerta. Neither the
paymaster nor any one of the
boats crew was armed. Two of
the men were in the boat when
the arrest took place and were
obliged to leave it and submit to
be taken into custody, notwith-
standing the foct that the boat
carried, both at her bow and
at her stern, the flag of the
United States. The officer who
made the arrest was proceeding
up one of the streets of the town
with his prisoners when met by
an officer of higher authority,
who ordered him to return to
the landing and await orders;
and within an hour and a half
from the time of the arrest Or
ders we're received from the
commander of the Huertista
forces at Tampico for the re-
lease of the paymaster and his
men. The release was followed
by apologies from the COM
mander and later by an expires.
sion of regret by Gen. Huerta
himself. Gen. Huerta urged
that martial law obtained at the
time at Tampico; that orders
had been issued that no one
|should be allowed to land at the
Iturbide bridge; and that our
sailors had no right to land
there.
HAD NOT BEEN NOTIFIED.
"Our naval commanders at
the port had not been notified
OF any such prohibition; and,
even if they had been the only
iusti6able course open to the
local authorities would have
been to request the paymaster
and his crew to withdraw and to
lodge a protest with the CON-
manding officer of the fleet.
Admiral Mayo regarded the
arrest as so serious an affront
that he was not satisfied with
the apologies offered, but de-
manded that the flag of the Up-
| lited States be saluted with
special ceremony by the military
commander of the port.
s'The incident cannot be re-
garded as a trivial one, especially
as two of the men arrested were
taken from the boat itself-that
is to say, from the territory of
the Tinted States, but had 1t
stood by itself it might have
been attributed to ignorance or
arrogance of a single officer.
Unfortunately, it was not an
isolated case. A series of Incl
dents have recently occurred
which cannot but create the i'm
preston that the representa-
tives of Gen. Huerta were willing
to go out of their way to show
disregard for the dignity and
rights of this government and
felt perfectly safe in doing
what they pleased, making free
to show in many ways their
irritation and contempt.
ARRESTED IN UNIFORM
ga few days after the Incl
dent at Eampico an orderly from
the U. S. S. Minnesota was ar
rested at Vera Cruz while ashore
| in uniform to obtain the ships
Jail. An official dispatch from
this government to it's embassy
at Mexico City was withheld by
the authorities of the telegraphic
service until peremptorily de-
manded by our charge of affairs
in nerson. So far as can learn