The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-26
|RNSY AL Of THE TIME
BUT NOTHING IS DONE

ment Of the plan to permit this coun-
try to handle the entire Mexican sit
uation without any interference. buS
they have suggested, unofficially, ana
in the most friendly manner, that
there were two sides to the problem
and that Huerta might eventually be
able to restore peacs.
1t is stated positively, however,
that the president has not changes
his mind and that he cannot consider
any point that would cause him TO
about face and recognize a man that
he had publicly pilloried' as respon-
sibls for the murder of Madero.
While appreciating to the full the
extreme gravity Of developments that
have followed the death of Benton,
President Wilson today remained ut
terly opposed to Am .rican armed in,
tervention He and Secretary Bryan
were hopeful that the pressure now
peing exerted will force Carranza TO
take the field in p1rson as the leader
and head OF the constitutionalists In
| the north and that he will eliminate
Villa as anything more than one OF
his fighting lieutenants.
The president has assured Senator
/ Shively, acting chairman of the sem
ats committee on foreign relations.
that he still believes his policy will
win out; that Huerta will be elimii-
ated by the financial boycott and that
] after that better class of MeXicans
! will get together to establish rep
iresentative rspublic And Shively Sc
4 far has besm able to prevent any serl-
4 GUS open criticism of the administra'
tion's passive policy at the capitol.
How long this present situation viii
i last no one in authority would hazaro
I guess. Even the president admits
4 that Kaleidoscope changes are pos
\ sible at an hours notice. The troops
/ on the border are equipped for imme
Il diate service and could be gotten un
y der way Tor action mmediately. Tht
a quartermaster's department has every
81 thing ready To rush additional force
!, to the Concentration camps on yer,
] short notice. Admiral Frank F1etehe
u has his marines and blue jackets a
ii Vera Cruz in shape for quick landin'
81 and any service that might be re
= ouired. The united services" are o,
{ hair trigger edge ready for anything
. But there will be no move made tha
. is not forced by the Mexicans them
9 selves.
V Huerta Promises investigation.
r rBy a United Press staff correspor
v dent
j. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26.-Geners
n Blanuuet, Huerta's minister of wa
s today assured Nelson O'Shaughness.
t. American charge d'affaires that til
IS government would make thoroug
e investigation of the reported KILN
e by federal soldiers of c. Vergara, a
IS American ranchman near Nenyo l.
le redo. 'Shaughnessy was instructe
s. nv the state department to lay tn
e. case before Blanquet and to deman
satisfaction.
~ The war minister expressed doul
d of the reports correctness and a
h sured 'Shaughnessy that If fedora
TO we're responsible, for Vergaras deaf
le the murderers would be brought
Ia Justice, Colonel Alvarez, the feder
90 commander at Neuvo Laredo, was !
q structed by Blanquet to make an
20 vestigation
. Fighting at Mazatlan, the we
coast port besieged by constitution;
~ lists. was reported resumed today A
le curate information of its progress WI
IN unavailable here becauss OF Huerta
- strict censorship. The report vi
y credited here that the rebels were
= possession of the gunboat Tampl
~ -, and would use the warship again
"a Mazatlan.
~ rurnor was in circulation hel
no the source OF which was doubtful, tn
no yestuniano Carranza, head Of the &C
stitutionists, at outs with Francis
ad villa. is ready to make up WI
1t. Huerta and aid him to crush out
90 revolution in the north. 1t was sa
We that a Carranza emissary was on