The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-17
Must Respect America.

emit OF the United Press.l
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE
United States intends to be prepared
to adopt stern measures in Mexico to
enforce its future demands. 1t will
accept salute from Huerta as ending
the Tampico incident. The salute
will be returned, gun for gun, although
in doing SO there will be an apparent
violation of national regulation. But
this country will not withdraw. its war
vessels from the vicinity of the Mex
lean coast and from now on there will
be maintained at sea as well as on
the Texas border an adequate force
to compel respect for Americans and
to protect all foreign interest should
grave necessity arise. This was the
Interpretation placed today by army
and navy officials on the fact that al
though Secretary Bryan and Dictator
Huerta have agreed to the salute to
end the. Tampico incident and Bryan
says that is the only matter unsettled,
not only are the ships continuing on
their journey. but the Virginia, Rhode
Island and Georgia, still at Charles
town navy yards, are to proceed to
$ exicJ de so0E as fheJ can get reaG5
for sea.
President Wilson has been told
that the end OF the duerta regime is
no longer question OF months but
almost OF days. The flower Of the
dictator's army has been crushed in
the fighting that has followed the
Toreon campaign. Villas force is
being augmented daily by those who
want to be with the winner. And ad-
vices here indicate that unless all
signs fail. he will be pounding at the
defenses of Mexico City within a
fortnight.
No one here wants to forecast what
the outcome of that final struggle will
be or whether, should the constitu-
tionalists win. Carranza and Villa
will be willing to set up govern
ment that this nation can deal with
and recognize. Because of this the
Wilson administration will concen-
trate it's forces close to Mexico for
any action that may become neces-
sary.
The cabinet today considered the
entire Mexican situation and the de-
velopments Of the last few days.
Secretary Of State Bryan promised
a statement outlining the agreement
with Huerta as soon as all the de-
tails can be cleared up.
There are many questions in con-
nection with the developments of the
last three days over which a haze
OF mystery still hangs. No one yet
knows whether Charge O'Shaughnessy
who is admittedly very close to
Huerta, proposed the exchange Of
salute plan as means OF settling the
difficulty or whether it came origin
ally from Huerta himself. 1t was
said today that II this is not cleared
up voluntarily by the state depart
ment or white house. senators and
interested will ask for
particulars There was much doubt
today regarding whether this salute
can properly be fred by the American
warships. Paragraph 100 of the Unit
ed States naval regulations reads as
follows:
mo salute shall be fred in honor
of any nation or of any official of any
nation not formally recognized by the
government OF the United States
Certain senators opposed to the
were urging today that
this regulation would be violated If
our ships at Tampico returned the
salute from the garrison
there. But this was not the view Of
the president and his advisors. They
held that as the salute was an
"amende honorable" for an affront. it
must be met with proper acknowl-
edgement and they insisted that 1t
would not be Huerta or the govern
ment he represented that would be
saluted, but the entire Mexican peo-
pie.
Now that the acute tension has
worn of. officials we're counting the
cost of the naval demonstration. 1t
will run above million dollars but
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