Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-02-03
LIFT EMBARGO SOON
SENATORS SAY WILSON is NEAR.
LY PREPARED TO LET MExI-
CAN REBELS BUY ARMS.
READY FOR INTERVENTION
President Discusses Problem With
Committee on Foreign Relations at
White House Conference That Ends
at Midnight

Washington, Jan. 2S.--President VIII
.E0n and members of the foreign rela-
tons committee Of the senate held an
important conference on Monday on
the external affairs of the government.
The discussion covered numerous
subjects of pressing moment. The
most important being the Mexican sit
uation.
Some of the committeeman declared
that they expect the president will
wfthin the next few days take action
toward raising the embargo on arms
80 that the constitutionalists and other
rebels who for the last several months
have been deprived of the opportunity
of obtaining arms in this country may
obtain the weapons and munitions
they need. The president, it is said,
believes that the time has come to let
down the bars and to permit the con-
stitutlonaiists to obtain all the arms
and ammunition they require.
Secrecy was enJoined upon all those
present at the conference by the presl
dent, and it was understood when the
conference broke up shortly before
midnight that anything TO be said
would be said by the president MIN
self The president said nothing, how
ever, that gave any clue to the situa-
ton respecting our relations with the
republic south of the Rio Grande.
The attitude OF the c0nferees as
here stated is most significant. 1t in
dicates that matters are certainly sp
preaching a crisis-if the crisis al
ready has not been reached-and inn
portant developments may be expect
ed at any moment. One senator, on
leaving the conference, said: Il would
like to tell you great deal, but feel
that the patriotic duty / owe to the
American people is not to say any
thing. II anything is to be said, the
president is the one TO say it."
Conditions in Mexico for some weeks
have been almost intOlerable and. al
though pressure has been brought TO
bear on the president from foreign as
well as domestic sources to intervene
fer the protection of lives and proper
~ of Americans and other foreigners,
the president has insisted that it was
a duty of this country TO keep hands
OF the internal situation in Mexico I'M
til it is absolutely certain that inter
xention by the United States is the
only method of solving the problem.
While the foreign governments and
financial and commercial influences
have been anxious TO bring about the
restoration of order IN Mexico. they
have been willing to await definite
action by the United States and have
refrained from taking independent ac-
1ion.
The Huerta administration has been
in dire straits for the last several
weeks with no prospect of any i'm
provement Practically the only part
of the country where he holds undis-
puted control is in the City of Mexico
ard the surrounding district. His
armies in the north have been defeat
ed and many federal soldiers have
been driven across the international
border into Texas. Practically the en-
tire tier of states along the northern
border are independent of control from
Mexico City. Outlawry and brigand-
age prevail In the rural districts.
In addition the economic conditions
are pad and the people are bordering
on starvation due to the repeated raw
aging of the rural districts by the sue
.cessive revolutionary movements of
60 In, fhn
foreign residents are not sure of their
safety.
With this condition confronting the
administration practically every mill
tary precaution preliminary 10 inter
yention has been taken.
For the last several days there has
been a strong belief in official circles
that something was going to drop" in
regard 10 Mexico. The White House
conference and the secrecy imposed by
the president upon the members of the
senate committee after their departure
tended to strengthen the belief that
some important action by this govern
ment is in almost immediate prospect.
Among the other diplomatic subjects
discussed at the conference was the
ratification of the limited arbitration
treaties with Great Britain. Japan,
Italy and Portugal, which has been
pending in the senate foreign relations
committee for several months. The
president urged their prompt approval
upon the members of the committee.
The controversy with Colombia, aris-
ing out of the secession of Panama in
1908. was taken up for a short time
and the committee members were in
formed that all details OF the proposed
agreement for the settlement of the
QUESTION had been arranged except the
amount of the indemnity TO be paid by
this government.
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