The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-01-30
EMBARGO OKARMS
MAY Be l|FT TED
PRESIDENT WILSON URGED TO
GRANT ADMISSION OF ARMS IN
TO MEXICO.

Washington, Jan. 29-The ever re-
current appeal Of the Mexican con
stitutionalists that they be permitted
to purchase arms in the United States
on an even footing with the Huerta
government soon may be granted
Though President Wilson and Secreta-
ry Bryan have reached no final deter
mination, the Washington govern
ment is strongly inclined to such a
course as the next step in its Mex
lean policy.
Inquiry among administration Off
cials Wednesday disclosed that vir-
tually the entire cabinet, many mem
bers of the senate foreign relations
committee and many leaders in con
gress generally are ready to support
the president should he remove the
embargo on arms.
The recent defalcation by the Huer-
| ia government of the interest on It's
bonds, the growing anxiety of Euro
pean nations about the financial af-
fairs of Mexico and the declared in
tention of the cOnstitutionaiists to
carry the fighting into the thickly
populated cities of central Mexico, are
said to be underlying reasons for fur
ther developments of the American
policy, though no official would pre-
diet when it would occur.
Pressure Brought to Bear.
That the president is giving serious
consideration to the question Of arms
is apparent not alone from the trend
of his talk to the senate foreign rela-
tions committee but from evidence
which daily has been coming to the
Washington government of the dis
advantage to which a denial of arms
has nut the cOnstitutionalists The
latter have argued that whatever may
be the sympathies of the United
States toward Mexican factions, they
have by forbdding expectation of
arms into Mexico helped Huerta.
The chief argument placed before
President Wilson now is that the HUI
erta government has experienced lit
tie difficulty in obtaining munitions
of war in countries other than the
United States, while the constitution
alists have been cut off from their
only external source of supply-the
American border-and that in this re
spect the American policy is one OF
partiality instead of neutrality The
reason for the presidents refusal OF
arms to both factions. as stated il
his address to congress last August
was a desire not to add to the blood
> shed.
a, Though there was no understanding
with foreign governments about eX
portatons of arms, the United State
then hoped that the embargo on funds
would be extended to munitions o
war. The failure of this to material
- ize and the persistent determination
: of the consttutionallsts to obtain th'
, arms by the slow process of overcom
ing federal garrisons, has prolonged
the struggle beyond the expectation
of the Washington government.
a Would Hasten End.
t The view among officials that t.
3 give arms to both sides on an equal
!, ty would end the revolution quickly il
! favor of the constitutionalists pre-
/ ceeds from the belief that the latte
' have more men available for servic
! and are financially better able to OF
/, tain supplies than is the Huerta re
: gime There is a feeling among IN
: proponents of the plans, too, that IN
, mere announcement of the Washing
) ton governments intention to rails