The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-20
USE OF MILITIA AUTHORIZED IN
 EVENT OF WAR
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 s-seizure of the railroad from Vera Cruz to the Mexican capital to point including trestle 20 miles west Of Vera Cruz to prevent the route to the Mexican capital being blocked 4ProbabIy 9 request for special appropriation to carry out these measures This later point. however, was not definite.
 WOOD TO COMMAND ARMY.
 Secretary Garrison announced that Major General Leonard Wood, chief Of staff Of the army, would command the American forces should it finally become necessary to use them.
 Th the naval establishment, every thing was in readiness for action. F CIV orders remained to be given. secre- scanning the early reports of the nights developments
 Rear A Admiral Badgers ships will be at Tampico earN Wednesday accord- ing to latest calculations. The attitude of Carranza and Villa leaders of constitutionalists. the sec retary said he considered very favor able and he did not expect any com plicating developments from that phase of the situation. Cabinet mem House before the hour set for meet ing with the result that the session began before the appointed hour All other callers were turned away. Secretary Garrison said no orders had been issued for any movement of troops. General woods four years detail as chief of stan of the army will expire next Wednesday,. He probably would leave imm ediately for Texas City where the second army fdivision has been naobiIized for the last 14 months. TheI general com y,,s,,, - sr,x yvss il, ssasa ty support of She President and the possibilities Of action
 MANN OPPOSES WILSON.
 Some however, dissented from the I.President's $ plan Republican Leader Mann, of the House had issued al fstatement saying he v as not in synn-l pathy with the movement and today lsenator Bristow commented adversely upon the administration attitude.
 When President Wilson comes to | Congress today asking use of army forees of the United States to compel Huerta to apologize he will not receive my vote,s' announced Senator Bristow. ssIf he asks for authority to put down I |insurrections or establish d stable gov ernnent in Mexico,a more serious question for. reconsideration will arise. This thing Of making war upon the 1 Mexican people merely because a man the President calls bandit refuses to apologize is idiotfc.:,'
 Secretary Bryan announced that he had received the full text bf Mr. I OShaug message from Mexi- co City containing Huertass reply. He tdecIined to make fhe full text public Iuntil after the. cabinet meeting
 Mir. Bryan said that so far as he I knew the Mexican government had not given MT. O,shaughn his passports I nor had the state department instruct Jed the charge to leave Mexico.
 I According to oflcial advices Ameri- leans in Mexico already are beginning ito leave. It4is estimated that hlara- dreds of Americans left ysesterday for l Vera Cruz. 5
 The following portion of President Wilson's talk to the Washington cor
 respondents on the Mexican situation I was authorized today at the White
 House The president saids
 T want to say to you gentlemen, sl do not get the impression that there IS about to be war between the United States and Mexico. That is not the
 outlook at present at all. In the first q place, in no conceivable circrrnstances will we fight the people Of Mexico.
 We are their friends and we want i to help them in every way that we
 can to recover their rights and their I government and their laws and for
 the present am going to Congress to
 present special situation and seeh
 their approval to meet that special l5 situation. Tt is only an issue between thie
 government and person calling him. si self the provisional president of Mex q leo whose right to call himself such we have never rfcognized in any way.
 So that had a feeling of 1l1easi-
 ness as I read the papers this morn
 ing as if the country were getting on ] fire with enthusiasm. have no eG1< thusiasm for war;I have an ef1th1lsi-
 asm for justice and for the dignity o1 the United States, but not for war
 And this need not eventuate into Wal j if we handle it with nrmness and Fl pronptness. :
 PREPARE FOR
 The state department, through MT
 0'shanghnessy and by direct mes l sages from MT. Bryan to Arnerican sI consuls throughout the Mexican re-
 public has warned all Americans tc leave Such protection as the United States has undertaken to extend tc
 foreigners will not be affected ac- cording to the present purpose
 Secretary Garrison conferred with IGeneraI Wood, General sWotherspoor
 who will become chief of staff nexi | Wednesday,; Brig. General Crowder- officials Of the department. It was
 understood they were preparing rec. contradictions to Congress looking te 5 the immediate passage Of Legislation providing for 8 large volunteer army Admiral Fletcher informed tl1s state department that the BrdtfsF 5 fcruiser Lancaster had gone from Vers Cruz to Porto Mexico and that tf1t s British cruiser Essex had gone frorr ! lVera Cruz to Tanlpico.
 ! State department estimates put tho number of Americans in Mexico Cit, ! ats1 1,200;l Vera Cruz about 800, Tam s pico 500: Torreon 150 Chihual,us
 30; Guadalajara. 200 and the res ] scattered in Guaynnas MazatIan } Acapulco and other small towns.