The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-04-19
QU|BBL|NG WILL
NOT Be TOLERATED
IF SALUTE Is NOT FIRED THE
FLEET IN MEXICAN WATERS
WILL SEIZE PORTS.
TAKE VERA CRUZ AND TAMP|CO
President Wilson Will go Before Con-
sress in Joint Session Monday and
Ask Authority to Take Such Meas
ures as Are Necessary.
TAKE VERA CRUZ AND TAMP|CO

Washington, April 1S-Huerta will
salute the American flag at Tampico
before 6 p. m. Sunday, or President
Wilson will go before Congress, in
Joint session, Monday and ask for au-
thor1ty to take such measures as may
be necessary. This statement was is
sued at the White House:
General Huerta is still insisting
upon doing something less than has
been demanded and something less
than would constitute an acknowledge
ment that his representative were
entirely in the wrong in the ,ndigni-
ties they have put upon the govern
ment Of the United States. The Pres
ident has determined that if General
Huerta has not yielded by 6 o'clock
on Sunday afternoon, he will take The
matter to Congress on Monday"
Secretary Bryan explained that the
Presidents statement meant Huerta
would be obliged to guarantee the
salute without qualification by 6 p.
m. Sunday, and that physical obsta-
cles might defer its being actually
fired by that hour.
Dramatic Scenes Attend DEVELOPMENTS
Scenes attending the mornings de-
velopments in the Mexican situation
were dramatic. President Wilson had
gone across the Potomac to aseclu-
nn6 nlnh Wbnrn ho T,1o
When Charge O'Shaugnessy's dis
patches were deciphered and their i'm
port became known to Secretary Bry-
an and Mr.. Tumulty, a hurried at-
tempt was made to get the President
on the telephone. Secretary Bryan
and Mr.. Tumulty started in a fast au-
tomobile, and while they were rush
ing across the Virginia hills, the
White House telephones had succeed
ed in reaching the President, who
hurried back to the clubhouse and
started for Washington.
Met President on Road.
Secretary Bryan and Mr. Tumulty
met the President, and out on red
dusty road, and in the sun of a bright
blue day the important dispatches
were communicated, and the journey
was continued to the White House.
The President went to his study,
where he wrote his statement giving
Huerta until o'clock Sunday night.
He typed it himself upon his personal
typewriter, as is his custom with i'm
portant official documents Then he
decided that inasmuch as there prop-
ably would be no action before to-
morrow night he would change mis-
plans and go to White Sulphur Springs
anyway and bring Mrs. Wilson back
to Washington.
AT the Navy Department, in the alb.
sence of Secretary Daniels, who is in
Cleveland, Ohio, today the board OF
aides, the executive arm of the sery-
ice, went into session to make thc
finishing plans for moving ships and
marines.
No Orders to Troops in Texas.
There was no activity at the War
Department, and no orders were issued
for the troops at Texas City.
At the State Department Seer stary
Bryan called hurried conference with
John Lind. the Presidents personal
representative in Mexico, Who has re-
turned from an eight-months' stay m
Huerta's country, and brought back
first-hand information. After a con-
ference with Mr.. Lind, Secretary Bry-
an hurried back to the White House
where other Cabinet officers had col
lected, and, although with grave faces
the officials discussed the develop
ments confidently.
1.-THE temporizing is ended" said
one of the Cabinet officers, who is
personally close to Mr.. Wilson.
We have the punch, and We know
it, and we are going to deliver It.