The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-21
Shipment of Arms
on Way to Vera Cruz
In German Vessel

WASHINGTON. APRIL 2t.-oR0ERs HAVE BEEN SENT TO
REAR ADMIRAL FLETCHER TO SEIZE THE CUSTOMS HOUSE
AT VERA TIME TO PREVENT p LARGE SHIPMENT
OF ARMS FOR HUERTA, ABOUT TO BE LANDED. FROM Be
ING TRANSPORTED TO MEXICO CITY,
ORDER sTIPULATE WHEN FLETCHER
SHOULD TAKE THE PORT BUT SIMPLY LEFT 1T
cRETIoN AS TO BEST TO PREVENT HuERTA
FROM GETTING SEVERAL MILLION ROUNDS OF AMMuNi-
TON FIELD GUNS FROM A GERMAN STEAMER
ABOUT TO ARRIVE
BRYAN SAID, JUST BEFORE ENTERING A CABINET
MEETING, THAT THERE WAS A GENERAL EXODUS OF AM
ERIcANs FROM MEXICO CITY TO VERA CRUZ AND THAT
MANY AMERICANS AT VERA CRUZ WERE GETTING ABOARD
THE WAR LINER EsPERANzA.
NUMBER OF OFFICIALS DECLARED THEY BELIEVED
HUERTA HAD BEEN PLAYING TIME MERELY TO GET
IN THE LARGE SHIPMENT OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION
WHICH FLETCHER HAS BEEN ORDERED TO CUT OFF. AS
THERE IS NO BLOCKADE EXISTING The AMERICAN FoRc-
CANNOT SEIZE THE MUNITIONS UNTIL AFTER THEY
HAVE LANDED.
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS PORTED OUT THAT THE
PRESIDENT HAD AMPLE AUTHORITY FOR HIS ACTION
WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF CONGRESS AND THAT Ac
TON IS IMPERATIVE. MoMENTARILY, THE OFFICIALS EX-
PEcTED DISPATCHES FROM THE ADMIRAL ANNOUNCING
THAT TAKEN THE CUSTOMS HOUSE AND POSI-
THE CITY. THE ORDERS TO FLETCHER CONFERRED
THE RRoADEsT AUTHORITY. THAT THE GERMAN STEAM
Err MIGHT TAKE HER SOME OTHER PORT is A
POSSIBILITY WHICH THE NAVAL AND STATE OFFICIALS
TOOK CoGNIzANcE.
THE WENT TO THE NAVAL COMMANDER
IN MEXICAN WATERS AT DAYBREAK, BUT THE FACT DID
NOT BECOME KNOWN SEVERAL HOURS. THE PREsI-
AND HIS CABINET HAD BEEN IN CONSTANT CON-
FERENCE ALL NIGHT UNTIL O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
WHEN THEY SEPARATED FOR A FEW HOURS REST.
THE OFFICIALS POINTED OUT THAT FLETCHER MIGHT
ACT IN SEVERAL WAYS. HE MIGHT WAIT UNTIL THE GER
MAN STEAMER ACTUALLY LANDED HER CARGO UNMo
LEsTED, AND THEN TAKE THE CUSTOMS HOUSE AND THE
MUNITIONS, WHEN THE STEAMER COMES INTO PORT
HE MIGHT THE CUSTOMS HOUSE AND IF THE CAR
GO IS DISCHARGED IT WOULD COME INTO POSSESSION OF
THE UNITED STATES.
WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS SAID THERE WAS MOTH
ING TO INDICATE THE NECESSITY FOR IMMEDIATE ORDERS
FOR THE MOVEMENT TROOPS NO UNUSUAL ALARM is
REFLECTED IN BORDER DISPATCHES OVER ANTI-AMERi-
CAN OUTBREAKS, BUT SUCH COMMUNICATIONS AS CAME
FROM FRONTIER TOWNS WERE FORWARDED IMMEoI-
BORDER PATROL.
BRYAN SAID He IS IN UNINTERRUPTED CORRESPONDS
ENcE WITH CHARGE o'sHAUGHNEssY IN MEXICO. He
GAVE NO iNTMATIoN OF THE NATURE OF THE EXCHANGE
Es ALTHOUGH BRYAN SAID HE HAD HEARD NOTHING CON-
CERNNG THE POSSIBLE PRESENTATION OF THE AMERi-
CAN CHARGE WITH HIS PASSPORTS.
"EVERY MINUTE DELAY BY CONGRESS COUNTS
SAID WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TODAY.
IT MADE PLAIN THE WHITE HOUSE sEcRE-
TARY TUMULTY THAT THE PRESIDENT APPROVED THE
RESOLUTION As AMENDED THE SENATE FOREIGN RE.
LATioNs COMMITTEE, AND THAT WILSON DID NOT WISH
TO INDVIpUALZE HuERTA, BECAUSE OF ANY PERSONAL
RESENTMENT, BUT MERELY TO DiFFERENTATE HIM
FROM THE REMAINDER OF THE MEXICAN PEOPLE, WITH
WHOM THE UNITED STATES HAS NO QUARREL.
THE PRESIDENT is OPPOSED TO MAKING THE REso..
LUTON MIGHT BE CONSTRUED
AS A DECLARATION OF WAR. THE LANGUAGE OF THE
AMENDED RESOLUTION, ADDED SENATE COMMIT
TEE is SATISFACTORY TO THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE IT
SPECIFICALLY DIscLAINs ANY PURPOSE OF MAKING WAR
MEXICO. THE PRESIDENT WAS IN CONFERENCE WITH
THE CABINET MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THE FORENOON ON
THE MEXICAN SITUATION.