The daily Gate City., 1914-03-10
TIME FOR A SHOW Down
IN MEXICAN GAME, NEAR.

yOufSIy IooA Inc pouy W IS1lOuo Nah4
lay night. Captain Howard wired
General Bliss that Identification of the
,ody was absolutely reliable. s. r.
Hill, brother-in-law Of vergara, fl
,anced the expedition at a cost Of $500
Captain Howard stared. The body il
being held at Laredo at the request Of
he adjntant general.
There was real Improvement in the
Mexican situation today in the opin-
ion Of Secretary of State Bryan and
other high administration officials.
The grave danger OF international COM
plication growing out of the forcible
recovery Of Clement Vergara's body
from the lone grave in the Hidalgo
cemetery where 1t was buried, Is be- 3
lieved to have been averted.
The much-mooted raid into Mexican
territory turned out to have been q
commercial transaction pure and sim
pie. Relatives of the dead rancher
paid $4oO for an expedition, most Of
the members Of which were Mexicans
and no one of whom was Texas
ranger--to recover the body. And It
was not until 1t was actually on Ameri-
can soil that the federal and state Off.
cials were notified.
Incidentally army officials disproved
In their official reports the claims OK
Governor Colquitt of Texas and his
aides that Vergara had been tortured
by are before death. The undertaken
who took charge OF the body reported
that there are no traces Of burns on
it.
The reports from General Bliss to
the war department and from Consul
Garrett to the state department, both
OF which were considered at length at
todays cabinet meeting agree in all
most every detail. They clear the
Texas authorities from the early alle-
cations that they had winked at de-
liberate armed invasion of friendly
TERRITORY. And Garrett clears himself
Of the charge that he was q party TO
1.-THE expedition.
1t lis understood that -. the cabinet
Il meeting another ci,iet topsr nf Discus
4 sion was whether the charges of the
'Iopponents OF the Wilson adniinistra-
tion policy, especially those In con-
gress shall be further answered. Sena-
tor Shively and Senator Sheppard es-
saved the role OF defenders of the adj
ministration yesterday but it was
agreed today that in the debate Sena-
tor Fall, who led the attack had
much the better of the exchange.
! 1t is understood that Senator Stone
4 of Missouri who is to be new chairman
of the senate foreign relation commit
tee will as soon as his health permits q
return to his place in the senate, make
4 a set speech taking up the Fall
charges and answering them. The
state department was expected to FUR
:, nish the needed information, some
thing which it failed to do for Senator
!, Shively yesterday.
:. There was disposition on the part
of number OF the close friends OF the
: administration to criticise Secretary
of state Bryan for having failed to
realize Just what information Fall
. possessed and getting facts together
to refute at least part OF his allega-
. tions
Many of the persons killed, 1t is al
tieged, met death either as partici-
pants in fights during the Madero
revolution or were victims of bandits.
So far as the other threatened for
! eign complications are concerned,
: more especially the reported dissatls-
e faction OF Germany and Japan with
! the Wilson policy, the president and
|. his advisors were hopeful that most
a of it was founded on rumor and not
: on fact.
y Villa Denies Story.
! CHIHUAHUA, Mex, March 10
f Denying that he ever threatened to
s send Luis Terrazas II to the rebel fir
: ing line at Torreon and expose him te
It the bullets of the defenders of thai
v city, General Francisco Villa, consti
# tutionallst chieftain issued a Statement
e to the United Press today. He alst
Il denied he had received instructions re
+. garding Terrazas from General Yes
1t tuiano Carranza or any representa-
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