The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-25

are lying in the treasury Panama bonds
 to the amount of s24056e.000, which may | be sold at any time to reimburse the ! treasury for expenses incurred in the construction of the canal, paid out of the ordinary receipts. Of the s3l5, ,2OosS0 of Panama bonds authorized, only Sls4.- 63l ESQ has been issued. The balance could be issued at the pleasure of the President and the Secretary of the Treas ury.
 If the army is drawn into the conflict which is now regarded as an absolute cer- tainty and there is need for the volun- teer state troops, concentration camps will be necessary to assemble these troops and get them hardened 10 camp life and military duties. These camps will be es- tablished along the gulf coast contiguous to ports where they can embark con veniently to the scene of activities. It is likely that Galveston, New Orleans, Mo- bile and Savannah will all be the scenes of such camps if the state troops are to be used. When such measures are adopt ed the real extraordinary expenses of the war will begin. The paying, assembling and feeding of this additional number of men will call for a lot of real money.
 Such contingency will depend upon the action of the constitutionalists. That a march on Mexico City will take place in the near future there is no doubt here. we fduuOl lbilS IfIldlll llldGIlNe Tn View of what has happened, and that the en- tire world will expect us to finish the task we have begun there can be no sort of doubt. If the constitutionalists remain quiet, this can be accomplished by the regular army. and the downfall of Huerta will be a matter of few weeks at most If the constitutionalists, however. butt into the situation, the state troops will be called upon, and their first duty will be 10 take the places of the regular army along the border and do police work thereby heading off any attempt that Villa organized hordes may entertain of invading territory of the United States.
 State troops may as well prepare for this eventualty, for there is little doubt here that Villa and Carranza. even if they desire, will be able to control their forces.
 It Is believed that Huerta strongly re- lied upon the well-founded antipathy of the Mexican people for Americans when he finally decided upon his course of de- fiance to Wilson.
 There is wide variance of opinion in Washington as to the size of the job we have tackled. This difference of opinion even exists among military men. There are many who believe that Mexico City can be taken in month and that there IS no reason why the United States cannot have complete control of the situation in Mexico in twice that time. Others de- clare that if the corfstitutionalists resist Us, we are in Mexico for years and that it will take many, many months to restore even a semblance of order.
 Effect on Wilson and Bryan
 Marked comment is made at the diff ferent manner in which the President and the Secretary of State are effected by the stirring events of the past week. Prsident Wilson remains calm, and with the exception that he is graver in his talk and bearing than formerly no one would realize to see him that his weighty re- responsibilities have told upon him. On the other hand. Secretary Bryan shows plainly the strain he has been under. He looks older by years and careworn. It is said that he is not a well man, and was not before the recent trouble began, but in all events the excitement and cares of war have had greater effect upon the nerves of the secretary than all of the three strenuous campaigns for the presi- dency in which he was the central figure had upon him.