New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
MEXICAN POLICY IS SCORED BY NoNDELL
Wyoming Congressman ,Denounces
 Bryan as a Sensation MOnQer.

Washington, April 2s.-A savage administration as reflected in public acts of Secretary Bryan was made in the house yesterday by Representa- tive Mondell of Wyoming, republi- can.
 MT. Mondell accused the secretary of state of circulating reports sent in by consuls in Mexico that tended to "inf1ame the public mind against the de facto government as represented by Huerta in Mexico City,
 He vigorously assailed United States Consul Canada, stationed at Vera Cruz, and United States Consul Hanna, stationed at Monterey, for sending out alarming reports about conditions in Mexico without first ac- quainting themselves with the facts.
 MT. Mondell lashed these consuls and Secretary Bryan and charged in effect that the administration in deal- ing with Villa had practically made an ally of "a bandit and a murderer.
 Kent Praises Villa.
 MT. Mondell's sensa tional attack on Villa, Secretary Bryan and the two consuls was followed by a speech by Representative Kent of California, a progressive, in which MT. Kent eulogized Villa as "a great leader of men, who has been growing in power and in the knowledge of what the civilized world demands of him.
 MT. Kent conceded that Villa had been a bandit, but insisted that he had changed his ways and that he was capable of performing efficient
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 MT. Mondell began his speech with an attack upon Consul Canada. who made a report to the state depart ment that conditions in Mexico City had reached such a pass that all Americans there were in danger. He followed this up with an attack upon Consul Hanna, expressing doubt that Hanna had been imprisoned by the Federals as alleged in his reports to the state department.
 He then denounced the secretary of state for giving out the Canada and Hanna reports, charging that the consuls' advices, untrue in the main, had given the American people a false impression of the treatment ac- corded Americans.
 "Of all the sensation mongers down
 
 declared MT. Mondell. What he has not said officially he has said to the newspapers seeking colored reports. This man Canada should desist from a course likely to infarne our people and creating an erroneous impress sion of conditions at the seat of trouble. f 'A Canada's Dispatches. " :"
 \. h,,ci fn lo relatives and friends of those Amer jeans in Mexico by sending out in fiammatory despatches regarding con ditions that do not exist and prophesy- ing slaughter and executions of Amer jeans that are not going to occur" shouted Mr. Mondell.
 "But after all he is only a minor of ficia1 of the government I want to refer to a telegram sent by one in high authority in the state depart menf.''
 MT. Mondell then read a telegram 1. forwarded by Secretary Bryan this month to H. A. Parkin of Chicago quoting Consul Canada to the effect that nineteen Americans and one Brit ish refugee had been taken from a train by Federal troops at Tierra Blanca and that cit is reliably stated that all of these persons may be ex- ecuted ?''
 "Who sent that message?" asked Representative Madden of Illinois sharply.
 "That is a cheerful message sent across country to Chicago by our Sec- retary of State William J. Bryan," re- turned Mr. Mondell. "That is the mes sage sent to cheer up the relatives of these refugees
 Representative Mondell next re- ferred to an interview between Consul Carothers and Villa.
 "One of our representative down at Chihuahua the other day was in the warm embraces of gentleman by the name of Villa exclaimed MT. Mon dell scornfully "Consul Carothers was sent there by the secretary of state. He pleaded with Villa, no doubt, to be good.''
 MT. Mondell charged that Villa first came into international prominence as a looter of American property and that the rebel leader while in pursuit of Orozco with Huerta was ordered to be shot for insisting on an attack upon an unprotected town. Pleaded for Life. sThis brave leader of the Constitu- tionalists on that occasion got down on his knees to Huerta and made a plea for his life," shouted MT. Mon- dell shaking his fist at the democratic side of the house.
 As another instance of the circula- ton of false reports concerning Huer- ta, Representative Mondell said the American people had been told that Charge O'Shaughnessy in order to save his life would have to slink out of Mexico City in the dark. .As a matter of fact, the Charge was escorted to the railway station by President Huerta's troop of guards and Civon nY~Mection all tho voy +o