Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-15
Wilson Says This Will
Be First Step if Huerta
Refuses to Apologize
by Firing a Salute.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
BARES NEW INDIGNITIES
Orderly Seized With Mail for
Warships and Message to
Charge O'Shaughnessy Held
Up for Hours-Battleships
Turn PrOws TO Mexico.

President Wilson declared today az
the White House that If General
Huerta did not comply with the de-
mands of the United States for a
salute Of the American flag as an
apology for the arrest of its marines,
the first step on the part of this coun.
try would be to seize Tampico and
Vera Cruz.
The arrest of an orderly who went
ashore at Tampico to obtain mail for
the American fleet, the interception of
dispatches to Charge OShaughnessy,
the censorship over official dispatches
and repeated offenses against the
rights and dignity of the United
states" We're given today as some of
the causes of the dispatch Of the
Atlantic fleet to Mexico, in official
statement representing the adminis-
trati@ views.
Other outstanding features of the
Mexican situation today were the ac-
tive work of preparing for the as
sembly of the entire Atlantic feet at
Tampico and the unyielding attitude
of General Huerta
WASHINGTON, April White
the fighting ships of the Atlantic fleet
were turning their prows toward
/ Tanpco Bay today to ENFORCE Presi-
i dent Wilson's demand upon Huerta
! FOR public salute to the Amarican
dag, senators and representatives
! were summoned to the White Houss
! TO be informed on all phase of the
situation that Congress might ge pre-
.I-parrTn FOR any further steps.
President Wilson told the congrA s-
! men that he stood first for peace, but
chat if Huerta did not comply with
| Che American demands, the first step
to enforce them would be the seizure
of Tampico and Vera Cruz, for which
he considers there is ample precedent.
Acting Chairman Shively of the
Senate foreign relations committee:
senator Lodge, the ranking Republi-
can of that committees; Chairman
/
committee, and Representative Coop
er. the ranking Republican Of that
committee, had an hours conference
with the President
| ohieial Statement Issued.
| MIR. Wilson outlined all the details
of the now historic Tampico incident
/ in which a. Huerta commander arrested
! American blue jackets and refused to
| salute the stars and stripes as an
t apology
The following official statement was
! issued today as representing the
/ views of President Wilson and the
administrations
I'm discussions in official circles in
/ Washington of the present Mexican
situation, the following points have
| been very much dwelt upon;
! lit has been pointed out that, in
( considering the present somewhat
j delicate situation in Mexico, the uI1-
+ pleasant incident at Tampico must not
/ be thought Of alone. For some time
/ past the defacto government of Mex
! leo has seemed to think mere apollo
q gies sufficient when the rights Of
i American citizens or the dignity of
/ the government of the United States
/ were involved, and has apparently
! made no attempt at either reparatior
/ or the effective correction of the seri-
GUS derelictions of it's civil and mill
tery officers. tnf
Orderly in Uniform Seized.
Immediately after the incident at
| Tampico an orderly from one of the
shIps of the United States in the
harbor of Vera Cruz, who had beer
sent ashore to the postofflce for the
! ships mail and who was in uniform
| and who had the official mail bag on
| his back, was arrested and put into
| Jail by the local authorities. He was
| subsequently released and nominal
/ punishment inflicted upon the officer
! who had arrested him, but it was
/ significant that an orderly from thC
! fleet of the United States was picked
out from the many persons constant
/ ~ going ashore on various errands
! from the various ships In the harbor,
| representing several nations
Most serious of all, the official
| in charge of the telegraph office a
! Mexico City presumed to withhold an
| official dispatch of the government
of the United States to its embassy
| at Mexico City, until it should have
( been sent to the censor and his per
mission received TO deliver it, anc
gave the dispatch into the hands o
the charge d'affairs of the Unitec.
States only upon his personal ant
, emphatic demand, he having in tn,
! meantime, learned through othe
channels that dispatch had beer
sent to him which he had not re
! ceived.
/ "U. .. Singled Out for Contempt"
1T cannot but strike any one who
has watched the course of events il
Mexico as significant, that untowar6
incidents such as these have not oc
Cured in any case where representa-
tives OF other governments were con
cerned but only in dealings witt.
+ representatives of the United States.
/ and that there has been no occasion
} for other governments to call atten-
4 tion to such matters or to ask TO-
! apologies.