Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-14
ASKS
INTERVENTION
BY j. S. ARMY
Works introduces Resolution
Providing for Armed Occu-
patton of Mexico.

! WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Senator
Works. Republican, of California, to-
day introduced a resolution author
izing and directing the president to
| intervene in Mexico TO establish and
maintain government there until it
is safe to withdraw.
up to this time" said Senator
| Works, addressing the Senate. Con
gress has permitted all responsibility
for conditions in Mexico to rest upon
the president. 1t is too grave a re-
| sponsibility We have all sympa-
thized with the president with tho
hope that conditions would right
themselves without intervention |
very much doubt now that such n
| peaceful outcome is possible.
Congress alone has the right TO
| declare war, and that is what inter-
vention means Congress should
courageously shoulder the RESPONSE
bilty. There is no reason for divid-
| ing the responsibility with other ma
! tions or to impose it upon ths presi-
/ dent. [ ask that the resolution be
referred to the foreign relations conn
mittees with the hope that it will
take prompt action"
! The resolution was so referred.
Senator Lodge submitted the same
resolution he offered April 21, 1914, as
n substitute for the resolution the
Senate then adopted authorizing the
president to use armed forces III
Mexico to enforce it's demands upon
| General Huerta and asked that it be
reprinted in the Record.
! "That resolution, said Senator
| Lodge, Expressed the Republican at
titude regarding the war against
Huerta. That war has reached q
successful termination. inasmueh as
| Mr.. Huerta has just died in jail
Senator Stone, the mouthpiece OF
| the administration, again addressed
the Senate.
"On this occasion. more than any
lltime in the last five years." said he
I'VE ought not to endeavor to embroi
our government with Mexico
we ought now 20 md Carranza I,
establish n government firmly, Il
maintain order. Can ii be we are
going to cooperate with Villa and
Zapata to help overturn this govern
ment before it is established?
President and Resolution.
'I do not believe a senator on the
Republican side would vote for war
/ If this is to be partisan politics we are
going into as n result of these resolu-
tions, ! am here to say that the pres
ident of the United States is too bic
TO involve so much life and hope in
war for politics.
] "If we were capable of it, the best
thing that could happen to him and
| the Democratic party politically
would be to have war with Mexico
and also With Europe. With such wal
raging next November, the chances
of the president being reelected would
| he enhanced n hundred fold.
But the president, happily, is not
! built that way He will not drag a
great international question of this
kind into the mire of partisan poll
i tics. The American people are be-
hind President Wilson to preserve
peace and peacefully 10 aid in estab-
| fishing a government in unhappy
Mexico"
what Arc tho IntentiOns?"
I Senator Gallinger, Republican, in
| terrupted to say
| "The senator from Missouri enjoys
| full confidence of the president and
/ | think it only fair to ask what is the
| intention OF the president in refer
ence to Mexico? The country is inter-
ested in a direct answer to that ques-
! ton"
/ ''I am not spokesman for the presi-
dent" returned Senator Stone. But
| ! hope it is the fixed intention and
purpose of the president TO use all his
| influence and power to prevent any
unseemly and unwise act on our part
at this time. I hope il is not the
presidents intention TO ask Congress
! to authorize him to send troops into
| Mexico, nor his intention to commit
any act that would precipitate con-
| hict in Mexico"