Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-28
Legislative Branch of Govern
ment Quietly Awaits Mo-
ment When Its Cooperation
viii Be Necessary.
MEXICAN AMBASSADOR
MAKES TWO COMPLAINTS
Arredondo Objects to General
Embargo and the Alleged
CauseIeSs Arrests of Ma
tonaIists in West.
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Washington, June 21.--Unless Gen
eral Carranza surrenders the twenty
three Americanstroopers held at Chi
huahua city before tomorrow night,
President Wilson probably will go be-
fore congress Thursday to ask for
authority to rescue them by force.
Pending their release, the United
states government Will not consider
any offer of mediation or arbitration.
The state department had no init
nation tonight as to when reply TO
the note sent Sunday demanding i'm.
mediate release OF the soldiers might
be expected 1t was delivered yester
day AT a. III. Special Agent Rodgers
has been unable to forecast the action
OF the defacto authorities.
Congress TO support Wilson.
Prompt compliance by congress with
any request The president may make
as to Mexico was foreshadowcd today
by the calm which prevailed in both
houses Although measures designed
TO prepare for war were under con-
sidernticn and the corridors of the
capitol hummed with rumors there
was no excitement and discussion Of
the subject on the floor was avoided,
The legislative branch of the govern
fnent was plainly waiting to do its
part when what the majority regard
ed as inevitable should come.
Arrcdondo Complains.
tlsco Arredondo., Mexican ambas-
sador designate, said he had received
no intimation OF the course his gov
not even been advised of the receipt
of the American note. On his own
responsibility, however, he sent to the
state department two eommunica-
tons. one complains against the en-
forccment of general embargo on
shipments to Mexico; the other recites
that Mexican citizens have been ar
rested without cause in California and
Arizona They warn Secretary Lans-
ing that the present situation between
the two governments cannot fail TO be
gravoly aggravated by these matters
although setting forth that the am
hassador assumes that local authori-
tcs not the state department, were
responsible for the trouble.
So FAR as known the state depart
ment has not been advised of the de-
tcntons Of Mexicans. 1t is an open
secret, however. that practical en-
barge on commerce between the
United States and Mexico is being en-
forced effectually by customs and
army officers without the authority
Of formal. proclamation.
Mediation Offers Declined.
Efforts to sound administration Of
ficlals anew today as to their attitude
toward some form of arbitration met
with a chilling seception. Charles A,
Douglas, recently employed as Car
rau2as legal adviser here. called on
Counsellor Polk at the state depart
ment lie and Or. Victor a. Pendoni
head Of the Yucatan Sisal commission,
had received word from Luis Cabrera,
! the Mexican finance minister, that
General Carranzn was disposed to APP
peal TO the arbitration provisions Of
the treaty of 1S4S, provided the Unit
ed States was willing to submit the
dispute to peaceful negotiations.
Mr.. Douglas Is understood TO have
suggested that the arbitration pro
vided for under section 81 of the
treaty could well be employed to for
mulate definite question as between
, the two governments, which in turn
might be SETTLED 10y mediation. lie left
I the conference with the clear impress
sion that the Washington government
would listen to no mediation sllgges-
tons.
Iansing's Sine Qua Non.
/ II has hcen very plainly indicated
| that unconditional surrender of the
American prisoners held at chihuahua
CITY would he the only Immediate step
General Carranza could take TO avoid
hostilities. Whether a mediation pro-
posal might be considered after their
release Is matter of speculation. Of
ficiAls haze 10 desire even to talk
matters over on n Hypothetical basis
founded on what might he possible II
the prisoners were given up. No per-
son Interested in maintaining peace
between the governmuts has been able
to obtain any statement as TO what
might be accomplished toward media
ton of the situation along the border
There is reason to believe, however,
thar a plan which did not involve a
military status uuo in Mexico and the
consequent hampering of General
FunSton's disposition to guard the in
tcrnational line from raiders would be
considered. NJ least IL the captured
troopers were freed first.
Prisoners Well Treated.
The state department late in the
DAY received its first official news of
the cayalrymen prisoners from other
than Mexican sources The British
consul ut chihuahua city transmitted
report through the embassy, saying
that the twenty three troopers and an
Interpreter We're helms well treated
and that the injuries OF the two
wounded men were slight. The British
consulate took over American inter
ests when American officials werG
withdrawn
Mr. Arredondo's note protesting
against the arrest OF Mexican citi-
gens IN the Irn' ced States Is based on