Arizona republican., 1916-01-15
De Facto Government of Mexico to Have Time to Demonstrate Ability to Restore Order and Protect Foreign Rights
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 WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-General Carranza and the de facto government of Mexico are to be given fair Op- portunity without intervention of the United States to run down the mur- derers of the American citizens at Santa Ysabel, and to demonstrate ability to restore order and protect for eign rights in the southern republic. This was the outstanding fact here tonight after a meeting of the cabinet, a conference between President Will son and Chairman Stone of the senate foreign relations committee and an- other, day of stirring debate in the senate.
 Administration leaders firmly out. | lined in the senate today the position ! of the government in the face of de- !nunciation from the republican side and another resolution directing in i tervention, proposed by Senator Works of California. At the state department officials were awaiting official word | from General CarranZa in reply to the demand made upon him to weed out and punish the bandit murderers 1 While no direct communication from General Carranza had reached the state department tonight, a message from him to Eliseo Arredondo, the | Mexican ambassador designate an | nounced the dispatch of troops to cap ture the outlaws and his purpose to visit "condign punishment upon every 1 participant in the massacre" This message was regarded at the !, state department as an indication of the character of the formal reply to Secretary Lansing's representations, which is expected not later than to- morrow.
 | The Mexican embassy was without other dispatches regarding the bandit hunt.
 General Oregon was said to be at Queretaro, where he had been sum moned for a general conference, and it was regarded as likely that he would remain there, the work of running down the Villa forces about Chihuahua being left in the hands of Generals Ga = vira and Trevino.
 Measures to facilitate the removal of Americans from districts where their lives might be endangered were dis cussed by department officials with MT. Arredondo, who later advised General CarranZa by telegraph that every assistance be given such Amer cans and escorts provided to accom- pany them into cities where strong Sarrisons are maintained. He went further than the state department sug- gested, recommending that in cases where foreigners objected to leaving. that they be forcibly removed to points
 of safety.
 That large numbers of Americans
 are leaving northern Mexico was re- ported to the department, but it is es-
 timated that not counting the mem
 bers of Mormon colony at Casas
 Grandes, there still are at Parral. Du-
 ranSo, Madeira and other points, the
 control of which by Carranza is doubt
 ful, more than 5000. That the ma jori
 ty of these may remain in spite o
 warnings iS feared.
 When Secretary Lansing was asked
 whether the United States government would protect it's citizens under sucf
 circumstances, he replied that it would
 do so "to the best of it's ability" bu
 that in such cases the governmen , would not be obliged ito use fore,
 where people are indiscreet." He com pared the situation in Mexico with tha
 IT Europe al the beginning of the va
 when Americans were ordered out. Debate in the senate brought ol1
 positive declarations from Senato
 Stone and Senator Lewis of Ilinoi,
 that there would he no countenarcin.
 of the demands of republican leader
 for intervention, and both charged tn, republicans with insincerity of purpos