The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-25
Capital Settles Down After Days of Disquieting Re pOrts-All Dispatches Re ceived Are Measuring
MUCH INCENSED AT THE CIRCULATION OF
 REPORTS OF TROUBLE
Officials Think Sinister In-
 fluences Are at Work. Stone Makes Charge, Checking Debate in Senate

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 1 Washington, March 24.-Wth disquietine
 reports from Mexico officially denied from i all sources, administration officials set 1 tied down again tonight to await word tured or killed by American or Mex | ican troops. Apprehension aroused by re- ports that the Carranza garrison at Chi
 huahua City had joined the bandits had subsided While Congress still heard talk of rumors of impending border dis 1 turbances, the White Huose the state and war departments were satisfied that nothing had arisen beyond the border to justify additional military precautions. l No confirmation had reached the Wal department Of advices to General Gales, Carranza governor of Chihuahua, that Villa was surrounded by columns of Mex 1 ican and American troops near Mama quipa, Tine day passed without messages of other than routine character from Gen eral Funston or other army officials on the border It was noted at the war department, however that General Fun ston placed some credence is unofficial
 reports that General Pershing's troops
 already had met and engaged the ban
 dits. Since the American border com-
 mander is in a position to know the ex- act whereabouts of the American columns pursuing the bandit his opinions in this connection have great weight.
 DENIED BY LETCHER Tie report that General Herrera and lis garrison III Chihuahua had rovolted was positively denied by American Con sul Letcher at Chihuahua City. Reassur- 1 ine. messages came also from mar saving there was no indication that Car railza troors were being nlassed near the 1 American line. The situation at Tampicc { vas ra; ted qlser~ Tie Aattleship Keg. i tu, ky has reached there.
 l Tho President and the cabinet de- l cided there was no necessity to call 1 out the National Guard for border duty.
 General Funston has not asked for ad-
 ditional troops since the Fifth cavalry and Twenty fourth infantry were or dered to join him. Consular reports say 1 conditions are normal with no indica- l tions of demonstrations toward the ad- l vance columns or toward American
 border towns.
 l Administration officials were much l incensed over the circulation from the | border of alarming rumors as to what 1 was happening in Mexico. The most ! persistent has been that regarding the !! Herrera revolt, which was transmitted 1 by General Bell to General Funston,
 and the source of which has not been | disclosed.
 | II believe large part of these stories originate in the minds of interested persons who desire intervention,' Sec retary Lansing said. He added that 1 they could have no other purpose than 1 to inflame the minds of the Mexican people.
 SINISTER INFLUENCES AT WORK | Senator Stone, chairman of the for eign relations committee. made the same charge while endeavoring to check debate in the Senate on the
 Mexican situation.
 An effort is being made by numer- l ous sinister influences in Mexico, and am sorry to say outside of Mexico, Senator Stone said, ito excite the peo- pie of that unfortunate country and impress them with the idea that the United States is contemplating aggres- sion against the whole people. There are influences at work and we know 1 (Continued on Page Nine)