Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-27
LAST WORD or
UNITED STATES
Complete Submission of
Carranza Demanded by
Administration
LOOK FOR REJECTION
President Wilson Will Appear Be.
fore Joint Session of Senate and
House Tomorrow

Washington, June 81 Complete
submission by Carranza within "a
hours or war was the last word OF
the administration last night.
Decision to press the issue was bas-
ed it is understood, on information
from Mexico City that prepared the
administration for a fat rejection by
Carranza of the United States gov
ernment's demands.
! Arrangements were set on loot
for the appearance of President Will
! son before a joint session OF the
House and Senate tomorrow. These
| plans were made after receipt of a
telegram from James Linn Rodgers,
State Department Special Agent at
Mexico City, reporting the arrlva!
of the ultimatum to Carranza Sun
day night.
In deciding to fix a time limit to
the Carranza reply, where none was
| named in the note, it was made plain
the United States will brook no de-
Law. The questions at issue between
the United States anu Carranza are
such as can be answered immediately.
The United States demands, first
! the immediate releaseof the Carrlzal
prisoners, and, second, that Carranza
pledge complete submission to the
purposes of the United States in
maintaining an expeditionary force
lin Mexico.
| The ultimatum was delivered to
| Foreign Minister Aguilar at Mexi-
| co City early today. Allowing "a
hours for reply will give Carranza
until tonight, or two days, in which
to decide whether he wants peace
or war.
It required but six hours for trans
mission of yesterdays note to Mexl-
! co City. Allowing the same time for
reply, the Carranza note should
reach Washington some time tonight.
"Peace or war by Wednesday hangs
on Carranza's reply" an official said
yesterday.
If no reply is in the Presidents
hands by tomorrow morning, or if the
reply comes, but is unsatisfactory in
character, it is the Presidents pres
ent intention to appear before Cong
ress Immediately.
Efforts toward Latin-American
mediation in the new Mexican crisis,
favored by Carranza officials, col
lapsed yesterday without having
reached the stage of formal pro-
posal to the United States.
1t was made plain. by Secretary
Lansing to Ignaeio Calderon, Min
lister of Bolivia who called with: the
intention Of asking whether the
United States would entertain an Of
fer of the services of its southern
neighbors to aid in averting war,
that the Washington government
sees nothing in the situation that
would warrant arbitration proceed
! ings
The Senate passed the Hay resolu-
| tion after six hours Oh heated debate
yesterday over the issue of paying
| dependents of the volunteer militia
men $50 month. In the final strug-
gle the Senate amendment providing
that they may be excused from SER
vice where it is shown that they have
! dependents looking to them for sup.
port, was substituted for the House
pension plain by, vote of 45 to 30
The resolution empowers the Presi-
dent to draft for service in the ''em-
ergency" now declared to exist the
members of the National Guard of
the States.
Without the for1na1ity Of a roll
] call the House yesterday passed the
army appropriation bill, the biggest
budget of the kind IN the history of
the country. The measure carried
approximately s1s2,OOO,OO0 and con-
tains a number of emergency items
that were adopted as the result of
=: the Mexican situation.
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