The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-18
Reports to the State Depart ment Indicate Conditions in Interior of Mexico Are Fairly Quiet
ONE UNEASINESS
 FELT AT TORREON AND AT TAMPICO
'aFollette Introduces and Senate Adopts Concurrent Resolution Approving the Presidents Actions

Washington, March 1.-The main |merican expeditionary force in Mex To as late as this afternoon had en- buntered none of Villas outlaws. Re- brts to this effect were received by ! e war department in field wireless lessages relayed by telegraph from a pint on the international border. Officials interpreted the information E clearly indicating that Villa and Is bandits were fleeing before the |merican advance and that it was ex- 1emely doubtful that they would at 9mpt to make a stand. The opinion I,evailed among army officers that le campaign would develop quickly Ito a guerilla warfare, if any oppo- [tion at all developed. The war de- |trtment had no confirmation of bor- kr reports that snipers had fired on e American troops.
 In the Senate today concurrent solution by Senator I.aFollette de-
 
 |se of the army to pursue Villa and ving further assurances that the Evereignty of Mexico was not to be Icroached upon by the punitive expe- Ition, was unanimously adopted with elt debate.
 CONDITIONS QUIET Reports to the state and war de- rtments indicated that conditions H,nerally in the interior of Mexico Rere fairly quiet. General Funston re- Rrted in one dispatch that there was ime excitement at various points Aong the frontier. In another he said 6ains southbound from the border rried only a few passengers. Other sspatches received from him were of 4rely routine character. it was said kthoritatively.
 EConsular advices to the state de- Hrtment were to the effect that quiet fevailed in virtually all sections cf Hsxico with the exception of Tampico Ed Torreon At Tampico and in the ] jacent oil fields Americans were re- rted to be uneasy, although no dis ders had developed. The attitude of e military forces in the district is i'd to be unfavorable to Americans.
 is believed however, that when the
 vernment toward the campaign ,ainst Villa becomes known there
 Il be no further cause for apprehen- bn. The situation in Tampico is not new one and is not direct result
 the determination of the United ates to capture Villa.
 Torreon has for sometime been a at of disorder Consul Williams, who 1t his consulate at Torreon in charge
 the British vice consul and returned
 the border with party of Amer ans, reported to the state depart ent late today that he had quit his st because of unbearable conditions.
 SENATE BEHIND WILSON
 enator LaFollette today introduced and
 Senate adopted without opposition
 resolution approving President Wilson's lrse in sending a punitive expedition
 Mexico and assuring the Mexican peo-
 further that the object of the ex- hilton was merely punitive.
 The text of the resolution follows:
 Resolved, By the Senate Ghe House
 Representatives concurring), That the of the armed forces of the United ltes for the sole purpose of appre- 1ding and punishing the lawless band
 armed men who entered the United ,tes from Mexico on the 9th day of
 rch, 1916, committed outrages on Amer
 n soil and fled into Mexico, is hereby proved. And, that the Congress also
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