Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-02-18
MEXICANS KILL
76 AMERICANS
IN Three YEARS
Lansing Furnishes Senate Informa-
ton Concerning Affairs in
the Revolution-Torn
Republic.
COMPARATIVE FIGURES GIVEN
Forty-Six Citizens of United States
Slain in Period Pre-
viously.
SOME HELD CONFIDENTIAL

= WASHINGTON. Feb. 17.-All Of
the State departments data on the
Mexican situation, asked for bv Sen
ator Fall. was transmitted to the
senate today by President Wilson.
On motion of Chairman Stone of the
foreign relations committee It was
ordered printed as a public docu-
ment. II had been expected that
some of 1t would be held confiden-
tial.
In a letter from Secretary Lansing,
accompanying the report, it is said
that seventy-six American citizens
were killed in Mexico in the years
1918, 1914 and 1915, as against
forty-seven in the three years pre-
ceding 1t, and that twenty-six civilian
Americans and sixteen soldiers were
killed on American soil in the same
three years as a result of Mexican
troubles.
In describing the Carranza gov
ernment, Secretary Lansing wrote in
the report:
1T cannot he said that the defacto
government OF Mexico is a constitutional
The defacto government,
like the majority of revolutionary gov
ernments, ls of a military character. but
that government has committed itself
to the holding of elections and 1t is con-
fidently expected that the present gov
eminent will within a reasonable time be
merged in or succeeded by a government
organized under the laws OF Mexico.
why Efforts Failed.
Referring to the efforts of the recent
Pan-American conference to get Mexican
factions together. Secretary Lansing
wrote:
THE attempt to bring the factions to-
gether for conference failed. On the
one hand there seemed TO be no central
organization among the Villista- forces.
while on the other hand, submission to
the central authority was evidenced In
the replies OF The Cafransistas.. The unity
and loyalty of the Carranzistas appeared
TO indicate the ultimate triumph OF that
faction.''
der along the Mexican border was grad
ually being restored. The report stated
that it would be incompatible with the
public interest to disclose correspondence
between the United States and the Bra
lillian minister at Mexico City. who acted
for the United States. and also the cor
respondence with representatives of this
government in Mexico.
Republicans have been delaying con-
firmation of Henry r. Fletcher's nomi-
=. a. . -
data was at hand on the ground that 1t
would show there is no responsible gov
ernmenr In Mexico.
Americans killed in Mexico from
N>causes that can be attributed to the
Evolutionary disturbances during 1913.
1914 and 1915 were placed at eighteen;
those who have disappeared in Mexico
and who were probably killed from
causes that can be attributed directly to
the revolutionary disturbances. six;
those killed. apparently through motives
OF robbery by bandits or others. (not in
cluding those killed by Indians), ten;
those killed by Indians. apparently
twelve; those killed from miscellaneous
causes and causes not definitely stated,
thirty.
The report further says regarding
these deathss
In this connection it may be stated
that when the murder of American eiti-
zens was reported, the Department of
State made representations through its
representatives for the apprehension and
punishment OF the assailants and in
some instances the departments repre-
sentatives made such representations 70
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