The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-03
No Issue Till Wednesday, as
Congress Adjourns
Over Fourth
CARRANZA REPLY
NOT YET RECEIVED
Lansing Asks for 100000 to
Use in Aid of Ameri-
can Refugees

Washington, July 3.-With the ad'
iournment of the House at Washington
Saturday night over the Fourth of July,
il became highly improbable that the
crisis between the United States and the
de facto government of Mexico would
come to final issue before Wednesday at
the earliest. Despite growing lmpa'
thence over Gen. Carranza's delay in com
plying with demands that he state ais
intentions toward American troops in
Mexico, President Wilson made no move
Saturday toward laying the situation be-
fore Congress. Officials believe he will
wait some days at least for reply to
the note sent last Sunday, provided there
are no further attacks upon Gen. Perish
ing's men in the meantime.
There were no official dispatches Sat
urclay dealing with the probable tenor OF
the new Mexican note. Private messages
had nothing to add to the gloomy out
look they reflected Friday. In fact there
were no developments of any sort dur
ing the day in the diplomatic situation.
In Congress, the Senate military com
mittee prepared to increase by probably
more than $l00,000,000 the army appro'
priation bill as it passed the House. The
committee now has approved Increases
totaling $75,000,000.. 1t is expected the
Sls2000,000 measure passed by the
House will reach total of more than
$780, 5000 when reported to the Sen.
ate Among items added Saturday were
sl3.O00.000 for the army aviation serv-
ice, including provision for equipping y
National Guard aviation squadrons, 81,
$40, 400 for the signal corps, .Sl2,2oo,oQp
for National Guard field artillery and
ammunition, S4 $50 900 for machine guns,
Sl.0OO,000 for armored motor cars and
S5,000.000 for ordnance stores.
In the House the appropriations com
mttee faced another angle OF the Mex
lean trouble. Secretary Lansing called
for an additional 100000 to get Ameri-
cans out of Mexico. From Secretary Ba-
ker came hurry estimates OF Sl,o43,ooo
to meet emergencies on the border. The
money is needed to buy equipment tor
the National Guard, Ia. ny from ma
chine guns to engineer implements. An
item of $450,000 is for the purchase OF
$50 machine guns which were destined
for use on European battletields, but have
been diverted to American uses.
Rports to the war department dur
ing the day continued to show salts
factory progress in the military prepar.
ations for any eventualties on or be-
yond the border. Recruiting for the reg
ular army increased more than 100 per
cent during the week ending at noon Fri
day, following an increase of more than
30 per cent the preceding seven days. A
total OF 2036 men were sworn in last
week as against ITO the week before The
preceding average weekly enlistFnt was
in the neighborhood OF 700.
During the 100 days of recruiting I'M
der the authority granted by Congress TO
increase the regular army immediately
after the Columbus raid, a total of 49,
PSI men have been accepted out OF 3d.
40G applicants for enlistment. New
York City led the recruiting last week
with 1924 men accepted against 273 the
preceding week. Chicago was next with
s97 against 227, and San Francisco third
with 42l against 81.