Arizona republican., 1916-09-13
PRESIDENT TO LEAVE BEDSIDE
 IF HIS SISTER
Republican A. p. Leased wirel

sicians attending his sister. Mrs Anne E. Howe, who is critically ill here and constantly under the influence of opi- ates, that she might finger in her pres ent condition for several days
 The president, it was announced, plans to return here if there is a def mite turn for the worse in Mrs. Howes condition.
 The president expects to leave here on the yacht Mayflower. No definite hour has been set for his departure | Mrs Wilson will accompany him.
 After consultation with Dr. H. M | Lee. Dr. Edward II. Davis of Phila- | delphia tonight made the following | statement
 Mrs. Howes physicians have ad- vised the president that she no longer | will be able to recognize him clearly 1 or comprehend his visits as she must ! be kept almost constantly under the | influence of opiates. While Mrs. Howe | cannot recover her life may continue for several days or more, and in view of these facts and the urgent duties dev0lving upon the president, the phy- sicians have advised him to remain no longer It is the presidents intention to join Mrs. HoWe's children at the earliest possible moment when the end of her illness comes. In her weak con dition, the visits of relatives and friends so excite her that from now on, no one will be allowed to converse with her"
 Soon after MT Davis gave out his statement he and Dr. Lee joined in the following bulletin on Mrs. Howes condition:
 Mrs. Howe has been comfortable today but has failed slightly during the last 24 hours"
 The physicians added that lt was better for the president to remember his sister as he saw her today when she was conscious for a short time
 President Wilson lent his personal touch today to aid the efforts of the American Mexican joint commission in seeking d permanent foundation of un- derstanding upon which may rest the relations of the United States and Mexico
 Putting aside for one hour his own cares and his vigil at the bedside Of his sister. who Is dying here MT. Will son exchanged calls with General Car ranza's representatives. It was the first time during his administration that the executive had dealt personally with 8 representative Of the Mexican de facto government, and the signifi- canoe of this fact was not lost upon ! either the American or Mexican com missioners
 l For the first time also, representa- | tlves of General Carranza received di- rectly from the man in whose hands l perhaps lies the fate of their country his statement of sympathy with the aims of the revolution which has torn Mexico.
 1 The regeneration of the stricken na- ] tion must come from within. Mir Will son said: and, ip answer for his com rades and himself Luis Cabrera, Car rauZa's minister of finance and chair man Of the Mexican delegation. as- serted that his country was struggling | toward the light of free and demo- cratic, government
 Mr. Wilson laid great stress. 1t was ! learned. upon the point as to the pres ent conference upon which both Sec retary Lansing and Secretary Lane ] centered their remarks at the first meeting of the commission in New ! York-the protestntion of American ] lives and property in Mexico. The president said he hoped the commission would be successful m i finding a solution for it's problems, which would insure the security Of Americans. not only along the border, ! but in any part of Mexico.
 The meeting was arranged when the 1 president arrived yesterday. sum- l moned 10 the bedside of his stricken relative. Mrs. Anne F. Howe 4 mes sage of sympathy from MT. Cabrera and his associates was caried to MT Wilson by Secretary Lane, chairman l of the American commission me message contained the hope also that the Mexican representatives might pay their respects to the president Tn per son before they returned home. me ] executive signified his wish to meet ! the Mexican delegates at once. Dur ing such hours as the president is ab- i sent from his sisters room he is living aboard the naval yacht Mayflower. and it was arranged that the three Mex ! ican commissioners could pay ther 1 visit aboard the ship.
 Accompanied by the three American delegates the Mexican party was taken to the Nayflower in navy launch that had been placed at the services Of the ! joint body The visitors were received with full naval honors eXceptihat the salute was omitted A brief exchange of greetings took place in the presi- dents salon. Secretary Lane intro duced his Mexican conferees.
 l Within fifteen minutes after the 1 Mexican commissioners had returned
 to the hotel where the conferences are taking place, the presidents barge conveyed the executive from the May
 flower on return visit.
 At the hotel pier he was met by Sec | retary Lane. Judge Gray and John E. ! Mott the American commissioners, and
 escorted to a great sun parlor where the Mexican representatives awaited
 him. For half an hour the president
 and the six commissioners chatted in
 formally. Mrs. Wilson in the barge
 awaited her husbands return.
 The president went directly to the
 subject of the Mexican revolution. He
 was. he said, more familiar than his
 hearers perhaps realized with the fun
 damental principles of the struggle for
 free government in Mexico. He as
 sured them of his deep sympathy with
 those aims, adding that all right think .
 ing men must sympathize with such
 high aspirations.
 During the conversation Mir. Wilson
 indicated his comprehension { of the
 great problems political, economic and
 social, which Mexico .s facing In this
 connection he said snat regeneration
 must come from within and that de
 velopment must be parallel in all three
 lines.
 Mir. Cabrera, in his reply, referred to
 the United States as leader of the
 movement for free government and as
 the tutor to whom Mexico must look
 in striving for the type of government
 it's people sought Much had been done
 he said, but much also remained to 5e
 accomplished before the aims of tho
 revolution could be achieved.
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