El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-18
MANY PAPERS
DENIED SENATE
President and Secretary of
State Withhold Vital In
formation on Mexico.

Washington, D. c., Feb 1S.-Much
vital information regarding Mexico
was not included in the mass OF docu-
ments sent by the president ana sec
rotary of state Lansing Thursday to
the senate. and senator A. B. Fail, OF
New Mexico, declared that the omis-
sions made the matter which was
turned over useless for the senate's
purposes. He said the apparent pur-
pose was to Illustrate possible attacks
on the governments Mexican policy.
Secretary Lansing said that the with
held documents comprised confidential
reports from consuls. representatives, of
foreign powers and many private in
dividuals in Mexico, the publishing of
whose communications would seriously
emharrass them.
Included in the state department doc
uments regarding Mexico sent to the
senate were copies of president VIII
sons appeal to the Mexican factions last
June urging them to get together;
datn regarding the Pan-Amrican con-
ference which resulted ultimately in
the recognition of Carranza; a copy
OF the appeal to the factions issued by
the Pan-American conference; CORES
pondence between the state department
and Carranza; communications from
Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican ambas-
sador- designate to the United States
relative to guarantees Of protection of
Americans and other foreigners. indem-
mites and individual freedom of wor-
ship according to everyone's con-
ing war department operations during
border troubles last summer, and re-
ports on the taking and occupation Of
Veracruz and many other subjects.
WAR Department Letter Included.
The correspondence also included a
letter from former secretary Garrison
20 secretary Lansing, dated January rs,
1915, containing a geenral report of
the army operations to suppress border
uprislngs last fall In this letter sec
rotary Garrison said:
Commanders of United States troops
on the Mexican border were ordered to
give all possible protection to American
life and property, TO warn the COM
manders OF Mexican forces along the
border to refrain from any action that
would endanger American life and
property on the American side Of the
border, and to inform them that United
States forces would be used to prevent
action by Mexican troops endangering
life and property on the American side
of the line"
In submitting the list of rs Americans
killed in Mexico in 1913, 1914 and 1915.
secretary Lansing called attention to
the fact that when the murder Of
American citizens was reported, the de-
partment Of state made representations
for the apprehension and punishment
of the assailants and that in some in
stances the departments representa-
tiYes made such representations to the
appropriate officials on their own ini-
tiative.
List of Americans Killed.
The following is a list of those
killed from causes that can be attrib-
uted directly to the revolution.
In 1913: John B. Alamia. hanged as
a spy, Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas.
John Henry Thomas. assassinated by
fnnnr-uT rC1I
band
William C. Robertson, murdered BY
reyolutionists. Mazatlan, Sin.
Porfirio Lauhel, stebbed to death.
Nueva Laredo
Charles Zeegerson. accidentally shot
Juarez
LicianO Martinez. killed in battls
while a prisoner in Tampico district.
Incarnation Sanchez. murdered bv
41g Iosd ieoeral OFFICERS in Mexican
Jose valencia, murdered same place.
Casualties in 1914.
erals: Tampico. ~
Guy S. Sawyer, fatally wounded dur
ing ING alta, attack on Monterey by constitu-
Dr. E E. Kelley. killed by indian SOL
diers in Sonora
F. C. Chapell. killed by Mexican SOL
diers at NOgales, Sonora.
Long List in 1915
In 1915: John B. McManus, killed
by Zapatistas in Mexico City while de-
tending his home against assault.
isaac \: Ely, accidentally shot By
Tampico.
J. n. Bennett. shot by Villistas vvbfIe
n launch with Carranza soldiers off
rampicO.
A. Martinette. killed by villista SOL
Tiers at Cumpas.
Edgar Bean, murdered at Puertecitos
Sonora.
Some Merely Disappeared.
ably were killed:
Gustav Bauch, disappeared while nm
Villistas. 80 ~
Harry Compton, disappeared. sun
posed to have been executed at Chihua-
Charles Milton, reported murdered b..
'aha OF Huerta followers in Sonora.
ack on Monclova al at
Gnarles s. Dalrymp1e, last seen in
'rISon IN 1915 at Victoria.
Peter Scott, reported killed near No
sales, Sonora W.
- Those sInin BY bandits.
lits o. nS are those killed by ban
w, US ana whose deaths are not attrib-
~ Po-iL eetIy to the revolution:
S noris Gorow, Topic
Mrs Charles f. Ross. also l,nou,D a..
Altty Hines murdered by Mexicane
ty a. INN ahua
LM13aurlce p Root, stabbed to death
'hlIe resisting robbery. Mazatian.
Iegras 90
Weston Berwell, killed at Ozutluna
y orders Of a federal officer.
Z. b. Hoadley. reported killed in raids
n mines in Guadalajara district
John Glenn Parmenter, murdered at
iuadalajara.
EDWARD Freeman Wells, killed when
ram was attacked near Veracruz
James Jacoby. murdered at Chihua-
James E. Taylor, fatally wounded re-
lstlng robbery at his home near Vera
rue.
Victims of Indians.
Killed by indians:
EDWARD g. Dexter, near Oaxaca
Tom Farrell, IN Herrnosillo district.
Q. A. L. Squires, La Colorado.
John Williams, in Sonora
Eugene Camera, Lencho station, So
ora.
c. NJ. Brown, in Mazatlan district.
John P. Wilson, TT Esperanza, Sonora.
J. J. Donovan, same place
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