Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-18
BORAH DEMANDS ACTION
IN MEXICAN SITUATION

| WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-The battle In
! the Senate over the Mexican situation
was renewed today. Senator Lewis, OF
| Illinois. in response to the wish of the
| Administration, tried to have his reso-
luton authorizing intervention referred
| to the Foreign Relations Committee.
| Senator Borah, of Idaho. strenuously re-
| sisted the move and demanded immedi-
ate action by the Senate.
THE measure might az well be with
! drawn as sent to the Foreign Relations
| Committee declared Senator Borah.
1--WE need action now at this very hour
and we need drastic action. This Senate
ought to notify the Mexican people today
that we are ready to Use armed force
| to protect the lives OF our people"
Senator Lippitt, Republican, of Rhode
Island, tried to have read into a record
a newspaper editorial extolling Huerta.
Senator Myers, Democrat, of Montana
vigorously objected on the ground that
1t was wrong to compare the President
to 'cutthroat and a usurper"
Senator Stone, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, firmly declared "we
viii not have any more of this sort of
thing attempted or done In the Senate"
Vice President Marshall sustained the
objection and the reading of the editorial
was stopped
Senator Lippitt then introduced a reso-
luton directing the President to inter
vene, and insisted upon its immediate
consideration. Senator Lewis objected.
and Senator Stone tried to have IL re-i
ferred TO the Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
Senator Lippitt bluntly asked Senator
Stone how long 1t would be before the
President would act in Mexico. Senator
Storfe characterized the inquiry as be-
meath the dignity of the Senate, and de-
clined to answer.
Cruel, brutal and pusillanimous" was
the way Senator Lippitt described the
Presidents Mexican doctrine.
IF ! had been President on the day
the Chihuahua massacre another sun
would not have shone over the Sierra
Madre Mountains before American troops
would have been in Mexico In pursuit of
the murderers." said Senator Lippltt.
THE first scrap of paper / would have
used would have been TO instruct those
soldiers to punish them, their accom-
plices and sympathizers, until every
American ranchman in Mexico would be
as safe as I'm the city of Washington"
There are two or three Senators on
the Republican side athirst for war with
Mexico" replied Senator Stone. "A dec
laration of war would break their hearts;
IL would leave nothing to talk about They
are past military age. but their capacity
for YOlube defamation is unimpaired."
President Wilson and his Cabinet took
up the Mexican situation in detail to-
day. Secretary OF State Lansing carried
to the Cabinet meeting all of the informa-
tion his department has received from the
border. Mr., Lansing also gave a verbal
summary OF the mass of data compiled
" she State Department which will be
submitted to the Senate in answer to the
Fall resolution.
Just before the Cabinet meeting con- !
vened Senator Stone, chairman of the |
Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
held a 15-minute conference with Secre-
tary Lansing. Afterward Senator Stone |
said he expected to get the State De- |