Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-10-22
.Suspends Guarantees and
Orders Summary Pun
ishment.
NO TRIAL NEEDED
IF GUILT CERTAIN
A Preamble, Which Sets
Forth Reason. Given to
u. $. Conferees.

A TLANTIC CITY, n. j., oct 2l-
n General Carranzas decree of Oc-
tober suspending constitutional
guarantees throughout Mexico as
translated and laid before the Ameri-
can representatives on tlN Mexican
joint commission today provides that
for nearly all offeses not covered by
the civil code. summary punishment
may he inflicted by the military
authorities. Interference with rail-
way traffic robbery, incendiarism and
assault in its various forms are char
actcrizcd as crimes punishable by
death without the formality of trial
when the evidence is apparent In
no case has the accused the right to
appeal.
The preamble of the decree which
sets forth the reasons for the suspen-
sion of guarantees and which was of
especial interest to the American
commissioners follows:
Whereas brigandage has been de-
veloping in the country as an inevi-
table consequence of public upheavals
which have taken place during recent
years produced by the struggles which
1t was necessary to carry out: First
to overthrow the power which had
usurped the government of the re-
public and later to suppress the in
subordination OF the division of the
north and to exterminate the horde
which has invaded the state of More-
los
Armed Bands There.
"Whereas. the armed bands which
still remain in various parts of the
republic remnants of civil war, no
L., cip
standard or preteXt which can Justify
them in their looting expeditions and
raids, since 1t Is the sole purpose OF
such bands to attack villages ana
hamlets with the object of sacking
them, of committing outrages and as
sassinations or to shoot up, attack or
dynamite moving trains for the pur-
pose of robbing the cars, or burning
the bridges. stations, warehouses and
so forth. or to tear up the tracks or
destroy the telegraph and telephone
lines of federal companies and cor
porations.
Whereas. railroad traffic is him
dered in this way on many occasions
or Is rendered uncertain since, al
though the government takes tho
greatest care to protect the running
of trains and TO give all possible pro-
lection to travellers, 1t is impossible 10
the large number of railway lines and
the facility with which the malefac-
tors elude the reprcssVe action of tho
authorities as much because of tho
great extent Of the national territory
as because of its broken character ana
because Of the protection which these
bands frequently find among the rural
population, witch is due particularly
TO the fear inspired In them:
baraoG bripup1app all itS
manifestations has brought insecurity
in the country districts, forcing the
inhabitants of small communities 10
leave them and seek personal safety
N the larger ccnters Of population
which is notably injurious 90 agrlcul-
tur1l, commerce and other sources vt
national wealth. and since the cONsc-
GuenceS Of the evil we have been dis
cusaing have appeared recently even
In the principal cities. for even in tho
caTital itself persons walking tho
streets have been attacked at night,
suburban trains have been held up aud
the passengers robbed burglaiies az
cnmpanicd by violence have been Of
frequent occurrence in private resi-
dences. all Of which has greatly
alarmed the people So that it is an
urgent necessity that such serious
state Of affairs be put TO an end by
an extreme measure which may he cf-
ficacious In this instance and which
IN fact had excellent results in anull-
gous cases in other periods of the " ~
tion1l history as was the case after
tho three Years wur ion the time of tho
president Benito Jua'oz.
"Whercas, measures Of this kind
always have consisted I'm the applica-
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