The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-10
CARRANzA'S PLAN
First Chiefs Suggestions to
q. s. Expected Tomorrow.
ArredOndO to Meet Acting Sec
rotary Polk for Conference.
KEEP TROOPS ON BORDER
Military Authorities Oppose
Sending Guards Home.
Captain BOyd's Funeral To Be
Held Tomorrow.
KEEP TROOPS ON BORDER

Washington, July 10.-Eliseo Are
dondo, Mexican amba ssado designate,
is expected to furnish Acting Secretary
Polk Tuesday with CarranZa's sugges-
tons for protection Of the border and
settlement of outstanding questions
between the United States and Mexico.
Unless present plans are changed
and negotiations taken up direct be-
tween Washington and Mexico City,
Acting Secretary Polk and Mr.. Are
dondo will take up the proposals and
counter proposals of both governments
ard attempt to compose the differ
ences at informal conference. The
completed agreement reached will be
submitted to President Wilson and
! General Carranza for ratification.
The detail of pressing importance is
/ that relating to the effective patrol of
| the border. State department officials
say this will be insisted on first as on
it depends the date of the withdrawal
of General Pershing's troops and the
return of the national guardsmen to
| their homes.
Keep Troops on Border.
Records today show there are 49,
| 900 national guardsmen on the Dor
der and an equal numb Der in state mo-
blliZation points preparing for depart
ure. Army officers insist that no mat
ter what steps the state department
may dictate with reference to with
drawing General Pershing army, the
militia should be maintained on the
border for a period of time sufficient
to give the officers and men needed
| training. AS in the case of the with
draWal of the troops, however, army
officers realize that the president will
have the ruling voice in disposing of
the militia.
State department officials seem al
| ready assured that Carranza will i'm
nled.ately suggest that a strong force
of MeXicans take care of the Mexican
side of the border while an equally
strong force of United States troops
guard the American
Carranza'S idea, as understood here,
is that United States troops be kept
in the border towns on this side of the
line and in camps where there are no
towns and that the Mexicans De dis
posed on the other side of the line in
towns and camps, the location OF
which is to be determined by joint
American-Mexic military board.
Plans to Make Show.
Army men believe that Carranza, if
not threatened again seriously by a
new instruction of VillistaS other
factions will be able to make show
of force along the border and in
duce the United States to accept his
! terms
With the theoretical policing of the
border agreed upon. Secretary Polk
and Mr.. Arredondo will take up the
next question of national and munich
pal questions which Carranza has
promised and never carried through.
These questions and various others re-
lated to Mexico's economic conditions
will be disposed of before serious con-
sideration is given to steps for re-
facilitating Mexican finances, officials
said.
While the state department was pre-
pairing for the diplomatic negotiations
with Carranza the war department
was making preparations for the fun
eral of Capt. c. T. Boyd and the nine
colored troopers who were slain in the
Carrizal ambush.
The funeral train bearing the bodies
of Captain Boyd andth nine troopers
will reach Washington today. 1t will
| be met by a detachment of cavalry
and Captain Boyd's body, on a caisson
will be taken to the home of Medical
| Director F. S. Nash, U. s. n. Inter-
ment will be at Arlington cemetery
Tuesday. Plans for the burial of the
colored troopers at Arlington will be
made later.