The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-18
California Scion Accuses Con-
yress Of DOdging Responsibility
and Permitting President To
Shoulder Burdens Of Issue
WILSON AND CABINET
SAY KEEP HANDS OFF,
General Carranza, Through His
Washington Representative,
Has Promised To Punish WI
llstas For Murder Of Miners
tAssociasec. Psers by Fedsrai wireles.l

NAAH'tAaNSNs AfNFI W NNuNNal WAESto11sl
NVJAsh1NuToN, January 49,
w Congress lodged its response:
bility In Mexico and permitted
IL 10 rest upon the. shoulders Of the
lrcsidept,' Senator Works OF 0alifor.
MIA told his fellow solons yesterda.
afternoon In a scathiug address ON the
sAuation created by the wiiful murder
OF sixteen American miners in Mex
lsOsby villa troops last Tuesday.
.isOongress alOhe has the right to de.
clare war, continued the senator, for
taat ) what intervention in the south
EN- republic means, and congress atone
s..oald shoulder the responsibility for
ai,y such aetiUn.yS <
"A resolution. calling for intervention
ia Mexico, introduced by the Califor.
hga senator, was referred TO the com
n tee On foreign relations. A.
Cabinet Says Hands on r..
While the debate in the senate was
going 5h President Wilson ealied n
L-coItng Of his cabinet to consider the
Aiexieun situation. After some discus.
s.on 1t was decided that the United
satus will, for the present, at least,
continue its former attitude Of Glands
OF Sand hepend upon General Car,
MA 10 punish the murders of the
h.fnerS. IL was announced that General
tiarranzn had, through his representa-
TIE here, promised 20 pupisn Genersli
Villa for his part in the slaughter
WITH Chg rel orts I fresh crimes ~
on foreigners in Mexico and news Oh
the serious nnti.Mexiran riots in FL
tasO, c0ngr s. ,stsrday directed it's
whole, at ept- on to me plan for safe
gunnling American lives and property
In he reyoiutionary districts.
5 nator J. ID. WOlks' re Olution au-
fhoriz s and d.fects the President to
int rytne In Mexico 10 establish an 1
MAINTAIN stable government there I'M
tai il ~ s4fe for the United States to
withdraw and. the lives Of its citizens
are abnhdantly safegnarded. ...#
attack Upon Administration s
THIS resolution lis one of series of
attacks on Tn a imin .straiion s Mes.
lean pol ey Which are ex teeted to m i,
aetinl ~ amoAg the me nbers of the
Opposition. Hartman Stone of the
comm. ttee on foreign relations is now
ta,het ing 1 formation as to the admin
islrlt.on 5 ATTITUDE and it's various
ae.s sn e. the M6M an problem be-
came pressing, with the OBJ icct of meet.
ing, exp ct d att+eks.
Senator stone said that he does not
expect that American troops will be
sent into Mexico unless Developments
compel 1t. He considers that the vii.
Iistas became enraged at the recognition
Of Carranza by, the Pan American pow.
eis, led by the United States, and deter
mined TO force intervention, taking as
their eOntse the slaughter Of Americans
TO create an issue between Washington
and Carranza Is government.
Americans In MADEIRA Safe
Reports from Mexico feceivod by the
ftate department AID other officials yes
terday say that the Americans who
were attacked in MADEIRA are safe, hay
Jag been able to stand off the YiIhsta
force,
1t is denied that ten Americans and
two English women were murdered. The
MADEIRA colony, armed and determined
10 fight 10 the last, was assist ed by a
few carranza soldiers when the Willis
tas attacked, and the defenders are
reported to have routed the bandits.
Washington also was informed yester.
day that martial law was not declared
late the day before in N Paso as re.
ported When the rfotiug became Sc
we're, provost patrols were hurried into
the streets aud used TO cheek disorders