Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-21
VILLA CAPTURE
NOT CONFIRM
State Department Without
Late Information Regarding
the Rumor.
SOME OF THE REPORTS
RATED CONFIDENTIAL
Response of the President to Senate
Resolution Will Be Guarded
From Publicity.

The State Departments only infor-
nation early today on the reported
capture of Gen. Villa was in delayed
dispatches from agents at Ell Paso con-
veying last nights unconfirmed re-
ports that he was a prisoner. The re-
ports could not be confirmed, it was
stated.
Another dispatch repeated the report
from Chihuahua that eighteen bandits.
alleged to have been among those who
killed the Americans at Santa Ysabel,
had been brought there and would be
executed today.
Some of the information regarding
Mexico to be sent by President Wilson
to the Senate in response to Senator
Falls resolution will be marked con-
fdential and will not be made public.
All the facts in the possession of the
State Department will be sent to the
Senate. but officials said today that 1t
would not he wise to make public all
the information. Secretary Lansing
said the data had not been fully col
lected and he could not indicate when
il would be ready for the President.
The Mexican question was discussed
briefly at today's cabinet meeting.
Senator Stone at State Department.
Senator Stone. chairman of the for
eign relations committee. visited the
State Department today to learn the
latest news from Mexico
Some of the republican senators are
not willing to pull the chestnuts out of
the fire for the democratic administra-
ton so far as the Mexican situation is
concerned, it was said today, and for
that reason they do not propose to
take any action in regard to Mexico.
OF course there are some OF the re-
publicans who are ready to act now
on the situation, among them being
Senator Borah of Idaho, who an
nounced his desire to take affirmative
action. This announcement was made
not only on the floor of the Senate, but
also in the foreign relations commit
tee meeting last Wednesday.
But Notwithstanding the debate of
the Mexican question during the last
week or two. in which the admlnistra-
tion's course has been roundly de-
Der of the Senate members ready to
act to make it worth the while for
Senator Borah to move that the SEN
ate foreign relations committee be dis
charged from consideration of any of
the Intervention resolutions which it
now has before it.
Makes Careful Inquiry.
Senator Borah has been looking into
or two, and he does not propose to
make such a motion unless it becomes
apparent that he will have considerable
support for it.
Employers of Indians in the Yaqui
valley, Sonora, have been ordered by
the Carranza government to submit a
monthly report giving the names of
their workmen to enable military au-
thorities to keep a check on those who
hide their guns one day while en-
ployed in the fields and disappear into
the lines of the rebels the next.
Failure to submit such a report, ac-
cording to advices to the State De-
partment from the west coast of
Mexico. is punishable by a years i'm
prisonment.
Action by State Government.
The state government for the same
reason is taking a census of all Indians
in the towns and country around Quay
mas.
Additional troops have been moved
into position for the campaign against
the Indians. Reports to the department
said that a train of thirty-five cars of
provisions for the troops in the field
had been sent from HermoSillo.
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