Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-12
Carranza Called On to
Act in Murder of IL
u. S. Citizens.
LANSING SORRY HIS ADVICE
TO KEEP AWAY UNHEEDED
Senator Sherman Asks Inter-
yenti0n ii Mexican Chief
Does Not Comply.
WILSON MEXICAN POLICY
ATTACKED IN CONGRESS
House Resolution Calls for
End of "WatchfuI Waiting"
Stone Defends Administration.

WASHINGTON, w Jan. 12.-The Next
can situation has been brought to the
boiling point again by the execution
or the sixteen or more Americans
near Chihuahua. In Congress, at the
White House and at the state depart
ment today it entirely displaced the
submarine controversy and all other
international affairs.
Secretary Lansing, after sending q
demand for satisfaction to General
Carranza, issued a statement declar-
ing it was to be deplored that the
Americans had not followed the state
departments warning against expos
ing their lives in the guerilla warfare
region, and adding:
Every step will be taken to see
that the perpetrators of this dastardly
crime are apprehended and punished.
Pan-Americans Move for Order.
In the Senate an expected storm
broke as soon as it assembled. Sena-
tor sherman, Republican, introduced
resolution proposing that unless
General Carranza gives proper protee-
tion to foreign life and property the
United States should invite the Pan
American nations which have been
associated in the Mexican negotiations
to join in restoring order and govern
ment in Mexico.
Senator Shermans resolution was
read to the Senate, and, without COM
ment or discussion of any kind. WAS
referred to the foreign relations COM
mittee
| In the House, Representative Dyer,
Z int H..
/ luton, calling on the president to in
! form Congress if he did not believe
the time had come to abandon the
| ''watchful waiting policy. Other
members gave notice of their inten-
tion to make speeches. The admins
tration was not without it's defenders.
who, gave notice that they would
/ speak also.
No Further Action Indicated.
| While the White House and the
State department exhibited evidences
of concern, there was no indication
today of proceeding further than call
| ing upon General Carranza to punish
/ the bandits who executed the Ameri-
I cans, and to give proper guarantees
for the lives and safety of foreigners.
| More information was sought from
all the State departments sources.
Elesio Arredondo, General Carranza's
ambassador here, received official con-
| firmation of the killings, and asked
| his government for more details
! While the White House and the
State department gave evidences of
action toward the punishment OF the
| Villa bandits who executed the Amer
leans, there was no outward evidence
of any change in the Mexican policy,
| The usual talk of intervention was
aroused in Congress and in official
circles, but there was no indication
that the administration. at this time.
at least, plans to do more than look
to General Carranza to put down the
outlaws.
Secretary Lansing's statement was
as follows:
'Tn October the department sent
the strongest kind of instructions to
the consuls in the States of Chihua-
! hua and Sonora, calling upon them to
use every means in their power to
persuade Americans to leave immedi-
ately for United States territory, and
these consuls were instructed to em-
ploy special riders to carry this mes
sage to Americans located in isolated
sections. A few came out. Some, re-
gardless of the disturbed conditions
existing in Mexico, did not heed the
warning.
"It was only two or three weeks ago
that Villa detained thirty Americans
in the very district in which the un-
fortunate Americans now reported
killed met their death. Great alarm
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