The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-25

and Mr.. A%rredondo are certain 1t WV
come tomorrow.
Reports Of an unoficiai character
which came UP from the border to-day
80 the effect that Carransa forces COOP
Grating with Gen. Pershing had driven
villa into q trap from which there was
no escape found no ofncial confirmation
~ either the State or War Department.
IF any dehnite information Is being re.
ceivcd at the War Department regarding
the movements Of the expedition II ~
kind Of censorship.
Discussion Of the question Of the call.
ing out Of the National Guard for border
duty. thus leaving the regular army
forbes free for what may develop. 10
understood TO have been brought before
tho Cabinet by Postmaster.General Bur
Lesson, who. being q Texan. Ii said to
have been appealed TO BY members OF
Congress- from border States TO see h
could be done to provide better protec.
ton along the border.
These same members OF Congress. ap.
pealing direct &C the War Department,
have been. met with the laconic state.
ment Of army men that with h excep'
ton Of 5000 scattered troops practically
tho entire mobile army Ii already on
the border or in Mexico.
Question Threshed Ost.
Before the Cabinet meeting Mr.. Bur.
leson had an hours conference with the
President. Later at the Cabinet meeting
the entire question vas threshed out. not
only in the light Of what might happen
To require more troops but also In view
Of the movement which Senator Sher-
man. Republican, had been ~organisine
behind his resolution authorising the
President to call for $4,000 volunteers
TO pursue villa. This resolution, u 10
understood. is in high disfavor ~ the
White House at this time.
The Cabinet discussion hinged directly
on reports which members OF Congress
have been receiving from their constitu-
ents in border towns insisting that Car
rama was secretly massing large num-
beers Of Mexican troops along the border.
Secretary Lansing presented to NE
colleagues Information received TINS
morning from American Consuls IN
northern Mexico denying those reports
The information was telegraphed to
Washington in direct response. II was
learned. to inquiries sent yesterday by
tho State Department.
The oficia, dispatches were sufficiently
impressive In contradiction OF the
alarming unofficial reports to con-
vince the President and his advisers
thai there was no necessity Of calling on,
the National Guard.
The opinion was expressed later BY
members that such a move except fo'
. OF definite alarm would only
further tend to embarrass Carranxa In
his efforts to control the situation II
Mexico. Moreover. Secretary OF Wal
Baker Is understood to have told the
Cabinet that Major-Gen. Funston HIM
self has not asked for more troops.
Even Postmaster-Gene Burleson ap-
peared content with the decision and lef'
the White House emphatic In branding
the alarmist reports as Ties manufac'
tured by persons interested In bringing
about intervention" He referred par
ticularly, he said. to certain newspaper
interests in this country.
Senator Stone I'm the meantime ha
conferred with officials at the state ant
War Departments and when he tool
the fioor in the Senate this afternoon
he read from consular reports to show
that the complications were exaggerated
"An effort" the Senator charged. 81,
being made by numerous sinister inhu,
ences in and out OF Mexico to excite and
infame Mexicans, to tell them that tbs
United States contemplates an aGyres
sion against their whole Government ant
people. Every man with sense enough Il
come in out of the wet knows the situa'
tion In Mexico Is a critical one.
1T is critical in this sense. that an 81
fort is being made &c mislead the Mexi
cans as to the intentions OF this Gov
ernment.'
Following Is a summary OF the consu
lar reports which the State Department
gave out:
The Department is in receipt OF Of
hcial advices from Juarez dated
March 30. ! +. NJ, stating that the
garrison at that place has not been
Increased. II is reported that In view
Of the fact that bandit aid have
ceased there is M demand for an In
creased garrison at that place. II IL
reported also that the elimination Of
Gen. villa from that section OF The
State OF Chihuahua has had a reas-
suring effect upon the populace,
a despatch dated March 90 from
Matamoros states that everything Is
quiet in the Matamoros district,
quiet at TOrrcon.