Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-07
SENATE DEMANDS
DATA ON MEXICO
Wilson Asked to Give Information
on Which He Based Recogni-
tion of Carranza.
FALL ASSAILS PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Jan 6.-Senator
Marines resolution asking the pres
ident to set aside day as Jewish
relief day for Jewish war sufferers
was adopted today after Chairman
Stone of the foreign relations COM
mittee had said that while he ap-
proved such a cause in relation to
the Poles and Jews, whom, he said,
were without government of their
own, he hoped it would not extend to
any of the organized nations.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.--Senator Falls
resolution calling upon President Wilson
for information upon which he had based
recognition of the Carrsnza government
In Mexico. was agreed to unanimously
today by the senate. Chairman Stone or
the foreign relations committee saw no
objection to its adoption and moved II be
passed.
senator Fall in opening the promised
republican attack on the administrators
Mexican policy, said that former presi-
dents had taken congress into their con-
fidence when considering recognition of
foreign governments. The last communi-
cation from President Wilson. he con-.
tinued, was a message April 20, 1914, in
which the president said there was no
governmehtTin Mexico. Now the senate
was asked to confirm the nomination of
Henry PBather Fletcher as ambassador
to Mexico.
Falls Remarks.
Senator Fall declared:
II have never known of a time before
when any president has dared ignore the
congress of the United States. 1t has
been ignored by the present occupant of
the White House.
Senator Lodge urged adoption Of the
resolution.
rs our ambassador" he asked. ito go
to Mexico City, where Carranza has not
gone. or will he follow the fitting camp
| of the first chief wherever 1t goes? Re-
Gently. not only in Mexico, but elsewhere,
our government has adopted plan of
dealing through furtive agents of per-
sonal nature.
II think 1t probably desirable, however,
that we have a recognized ambassador in
Mexico to look after the Americans who
remain unmurdered there and fragments
of property that are left. but l think we
should be Informed officially by the presi-
dent regarding the gokernment to which
he IL to be assigned"
! Senator John Sharp Williams in the
/ course of the debate asserted the right of
/ self-government was inseparable from
the right of lf-misgovernment"
Mexican affairs cannot be settled by
spasmodic interference" he said, land
! IL you try TO do it by annexation youll
fail. You cannot make a Mexican self
governing by any amount OF interfer-
ence"
Calls IL TreasOnabIe.
! Reverting to yesterdays discussion of
| the shipment of munitions OF war SEN
ator Williams declared the doctrine of
| permitting the sale of firearms was es-
( tablished when the doctrine of noninter-
/ ference with other nations was born. and
J denounced as reasonable those who
/ charge that the sale OF ammunition Is
/ countenanced only by those who seek a
profit from It,
I He declared for an immediate policy of
( preparedness 10 save the United States
from European bullying If not actual
I attack at the close of the European war. I"
THE theory that Europe will be too ex-
hausted 10 attack after the war is false. -
said he. zone European power already
/ believes that We have made ourselves the
allies of the other belligerents. Unless
we have an army and navy that will
| make them doubt that they can control
us, after the war win come the bullying.
/ II we are wise and patient enough to
/ stand the bullying it will be all right.
Z but the American people are not that