The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-10
Agitation and Announcements
Before Body Today.
Wilson's Action Wholly JuSti-
fled, Is General Belief.
PATIENCE NO LONGER A VIRTUE!
Rep. Smith Suggests Capturing
and Hanging of Villa.
No Longer Stand for Such Ac-
tiOns on Part of Mexicans.

Washington. March 1o.-while
the president and the cabinet
were deciding to send the troops over
tho border. the agitation had broken
out afresh in congress.
Senator McCumber anj Senator
Fall, both Republicans introduced res
olutions proposing armed action in
different ways. Both resolutions were
referred to the foreign relations COM
mittee while Chairman Stone coun-
selled his colleagues to let the execu-
tive department of the government
handle the situation.
While the senate was talking and
some deSultory speeches were being !
made in the house the president acted
and the leaders notified quickly by
telephone from the White House
passed the word around. 1t spread
quickly, but both house and senate
received it as coolly as an announces
ment of the passage of a routine bill.
The Democrats generally expressed
the opinion that the presidents action
was wholly justified and the Repub-
licans who have been urging action
expressed qualification T. it had
! been taken. There was no sign of dis
\ SenSion
If President Wilson appears before
congress within the next few DAYS il
probably will be to inform that body
| fully and officially of the state of af-
fairs in northern Mexico which led IT'D
to the sending of American forces and
to take congress fully into his conf
dence
No Formal Action.
When the Atlantic fleet went to
4 Vera Cruz in 1914, congress, at the
presidents request, passed n resolution
authorizing him to use armed forces
of the United States
NO such action is considered neces-
sary in the present situation at this
stage The administration holds that
the president is fully vested and the
constitution with authority to repel
invasion and that there are ample
precedents in international law for
his action, especially in the dealing
| OF the United States with Mexico. Ap-
plause greeted demand in the house
thaI troops be sent across the border.
He Would Hang Them.
The government should take this
matter in hand at once" said Rem
resentative Smith of Texas. send
troops after the assassins and pursue
them until they are captured They
should be brought back alive or dead.
If they are captured alive they should
be brought to Columbus and hanged.
l would put no limit on the number Of
miles our troops might have to go into
Mexico to do this. 70 Carranza
would say that we are only doing our
duty
Patience No Longer a Virtue
Representative Hernandez of New
Mexico evoked enthusiasm in the
house by urging that Carranza either
be forced to restore normal conditions
or United States troops be sent INTO
the country.
In the light of this most recent out
rage, patience has ceased to be a. vir-
tue with u.s. he shouted.
I'VE assume that Villas object is to
force Intervention in Mexico but
whatever his object is, we cannot
longer stand for such raids as sIe
one just committed"
For Half Million Men.
Washington, March 1O-Senator
Fail also introduced his resolution
providing for the recruiting of 100000
volunteers TO police Mexico.
Only Beginning of Trouble.
Senator Ashurst, Democrat. of Arf-
zona, sought immediate consideration
of the McCumber resolution but it was
blocked on objection by Senator Stone.
Mr.. Ashurst declared that from his
own information of condition on the
border ne knew that troubles in Mex
leo instead of nearing an end were
only beginning.
Senator McCumber asked Senator
Ashurst If he was in favor of the
passage of his resolution. Mr. Ashurst
brought forth applause from the gall
leries by declaring that although the
tShOotlhS was not IN ms state ne was
not senator of a state but of the
United States and ready to protect oeo-
pie no matter in what state they lived.
Grape Shot VS.. Grape Juice.
1T is the duty of the senate" said
he. ito vote authority to send troops
after those red handed cutthroats.
bring them back to Columbus where
they made a funeral pyre out of Amer
lean citizens and shoot them on the
spot That is. 1 would give them
grape shot instead of grape juice