The courier-index., 1919-12-19


 making certain other concessions. This scale was submitted to the fuel ad- ministration before being made public. Though in most of the mine fields the men were reported to be firmly stand- ing for the 31 per cent increase which Secretary Wilson proposed, in some parts of the country they were said to be drifting back to work on the Garfield basis; and it was hoped that even if their union did not accept the new scale offered, it would help to break down the holdout of the more stubborn.
 At this writing Consular Agent Jen- kins is still in jail at Puebla the state department at Washington is await ing a reply to it's second request that he be released immediately, and Pres ident Carranza is in conference with Generals Marguia and Dieguez, two of his strongest military commanders. Secretary Lansing's second note went to considerable length to refute the contentious put forward by Mexico in the Jenkins case and closed with a repetition of the urgent request for the freeing of the consular agent, but 1t was no more of an ultimatum than the first note. The Mexican congress formally put the whole matter in the hands of Carranza.
 Many members of congress as well as many other Americans are not sat isfed with the administration's Mex ican policy, and in response to this feeling Senator Fall of New Mexico drafted a resolution requesting Pres ident Wilson to sever diplomatic re- lations with Mexico, and to withdraw his recognition of the Carranza gov ernment. The resolution was taken under consideration by the foreign re- lations committee, and that body had before it copies of official documents said to disclose the activities of Car ranza, his embassy in Washington and his consulates in various American revolutionary outbreaks. There was a report that these documents were supplied by Secretary Lansing, who wished congress to relieve him of the responsibility for aggressive action against Mexico. It was said that Pres ident Wilson had not been consulted concerning the Mexican crisis and that the state department wanted congress sional action before breaking off dip lomatic relations. If this were the state of affairs, it seemed likely that Mexico could not avert the rupture now by releasing Mir. Jenkins. The demand that the whole unsavory mess be cleaned up is growing insistent, notwithstanding the fact that the mo- tives of some of the loudest shouters for such action are open to grave sus- picion.
 When he introduced his resolution Senator Fall said the evidence by which it is supported twill astound tile people of the United States when it is produced" Senator Ashurst scored the war department for ignoring re- peated requests for sufficient troops to protect the border Senator Shields of Tennessee, a Democrat, said :: "There is no question that our rela- tions with Mexico constitute the most humiliating chapter of our foreign re- lations and that there ought to be some action to protect the citizens of the United States. We have had oc- casion for war with Mexico for five years, and now this resolution ought to declare war against Mexico"
 Germany persisted in its refusal to sign the protocol and thus delayed the interchange of notifications and the proclamation of peace. The Germans objected especially to the requirement that they make reparation for the sinking of the surrendered war ships in Scapa Flow; to the evacuation of Lithuania; to the necessity of turning over to the allies for trial the German officers accused of crimes, and to the | paragraph which. as Baron von Lers- ner says, would permit the invasion of our country by armed force in times of peace on any trivial pretext." The supreme council showed no disposi- ton to recede from its position, and 1 as the American delegation delayed its departure and supported it's col leagues entirely, 1t seemed certain the Germans would yield soon. Their assertion that if the terms are too drastic their government will fall and the country lapse into bolsheyism is discounted, for recent investigators have learned that that kind of talk so prevalent since the signing of the