The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-05
BULLETIN
(Rv AHsociated PresS1

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WASHINGTON, Dec 5-The Ameri-
can embassy at Mexico City notified
the state department today that
American Consular Agent William o.
Jenkins at Puebla, Mexico, had been
released from custody. 1t was an
noQnced at the state department that
the advjces from the embassy said
Jenkins had been liberated last night
from the penitentiary where he had
been held pending trial on charges of
giving false information regarding his
abduction by Mexican bandits in
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-President
Wilson was to see Senators Fall, Re-
publican. New Mexico, and Hitchcock.
Democrat, Nebraska. at 2:30 p. m.
today to discuss the Mexican question.
Senator Fall announced that imme-
diately after the conference he would
make public the evidence on which
he based his charges in the senate
that the Mexican ambassador and
consuls in the United States. were
circulating "red" propaganda.
The senators will go to the white
house after the presidents cabinet has
held a special meeting. at which the
Mexican situation will be discussed.
The meeting was called today by Sec
retary Lansing, who spent nearly two
hours before the foreign relations
committee yesterday, discussing the
Fall and Hitchcock resolution and the
Mexican question generally.
The decision to lay the whole ques-
ton before the president was reached
late yesterday after day of vigorous
activity on the part of the committee,
including a long conference with Am
bassador Fletcher and Secretary Ian
sing, who told the committee he had
not discussed any detail of the recent
developments with President Wilson
and that the entire negotiations grow
ing out of the arrest of Consular
Agent Jenkins had been handled by
the state department.
Following. this statement Senator
Fall introduced a resolution before the
committee calling for the delegation
of two members to wait upon the
president and seek his PERSONAL views
on the Mexican policy. The resolution
was adopted strictly on a partisan
vote, the Democrats opposing.
Senators Fall. Republican, New Mex:
leo, and Hitchcock, Democrat. Nebras-
ka, were chosen for the mission and
it was understood that DR.. Grayson.
the presidents personal physician.
was willing to grant the senators a
conference with the president today.
DR.. Grayson declared the president
was showing rapid improvement, and
| that while he would not object to the
call Of the senators, he would not per
NIT any effort to beckle the patient.
The entire status of relationship be-
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was barred before the committee and
! past negotiations were disclosed
| which heretofore had been held in
confidence by the state department.
Secretary Lansing was understood
to have told the committee that the
administration had adopted within re.
cent months a more vigorous policy
toward Mexico in demanding protec-
tion Of American lives and property In
the southern republic. He is said to
have added, however, that precipitate
action by congress probably would
embarrass the state department in its
present negotiations and advised post
pOnement of congressional action un'
| til President Carranza had answered
| the latest note and disclosed his at
titude toward the United States.
| A policy of leniency toward Mexico
the secretary is quoted as saying, was
adopted by the United States during
the world war for fear of detractine
from the major conflict across the
seas but that since the war had ended
q strong stand had been substituted
from which there had been no de
Walton.
Ambassador Fletcher, who has been
assisting actively in the drafting OF
the diplomatic exchanges, was inter
rogated on the general conditions in
Mexico and the probable outcome OF
the present negotiations.
! In view Of the decision d the com