Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-30
CONGRESS
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STAND ON BORDER
Returning Members of For.
eign Affairs Committees
Seek Latest Developments.

Expectancy that Congress will act
promptly in Strengthening the hands of
Uncle Sam to deal forcefulIy with the
Mexican government caused a FESTIVE
feeling in legislative and official circles
last night. Returning members of the
foreign affairs and rules committees held
conferences in regard to the Mexican
situation and sought. the latest and de-
tailed information in regard to the case
of William o. Jenkins, American con-
sular agent under arrest, and the muir
der of William T. Wallace at Tampico
on Wednesday. The identity of the mur-
dered man had not been established late
last night.
The jenkins case and the Wallace
murder are being treated separately
and Is in no way, being connected at
present.
The State Department already has
directed the American embassy in Mex
leo City to make inquiries of the Car
rama government and forward further
information of the new phases of the
jenkins case raised in the Mexican note
declining to accede to the request for
the release Of the consular agent
In the Wallace murder case the
government has about all the informa-
ton considered necessary and the in
terval is being used in framing the
details Of a course of action.
Draft Note to Carranxa.
note to Carranza, which some Of
ficials think will be about the last, was
being drafted in the State Department
yesterday and so far as could be learn
to Mexico City last night. 1t had been
drafted preliminarily and during the
day had been redrafted
The department was in hourly COM
munication with the embassy in
Mexico City and when the office closed
for the day no further information had
been received.
Late last night the government had
received no official word or indica-
ton of an offer of mediation by
Argentine, Brazil and Chile and some
officials thought it doubtful that it
would be offered.
Only Conditional Acceptance.
IF such an offer came, the opinion
Of most officials who considered it
seemed to be that it would be ac-
ceptable only under certain conditions
which they thought Mexico would be
unwilling to accept.
Reports direct from Mexico City
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rising. with fighting in the streets.
served to simplify the situation, in
that they removed one complicating
factor and left the issue a clean-cu
one Involving only the continued MUIR
der and molestation of Americans. .
There was no outward indication of
whether. President Wilson would
touch on the subject in his message
to Congress next week.
Cabled advices f. Mexico City
probably explained the report Friday
of a new revolution there. They told
of a street fight between the two po-
litical factions, such as have occurred
frequently, it was said. Political ex-
citement was increased by the unex-
DeCG6Q arrival VI 1cu. <AAFdIO SpICSOH,
and the message said a street parade
of his supporters resulted in rioting,
in which firearms were usel, With no
casualties.
Some weeks ago a child was killed
and bystanders and paraders wounded
in a similar fight. Luis Cabrera, min
lister of hacienda, used the incident in
his argument recently to postpone the
elections next year and keep Carranza
in power indefinitely. At the same
time he asked to continue the 1920
budget beyond the end of that year,
owing to the probability that the new
congress would not have been INSTALL
ed or a president elected by that time.
WALLACE REPORTED SLAIN
BY MExICANS is SAFE
NEW YORK, November 2s.-William
Wallace, a vice president of the Gulf
Refining Company, who. was believed
to have been murdered in Tampico,