Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-04
ADVOCATES AN OPEN BREl: AK
 WITH MEE:XIGshpS,
in Senate Resolution, President Is Asked to Sever Diplomat
 ic Relations
WOULD LAY ENTIRE
 CASE BEFORE CONGRESS
American Note Calling for Release of Jenkins Laid Before Mexican Government Monday, But
 No Reply Has Come.


 Washington, Dee. 3, President Wilson was requested in resolution introduced today in the senate to SC yer diplomatic relations with Mexi- co. The resolution was offered by Senator Fall, republican, of New Mexico who is chairman of a sub committee Investigating the Mexi- can situation, declared evidence had been found which would as tound the world" It also asked that the president withdraw recognition of the Carranza government
 Senator Fall charged that the Mexican embassy. the consulate gen erals in New York and San Francis co, and the consulates along the bor- der, with the knowledge and con- sent of President Carranza, had been actively engaged in the spreading of bolshevlst propaganda in the United States, Evidence, it was said, would be forthcoming to bear out the charge.
 By this resolution, which was sent to the foreign relations committee of the senate for consideration to- morrow, the whole Mexican problem, admittedly grave in view of the re- fusal of the Carranza government to release Consular Agent Jenkins from the penitentiary at Puebla will be put before congress.
 The latest note from the state de- partment calling for the immediate release of Jenkins was laid before tn Mexican government Monday. Word to this effect reached the de- partmentt today. but there was no in- timation as to when an answer might be expected.
 An early report from the commit tee on the Fall resolution is expect ed and this will put the question squarely before the senate, aroused to a high pitch by recent murders of Americans in Mexico and the treat ment of the American consular agent.
 Consults With Fletcher.
 While Senator Fall did not indi- cate the exact nature of his evi- dence, it was said that he had obtain ed photographic copies of correspon- dence which would clearly show secret operations of the Mexican president and his official represen- tatives in this country. There also was introduced in the senate a reso- lution by Senator Ashurst, democrat of Arizona, authorizing the secretary of war to use the nations forces for protecting it's people on their own side of the border, For eight years. Senator Ashurst said, he had been waiting for the army to protect and he felt that the time had come for action.
 In the house also. there was a flare-up of the Mexican situation Representative Caldwell, democrat. New York, declaring it was so bad that before many days the country mioht he at war. Since the openino of the session, there had been indica- tions that congress would take the Mexican bit by the teeth, demand the release of Jenkins and protec- tion of lives of Americans in that country. but the resolution request inc the president break off relations the next thino to a declaration c' 7"ar showed that action of somN kind would not be lono delayed.
 Evervwhere the impression pro vailed that Senator Falls coron1ittoc and officials of the state department were in close and thorou~h accord Before the resolution was introduced Senator Fall conferred at lenoth with Heny P. Fletcher American ambassador, who for some months has been handling Mexican affairs at the state department