The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-26
SENATE BEHL5
CARRANzA' [AND
Secret Meeting of xican Of
ticials Said to Z Q Voted
to Back Up Their
President.
ON CASE OF JENKINS
Mexico Expected to. Refuse Demand
Of United States That Prisoner
at PuebIa be Re-
leased.
ON CASE OF JENKINS
[By Ralph H. Turner, United Press
Staff CORRESPONDENT

! Staff Correspondent
! MEXICO CITY, Nov. 24.-(Night.) }
THE Mexican senate, in secret ses-
sion tonight, was reported to have
lpassed resolution to support Presi-
dent Carranza in whatever action is
taken by the government in the Jen-
kns case.
| The senate was also said to have
appointed committee to investigate
the present international situation
and to have asked the executive de-
partment for full information con-
cerning the status of William 0.
Jenkins, American consular agent
held in Puebla on charge of con-
spring with his alleged kidnappers
to share the ransom demanded for
his release. The latest Information
from Puebla said that Jenkins re-
fused bail, was still in Jail awaiting
trial.
The apthetic attitude OF the press
was broken this afternoon when Ell
Universal published an extra contain
ing special dispatch rrom Washing
ton declaring the United States was
considering Intervention
Federal investigation.
AsAN<<NASO SAA tANOV. cut C0CldA
forces. after clearing rebels from the
village Of Malacatepec, conducted an
investigation showing that William O.
jenkins, American consular agent,
Was seen in that place on the dats
with the bandit leaders, CordovR and
ceived from Governor Cabrera tonight.
~aA tNh
riding with the bandits in an auto
mobile and appeared to be on friendly
terms, whereas he asserted after his
release that Ne had entered the VII
lage blindfolded and on horseback.
Cabrera pointed out in his report
that this indicates the "falsity Of Jen-
l1ins' statements" This information
it was said would be conveyed to the
American embassy here in an effort to
prove Jenkins guilty of perjury.
To Refuse American Demand.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Mexico
is preparing American public senti-
ment for refusal of this government
demand for surrender of William o.
Jenkins, consular agent, imprisoned
at Puebla, according to many indi-
cations today. The Mexican embassy
has issued clippings from Mexican
newspapers containing the allegation
that jenkins was an acutal confeder-
ate CT the bandits who Kidnapped him.
Mexican officials have asserted that
Jenkins was not entitled to diplomat
ic immunity and that his case was in
the hands of the court and they have
denied that there was crisis, say
ing all excitement was due to "the
jingo press
At the Mexican embassy today
there was an air of calm confidence,
attaches insisting there would be no
trouble between their country and the
United States over Jenkins.
Meanwhile, the reply to Americas
note had not materialized. The sit
Nation was discussed by the cabinet
yesterday, but no policy formulated.
1t was agreed, it was learned, that the
affair was concern of the state de-
partment and that it had not yet as
sumed the dimensions of an interna-
tional complication in which the cabi-
net should take hand
The departments program is, in
event Carranza refuses to give up
J Jenkins, first TO demand why, asking
full explanation and if this is unsatis-
factory to send an ultimatum order
ing his release by certain hour. The
alternative of this ultimatum would
not be armed action on land, it is an
nounced, but probably would involve
naval demonstrations at some Mexi-
can ports.