The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-07-25
Legislative and Executive
Branches Engaged in Discuss
ing Latest Problems.
SEN. FALL MAKES SPEECH
COntradictS Statement of Com
manding Officer That No
Bodies Wearing CarranZa Uni
forms Have Been Found.

Washington, July 24.-The MeXi-
can situation occupied the attention
of both the legislative and executive
branches of the government Monday.
Tension which was evident at the
state department when first reports
were received Saturday of the rob-
bing of sailors manning small boat
from the American monitor Cheyenne
on the Temesi river July was re-
lieved somewhat by more detailed
account of the incident received from
Commander Finney, of the cruiser
Topeka. flagship of the American
naval forces at Tampico.
The report said the sailors. who
were on official duty, were held up
by three men in civilian clothes, two
of whom carried rifles. and that when
informed of the incident. the Mexican
government authorities at Tampico
had expressed deep regret and prom
ised to attempt to establish the iden-
tity Of the thieves. 1t was added.
however, that up to the present these
attempts had been fruitless.
Before this dispatch came, the
state department was advised from
Tampico that on last Wednesday ban
dts robbed the Atlantic Refining
company's oil loading station at
Puerto Lobos, near Tampico, of So
600 which was intended for the com
pany's payroll.
During the day number OF sena-
tors and representatives called at the
state department to confer with
Henry p. Fletcher, the American am
bassador to Mexico, on the situation
in the southern republic, while the
senate foreign relations committee
ordered favorably reported the reso-
luton of Senator King, Democrat,
Utah. calling on the state department
for full information as to depreda-
tions against American citizens and
property in Mexico during recent
years
On the senate floor, Senator Fall.
hepuDliCdH, new MeNlCO, reiterated
previous statements that among Mex
leans killed by American soldiers in
repulsing raids across the border dur
ing the past few months were officers
and men in uniforms of the Mexican
federal army. He read a telegram
giving the names of some of the Car
rama officers and men killed by the
Americans.
Senator Fall said he repeated his
statement because Brig. Gen. James
B. Erwin. commanding the border pa
troll, had been quoted in an Associ-
ated Press dispatch from FL Paso as
saying that no bodies wearing Car
rama uniforms had been found
Il desire to reiterate," declared the
senator. that within the last several
months, that upon either seven or
eight occasions troopers OF the
Seventh Cavalry pursued MeXicans
over the border and upon six or seven
occasions recovered stolen property
| also desire to reiterate that Car
rama soldiers and officers were
killed. not only on the Mexican side
but on the United States side as
we'll"
Senator Fall said he made "ths
statement to show how absolutely un-
fair the news is as it comes from the
Associated Press with reference to
this" and added that he would like
TO have an investigation made to es-
tablsh the Information on which
lets fired across the border recently
during the Villa attack on Juarez
came from the Villistas and not the
Carranzistas