Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-12-12

raise suggested by DIR. Garfield and
making certain other concessions. This
scale was submitted to the fuel ad-
ministration before being made public.
Though in most of the mine fields the
men were reported to be firmly stand
ing for the 81 per cent increase which
Secretary Wilson proposed, in some
parts of the country they were said
to be drifting back to work on the
Garfield basis; and it was hoped that
even If their union did not accept the
new scale offered, it would help to
break down the holdout Of the more
stubborn.
At this writing Consular Agent Jen-
kins is still in Jail at Puebla, the state
department at Washington is await
ing reply to its second request that
he be released Immediately, and Pres
ident Carranza is in conference with
Generals Marguia and Dieguez, two
of his strongest military commanders.
Secretary Lansing's second note went
to considerable length to refute the
contentious put forward by Mexico
in the jenkins case and closed with
repetition of the urgent request for
the freeing of the consular agent, but
| 1t was no more of an ultimatum than
the first note. The Mexican congress
formally put the whole matter in the
hands of Carranza.
NForr % oo.-ro-1 xr-o11
as many other Americans are not sat-
| isfied with the Administrations Mex
| fcan policy. and in response to this
feeling Senator Fall of New Mexico
| drafted resolution requesting Pres
| ident Wilson to sever diplomatic re-
his recognition of the Carranza gov
ernment. The resolution was taken
| under consideration by the foreign re
lations committee, and that body had
before it copies of official documents
said to disclose the activities of Car
rama, his embassy in Washington and
| his consulates in various American
/ cities, to stir the radical elements to
/ revolutionary outbreaks There was
report that these documents were
supplied by Secretary Lansing, who
wished congress to relieve him of the
responsibility for aggressive action
against Mexico. It was said that Pres
ident Wilson had not been consulted
concerning the Mexican crisis and that
the state department wanted congress
sional action before breaking off dip
lomatic relations. If this were the
state of affairs, it seemed likely that
Mexico could not avert the rupture
now by releasing Mr. Jenkins. The
demand that the whole unsavory mess
be cleaned up is growing insistent
notwithstanding the fact that the mo
tives of some of the loudest shouters
for such action are open to grave sus
picion.
When he introduced his resolution
Senator Fall said the evidence b!
which it is supported twill astound tfft
people of the United States when i
is produced" Senator Ashurst scoret
the war department for ignoring re
peated requests for sufficient troop
to protect the border. Senator Shield
of Tennessee, Democrat. said
''There is no question that our rela
tions with Mexico constitute the mos
humiliating chapter of our foreign re
lations and that there ought to b.
some action to protect the citizens o
the United States. We have had oc
!. rr,;f
. years, and now this resolution ough
to declare war against Mexico
Germany persisted in its refusal t
sign the protocol and thus delayed tn
: interchange of ratifications and tn
proclamation of peace. The German
objected especially to the Requirement
: that they make reparation for tn
sinking of the surrendered war ship
, in Scapa Flow; to the evacuation o
Lithuania; to the necessity of turnin
| over to the allies for trial the German
J officers accused of crimes, and to tn
, paragraph which, as Baron Won Lers
t ner says, would permit the invasio
} of our country by armed force in time
: of peace on any trivial pretext." TIL
| supreme council showed no disposi
! ton to recede from its position, an
t / as the American delegation delaye
t its departure and supported its co
leagues entirely, it seemed certai
the Germans would yield soon. Thei
, assertion that if the terms are to
! drastic their government will fall an
i the country lapse into bolshevism
: discounted. for recent investigator
: have learned that that kind of tall
so prevalent since the signing of tn