Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
After rSeSSiOn.
Fall Tells of
Activities
WILL RELATE
RED EVIDENCE
Break With Mexico
Is Being Taken
Up With Wilson
Ru Associated Press.

! BIZ Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. >. - President
( Wilson will see Senators Fall, Re
! publican, New Mexico. and Hitchcock.
! Democrat. Nebraska. late this after
noon. TO discuss the Mexican situa-
/ tion.
Senator Fall announced that imme-
diately after the conference lie would
make public the evidence on which
he based his charges in the Senate
| that the Mexican consuls in the
United tSates Were circulating red"
propaganda.
Seek His Views
Senators Fall and Hitchcock were
named committee yesterday by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
to confer with the President to seek
/ his views on the resolution of Sena
tor Fail. requesting that the Presi-
dent sever diplomatic relations with
( the Mexican government. The Hitch
cock substitute proposing that Con-
gress assure the President of its sup
port should he decide to break with
Mexico also will be presented to the
President.
senator Hitchcock, it was learned
at the White House, communicated
with Secretary Tumulty late last
night regarding the conference and
said it was not necessary that the
President see the Senator'S imme-
diately. but the President decided to
have the conference to-day.
The Senators will go To the White
House after the Presidents Cabinet
has held a special meeting at which
the Mexican situation Will be dis
cussed. The meeting was called TO-
day by Secretary Lansing, who spent
nearly two hours before the Foreign
Relations Committee yesterday DIS
cussing the Fall and Hitchcock reso-
lutions and the Mexican question in
general.
referred to Mrs. Wilson
The request of Senator Hitchcock
that the President see the Senators
was referred to Mrs. Wilson and ap-
provaI of the conference was given
by Rear Admiral Grayson, the Presi-
dents personal physician.
The decision to lay the whole
question before the President was
reached late yesterday, after a day
of vigorous activity on the part of
the committee, including a long con-
ference with Ambassador Fletcher
and Secretary Lansing, who told the
committee he had not discussed any
detail of the recent Mexican devel-
opments with President Wilson and
that tn entire negotiations growing
out of the arrest of Consular Agent
jenkins had been handled by the
State Department.
Democrats Oppose
Following this statement, Senator
Fall introduced a resolution before
the committee, calling for the dele
CATION of two members TO wait upon
the President and seek his personal
views on the Mexican policy. The
resolution was adopted strictly on
partisan vote, the Democrats op-
posing.
Senators Fall, Republican. New
Mexico, and Hitchcock, Democrat,
nI, fN &c
sion, and it was understood that Mr..
Grayson. the Presidents personal
physician, was willing to grant the
Senators a conference with the
President to-day. DR.. Grayson de-
clared the President was showing
rapid improvement and that while
he would not object to the call of
the Senators, he would not permit
any effort to heckle the patient. The
conference is expected TO set at
rest the many rumors surrounding
the White House as to the Presi-
dents actual condition.
Bares Relationship
The entire status of relationship
between Mexico and the United
States was barred before the commit
tee and past negotiations were dis
closed which heretofore had been
held in confidence by the State De-
partment.
Secretary Lansing was under
stood to have told the committee
that the administration had adopted
within recent months n more vigor-
GUS policy toward Mexico in de-
manding protection. of American
lives and property in the southern
republic. He is said to have added,
however. that precipitate action by
Congress probably would embarrass
the State Department in its present
negotiations and advised postpone
ment of Congressional action until
President Carranza had answered
the latest note and disclosed his at
titude toward the United States.
Takes Strong Stand
A policy of leniency toward Mex
leo, the secretary is quoted as say
ing, was adopted by the United
States during the world war for fear
of detracting from the major con-
fict across the seas, but that since
the war ha dended strong stand
had been substituted from which
there had been no deviation.
Ambassador Fletcher. who has
been assisting actively in the draft
ing of the diplomatic exchanges,
was interrogated on the general con-
dftions in Mexico and the probable
outcome of the present negotiations.
In view of the decision of the COM
mittec TO seek counsel from Presi-
dent Wilson. action was deferred on
the Fall amendment. which would
request President Wilson to sever
iip omatic relations with Mexico.
The Foreign Relations Committee
adjourned until Monday. when it
will consider further the Mexican
problem.