Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-16
TAKES MEXICO
FROM SENATE.
Presidents Rebuke Hats Break
With Sister Republic of the
South.
FALL RESOLUTION ASSAlLED
All Action Abandoned by the Commit
tee When the President Declares
Decision Belongs to Him un-
der Constitution.

""oiiiiSlon, Dec. lO.-PreSident Will
son would be "gravely concerned to
see any such resolution pass the con-
gress," he wrote Senator Fall in re-
ferring TO the Fall resolution request
ing the president to sever diplomatic
relations with the Carranza govern
ment.
When the presidents letter was re-
ceived, Senator Lodge, chairman of the
foreign relations committee, called
Senator Fall and Senator Brandegee
thepJ OF Connecticut of the commit
Tee into conference, and in a few min
utes announced that no further action
on the Mexican situation would be TAX
en- by the committee.
1T would constitute a reversal of
our constitutional practice which
might lead to very grave confusion in
regard to the guidance of our foreign
affairs" he wrote.
The president expressed confidence
that he had the support of every COM
petent constitutional authority in the
statement that the direction of the
governments foreign affairs was as
signed by the Constitution to the chief
executive and to him alone.
The presidents letter to Senator
Fail follows:
Thank you very much for your kind
promptness in complying with my re-
quest that you send me a copy of the
memorandum report of the subcommit-
tee on foreign affairs.
Il shall examine it with the greatest
interest and care. What you told me
of the investigation on Friday last
prepared me to find in 1t a matter of
the greatest Importance.
You ask an indication of my de-
sire with regard to the pending reso-
luton to which you and Senator
Hitchcock called my attention on Fri
day, and I am glad to reply with
the utmost franknesS that | should
be gravely concerned to see any such
resolution pass the congress- II would
constitute a reversal of our constitu-
tional practice which might lead to
very grave confusion in regard to the
guidance of our foreign affairs.
Il am confident that am supported
by every competent Constitutional au-
thOrity in the statement that the mi
tiative in directing the relations of
our government with foreign govern
ments is assigned by the Constitution
to the executive, and to the executive
only.
"Only one of the two houses of
congress is associated with the presi-
dent by the Constitution in an advis-
DRY capacity and the advice of the
senate is provided for only when
sought by the executive in regard to
explicit agreements with foreign gov
ernments and the appointment of the
diplomatic representatives who are to
speak for this government at foreign
capitals.
''The only safe course, 1 am con-
fident, is to adhere to the prescribed
method of the Constitution. We might
go very far afield if we departed from
it.
81 am very much obliged to you for
0dV1nS gwen lie Tic OBpOl W
express this opinion.
WOODROW WILSON.
"Hon. Albert B. Fall, United States
Senate"
Washington, Dec. S-President Will
son reserved judgment on the Mexican
situation until he could examine evil
dence submitted by Senator Fall of
New Mexico, on which the senator
based his charge that the Mexican am
bassador and consuls in the United
States had distributed 'red" propa-
ganda in the United States. q.
On his return to the capitol, Sena-
tor Fall conferred with many Repub-
lican senators, telling them that men
tally President Wilson was capable of
handling any question coming before
him, and that physically, he was in
better condition than the senator had
expected to find him.
Mrs. Wilson was present at the con-
ference, which was held in the presi-
dents sick room, Mr.. Wilson being
propped up in bed. Senator Hitchcock
said the president seemed in better
health than when he last saw him,
more than two weeks ago. His face
was fuller, the senator said, and his
general condition seemed much i'm
proved.
The conference had been in progress
only a few minutes when Secretary
Lansing sent for Doctor Grayson to
inform him that Consular Agent Jenk-
ms had been released from the Puebla
penitentiary-