Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-18
MEXICO'S REQUEST 10 SEND SOLDIERS
 THRU J. s. pE:nDS
War Department is to Have Final Say on
 Plea
ARIZONA THREATENS TO
 OPPOSE BY FORGE
II. l.. Wilson Continues Arraignment of the Wilson Adm,,,ist ration Knox Says Request AL
 ready Refused

 of Mexican federal army officers for permission to move across through American territory to attack Son ora on the north created sharp dis cussion today on the senate floor and before the committee investigat- ing Mexican affairs.
 referred by the state department to the war department as it w2( not an official diplomatic communica- tion. No action had been taken to- might by the war department. In the senate, Senators Ashurst and Smith of Arizona, opposed wig orously any suggestion that the re- quest be granted. Senator Ashurst asserted that Arizona should oppose any such movement by force if nec- essary, should the federal govern ment not grant the state protection. The senate discussion was halted when Senator Knox, republican, SllllSylVdlIld, dHIOuHCtu LIldb 'it Ildu information that the request had his information was not official, but York Sun, which had stated that the permission sought would not be granted.
 Before the Investigating commit tee, Henry Lane Wilson, former am bassador to Mexico, continuing his arraingment of President Wilson's Mexican policy contended that the Mexican forces would be permitted to cross American territory to attack l the Sonora forces.
 q believe that the president came to office with the idea that he had mandate from the American peo- pie to reverse all the foreign polio ies of his predecessors" MT. Will son said.
 Besides effectng Mexico this had worked great harm Gin bringing about the domination of Japan over China" MT. Wilson said.
 Discussing the peace treaty con troversy, the former ambassador said:
 Un-American Policy.
 'The president wrote article ter of the treaty himself and though there are many more important sec tions than it, he has caused wide spread disaster by insisting that the whole treaty be rejected rather than let the senate modify that one sec tion."
 [ As to Mexico, I am informed that he has already written plank on the subject for the next national platform of the Democratic party endorsing and demanding a contin- uance of this course," the witness continued. "He cannot be changed.
 Any body who supports the Mex ican policy of President Wilson is unpatriotic and un-American. Eighty per cent of Mexico's population is illiterate and Indian, with distinct division between the Indian of the North and the Southern Maya. They have no conception of fine-spun political or altruistic theory, but do comprehend justice if it is accom-. panied by firmness."
 The witness said that by icon stant interference in it's behalf. President Wilson kept in power the Carranza government which he de scribed as an "aggregation of feuda brigands.
 As an illustration of how far h' goes," former Ambassador Wilson continued, within day or two l ex pect to see permission given Car ranza to move his troops across American soil to fight the Obergor forces in Sonora, as has been don' before. This constitutes an inter terference in Mexico, the more un pardonable since it is given to ; group which has shown the deepes hostility towards the United States and has constantly refused Amer jeans protection within it's borders.
 Would Aid New Group. | MT. Wilson conceded that it woult be very difficult to bring about or der in Mexico, but he thought tn moral and financial support of tn American government might be give, to new group which would have chance of establishing order.
 "Of course the immediate prox unity of great civilized power tt a nation of anarchistic tendenc, leaves upon it duty to take sucl action as shall bring about peac' within the borders of the weake nation," he said. "That has th more force" In that the admins dispossessed a legally constituted government in Mexico forcing a lonl period of chaos, and replaced i with pure military autocracy which has never controlled half O Mexico"