Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-17
EX-AMBASSADOR
WILSON PLACES
THE BLAME FOR
MEXICAN CHAOS
Draws a Gloomy Picture of
Conditions in Southern Re-
public in Testimony Be-
fore Senate Committee.
PRESIDENTS POLICY
SEVERELY ARRAlGNED
Says Bryan, As Secretary
of State, Ran the Depart
ment Like ''BaCk Kitchen
of a Restaurant"

tnv MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,ss'
Washington, April 16.-While
the state department was consider
ing today a new phase of the latest
Mexican problem-a request from
the CarranZa government that its
troops be given passage across
American territory to attack rev.
olutiOniSts in the state of Sonora
Henry Lane Wilson. former ambas-
sador to Mexico, was drawing a
gloomy picture of the situation be-
yond the border before a senate
investigating committee,
Mr.. Wilson asserted that "the
unfortunate and mischievous policy
of the present administration to-
wards Mexico" was responsible for
the conditions described. That
policy, he added, had bound the
United States to maintain Carranza
in power and with him the legend
that there is peace and order in
Mexico"
The state department did not
make public the text of the MeXi-
can request, nor was any official
intimation given as to the nature
of the reply to be made or when
it would be sent. The only COM
ment made was that the govern
ment was "under pressure" from
Mexico to comply. The request
contemplated movement of MeXi-
can federal forces by rail through
FL Paso to Douglas. Ariz., where
they would re-cross the border to
attack Hermosillo, capital of So
nora.
His Arraignmcnt Justified.
Mr. wilson, who was appointed
to the post in Mexico City by Pres
ident Taft and continued there
during the early months of Presi-
dent Wilson's first administration
before his resignation was accepted.
said both official and personal
records he had kept justified his
arraignment of the administration
Mexican policy.
"To date" he said, SIT has
cost the people OF the United
States upwards of half bill
lion dollars. IT has led TO the
violent death of 100000 Mexi-
cans and to the death by pestl-
Ience and famine of 500 900
more. II has cauScd--up to
this week-thc murder of 665
American citizens within Mex
leo: IL has kept 10000 of our
troops on the border. 1t has
left I'm the, Mexican treasury n
deficit of over $500. .O0O.0 to
replace . surplus of $100,O00,-
900 left by Diaz."
Bryan Is Criticised.
william j. Bryan, as secretary
of state, "ran the state department
like the back kitchen of a restau-
rant" Mr.. Wilson said. Almost
every diplomatic representative of
the United States sent to Mexico
since the fall of DiaZ. and some Of
ficials at the department, he add
ed, had been unable to tolerate the
Mexican policy. He named former
Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher,
George A. Chamberlain, consul
general. and John Bassett Moore,
former counsellor at the depart
ment, as among this number.
Much of the former ambassa-
doris testimony was devoted to the
story of the Madero revolt against
Diaz, and the following revolt
against Madero. The policy of the
United States, he said, had first
become impossible" when it in
volved an interference in Mexico
to overthrow Huerta. AS ambas-
sador, he said, he had predicted the
result which he said existed 1y today
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