Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-19
ALL COMMITTEE
LEARNS HOW JAPAN
ARMS CARRANZA
Chairman Sends Another Mes
sage to Cabrera Regarding
Invitation to Make lnveSti-
cations in Mexico.
lay So-rrss JoIsnAl SPECIAL LEASED WHEEL


San Antonio. Tex, Jan. 1S.-The in
cident of the recent receipt by Mexic,
of arms and ammunition also reeev
ed some attention by the senate in
vestgating committee yesterday
There was placed before it informa
ton contained in a Mexican newspa
per of January 13. that eighteen car
loads of arms and ammunition ha(
reached Mexico from Pacific ports
where it was disembarked The ship
ment came from Japan and the pape
added another that had been con
tracted for by Candido Aguilar, wa.
coming from Spain. The makeup o
the shipment was given as 800 ma
chine guns. 5000 Mauser rifles and c
million cartridges. The Monitor quot.
ed anonymously cabinet member as
saying:
Now, indeed, I believe that serious
complications between our country
and the United States are coming, not
so much because of the Jenkins case
and the closing of the oil wells, but
because there are now on the way
two ships loaded with cartridges one
from Japan and the other from
Spain"
The credited statement was made
the paper said. prior to the arrival of
the Japanese warship and the muni-
tions-loaded merchant ship al Man
zanillo on December "a.
Fail Tells of interests.
Senator Fall himself testified un-
der oath regarding his interests in
Mexico He did it to refute an edi-
torial reference in a Texas newspaper
to his holdings there, Senator Fall
said his sole property interest now In
Mexico was $4,000 worth of mining
stock he had as his share in settling
the estate of a former partner many
years ago. He denied he ever had
been the attorney for Luis TerraZas
or any member of his family except
on one occasion as friendly act he
had assisted in securing the release
from Jail of General Terrazas son.
The son had been held by rebels at
Chihuahua.
In making his statement the chair
man of the committee said he was
breaking a silence of eight years on
that subject. He explained that he
went to Mexico first in 1888, locating
in Zacatecas. He left the country in
1906. At that time he gave up all his
interests in that country. returning
only to exercise the power of attorney
for his partner, who died in financial
straits.
Senator Fall yesterday afternoon
sent the following telegram to Luis
cabrera, Mexican minister Of finance,
Sends Telegram to Cabrera.
your telegram of the sixteenth.
Tote your opinion has been perfectly
consistent that the Investigation that
my committee is carrying on is con-
trary to international principles and
to the respect due to the sovereignty
of your country.
II am surprised in view of this
statement that you should have invited
me to carry on this investigation in
your country when you declare it con-
trary to international law that |
should conduct it under order from
my own government in my own coun-
try.
"In suggesting that I may think
that the best way of ascertaining the
real conditions in your country is to
listen to reports instead of actually
seeing the way the nation Is living,
] may state to you that there are
more than 100000 former citizens of
your country now under the protec-
ton of the American flag because of
actions of yourself and associates and
through whom I think it possible to
secure a fairly accurate picture of
some, at least, of the conditions ex-
listing in Mexico.
10000 Refugees in United States.
II may further call your attention
to the fact that 10000 Americans,
formerly developing the farming re-
sources, the stock industry and other
natural industries in Mexico. building
railroads, opening mines constructing
irrigation and power plants and build
ing electric tramways and represent
ing American investments approxi-
mating q total of so per cent Of the
entire tax-paying and revenue pro-
ducing wealth of Mexico, who have
been driven out of your country are
now in the United States. many of
them poverty-stricken and are now
requesting of the representatives of
the American congress a hearing as
to the true conditions in Mexico re-
sulting in the unfortunate situation in
which these Americans find them
selves.
II can see no impropriety. nor vio-
laton of national comfy or interna-
tional law in an investigation being |
carried on among these people as
throwing light upon the conditions
which now surround them and which |
may or may not, be accentuated in |
Mexico itself.
you suggest that there is not |
railway line in Mexico upon which /
could not go in a special car under
the protection of your troops, / have
been familiar with Mexico since 1883
and until recent years. even prior to
the construction of 'many of your
felt no suggestion of peril
or danger to whatsoever remote dis
trct my business might carry me. in
the republic of Mexico. / regret that
conditions now necessitate assurance
Of protection through armed forces to
those travelling even as your guest
upon your railways in Mexico"