Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-17
CARRANzA SEEKS 10 PASS HIS SOLDIERS
 THROUGH TIE J. S,
Request Holds Possibilities Of
 Drawing America into Conflict
HENRY LANE WILSON PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE
Arraigns Policy of Administration With Regards to Mexico--So- nora Leaders Threaten the
 United States


 Washington, April While the state department was considering to- day new phase of the Mexican proD- lem a request from the Carranza government that its troops be given passage across American territory to attack revolutionists in Sonora stat ed Henry Lane Wilson, former am- bassador to Mexico, was drawing Il gloomy picture of the situation be- yond the border before a senate in- vcstigating committee.
 Mr. Wilson asserted that "the un- fortunate and mischievous policy of the present administration toward Mexico" was responsible for the con ditinons he described. That policy, he added, had "bound the United States to mantain 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 Mexican re- quest, nor was any official intima- tion given as to the nature of the re- | ply to be made of8 when it would be Scub. Hc OHly COulIHcII IIduC WdS that the government was "under pres sure" from Mexico to comply. The request contemplated movement of Mexican federal forces by rail thru Fl Paso to Douglas, Ariz., where they would re-cross the border to attack Hermisillo, capital of Sonora.
 Mr. Wilson, who was appointed to the post in Mexico City by President Taft and continued there during the early years of President Wilson's first administration before his res- ignation was accepted, said both of ficial and personal records he had kept justified his arraignment of the administrators Mexican policy.
 Re-Tells MaderO Story.
 "To date" he said, "it has cost the people of the United States up- wards of a half, billion dollars, it has led to the violent death of 100000 Mexicans. and to the death by pesti- . lence and famine of 500,000 more. It has caused-up to this week--the , murder of 665 American citizens within Mexico; it has kept 80,000 o four troops on the border. It has left in the Mexican treasury a dcfi- cit of over OO.0OOO00 to replace . surplace of $10O,OO0,000 left by Diaz." , William J. Bryan, as secretary ot state. iran the state department like the back kitchen of restaurant,V MT. Wilson said. Almost every dip- lomatic representative of the United States sent to Mexico since the fall of Diaz, and some officials at the department, he added. had been uu- able 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 de- partmcnt, as among this number. |, Much of the former ambassadors testimony was devoted to the story of the Madero revalt against Diaz, and the following revolt against Ma dero. The policy of the United States, he said. had first become interference in Mexico to overthrow Huera. As ambassador, he said, he had predicted the result which nc said existed today and had three | times pressed his resignation befort getting it accepted.
 Mir. Wilson will continue his testi. D mony tomorrow and among othert , summoned to appear later is John = Lind, one of the representatives senl
 into Mexico by President Wilson al
 various times. He has been suihm0n
 ed to testify April 25.