Arizona republican., 1920-04-17
BLAMES DEMOCRATIC
 RULE FOR EXISTING
 MEXICAN CONDITIONS
Former Ambassador Draws Gloomy Picture of Situa- ton Below Boundary L.
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel


 WASHINGTON. April 16.-While the state department was considering to- day 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 revolutionists in the state of Sonora-Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico. was drawing a gloomy picture of the situation beyond the border before a senate investigat- ing committee.
 Mir Wilson asserted that "the un- fortunate and mischievous policy of the present administration towards Mex ico," was responsible for the condition 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''
 Would Pass Through Arizona
 The state department did not make public the text of the Mexican 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 comment made was that the govern ment was under pressure" from Mex leo to comply. The request contem- plated movement of Mexican federal forces by rail through Fl Paso to
  cross the border to attack Hermosillo, capital of Sonora.
 MT. Wilson, who was appointed to the post in Mexico City by President Taft and continued there during the early months of President Wilson's first administration, before his resig nation was accepted. said both official and personal records he had kept justi- fled his arraignment of the admins trations Mexican policy.
 "To date" he said. .it has cost the people of the United States upwards of a half billion dollars. It has lead to the violent death of 351,0 Mexi- cans and to the death by pestilence and famine of 800, ,000 more. It has caused up to this week-the murder of 665 American citizens within Mexico, it has kept S0,000 of our troops on the border. It has left in the Mexican treasury a deficit of over $500, ,000, 900 to replace a surplus of 00,000,0 900 left by Diaz.'
 Blames Bryan
 William J. Bryan, 2s secretary of state, ran the state department like the back kitchen of restaurant" Mir. Wilson said. Almost every diplomatic representative of the United States sent into Mexico since the fall of Diaz and some officials at the department, he added. had been unable to tolerate the Mexican policy He named former Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher, George A. 1HdIHDefldlfi, CONSUL general, dTu John Bassett Moore, former counsellor at the department, as among this number.
 Much of the former ambassadors 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 involved an interference in Mexico to overthrow Huerta. As ambassador, he said, he had predicted the result which he said existed today and had three times pressed his resignation berore 1 getting it accepted.
 Mir. Wilson will continue his testi- l mony tomorrow and among others ! summoned to appear later iSsJoflu Lind, l one of the representatives sent into | Mexico by President Wilson at various 1 times. He has been summoned to tes- | tify April 25.
 Mir. Wilson said the prejudice against 1 the foreigners and a desire to appro- priate directly wealth which they de- | veloped aided the successful rebellion of Madero.
 He reviewed the events during Ma dero's regime and said during the | Huerta revolution, which resulted in Madero's overthrow, he found himself | 'penned up" in the American embassy at Mexico City, with 2600 Americans depending upon me for food and sheI- ter during eight days while the bonn oardment of Mexico City left ''8000 dead soldiers and civilians, rotting