The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-13
Senate Sub committee
Begins Hearings in San
Antonio
TO ARRANGE THE
PROGRAM AT ONCE
Many Witnesses On
Hand, to Tell Of Alleged
Outrages A & a inst
American Citizens

San Antonio, Tex, Jan l2.--That.
the senate Subcommittee charged
with the Investigation OF Mexican al
fairs which will begin its hearing in
San Antonio Tuesday is preparing to
place In the record a transcript of
real conditions in Mexico and along
the Texas border rs apparent from the
number and character of witnesses
now waiting to testify. These witness
ses include both Mexicans and Ameri-
cans.
Among those who have already APP
peared in response to summons are
several who have recently come from
Mexico ana nave f4rst-hand informa-
ton concerning the killing there with
in the last few months of American
citizens.
One American who was present =
short time since at an examining
trial of "a Carranxa soldier charged
with killing an American stated that
the procedure was the customary one
in cases OF the kind.
The energy of the examining court
seemed to him. he stated, TO be d.
rected toward shifting the RESPONSE
hiiity for the crime and making out a
case OF justifiab1e homicide for the
defendant. rather than toward pros
ecuting the accused.
SAME OLD THING.
1T was the same old thing he
etat ted. These trials are always the
same old thing stuff ~ YOU Say IN
America. :, A II sss
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Afternoon according 10 officials in
charge az arrangements Despatch
| in getting down to work Is said to be
/ important on account OF the large
number OF witnesses already sum-
moned. senator Marcus A. Smith OF
Arizona, the only member Of the COM
. nittee now here. stated that he had
! not conferred with the other men,
bers since leaving washington but
presumed that witnesses from dis
i lance would be heard first.
| The hotels have gradually been
! filled with witnesses and others in
terested in the hearing until at q
number u places two and three beds
| in room il the only accommodation
available. Stamping about the lob
bies. or standing on the street corners,
cblivious to the drizzle which has
been falling for two days. are several
, old river guards who have been on
duty along the Rio Grande for years
and will be able to compare the pres
ent border situation with conditions
for many years back. These old
Texans are very reticent as to what
they know When asked how condi-
tions are along the river they mere
| ~ shake their heads in a way to in
! dictate that ali is not well on the Rio
Grandc. But they won't talk.
WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS.
we Will answer the questions
, these senators put to u.s." one of them
said. 1--WE will talk when the time
comes.s and he huncbed his shoulders
in Mexican teshion and said
'.Manyana.''
One OF these river guards was re-
cognixed as man who has had sew
eral encounters with Chico" Cano's
band of bandits which operates in the
reighborhood OF Ojinaga. opposite the
town of Preside. Texas, in the Big
Eend district Chico. llitflel Cann
is a little Mexican runt who is known
in the Big Bend country as one of the