The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
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| 1 12 noon -........-........ .6J l D. m. ..-.............. .69 !, States of America, that great Chris l tian, civilized nation of the world, has stood by fiddling' while Mexico | burned"
 DEMONSTRATE STABILITY The committee urged that before any recognition was accorded Cen. De La l Huerta, the revolutionary leader, who 1 will become the president ad interim to- morrow, he demonstrate that his adminis- | tration has the stability to endure, and | that it is disposed to comply with the rules of international comity and the ob- l lligatons of treaties. To every one ex- eresing authority in any part of Mexico the warning should be sent the report declared, that this government would hold them responsible for the sufferings and losses of Americans
 l The report was based on the testimony obtained from 257 witnesses heard here. in New York and on tlfe border and a mass of documentary evidence, much or II coming fnom government archives The report set forth that since the Madere revolution began there have been killed in Mexico as a consequence of revolution ary conditions 461 Americans and large humber of other foreigners. The number of Americans killed on the American side ef the border was placed at 126.
 DAMAGE ESTIMATED
 The aggregate damage that the com mittee estimated should be paid for the death of those Americans was given al 14675O00, while the total summary ol losses incurred by Americans in Mexico Twas placed at $505, ,002, ,434. The losses sui fered by the national railways was placed
 at sS0,00000O and for other railways il
 Mexico there was credited loss aggre gating S6o 000,0 ,0O0, but it was pointed out z great part of the losses had been borne by small property owners, much Of whlci has not yet been reported.
 According to the investigations of th'
 committed the population of Mexico ha
 decreased nearly one-third since 1910 a a direct result of the disturbed condi
 Mon. Much of this is due to disease, at
 tributable in large measure, 1t was as
 serted, to starvation
 l HOSTILE ATTITUDE
 1 Throughout the period, it was claimed
 the Mexican authorities have displayed {
 hostile attitude toward the United State land as an indication of the manner il ' which the Carranza administration re I garded the United States and it's Pres ident there was published in the repor I the following copy of a letter written b, | Candida Aguillar. son-in-law of Carranza | to Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican minister q Madrid. three weeks after Aguilar ha | placed a wreath on Washington's tomb Your note dated the 4th of the pas 4 month received In view of the inter | nal crisis which the United tStates is ex | periencing Wilson's policy is provok1n indignation among the parties and tn \ press is attacking the President severely He goes from one blunder to another an shows each day more clearly that he is \ perfectly incompetent person.
 ''If the failure in Europe were not sui ficient. it would be corroborated by tn | mex pedient notes that we have receive from Washington, and which Pres1def | Carranza has answered with the import \ hence those Tanks merit. I see In a this a criminal intention to intervene our country. Time will show me to | right"
 III The committee points out that ne | regime has come into power in MeXic
 and says:
 II REPORT OF COMMITTEE I We should first follow one polio,
 viz:
 "(A) Wait before recognizing Gov | ernor De La Huerta as President (
 Mexico until it shall be assured ths | his election is approved by the Mexica | people, and that his administration v possessed of stability to endure and { -l the QlSpOSNlOn to COiHPiy With NA
 rules of international comity and tf
 obligations of treaties.
 "(B) We should let everyone WI
 assumes to exercise authority in ar
 part of Mexico know in the most LII
 equivocal way that we shall vigilant
 watch the fortunes of those Americai
 who cannot get away, and shall ho
 those responsible tor their suffering
 and losses to definite reckonin
 That can be and will be made pla
 beyond the possibility Of a misunde
 standing President Wilson's addre
 to Congress on Mexican condition
 August 25, 191S)
 REPEAT EyART'S VIEW
 "(C). Repeat 10 the Mexicans no
 what Evarts said in 1878;
 "'The first duty of government
 to protect life and property, This
 a paramount obligation. For this go
 ernments are instituted. and gover
 ments neglecting or failing to perfor
 if become worse than useless. T duty the government of the Unit
 States has determined to perform
 the extent of it's power toward its ell
 zens on the border. It is not s
 fictitious; it has never been. about t
 methods or ways in which that prote =, ton shall be accomplished; whether IItI formal treaty stipulation ~or by lllI formal convention, whether by the a I'M ton of judicial tribunals or that llIl military forces. Protection in fact llll American lives and property is the SC lIll point upon which the United States a ll|I tenacious.
 llil Then if satisfied as to .(A) reco llil nize De La Huerta tor stucessor) up HUI conditions plainly expressed and { llH flrmatively accepted that:
 lNl CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATI~ flIj "Apticle l3o of the cbnstitution |Illl 1917 shall not apply to American m |lI|l sionaries. preachers. ministers, teae |llIl CTS or American schools, nor to Amt |lIIl ican periodicals, but that Americ |l||l missionaries, ministers and teachs |IIlI shall be allowed freely to enter, ps |IIll through and reside in Mexico; th' HIN to freely reside. preach, teach a lllll write and hold property and condl |IIIl schools without interference by IulI authorities so long as sucn mlnlste Illl teachers or missionaries do not p' IlIII ticipate in Mexican politics or reVo IuIl tions HIM That article 3 shall not apply to 2 lIlll American teaching or conducting IIlIl1 mary schools.
 IlIl| This article prohibits any minister Illll any religious corporation establishing lIh| directing schools of primary instructi lI|l| ..That none of the provisions of art lIlH q of said constitution with reference IIlII limitations upon rights of property ne HUH tofore acquired by Americans or wn IllII may hereafter be acquired, shall ap lIIlI to Americans except Where the nm llIlI tion is written in the deed, lease or ot lll|l instrument of title and particularly: ll||| DEED SHOULD COVER iIj|l "rhe provision of said article to IlllI effect that the .subsoil products other Il IIIIl oe ,,,atalliferous minerals shall be