Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-19 | Page 1 | Mexico Mormons Urge Annexation

MEXICO IB KEJKIT1 Congressman Presents Indemnity In-demnity Plan of Americans Who Were Damaged. EL PASO, Tox., Feb. IS. To President Presi-dent Taft today Congressman George W. Curry of New Mexico presented the plan for recompense which was tentatively tenta-tively agrood upon 'by tlio American miners and ranchmen aud the Mormons who own millions of aoses iu the fertile Mormon colony country. Congressman Cur' told the president presi-dent that tho sooner the United States intervened iu Mexico thc sooner thc trouble would be over. Ho then explained ex-plained .to the president how impossible it would bo for Mexico to pay back one-tenth of the total loss which had resulted to American interests, Amort-cau Amort-cau citizens and American homc.sockors who had gone to Mexico and invested their money. Thoro. could be but one way to repay this great ddbt. Curry lold thc president, and that thc one agreed upon several months ago hy thc refugee Americans from northern Mexico. Mex-ico. It was agreed at that timo that it would not bo tho proper timo to suggest sug-gest such a course of action, realizing as they did that events iu Mexico would force the issue in time That is what has happened and Congressman Curry spoke only for tho Americans In Mexico, including the Mormon colon-lists, colon-lists, when ho urged that tho United States occupy Mexico, tako permanent' possession of thc states of Coahuila, So-nora So-nora and Chihuahua along the northern border with a possible inclusion of Lower California and Magdalena bay. Cash indemnity would be impossible, tho New Mexico congressman pointed out. The Mexican government would too unable to pay it for years to como. Meantime the persons suffering damages dam-ages would havo no recourse. Tako tho land within these states, restore thc people to their rights and tlio settle-mont settle-mont would bo complete, Congressman Curry declared.