Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-09 | Page 4 | Treaty That Failed

TREATY THAT FAILED. An old treaty resurrected from the secret archives of the senate, tho toxt of which has jnst been given to tho public, is intensely interesting just at the present moment. Tho. document in question was signed at Vera Cms in 1859 by "Robert M. McClnno for tho United States and by M. Ocampo for Mexico. Under its terms this country was authorized to "interveno iu support sup-port of its own treaty rights and tho security of its own citizens whenever Mexico may be unablo to guarantee the samo without incurring tho obligation or nocessitj- of a general intervention in tho domestic affairs of that country. coun-try. " . Minister McOlano Turned Lewis Cass, then secretary of state, that unless tho treaty was ratified further anarchy would exist in Mexico, necessitating intervention. in-tervention. Owing to the excitement incident to tho outbreak of the civil war tho bonato failed to set tho seal of Mi approval on the treaty and it remained re-mained buried among a mas of records until tho present time. Tho Mexican tronble could be easily settlod had tho warning of Minister McClano boon hooded.