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Show TfflJECES American Commissioners Bring Up Question of Control of Mining Property. LONDON", Conn., fc-ept. 13. fu emotion a in wbat methods shall bp employed tn r n fi b 1 i s h pea-e on the Mexican Mex-ican border v "re sul'mitted today to Major General Tsyker H. Bliss, l 8 A., by th? Amcricao mmhfrs of the Am'rifan MpiirRD join I commission. Tbe of f icrs ' opinion ft were sought on . subjects ranging from the withdrawal of AmTii-an troop?! from Mexico, to the possibility of creating an international police to guard tho border. No conclusion, conclu-sion, howpver, was reached and the commissioners com-missioners will continue their conferences confer-ences with General Bliss tomorrow. Tho joint commission today dealt wholly with questions raised by taxation tax-ation dfcrers issued by General Car-ranza Car-ranza which affect American controlled mining property in M exico. An exhaustive ex-haustive study of the situation was begun. be-gun. The Mexican commissioners explained ex-plained in detail the purposes of the de-x de-x crees. insisting that they were designed to promotn th mining industry, not to drive out American capital and con- fiscate its holdings. Going Into Details. In their conference with General Bliss, the American commissioners took under consideration the advisability of proposing such a system of border patrol that a part of the Mexican troops now engaged in this duty would be released for the pursuit of bandits at a distance from the line. They considered also the attitude of Americans living along the border, as reported by General Bliss, and obtained from that officer estimates jis to the number of soldiers necessary to put into effect any of the plans suggested. sug-gested. .Discussing the wider aspects of the commission's work, Secretary Lane said tonight it was probably unique in tho history of international bodies in that it was going into all that concerned the life of a nation; its economic problems; prob-lems; its political struggles, and every phase of government. AVide Knowledge Gained. It was possible, he said, that no conclusions con-clusions would be reached as to many of the things discussed. He said, however, how-ever, that the Mexicans would have kuowledge of the views held in the United States as a result of the deliberations, deliber-ations, while the American commissioners commission-ers were gleaning a wide knowledge of conditions below the border. Even the international responsibilities responsibil-ities of Mexico were being talked over. M r. Lane said, and it was necessary that all these things should be considered consid-ered in order that an enduring government govern-ment should be set up in the distressed republic. Complaints of American mining min-ing interests in Mexico led to the present pres-ent investigation. In explaining the dcrpp complain pd of, th Mexican connriis?ionijr pointed out that one of the ;mns of th (. ami n,-.a government wan to prevent speculative and unproductive unpro-ductive monopolr'ation of mining lands. The ("nrrana government, it wa3 ;ud. virtu a 1 i '.' ha s re' t;' the system in oprfi'ion during '.he Y'l.t?. regime. Dii'fereiKe Explained. Undnr the fiia. flan the rate of taxation tax-ation on mining claims diminished in dire.-t ratio to the number of claims, whereas under the ("arransa plan, the purpose is to encourage the stakiDg of a relatively- small number -of claims which actually will b operated, and to discourage tho holding of lare tracts of mining laud simply for speculative purposes. Another series of complaints had to do with the ar tempt of the Garranza government t o compel merchants and corporations to accept paper currency at a rate far in pxcers of its current value. The, attention of the Mexican cojnmifbioners was directed to instances in which military commanders had. through decrees, threatened with death anv person who refused to accept paper currenc v at its pa r vrIiip, and for a similar offonfie also had threatened mer-chants mer-chants with the confiscation of thir property. The Mexican commissioner? pointed out that in so vss! a coup Try it was hiimp.nely impossible to guard against all possible abuses, but they laid emphasis on the fad that while such 'ext renie decrees had been issued by subordinate military commanders, the national government has constantly urged moderation on the state governors gov-ernors and that they had no record of a single instance in which any nf these extreme penalt ies had bepn inflicted. |