OCR Text |
Show accoucl tbe present Mexican government govern-ment and that the Mexican people should take matters in hand and create a provisional government. GATES REBEL AGENT, CLAIM: Mexican Embassy Charges House Witness With Ulterior Motives. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. William Gates, of Baltimore, who, as a witness before the house rules committee in its recent inquiry in the Mexican situation, situa-tion, attacked the Carranza government as an "outlaw,' is accused by the Mexican embassv of being the agent of Mexican rebels. The embassy's charge, together with documents bearing on it, was sent to Chairman Campbell today bv the state department. After examining examin-ing the papers, committee members sadi the committee should have some power to punish witnesses concealing their connections. The communications included what purported to be a part of the private correspondence of General .leuaro Amezcua, confirming the oppointment of Gates "to represent the interests of the revolution before the house commission com-mission to investigate Mexican affairs." af-fairs." It was dated at Havana. Cuba, last July 20. the day that Gates appeared before the committee. He described himself at the time as an archaeologist who had recently visited parts of Mexico seldom seen by a tourist. The appointment was addressed to "the president of the house committee," commit-tee," but Ambassador Bonillas wrote the state department that it was received re-ceived at the Mexican embassy "in a sealed envelope without any mark showing show-ing whence it came." "As the name of Gates, '' wrote the ambassador, "has often appeared in the press for his attacks on the Mexican government, this evidence of his collusion col-lusion with tbe rebels is proof of the true motives of his behavior." Alfredo Robles Dominguez, a Mexican Mexi-can engineer, has written and had posted throughout the republic a call to the Mexican people to settle their differences and establish a responsible government, so as to forestall intervention interven-tion by the United States. The poster cited the reply of United States Senator Sen-ator Fall, chairman of the senate committee com-mittee investigating Mexican relations, to an inquiry from a Mexico City newspaper news-paper asking for an expression of opinion opin-ion regarding the solution of the Mexican Mexi-can situation. Senator Fall said each member of his committee hoped Mexico could establish a government which would comply with her international obligations without intervention. This paragraph was taken by Dominguez Domin-guez as a text for his poster, in which he said Senator Fall 's reply means the j American senate no longer took into |