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Show Confers With Secretary Lansing After Trip to Mexican Border. Policy of Government to Be Changed Should Carranza Continue Obdurate. (C'hir: TriBnilO- KpoH:il S-TVlcO.) V.'A: I i 1 .t ."!' .", I v L'.-.SniuiDi' Full of it:vv h-;ic ju.st back from tiio border, bor-der, :i ni.uii;!''."! today 1h.it he would in-ti-oilucf u i i -1 1 1 1 1 i 1 ' 1 1 in Uitr senate tunmr-row tunmr-row (icali!: with the Mexican si !. ua t ion. Tli'.1 r.-H tl'i I ion, it is ini'lei s! ood, will not )J-0'i(li' ("'if illlel'Vi-Iilioii, bllL will HKSHre the Mai" d'-j'-a iImh'.'i L of the senate's sup-puil sup-puil in any nir.isinvs that may be taken to lii'iiiK t lie 'a era iv.-.i, government to tci ni:;. At the time Senator Fall declared ho Would lay before the s--nato unquest Ion-able Ion-able evid.T.re tl.;M. th Carra :i z.'i govern -nie.it i.H actively promol i i n-r tbo J. AV.-W. iiioia-nient in the Unitrd Statesltul that Mcxiei lias become t he ha so of opera -tioi:H for radical agitators working for t be overthrow of he A nierican ko vanillic vani-llic :d. lie obtained much of this evidence evi-dence d urine; his trip to the Mexican border. Senator Fall conferred with Secretary of Stale I ,:ushie; immediately upon his i rri a I in AVasUliiKl on and laid before him liiin ii of tbo cvi'h nee he had Fathered Fath-ered on the border. The senator declined to di vu:; Ih s O'lifciviU'i-, but appeared to b- :-itisi':ed with the attitude of tlie state i par'.menl. lie- said the Mexican Invest sat. ne; com ni i t U ;, of which he is chairman, was eiH'piratiiiK' "very closely" with the slat-.) department. Ku!n:ip:n Reported. Tin: kid i iap in.i.' of Norman itowo bj .Mexican band us lias just been reported in official communications from Mexico f'itv. i was learned today, and the. activity ac-tivity tlirniayi'd By Hie rarranza government govern-ment in reselling him has caused comment com-ment in of lie al circles because of the co ni ras! it prest nts with tho Jenkins case. Kowe is a Ihdush subject, who has lived ni Mexico for many years, where, tie has been a mining expert in tiie state of Zaealeeas. lie was kidnaped about the middle of November near Fivs niilo, a In rj,'1 mining camp in Zacalocas. The Vhaush vice eonsifl at Zacatecas reported f he 1: id n.i piny; to t ho consulate general hi Mexico City, and at the same t me made strong represent at ions to the governor of Zacatecas. The consulate general made representations to Presi-' Presi-' dent Oirra ni'.n and it is said that within twenty-four hours the entire machinery of the Mexican i.'-overnmeiu, including the army, was at work to effect the rescue of kove. Xo ransom was paid and Kowe waS uuickly released. Force If Necessary. J a offtc'al quarters today the policy of lhi covernmeni determined upon was said to be insist ence upon radically revised re-vised relations with Mexico, to be es- 1 i II. CAiluSTT, :oi, p.ric.Oiit jj 1 I J J of th-j Ycim r.Ica's Hop-aba- ' : c:.;i club i:l A. E. Bevcridc, sec- ! 1 I " i -- ----- ; 1 f ' j I. - ' 4 : i A, -:,-.-r- tab! islied, peaceably if possible, but forcibly if necess.-iry. They will be reestablished, re-established, i' was said, under a new treaty, the Fnitod States being determined deter-mined to bring about better neighborli-ness neighborli-ness on the parr of Mexico. The treaty of Oua da loupe .! l:dal;;o of 18-18 is held to bo obsolete and therefore most of its articles are inapplicable at the present time and valueless for the future. The decision of the Mexican government govern-ment in the Jenkins case will largely affect the course of other pending negotiating ne-gotiating with Mexico. It is recognized here that there is only one way for Mexico Mex-ico to save its "face" in the Jenkins caae, provided it is unable to prove the charge of perjury against the American consular jigent at" Puebla, ancT that is to release Jenkins ns "an act of grace," which would not go into the merits of either I tho United Stales "request" or the Mexi- can charges against J enkins. Two Views Taken. ' Two rVst inct views nre taken here of 1 he second request dispatched by the state dena rt meat for WiUia m O. Jenkins's Jen-kins's release The first is that it may be a subt le trap laid for the Mexican government, which would be sprung if that government dallied further, and without proving conclusively its charges against Jenkins still continued to hold him a prisoner. In that event, the American Amer-ican g-overnment might carry through an intention which, it was intimated some d;iys ;i tjo, really existed, of seizing the opportunity of opening- the entire question ques-tion of Mexican-American relations and pressing1 for a swift settlement. The other view is that President "Wilson "Wil-son does nut desire to be compelled to administer corrective treatment to Mexico, Mex-ico, and is giving the Mexican government govern-ment an opportunity to act gracefully without utter. ng a threat to coerce it. A reasonable time will be allowed the Mexican Mexi-can government to answer the second American note, and it is believed that a reply will be received from Mexico City by next Saturday. If the answer is not in by that time, it is thought the state department will send an inquiry to the Mexican government, in which it will in-t in-t mate that an immediate reply Is desired. de-sired. Will Declare New Policy. If the 'Mexican reply refuses to release Jenkins and fails to justify the charge of perjury, the receipt of it, it is believed, v.li evoke from the state department a formal declaration of the new policy, a declaration of which would be intended, it is thought, to meet the demands of congress, as there is everywhere a feel-' ing that the present congress will not be satisfied with the past conduct of Mexican affairs by the state department and will insist upon remedial measures. The only embarrassing circumstances connected with the Jenkins case is the fact that the Mexican government has set up the contention that the federal authority au-thority could not interfere with state processes, thus taking a chapter from tiie diplomacy of the United States in this government's treatment of several cases, including the negotiations with Japan over the California alien land ownership own-ership law, where the limitation of the federal authority in this country was declared. de-clared. It seems clearly not to be the intention of this government, therefore, to make the Jenkins case the final issue before a breach, but to justify the new policy upon considerably broader grounds. |
