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Show I Evidence of Plan to Cause Intervention in Mexico Still Lacking. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Concrete evidence evi-dence of the existence of any organized effort to bring about armed intervention in Mexico still was lacking when the senate sen-ate foreign relations subcommittee investigating in-vestigating the Mexican situation finished fin-ished the second day of its hearing. Dr. Samuel G. Inman, secretary of the committee on co-operation in Latin-America Latin-America and associated with the League of Free Nations association, was again before tho committee for cross-examination the entire day. His charges that he had be-n threatened with personal attack at-tack and with a libel suit because of his activities in developing an anti-intervention spirit and his admission that he did not possess the facts to prove assertions made yesterday as to the stability of the Cavranza government were the outstanding outstand-ing features of the hearing. The witness appeared worried when he resumed his test imony today and announced an-nounced his unwillingness to continue answering an-swering questions concerning a letter he had written to members of the Presbyterian Presby-terian board of missions and which later he said was published without authorization. authoriza-tion. When he persisted in his refusal to answer Chairman Fall, Senator Brandegee reminded him that the committee com-mittee might adopt measures to compel him to give the information wanted. Dr. Inman insisted that since he had ; begun talking and writing against intervention inter-vention he had been repeatedly threatened, threat-ened, but when the committee demanded by whom and when, his replies were evasive. He insisted he was not the paid agent of anyone except the mission board and declared that the oil interests had employed unfair methods. He insinuated insinu-ated "that the threats had come from them. Relative to the anti-intervention work, Inman admitted that the League of Free Nations association had a fund collected three or four years ago, but denied he ever had received any payment. The greater part of Inman's testimony was denial of the truth of articles written writ-ten and statements made by those who pictured conditions in Mexico as bad. On cross-examination he admitted, however, that President Carranza must have a military escort when he leaves the capital capi-tal and that all trains operated in Mexico are compelled either to carry troops or to have an armed pilot train. |