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Show FALL PROPOSES RUPTURE WITH CARRANZA; DIPLOMATIC SEVERANCE ! ADVOCATED New Mexico Senator Introduces Drastic Resolution; Res-olution; Lodge Calls Committee Meeting. Startling Developments in Mexican Contro-J Contro-J versy Crop Out in the National Capital. ! CALEXICO, CaL, Dec. G. V'. K. j IvIUton, 2i, discharged American soldier, was brought across the bor- I der from ilexicaii today suffer- ! Ing from broken bones, deep cut! and bruises, the result, he said, of inhuman treatment at the hands of Mexican authorities. American Consul Boyle at Mexicali announced an-nounced he would report the case to the stats department at Washington. Wash-ington. Hilton's ia'w Tit broken, three bones in one hand broken and head and neck cut deepiy au-1 bruised. Eis injuries were inflicted, he said, Kovember 8, by a MeiJcan policeman, who had arrested him for intoxication and who pursued, overtook and beat him into insen-j insen-j sibility after he tad broken away I from the policeman, j After he had lain unconscious i for several hours, Milton said, he wa3 removed to a hospital in j Mexicali, where tho only treatment given him was to wrap his injured in-jured hand in gauze soaked in hot I water. I j ' -WASHINGTON-. Dec. S. Frt-sider.t Wilson Wil-son was requested in a resolution introduced intro-duced today in the ei'.e to ulp'.o-m:.tic ulp'.o-m:.tic relations with Mexico, j The resolution vl-s o-.Tered hy Sc:.a'.or . all of New Mexico. -. v.o, as cl-a ;rm-i:i i o: a subcommittee iuvesiiat'.r.y ti'.t.-! ti'.t.-! I'J exiof.n situation, deciared evidence i-.cl beea round whicii "'ouid astound tlte ! world." It also asked that ti:e riresidcr.t withdraw recognition of the Carraraa gov-I gov-I eminent. Senator Fall Voldis- charged that tho Mexican embassy, the consulate generals in New York and San Francisco, and tho consulates along the tordcr, with tho j knowiedg-e and consent of President Car-ranza, Car-ranza, had been actively engaged in the spreading of Bolshevist propaganda In tho United States. Kvidence, it was said, would be forthcoming to bear out the charge. By this resolution, which was sent to the senate foreign relations committee for consideration tomorrow, the who1 Mexican problem. admittedly grave in view of the refusal of the Carrana government gov-ernment to release Consular Airent Jenkins from the penitentiary at Fuebla, v.'i'be puL before congress. LANSING NOTE IS DELIVERED TO MEXICO. The latest note from tnu state department depart-ment culling for lha immediate re 1 ease of Jenkins v.-as laid before the Mexican government gov-ernment on Monduy. Word t this cu'ect reached the department today, but thero v:?.s no intimation as to when an answer miirht be t-xneuteu. An early report from th-3, committee on the Fail resolution is expected, ftnd'tli: wiil put the question squarely he tore the senate, aroused to a hhrh pitch by recent murders of Americans in Mxieo and the treatment of the American consular a&rem. While Senator Kali did not indicate tho exact nature of his eviuence, It was said that he had obtained photographic copies of correspondence which would clearly show secret operations of the Mexican president and his representatives in th is country. There also was introduced iu the senate a resolution by Senator Ashurst of Arizona . nut hori.uiK the secretary of war to use the nation's force for protect- "v 1 ing- its people on their own side of tho border. For eiht years. Senator Ashursi said, he had been wa inner for the army to protect American rights alont? tho border, and he felt that the time had come for action. CONGRESS PLAINLY GROWING RESTIVE. u the house there was a flare -un o the Mexican situation. Representative Caldwell. New- York, declaring it was so lad that before many days the countrv might be at war. Since tho opening of the session there had been Indications that congress would take the Mexican bit by the teeth, demand the release or Jenkins and protection of lives of Americans Ameri-cans in that country, but tht resolution reoustinj; the president to break off relations, re-lations, the ne::t thin? to an actual declaration dec-laration of war, showed that action of some kind would not loTig- be delated. Tilverywlie-e the impression ptvwas'd that Senator Fall's comrnirteo and ofv-ci.ils ofv-ci.ils of the state department were in olnV. and thorough accord. HVn'ore tho retoi:i-tion retoi:i-tion was introduced, Senator Fall con- (Continued ou Pags 1, Column 2.) URGES DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS CEASE (Continued From Page One.) frrrorl with Henry P. Fletcher. American ambassador, who for some months has bren hiuullinK Mexican affairs at the state tluiartment. The department archives ar-chives have been opened tu the foreign relations re-lations committee without reservation, and members of the committee sail) there existed ex-isted a complete understanding with the department. MIGHT VOTE SOLIDLY ,FQR M'CALL PROPOSAL. How the senate miKht act on the proposal pro-posal for an open break with Mexico was not altogether clear tonight, but It was said that Republicans would vote almost solidly for It. and that they would have someDemocrats as supporters. Senator Shields of Tennessee, a member mem-ber of the foreign relations committee, speaking from the floor when the resolution resolu-tion was offered, declared "the United States had had occasion to declare war against Mexico for the last five years." When word reached the house that there might soon bo an open rupture with Mexico, members said it had long been expected, and there were reports that Republicans Re-publicans in the house would vote for the resolution when it goes there for action. Kxplainlng his resolution, which also asked that the president withdraw recognition recog-nition of Carranza, Senator Fall declared it was based on evidence which would "astound the world" when produced. The resolution was referred to the foreign le-latlons le-latlons committee. "I charge," said Senator Fall, "that the Mexican embassy, the consulate general in New York and tile consulate general in San Francisco have been actively engaged en-gaged in the distribution of Bolshevik propaganda, and that this has been done with the knowledge and consent of Ve-nustiano Ve-nustiano Carranza." Chairman Lodge of the senate foreign relations committee late today called a special committee meeting for tomorrow to take action on the Fall resolution and any other questions arising from the Mexican situation. TEXT OF SENATOR'S DRASTIC RESOLUTION. Senator Fall'3 resolution follows: "Resolved, By the senate, the house of representatives concurring, that the action ac-tion taken by the department of state in reference to the pending controversy between be-tween this government and the government govern-ment of Mexico should be approved: and, further, that the president of the United States be, and he is hereby, requested to withdraw from Venustiano' Carranza the j recognition heretofore accorded Mm by the United States as president of the republic re-public of Mexico, and to sever all diplomatic diplo-matic relations now existing between this government and the pretended government of Carranza." Senator Fall's determination to introduce intro-duce the resolution today was reached after a conference with Henry P. Fletcher, American ambassador to Mexico, a few minutes before the senate convened. Before Be-fore that he had conferred with the chief of the Mexican division of the state department de-partment concerning the latest information informa-tion from Mexico. The state department has opened its records without reservation reserva-tion to the senate foreign relations committee com-mittee and the subcommittee which lias been investigating the Mexican situation and the state department are understood to bo in thorough accord. An Unimportant Place. The Jenkins case is given a relatively unimportant place in the Mexican situation. situa-tion. The Mexican government'' is deliberately de-liberately spreading anarchistic propaganda propa-ganda in the United States and is using for that purpose its diplomatic and consular, con-sular, agents, which is regarded by both the committee and the state department as of much greater importance. In the statement made by the senator when offering his resolution he was careful care-ful not to make public proofs, but it Is known that his statements are based on evidence in the archives of the committee commit-tee and the state department. The secretary of war would he authorised author-ised under a resolution introduced today by Senator Ashurst. Democrat, Arizona, to use the nation's military forces to protect pro-tect Americans on the American side of the border who are threatened by the activities of Mexican outlaws or other belligerent factions In the southern re-' public. Senator Ashurst said he doubted whether congress would adopt his resolution, reso-lution, which whs referred to the military mili-tary committee, but he added that all he hoped to do was to have "the senate and house tell the war department at least to protect the citizens of the United States that are in the United States." "Tf this is done," he said, "I will have at least punctured the lethargy of the wnr department." Th" truth about Mexico ran no longer he concealed, said Senator Ashurst. adding that he would no longer countenance the government's Mexican policy. Senator Shields, I'emocrat. Tennessee, declared the farts were even stronger th;m stated bv the Arizona senator. This country's relations with Mexico, he said, "constitute the most humiliating chapter of our history." . "There should be some action, he said, adding that the l.'nited States had had "occasion to declare war against Mexico for the last five. years." .Senator Ashurst declared that for eight and a half vears he had sought in am for action by the war department to pro-i pro-i tcet the lives of those along the tron-tier. tron-tier. He accused the government of adopting a supine attitude which had en- couraged the Mexicans to believe they could strike with impunity. l.teciaring that Mexicans now were gathering- on the frontier in such numbers num-bers as to appear menacing, the senator appealed for an adequate mobilization or American forces. ",et us protect the lives of American citizens within the Culled States, any way," he added. May Oppose Resolution. After a conference late today with Secretary Sec-retary Ionising, Senator Hitchrock( acting act-ing Democratic leader, said lie did not know what the attitude of the Democrats would be, although he indicated that the resolution in its present form might be opposed, because there appeared to be no precedent for withdrawing recognition under un-der similar circumstances. All of the information tiie government now has on Mexico will be at the disposal dis-posal of the foreign relations committee tomorrow, it was said. About the time dispatches from the hor-der hor-der were received here with reports that Villa had been captured the Mexican embassy em-bassy sent word that it was giving out a statement and there was a rush to get it. The statement contained a dispatch from II ilario Medina, suhsecretary of foreign affairs, reiterating that .Jenkins was not Immune from arres't because of his official offi-cial connection with this government. The embassy had nothing to say about the proposal to ask the president to hand Ambassador Bonillas his passports. The new Mexican development, coming after a week of impatient waiting by the state department, temporarily relegated the Jenkins case to a place of minor itn--portanee. but it was Ids arrest that mainly main-ly brought about the latest upturn. Briton Quickly Released. Reports yesterday from Mexico City that a British 'subject seized by bandits had been quickly released on demands of the British authorities did not serve to soften the feeling in .official circles, especially as everybody recalled that Great Britain never had recognized the Carranza government. gov-ernment. There were other reports that Carranza had assumed a defiant attitude and was not disposed to accede to the American request, for the immediate liberation of Jenkins. The personal part Carranza is alleged to have taken in l he dissemination" dissemina-tion" of Bolshevist propag.ir.ua and the active part radicalism ha i piayed in his own government are viewed with grave concern, and back of all is the great mass of information concerning the murder of scores of Americans and other outrages In recent years. There was much discussion among senators sena-tors and representatives as to what would happen in event the Full resolution was passed and Ignored by the president. While declining to express their views on the subject, some members intimated that it might force even more cirasl ic steps by congress. |
