Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-18 | Page 15 | Wilson's Mexican Note to Bring Quick Action

WilSONS WilSON'S MEXICAN NOTE TO BRING QUICK ACTION Nomination Will j Fletchers Fletcher s 's s C Come me Before Senate Committee Com Corn t. t Wednesday sw v WASHINGTON V ASHINGTON Feb 18 Renewed of the M Mexican Mexican Mex Mex- xan x- x ican ican an situation in the senate and Via quick vote on the nomination of f Henry Prather Fletcher as ambassador to Mexico were forecast tt today day as a result of President Wilsons Wilson's i. i response response to a senate resolution calling for for the facts facts' leading up to to the recognition by the United St States tes of the de facto r government nt in Mexico headed by Carranza if i 1 The presidents president's reply was submitted submitted in a a letter from Secretary Lansing summarizing conditions which preceded preceded pre pre- ceded recognition of Carranza It gave a list of six seventy-six Americans who Jost lost their lives in Mexico in the years 1913 1914 and 1915 In addition it showed that twenty civilian Americans in in those three years and sixteen sixteen- sol soldiers sol sol- diers were killed on American soil as the result of Mexican troubles Secretary Lansing in his letter leller said that in int the e territory controlled by the Carra Carranza za government it was affording reasonably adequate protection to the lives and property prop of Americans The senate foreign relations committee commit commit- tee is expected to meet next Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day to take up Fletchers Fletcher's nomination