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Show f Ji Huerta Giweira Final I , Warning by U. S. I 1 -Considers it a Bluff Head Of Government At Mexico City I Reported To Have Believed That v Washington Wat Bluffing Washington, AptU in. Members of tlio Sonato who have been keeping In close touch with tho Mexican situation situa-tion and,tho president's ottltudo to-wnrd to-wnrd Huerta. express tho belief that the president will send a nicssago to ' Congress requesting authority to in-' in-' tcrvtne In Mexico and It seems to bo M tho consensus of reliable opinion that - this aition will bo taken In tho next ,, few days. f According to present plnns tho Uni- ' . ted States fleet will Immediately form i J a blockado of Jill Moxlcan port, Bad ! , tho blockado will bo mnlntalnod ln M f definitely. . h' J if is bollovod that tho Intimation , a from former President Roosovolt that ' u ho will abandon his trip to Spain and J return to the United States lmmodl- I ately, togothor with Huerta's lhtest JR Insult to the flag tins hastened tho 99 President's decision.! i'M"1 HI Washington, April 15. General 1 1 Huerta waa glvon final warning by I'll tho United Statos government today , that unless a saluto was fired to the i ( Btnrs nni stripes within a reasonable , 1 I t 45 tlmo to atone for repeated offenses " $$&' against the rights and dignity of tho ! J 5Hf United States, serious consequences I Wf would result. This warning was cm- 1 ; , phaslzod by action which placed tho J , majority of tho ships of tho Amorl- j ' can navy under orders to proceed at Ionco to tho Atlantic and Pacific coasts' - i of Mexico. I It was learned tonlgh't that General Huerta, when hpprlsed by Charge' O'Shaugncssy of tho proposod demon- ! ' J' Btration of the Atlantic fleet, arg'isd ' " that U10 oplsodo growing out of tho JM I arrest of tho American bluojackets at Tamplco was a fit subject for arbitration arbitra-tion ht Tho Hague and thut ho would appoint a commission to Investigate tho incident. President Wl'son In an emphatic reply re-ply through Chargo O'Shaughnessy Is understood to have told Gonoral Huerta Hu-erta that tho tlmo for delay and ovn-slon ovn-slon had passed and that tho American Ameri-can government would temporize no longer. American officials hold that tho insult to tho flag and questions of national honor aro not BUbJocU for arbitration. All Information that reached Washington Wash-ington from Mexico City tended to Bhow that General Huerta was unconvinced uncon-vinced that tho United States wai in earnest and thought the Washington government was bluffing. Somo antl American demonstrations at vera ut and other points wero 'reported . Developments De-velopments of tho day hero showed clearly that a determined and forceful force-ful policy! had been adopted by the president, which would be backed up by Congress and enforced it necessary neces-sary by tho army and navy. Blockade la Proposed While expressing earnest hopo for peace, tho president unequlvoo !ly told members of tho Senatj and the Houso committee on foreign affairs that tho offenses of tho do facto government gov-ernment nt Mexico City to tho dignity of the United States could no longer bo tolerated and that unless Iluertn compiled with tho American demands tho solzuro of tho customs houses at Tamplco and Vera Cruz an 1 oven the declaration of a Pacific blockado shut-ttlng shut-ttlng off commercial Intercourse with tho United States would bo fully Justified Jus-tified by precedents In International lhw. It was established that no aggressive aggres-sive act, such as tho landing of mar ines o; tho shelling of any towns or the seizuro of any ports, would be undertaken without authorl'allon fiom Congress after President Wilson had personally delivered n. message on tho subject. Tho practically unari-mous unari-mous approval which fiopubllcans and Democrats alike gave the administration's administra-tion's Initial steps mado It apparent, howovcr, that should Rsar Admiral Badger find it necessary, to act vigorously vig-orously in an emergency Congress would back up tho American navy, without hesitation. |