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Show WAR PREPARATIONS GOINGJRWARO MORE TROAPS AND SUPPLIES BE. ING RUSHED WITH ALL SPEEO TO BORDER. Prompt Compliance by Congress With Any Request That President May Make as to Mexico Is Predicted. Washington. Prompt compliance by congress with any request tae president may make as to Mexico was foreshadowed Tuesday by the calm which prevailed In both houses. Although Al-though measures designed to prepare for war were under consideration and the corridors of the capitol hummed with rumors, there was no excitement and discussion of the subject on the floor was avoided. The executive branch of the government was plainly waiting to do its part when what the majority regarded as inevitable Bhould come. Supplies have been provided along the Mexican border for an emergency of 200,000 men for the next thirty days, according -to an announcement by the quartermaster's department ol the United States army. It also was learned from the same source that 2,000 motor transport trucks had been purchased from twenty different automobile auto-mobile manufacturing concerns, at an average of $3,000 each, and that bids had been asked for 400 automobiles to be used by the officers of the various vari-ous commands along the border. Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambas-eador-deslgnate, said he had received no Intimation of the course his government gov-ernment intended to pursue, and had not even been advised of the receipt re-ceipt of the American note. On his own responsibility, however, he sent to the state department two communications. commu-nications. One complains against the enforcement of a general embargo on shipments to Mexico; the other recites that Mexican citizens have been arrested ar-rested without cause in California and Arizona. They warn Secretary Lansing Lan-sing that the present situation between be-tween the two governments cannot fall to be gravely aggravated by these matters, although setting forth that the ambassador assumes that local authorities, au-thorities, not the state department, were responsible for the trouble. |