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Show WAR PREPARATIONS GOING FillD MORE TROAPS AND SUPPLIES BEING BE-ING RUSHED WITH ALL SPEED TO BORDER. Prompt Compliance by Congress With Any Request That President May Make as to Mexico is Predicted. Washington. Prompt compliance y congress with any request "i 'president may make as to Mexico was lorc-shadowcd Tuesday by the calm .-which prevailed In boh houses. Al-LhouKh Al-LhouKh measures designed (o prepare for war were under consideration and Ihe corridors of the capitol hummed wilh rumors, there was no excitement nd discussion of the subject on the Jloor was avoided. The executive branch of the government was plainly waiting to do its part when what the majority regarded as inevitable should come. Supplies have been provided along the Mexican border for an emergency of 21)0, Olm men for the next thirty ilays, according to an announcement ly the quartermaster's department of 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 bad been asked for 400 automobiles to be used by the officers of the various vari-ous commands along the border. Kliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador-designate, said he bad 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 n responsibility, however, ho 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 Landing Lan-ding that the preseut situation between be-tween the two governments cannot fail to be gravely aggravated by these matters, although setting forth that Ihe ambassador ussumes that local authorities, au-thorities, not the state department, were responsible for the trouble. |