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Show i presided is gr1t1gizeb i comer envoy: Ex-Ambassador Wilson Pre-, diets Mexico Will Get Permit to Cross U. S. CARRANZA CALLED LEADER OF BRIGANDS j . U. S. Executive's Policy To- gJL ward Neighbor Republic is fLf Declared un-American :-T WASHINGTON. April 17. Applica-i Applica-i Hon of Mexican federal nnuy ottlcers ki- for permission to moo forces through, ' American territory 'to attack Sonora j ' . on tho north created sharp discussion EkS loday on the senate floor and before J the committee investigating Mexican, fc' affairs. ! f? Meanwhile the request had been re-; fc rei-rcd by the state department to the : f ' war department as it was not an of-i of-i ficlal diplomatic communication. No f action had been taken tonight by the '. I war department. j k. In the senate, Senators Ashurst and 5r Smith of Arizona, opposed vigorously auv suggestion that tho request be I c granted. Senator Ashurst asserted that Arizona should oppose any such movement by force if necessavy should the federal government not grant the state protection. Knox Interrupts. The senate discussion v&s halted! when Senator Knox, Republican, Pcnn-. svlvania, announced that he had in f formation that the request had been refused, although later he said his information in-formation was not oL'icial.but based on a statement jn tho New York Sun,, which had stated only that the permis-slon permis-slon sought would not be granted, i Before the investigating committee, Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassa-"f'''dbyg' ambassa-"f'''dbyg' Mexico, -continuing- hisrarnrfg:?' - T ment of President Wilson's Mexico policy, pol-icy, predicted that the Mexican forces l would be granted permission to pass t across American territory to attack . : S, the Sonora forces, . ; "The peculiar motives which in- v duced President Wilson to ado.pt the I I policy or rather lack of policy toward 1 " Mexico during the last seven years," I : he said, "arise evidently from tho men- ; tal obsession that all knowledge and all'. power rests In tho executive. I be-.$7: be-.$7: ' He'vethat he comes to office with ;he ; idea that ho had a mandate from the ; wfc' American people to reverse all the for- j m. eign policies of his predecessors," '! Wilson Rapped. ) m.'. Discussing the peace treaty contro- ifr,-, versy, tho former ambassador said. l "Tho president wrote Article X ol '$''.- the treaty himself and though there jjj are mony more important sections , - than it, he has caused widespread di3- v sater by insisting that the whole treaty .J y be rejected rather than let the sen- f x , ate modify that one section. ' "As to Mexico I am Informed' he has ; already written a plank on the subject jfc - for the next national platform of the, jrV ' Democratic party, indorsing continu-j Sf ' t ance of this course," the witness con- E tinned Ho cannot be changed. W-:$ '"Anybody who supports the Mexican; .. ' p6licy of President Wilson is unpatri-' otic and un-American. The bulk of i,. tha Mexican population Is illiterate' and Indian, with a distinct division be-1 - tween the Indian of the north and the, 't . -southern Maya. They have no concept; ' St of fine-spun po.litlc or altruistic theory! ' but do comprehend justice if it is nc- compauied by firmness." -,. Carranza Arraigned I The witness said that by "constant ; interference" in its behalf President! ' Kj " Wilson kept In power the Carranza! W 'r : government, which he described as an "aggregation of feudal brigands." J. , "As an illustration of how far he ' xh eoes," former Ambassador Wilson con-tinued, con-tinued, "I expect to see permission giv-i f-en Carranza to move his troops across) ' 1 : American soil to fight the Obregon ; forces in Sonora, as has been done be--"- fore. This constitutes an interference in Mexico, the more . unpardonable since It is given to. a gi'oup which has Sfcj shown the deepest hostility toward the y.f United States and has constantly re-TuQd re-TuQd American protection within Its e bolder." . , l ' Opposition Asked. I St SANTA if p. N. M.. AprjL 17. Rq.J I quest that the New Mexico governor' v join lit the request to the state andk f : war departments to vefuse tho appll-. appll-. ; cation froni Mexico City to permit the Carranza government to move troops ' tnroUKli the United States to combat l;-".V the Sonora revolution vas received .bv i r Acting ,Gov. Pankey today. - v The request came in a telegram i . rrom tho Douglas, Ariz.,, chamber of commerce. The telegram follows: r v "We request that you use alt your ? ' influence with the authorities to pre-vent pre-vent tno erantmg of Carranza's re-' re-' irJ quest for permission to transport " troops through American territorv. if ..- "The Columbus raid was tho direct result of allowing Mexican federal , .. troops to cross American soil. Sym-pathy Sym-pathy of Americans in and near Son-""tfi Son-""tfi ora.is with the new Sonora govern-fjt.- meat. The granting of the Carranza ' request would precipitate action which would bring tho entire question of intervention in-tervention to the front again, to say nothing of immediate loss in American Ameri-can lives and . property." |