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Show ILSQiifS i DARK PICTURE " I WASHINGTON, April 16. While tlu j' state department was considering to day a new phase of the latest Mexi- j can problem a request from the Car ranza government that its troops be given passage across American tern-lory tern-lory to attack revolutionists in the i state of Sonora Henry Lane Wiison, j former ambassador to Mexico, was ' drawing a gloomy picture of the situa lion beyond the border for a senate in-1 vestigating committee. I Mr. Wilson asserted that "the unfor-' tunate and mischievous policy or the I present administration towards Mexi-1 cc" was responsible for the conditions j he described. That policy, he added, had "bound the United States to maintain Carranza in power and with I him the legend that there is peace and order in Mexico." Government Pressed to Comply. The state department did not make ' public the text of the Mexican request, nor was any official intimation given i as to the nature of the reply to be 1 made or when It would bo sent. The j only comment made was that the gov j ernment was "under pressure" from i Mexico to comply. The request con I templated movement ot Mexican fed- j eral forces by rail through El Paso to I Douglas, Ariz., where they would re-1 cross, the border to attack Hermosillo capital of Sonora. J Mr. Wilson who was appointed to tho most in Mexico Citv bv President Taft I and continued there during the early months of President '.Vilson's first administration ad-ministration before his resignation was accepted, said both official and perse per-se nnl records he had kept justified his arraignment of the administration's Mexican policy. ' To date," he said, "it has cost the people of the United States upwards of a half billion dollars. It has led ti the violent death of 300,000 Mexicans Mexi-cans and to the death by pestilence ar.d famine of 500,000 more. It has caused up to this week the murder of 665 American citizens within Mexico, Mex-ico, it has kept eighty thousand of our tioops on the border. It has left in 1 the Mexican treasury a deficit of over $300,000,000 to replace a surplus of $100,000,000 left by Diaz." ! William J. Bryan, as secretary of slate, "ran the state department like the back kitchen of a restaurant," Mr. Wilson said. Almost every; diplomatic representative of the United States sent to Mexico since the fall of Diaz and some officials at the department,! he added, had been unable to tolerate the Mexican policy. He named former Ambassador Honry P. Fletcher, Geo. A, Chamberlain, consul general, and John Bassett Moore, former counsellor at, the department, as among this number j Much of the former ambassador's testimony was devoted to the Btory of the Madero 'revolt against Diaz, and the following revolt against Madero 1 The policy of the United Statos, he j said, had first become "Impossible" I I when it Involved- an interference In j Mexico to overthrow Huerta. As am-1 bassador, he said, he had predicted the ! result which ho said existed today and had three timeB pressed his resigna tloube fore getting It accepted. Mr. WIlBon will continue his. testimony testi-mony tomorrow nnd among olher3 utimmoned to appear later is John .Lfnd, one of the representatives sent JC-Mexico by President Wilson at var-iJAis var-iJAis times. He nan been summoned Tffiestify April 25lh. |
