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Show WAR PREPARATIONS GOING FORWARD MORE TROAPS AND SUPPLIES BE-ING 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, jliy congress with any request uifl 'president may make as to Mexico was foreshadowed Tuesday by the calm which prevailed In both houses. Although Al-though measures designed to prepare dor war were under consideration and the corridors of the capltol hummed with rumors, there was no excitement md discussion of the subject on the Jloor was avoided. The executivo lirajich of the goverunient 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 200,000 men for the next thirty days, according to an announcement liy 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 liad been asked for 400 automobiles to he used by the officers of the various vari-ous commands along the border. Kliseo Arredondo. Mexican nmliav tador-designate, 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 liwn responsibility, however, he sent (o 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 present situation between be-tween the two governments cannot fail to be gravely aggravated by theso matters, although setting forth that the ambassador assumes that local authorities, au-thorities, not the state department, nere responsible for the trouble. |