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Show ! FALL ADVOCATES INTERVENTION WOULD HAVE UNITED STATES PROTECT AMERICANS AND FOREIGNERS IN MEXICO. Assails Policy of Administration as Inadequate and Declares That President Knows Nothing About the Real Conditions. Washington-Senator Fall of Mexico Mex-ico advocated armed intervention for the protection of Americans and other foreigners in the republic of Mexico, in an a'ddress on Monday. The galleries were crowded to overflowing and remained so for hours, until Senator Shively of Indiana In-diana had spoken for the administration, administra-tion, expressing regret that the subject sub-ject had been discussed in open session ses-sion and averring that no adequate suggestion had been offered to compose com-pose the difficulty. -Senator Fall, in a lengthy narration narra-tion of incidents of outrages to Americans in Mexico, held the interest inter-est of the senate and gallery for more than three hours. Assailing the policy pol-icy of the administration as inadequate inade-quate and declaring that President Wilson knew nothing about real conditions con-ditions and had been mistaken in every act of his administration toward to-ward Mexico, the New Mexico senator sen-ator pleaded for intervention for protection pro-tection in order to avoid inevitable war. Emphasizing the danger of war with a great foreign power unless something should speedily be done, Senator Fall referred to comments in the German press over the killing of the British subject -Benton by order of General Villa's court-martial and declared: "When the German official press says that should a German citizen be 'murdered in Mexico, Germany would not acquiesce like Great Britain, then I say to you senators there is imminent danger of a conflict con-flict between the United States and this country, with which we should always be at peace. "I believe the American people can be left to handle any critical condition condi-tion provided they are informed on the subject. I am not one who believes, be-lieves, when the press is full of reports re-ports of details of Mexican outrages and horrors, that it can be 'incompatible 'incompat-ible with the public interest' to send to this seriate details of outrages upon American citizens. I am not one who believes that the constitution constitu-tion should be pushed aside and let one man assume the executive and legislative powers of the government." |