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Show SENATOR ASKS CHANGE IN ATTITUDE TOWARD MEXICO Attacks Policy of Permitting Shipments Ship-ments of Arms to Huerta Faction and Not to His Opponents. Washington. A change in the attitude atti-tude of the United States toward the warring factions in Mexico was urged in the senate on Friday, with the result re-sult that the foreign relations committee com-mittee of that body is to take up the question immediately. Senator Fall of New Mexico attacked at-tacked the present policy and asked for the repeal of the so-called "neutrality" "neu-trality" resolution of the last congress. con-gress. Under this authority, he said, arms were permitted to go across the border to the Huerta faction, but were prevented by the armed forces of the United States from going to the factions opposed to Huerta. Senator Fall praised the Wilson administration ad-ministration for refusing to recognize what he termed the "assassins of the president, of Mexico" as the established estab-lished government in the republic; but he declared the 'practice of the administration in allowing ,arms to go to one faction and not to the other had resulted in retaliatory steps toward to-ward American citizens that no other nation on earth would permit. |