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Show FALL IS IN FAVOR OF INTERVENTION BELIEVES AME1ICANS SHOULD HELP STABILIZE AFFAIRS IN MEXICAN REPUBLIC. Should Stable Government Be Established, Es-tablished, Favors Recognition and Financial Assistance Be Extended Ex-tended By United States. Washington. Armed intervention in Mexico should the new forces in control show an inability or unwillingness unwilling-ness to set up a stable government more friendly towards Americans was recommended to the senate on May 31 by the foreign relations .subcommittee investigating Mexican affairs, headed by Senator Fall of New Mexico. Should a stable government be established the committee recommended that full recognition be accorded it and that financial assistance be offered by the United States. The committee said, however, full recognition should not be given until a treaty had been entered into predicated predi-cated upon assurances: That provision of article 27 of the constitution of 1917, commonly regarded re-garded by foreigners, as confiscatory, shall not be enforced against Americans. Ameri-cans. That the constitutional clause, providing pro-viding that none but a Mexican citizen citi-zen may be a minister of any religious creed in Mexico and that no periodical of a religious character shall comment on any political affairs of the nation or publish any information regarding the acts of the authorities or private individuals in so far as they have to do with public affairs, be inapplicable to Americans. That the provision that no minister or religious corporation may conduct schools or primary instruction shall not be applicable in the case of Americans, Ameri-cans, and That the article under which undesirable unde-sirable foreigners may be expelled be so revised as to give Americans the right to confer with the representative representa-tive of their government. The recommendations also proposed . provision in the agreement for the immediate appointment of a claims commission to adjudicate the claims of Americans, the committee to be made up of men chosen by the two governments govern-ments and with the understanding that its findings be binding and be immediately immed-iately carried out by the payment of the damages adjudged. |
