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CONGRESS GETS WAR MESSAGE FROM WILSON
WASHINGTON, April 20.—Secretary Daniels has
directed Admiral Badger to send three of his battleships
to Vera Cruz instead of Tampico. This means the first
aggressive movement will be in Vera Cruz.
WASHINGTON, April 20.—Standing before a joint
session of Congress, President Wilson, in a brief mes
sage, this afternoon asked Congress to delegate to him
the use of the armed forces of the United States
in such ways as might be necessary in handling the Mex
ican situation.
Shortly before the houses convened jointly to receive the mes
sage a bill appropriating $50,000,000 to be immediately available
for use by President Wilson for purposes of national defense was
introduced in the Senate by Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon. It
was referred to a committee.
The resolution is identical in language with the one by which
President McKinley, sixteen years ago, was given $50,000,000 to
finance the war with Spain.
Without a dissenting voice the
House adopted the resolution
for the joint session of the two.
bodies of Congress. Majority
Leader Underwood offered the
resolution, Senator Kern pre
sented the resolution in the
Senate,
Attended by Exciting Scenes. |
President Wilson's message was
delivered amid exciting secenes. Pa
triotic fervor permeated the House
chamber where the Senators and
Representatives met. The gallerics
were packed with a cheering throag..
The President entered the charu-.
ber at 3 o'clock and was given a tu
multuous ovation by nearly every
man on tie floor and the men aiil
women in che galleries standing, On
the Republican s.de there were a
few members who did neot jein in
the applause. Intense silence per
vaded the House as the President
began speaking.
Secretaries Lane, Burleson, Garri
son and Daniels entered the chamn
ber just in advance of the Presi
dent. ‘
The dinlomatic gallery, the exec
utive galiery, the speaker’s gallery
and all the public galleries were fili- |
ed to overflowing. Mrs. Wilson oc
cupied a front seat in the executive
gallery.
Hundreds of persons unable to ob
tain admission jammed the corridors
of the House wing and gave the
Capitol police plenty to do. :
The President concluded his ad
dress at 3:15 o'clock and again was
accorded an ovation a- he was. 2s
corted out of the chamber.
Address is Applauded. |
The assembled legislators applaud
ed three sentences in the President‘s}
message. The first demonstration
came when he asserted it his duty;
to uphold Admiral Mayo. There was
applause again when the President}
declared: “We do not desire to con- |
trol in any degree the affairs of |
our sister repubiic.” 1
The third outburst took place when‘
Mr. Wilson said he had come to ask
authority to use the armed force of
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the United States to obtain recog
nition of the rights and dignity of
this country. :
The President was escorted into
and out of the chamber by a joiat
committee of the Senate and House
consisting of Senators Kern, Gallin
ger, LaFollette, Shively, Root and
Martin and Representatives Under
wood, Fitzgerald, Flood, Mann and
Cooper and Temple.
Members of tle Forelgn Affairs’
Committee and other House leaders
then met in conference with the
Presiden: and begzan framing the
resolution to carry out His desires.
The President's Message.
President Wilson in his message to
Congress said:
“Gentlemen of the Congress—lt is
my duty to call your attention to a
situation which has arisen im our
dealings with General Victoriano
Huerta at Mexico City, which calls
for action, and to ask your advice and
co-operation in acting upon it.
“On the 9th of April a paymaster
of the United States steamship Doi
phin landed at the Iturbide bridge
landing at Tampico with a whaleboat
and boat’s crew to take off certain
subplies needed by this ship, and
while engaged in loading the boat
was arrested by an officer and squad
of men of the army of General Huer
ta. Neither the paymaster nor any
one of the boat's crew was armed.
Two of the men were in the boat
when the arre€t took place and wera
obliged to leave it and submit to be
taken into custody, notwithstanding
the fact that the boat carried, both
at her bow and at her stern, the flag
of the United States..
! Huerta’s Explanation.
“The officer who made the arrest
was proceeding up one of the streels
of the town with his prisoners when
met by an officer of higher authority,
who ordered him to return to the
landing and await orders; and with
in an hour and a half from the time
of the arrest orders were received
from the commander of the Huerista
forces at Tampico for the release of
the paymaster and his men. The re
lease was followed by apologies from
the commander and later by an ex
pression of regret by General Hueria
himself. General Huerta urged that
martial law obtained at the time at
Tampico; that orders had been is
sued that no one should be allowed
to land at the Iturbide bridge and
that sailors had no right to land
there.
“Our naval commanders at the port
had not been notified .of any such
prohibition; and even if they had
been the only justifiable course open
to the local authorities would have
been to request the paymaster and
his crew to withdraw and to lodge
a protest with the commanding offi
cer of the fleet.
Admiral Demanded Salute.
“Admiral Mayo regarded the arresi
as so serious an affront that he was
not satisfied with the apologies of
fered, but demanded that the flag of
the United Stetes be saluted with
gpecial ceremony by the military
commander of the port.
“The incident can not be regarded
as a trivial one, especially as two of
the men arrested were taken from the
boat itself—that is to say, from the
territory of the United States; but
had it stood by itself, it might have
been attributed to the ignorance or
arrogance of a single officer.
“Unfortunately, it was not an iso
lated case. A series of incidents have
recently occurred which can not but
create the impression that the repre
sentatives of General Huerta were
willing fo go out of théit way to show
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disregard for the dignity and rights
of this Government and felt perfectly
safe in doing what they pleased,
making free to show in many ways
their irritation and contempt.
“A few days after the incident at
Tampico an orderly from the United
States ship Minnesota was arrested
at Vera Cruz while ashore in uniform
to obtain the ship's mail, and was for
a time thrown into jail .
Official Dispatch Held Up.
“An official dispatgh from this Gov
ernment to its Embassy at Mexico
City was withheld by the telegraphic
service until peremptorily demanded
by our charge d'affaires in person.
“So far as I can learn, such wrongs
and annoyances have been suffered to
occur only against representatives of
the Urited States. 1 have heard of no
complaints from other Governments
of siniilar treatment.
“Subsequent explanations and for
mal apologies did not and could not
alter the popular impression, which,
it is pessible, it had been the object
of the Huertista authorities to cre
ate, that the Government of the
United States was being singled out,
and might be singled out with impu.
nuity, for slights and affronts in re
taliation for its refusal to recognize
the pretensions of General Huerta to
be regarded as the constitutional pro
visional President of the Republic of
Mexico,
“The manifest danger of such a sit
uation was that such offenses might
grow from bad to worse until some
thing happened of so gross and in
tolerable a sort as to lead directly
and inevitably to armed conflict,
“It was necessary that the apolo-
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President Refuses to Agree to
Huerta's Plan of a Simulta
neous Salute.
WASHINGTOX, Aprll 17.-—l'resi
dent Huerta's demand for a simaul
taneous salute has been rejected by
the President, Secretary to the Presi
dent Tumulty anrounced to-day.
Secretary Tumuity said that neithec
the President nor his Cabinet regard
ed Huerta's demand for a simultac.-
ous salute as essential to the cere
mony itself, and that it is not under
stood here that the Mexican dictaior
is making this an absolute and irvio
lable portion of the ceremony.
Tumulty spoke of the firing of tie
two salutes together as a “suggestion
from Huerta.”
This suggestion, which reached the
State Department yesterday in a dis
patch from Charge O'Shaughnessy,
was rejected to-day in instructions
sent O'Shaughnessy by Secrelary
Bryan.
Final Demand Made.
Secretary Bryan's instructions o
Charge O'Shaughnessy, it was learn:d
at the White House, was of such
nature as to leave absolutely no looj -
hole for a misunderstandinz.
O’'Shaughnessy was instructed to 1-
form President Huerta that tho
schedule drawn up by Rear-Admiral
Mayo for the firing of the salute was
the only one that the United States
would recognize and that any salute
fired contrary to this schedule wouid
not be accepted as an apology.
O’'Shaughnessy’s instructions were
to inform President Huerta that the
United States expects a salute with
in a reasonable time and that if it
is not granted the Mexican dictator
can expect the United States to take
the necessary steps to enforce it,
Rear-/ dmiral Mayo's schedule {or
the exchange of salutes requires that
the entire salvo of 21 guns from the
Mexican land battery be fired in hoje
or of the American flag, which will
be displayed on board the despatch
boat Dolphin, now the flagship of Ad
riral Mayo. When this salute is en
tirely finished, a little three-pounder
mounted on the bow of the Delphin
will larl” 21 times in honor of tue
Mexican flag, which is to be dis
played on land.
Await Huerta's Answer.
The President and the State De
partment are now waiting to hear
from O'Shaughnessy as to whether
Huerta will consent to fire the salule
according to the schedule arranged by
Rear Admiral Mayo, which, the Pres
jdent has clearly indicated, is the only
manner in which the United Slates
will recognize the apology.
Secretary Tumulty stated that the
President does not feel that the situ
ation is any less promising than it
was yesterday, but merely that some
difficulty is being experienced in ar
ranging non-essential details.
The feeling in diplomatic and offi
cial circles, however, i to the effect
that Huerta is placing every obstacle
‘possible In the path of the United
States in an endeavor to save his
face with the Mexican people, and, if
possible, to maneuver the diplomatic
game so that he will be abie to out
wit the United States in the eyes of
the world.
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PIER IS DESTROYED.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
YARMOUTH, ENGLAND, April 17.
The famous Britannia Pier, the lar
gest and most beautiful recreation
resort in England, was destroyed by
suffragettes to-day, with a loss esti
mated at between $75500 and $lOO,-
000,
Bombs were exploded in the pavil
fon and fire followed the explosions.
So powerful were the bombs that tha
shock was felt all over the city and
many windows on the shote were
‘broken,
Immediately flames shot up from
‘the pier and from the rapidity with
‘which the fire spread it was evident
that the militants had taken the pre«
caution to spread combustibles over
the woodwork,
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