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VOL. XXII. NO. 83.
Fall Urges Recognition of Mexico Be Withheld
M'MOO AND COX ARE
LOOMING LMGE IS
DEMOCRATIC CHOICE
Vice President Marshall is
Man to Be Watched by
Their Backers, Says The
odore Tiller
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.)
BY THEODORE TIX.Z.ER
WASHINGTON, May 29.—As the
conventions have drawn a week near
er it looks more than ever like Mc-
Adoo and Cox as the Democratic
ticket, with Vice President Marshal
the man to be watched by the Mc-
Adoo forces, while the Republican
situation is one of chaos bickering,
money-spending and intense faction- ■
‘ alism.
McAdoo, according to the testi- '
mony before the senate campaign i
expense investigating committee, has |
played the shrewdest political game
of all the candidates. He has re
sisted every effort of insistent and
powerful friends to force him into
the open as a presidential candidate.
The investigating committee nas
been unable as yet to put its finger
on either McAdoo propaganda or a
McAdoo campaign chest, although
there is hearsay testimony of an tin- •
derwriting syndicate willing to back
McAdoo for five or ten millions. .
Yet the McAdoo talk continues and
the confidence of McAdoo backers,
men without organization but wire
pullers who are doing everything
possible in a quiet way, is remark
able. They are absolutely certain
plat it is going to be a w'a.lk away
for McAdoo at San and
that it is only a question of getting
some good man like Governor Cox on
the end of the ticket.
Much Marshall Talk
Nevertheless, Vice President Mar
shall, as previously forecast in this
correspondence, is not to be put out
of the situation entirely. One hears
a great deal of conservative discus
sion of Marshall and his old-fashion
ed Democracy about both ends of the
capitol. There are reports that are
unconfirmed, but possessing plausi
bility, that several big delegations
are for Marshall at heart. Politicians
point to a quiet conference between
Thomas Taggart, the reputed In
diana boss, and Charles Murphy, the
Tammany chieftain.
New York is said to be cold to
McAdoo because he didn't always
please the state organization in
patronage matters. Indiana, or
course, has a local pride in Toni
Marshall. If Illinois can be brought
into a Marshall combination a big
block of delegates would swing to
Marshall at the right time. What
Illinois may do is more uncertain
than in former years because of the
recent death of Roger Sullivan, who
was the Democratic warwick of the
state.
On the surface of things, however,
McAdob seems easily to have the
best of the strategic situation. Senti
ment for him is not a manufactured,
sentiment. Yet everybody seems to
be talking and thinking that the
Democratic convention is going to
become a McAdoo affair after a few
ballots.
McAdoo Stops Boom
Augus AV. McLean, national com
mitteeman from North Carolina, and
one of the original McAdoo boosters,
told the senate committee that he
knew of no McAdoo organization or
fund. Mr. McAdoo, he said, had
checkmated every effort made by his
friends, including McLean, Daniel C.
.Roper, Bernard M. Baruch, Robert W.
Wooley and other Democratic poli
ticians to get him out into the po
litical open. •
"We decided to start a movement
for him anyway,” said McLean, “and
had a little dinner where it was dis
cussed. The next day McAdoo was
tipped off about the dinner, and he
telephoned Mr. Roper to stop the
movement and not to circulate litera
ture even. I never saw a man take
such an attitude in politics.”
‘'Looks to me like this is pretty
good politics,” commented a com
mittee member.
“Well, I don’t know,” said Mc-
Lean. “We thought we ought to
take the bull by the hoims and force
him in. But it seems it McAdoo is
nominated he will have to be
drafted.”
Senator Reed said he was glad to
find somebody who wasn’t running for
president and was permitting the
nomination to seek the man.
Wood Probably Hurt
The senate investigations probably
have hurt to a considerable extent
the Republican candidacy of General
Leonard XVood. It has been shown
tnat he has a campaign barrel of
great proportions and that on e con
tributor, Colonel William C. Procter,
the Cincinnati soap manufacturer
advanced a million dollars to
the Wood fund. Procter said other
contributions would be something
less than a half million, but it seems
Wood has had pre-convention
funds around a million or more
and the committee still is bringing
m a few thousands here and there.
Senator Hiram Johnson so far has
escaped the charge of large expendi
tures. Governor Lowden, of Illinois
has spent more than $400,100 but
furnished most of the money him
self—about $380,000.
The candidacy of Attorney General
Palmer also has been 'Checked a bit
by the senate inquiry, according to
Washington belief. While Mr.
Palmer has not had a vast fund, the
committee is making capital of the
fact that nine of his contributors
were men whom Palmer has given
office Os some kind while he was
alien property custodian. In the ma
jority of instances these men were
named directors on German corpora
tions seized by the government and
operated for a time by the alien
property custodian.
Palmer’s campaign manager, C. C.
Carlin, also testified that he was an
attorney for a Pittsburg steel mag
nate who personally was accused of
evading federal tax payments to the
extent of about $1,500,000, while his
steel company was accused of tax
frauds of nearly ten millions.
To Probe Beeper
The committee seemed inclined to
link these facts with the possibility
that the department of justice ought
to prosecute, but Carlin said his con
nection was purely a professional
one as he was a practicing attorney.
The treasurer of the Palmer cam
paign testified that he had been
named an attorney on Palmer’s rec
ommendation for four German com
panies seized by the alien property
custodian. One fee was $15,000. The
others were not announced at the
hearing.
Senator Kenyon said the commit
tee intended to go further into the
Palmer campaign and ascertain how
many of Palmer’s personal friends
and Democratic politicians had been
named as attorneys or board direc
tors of German corporations which
■were taken over and later sold by
the alien property custodian.
While nothing grossly wrong is
charged, members of the committee
appeared critical of the fact that
this patronage had been spread around
among Palmer’s friends and that
Smallest Mayor
Has Biggest Job
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Isadore Bernstein, the newly
elected “Mayor” of Universal City,
Cal., the movie town, is the Smallest
and most highly paid chief executive
in the world.
"Bernie” isn’t a sizeable mayor.
He wouldn’t weigh 120 pounds sop
ping\ wet, but he’s heavy enough
above the neck to hold the biggest
job of its kind in the movie game.
He draws down $50,000 a year.
Under his direction come the activ
ities of between twenty and forty
producing companies, each employing
anywhere from ten to 2,000 people.-
Besides he has to straighten out the
kinks of all the other departments
that go to make up the “biggest in
dustry in America.”
"Mayor” Bernstein got elected by
one vote, but that vote was a big
majority. It was cast by Carl
Laemmle, president of the Universal.
ATLANTIANAND
SAVANNAH GIRL
PERISH IN SEA
SAVANNAH, Ga., May 31.—Miss
Marguerite Fitch, of Savannah, ste
nographer in the office of the United
States district attorney, and secre
tary to the Savannah Business and
Professional Woman’s club, was
drowned at St. Simon’s Island Sun
day while trying to save the life of
Mr. Ed H. Jewett, of Atlanta, who
was also drowned. Miss Fitch and
Miss Adeline Nelson, of Atlanta, were
in a canoe near Swach’s channel
when they heard Mr. Jewett crying
for help. Miss Fitch jumped over
board to save him and they were
both drowned.
Mr. Jewett lived at 12 Ponce de
Leon Place, Atlanta. He had gone
to St. Simons to prepare a cottage
for himself and his brother.
Miss Nelson, who remained in the
canoe, came to Savannah this morn
ing to tell of the drowning of her
companion. She is a sister of Mrs.
Lucian Knight, who has a cottage
at St. Simon’s.
Miss Fitch formerly lived in Rome.
CAMPAIGN PROBE ’
HEARINGS TO BE
RESUMED TUESDAY
WASHINGTON, May 31.—The sen
ate investigation of pre-convention
expenditures and pledges in the pres
idential campaign which was sus
pended until tomorrow is expected to
bring further inquiry into the can
didacy of W. G. McAdoo, on the
Democratic side and cover also the
primary campaign in California for
Herbert Hoover. z
Inquiries into the state and na
tional expenditures in behalf of Sen
ator Johnson also will be made. Sub
poenaes have been sent for various
witnesses, the supposition being that
the committee desires more light on
the Wood campaign.
Germany Has Had Her
Fill of War, Declares
Chancellor Mueller
BERLIN, May 31.—Sjeaking at a
somewhat stormy meeting in Mun
ich on Saturday, Chancellor Mueller
declared to a cheering crowd that
on June 6, the day of the German
presidential election, it would be
Germany’s business to attest, the
fact “that she has had enough of
war for all eternity and that no
fool,- crowned or uncrowned, shall
drag Germany'into. a war of re
venage,” accordin gto a report of his
address in The Tageblatt today.
“Foreigners.” continued Dr. Muel
ler. "have told me . they could
not believe it possible that the
frame of mind of the German peo
ple could be changed in so short
a time, but after the Kapp coup
even the entente military officers
admitted to me their conviction
that we had become truly Demo
cratic.”
The chancellor referred to the
coming conference at Spa as the
first ray of hope which Germany
could entertain that the extremists
realize the impossibility, of keeping
Germany down economically and
politically and at the same time de
manding extreme amounts in rep
aration.
nine of them now were contributors
to his presidential campaign fund.
Next week’s session of the investi
gation committee promises to go fur
ther into all campaigns and what is
done at Chicago and San Fransisco.
may be influenced to a great extent
by the full revelations of the sen
ate investigating committee. Any
way, this seems to be an expensive
political year and the campaign
chests are bulging.
COCA-COLA CASE
DISMISSED FROM
STATE COURTS
Attorneys for Plaintiffs De
clare That Litigation Will
Be Taken to Federal Court
for Quicker Decision
The injunction proceedings insti
tuted by the Coca-Cola Bottling com
panies against the Coca-Cola com
pany, of Delaware, involving the al
leged perpetuity of the contracts un
der wrich the bottlers heretofore
have enjoyed the exclusive right to
the sale of Coca-Cola syrup to actual
bottling plants, was dismissed by
Judge John T. Pendleton, in the Ful
ton superior court, Monday morning.
The case has been on trial for nearly
three -weeks and the order of dis
missal, which was signed at the in
stance of counsel for the bottlers,
came with an unexpected suddenness
that took the defendant company by
surprise.
Counsel for the bottlers announced,
following the dismissal of the litiga
tion, that the proceedings would be
reinstituted in the federal courts
They gave as their reason for with
drawing their suits, resulting in the
dismissal order, that federal ques
tions had been injected by the de
fendant company, and that the ter
mination of the litigation would be
expedited by taking it immediately
to the federal jurisdiction.
Specifically, counsel for the bot
tlers explained, the Coca-Cola com
pany. of Delaware, in its original
answer and amendments subsequent
ly filed, raise the point that the
contracts in dispute are in violation
of the Clayton anti-trust law, and
that the question is one for the fed
eral courts to decide.
Counsel for the ■ defendant Coca
Cola company, following the unex
pected ending of the litigation, gave
out a formal statement, in which
they declared 'that the original
‘notice of termination of the con
tracts given by the Coca-Cola com
pany (to the bottlers) has. become
effectual.”
Contract Ceases
In other words the relations be
tween the Coca-Cola Company and
the two parent bottling companies,
which have been in existence for
many years, has ceased, and here
after the Coca-Cola z company, in
stead of dealing with the so-called
parent bottlers, will deal directly
with the actual bottlers of the syrup.
The formal announcement of the
Coca-Cola company follows:
“The effect of the dismissal of
their bills by the Coca-Cola Bottling
companies is, that the notice of ter
mination of the,contracts given by
the Coca-Cola company has become
effectual.
"It is the purpose, howeveri of the
Coca-Cola company to take care of
the actual bottlers in some equita
ble, just and fairway, and just as
soon as it is possible to do so will
open negotiations with them with
that end in view. In the meantime,
the Coca-Cola company will arrange
to continue to furnish syrup to the
actual bottlers on the terms which
were provided in the modified order
which was passed in the cases be
fore they were dismissed.
"Neither the Coca-Cola company
nor its counsel had any intimation of
the purpose of the plaintiffs to dis
miss the suits this morning, but we
understand from the statements
made by plaintiffs' cotinsel that they
propose to renew the contest in some
other forum.
"The statement made by plaintiffs’
counsel that defendant had raised a
federal question which would have
to be ultimately tried by the federal
courts, which was announced as the
reason why the cases were dismiss
ed, has reference, we suppose, to one
of the defenses made by the Coca-Cola
company, which was, that while the
Coca-Cola company denied that the
plaintiffs had properly construed the
contracts between the bottling com
panies and the Coca-Cola company,
if they were construed as the plain
tiffs contended, they would, in that
event, be in restraint of trade, and,
therefore, void. The defendants did
not plead that the contracts, as the
defendants construe them, are in re
straint of trade, and does not thiak
so.
"The defense with reference to the
question of restraint of trade was in
the original pleadings in the case,
and the amendment, which elaborat
ed upon it some, was filed before
plaintiffs had completed their evi
dence, so that the plaintiffs have had
notice of this defense from the be
ginning.”
Origin of Ditigation
The litigation was instituted sev
eral weeks ago by The Coca-Cola
Bottling company and Coca-Cola Bot
tling company, following lengthy ne
gotiations between these concerns
and the These
negotiations jesufred in the issuance
of formal notice by tne syrup manu
facturer of its purpose to terminate
its contracts with the bottling com
panies as of date of May 1. The bot
tlers contended that their contracts
with the Delaware corporation were
perpetual and not subject to termina
tion at will.
The bottling companies secured
temporary injunctions in the state
courts, restraining the Delaware cor
poration from terminating the con
tracts or selling the syrup for bot
tling purposes to any one else or
from engaging itself in the bottling
of Coca-Cola syrup. Subsequently
the bottlers filed a supplemental bill
in which they claimed an equitable
right in the trade mark, trade name
and formula of bottled Coca-Cola.
During the pendency of the suits
and before the hearing in court, a
vast lot of evidence was taken be
fore Commissioner Harvey L. Parry.
(Continued on Page 6, Column 5)
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1920.
CONTEST HEARINGS
ATCHICAGOTHROWN
OPENTOTIIE PUBLIC
Georgia Faction Occupy
Limelight as Republican
Committee Meets Ala
bama Contest Abandoned
CHICAGO, May 31. —By unanimous
vote the Republican national, commit
tee's first action today was to throw
open the hearings on contested dele
gations. It was decided to take up
contests in the alphabetical order of
states.
The committee was ready to go
ahead hearing contests when it as
sembled, but some delegations and
their attorneys were delayed by late
trains, and the committee men went
on with other business while wait
ing.
Many of the contesting negro dele
gations from the southern states
were on hand early, even before the
doors were opened. Chairman Hays
was an early arrival. Frank B.
Hitchcock also was on hand early,
and had a series of conferences with
committeemen and contestants. He
had nothing to say concerning a meet
ing of Wood managers called for to
night, at which it is understood the
differences in the Wpod forces are to
be taken up and Mr. Hitchcock’s fu
ture connection with the general’s
candidacy decided. The arrival of
John T. King, of Connecticut, bear
ing the proxy of Senator Penrose,
of Pennsylvania, has added more
speculation to the general discussion
of the Wood managers’ plans.
The first contest to come before
the Republican national committee,
that from the Fourth district of Ala
bama, was abandoned when the com
mittee called it.
The contestant, W. H. Mixon, of
Selma, Ala., made no appearance.
The regularly certified delegate, J. B.
Atkinson, of/ Clanton, was seated.
Mixon was reported to favor the
Wood candidacy.
Oliver D. Street, AlabaiSa commit
tee member, told the committee that
the Mixon contest was “made out of
whole cloth,” and in the failure of
contestant to press the case the com
mittee adopted unanimously a mo
tion dismissing the contest.
The hearing of contests was
reached sooner than expected. Pre
liminary business was quickly dis
posed of apd the committee adopted
a rule that a national committee
man’s proxy must be held within his
own state.
In the Arkansas contest the com
mittee decided unanimously to seat
the regularly reported delegates at
large, headed by H. L. Remmel, of
Little Rock. The unsuccessful con
testants were headed by E. C. Mor
ris, a negro of Helena.
The question of what to do with
the surplus delegates was post
poned. Consideration of the contests
in the three Arkansas districts was
set to come up later today.
Ge ovgia Contest
As usual in past converftions vir
tually all the contests originate be
tween 'Lily White” and 'Black and
Tan” groups in southern states. In
the alphabetical order in which |hcy
will be heard the other contests are:
Arkansas; Seven of the state’s
thirteen seats are in dispute between
white and “black and tan” groups.
Florida: Three complete sets of
delegates, "Lilly White,” "black and
tan,” and “regular” are fighting for
the state’s eight seats.
Georgia: Fifteen of seventeen
seats are in dispute in what prom
ises to be the most bitterly fought
of all the contests, with direct is
sues between the Lowden and Wood
forces. The . "black and tan” con
vention elected a complete delega
tion headed by Henry Lincoln John
son, of Atlanta. They were listed
officially as unpledged, but Gover
nor Lowden’s campaign manager
testified he sent $9,000 of Lowden
money -> Johnson. The Wood -up,
headed by Roscoe Pickett, later
elected fifteen delegates. Frank
Hitchcock, one of the Wood man
agers, told the senate committee he
sent SIO,OOO to Pickett when it was
reported “the opposition was spend
ing considerable money.”
Louisiana: All twelve seats are
contested by whites and “black and
tans.”
Minnesota: Two of the state’s
twenty-four seats are at stake.
Mississippi: All twelve seats are
contested, with one delegation pledged
to General Wood. Frank Hitchcock
told the senate • committee that in
his opinion the Wood delegation was
illegal.”
Missouri: Two seats contested.
North Carolina: Seventeen out of
twenty-two seats contested, with the
Whites pledged to Judge Pritchard.
Oklahoma: Six seats in dispute,
with some of the contestants favor
ing Lowden and others Wood.
South Carolina: All eleven seats
contested by the "regulars” and the
“unio” tublican party.” a negro
faction.
Tennessee: Two seats in t}ie Sixth
and Tenth districts at stake, with
Wood partisans involved in both.
Texas: All twenty-three seats con
tested along racial lines.
Virginia: All fifteen seats contest
ed by “Lily Whites” and “black and
tans,” with extra contests filed from
the Third and Eighth districts.
District of Columbia: Three sets
of delegates, one said to favor Gen
eral Wood and the other two un
pledged, contesting for the district's
two seats.
“Pussyfoot” Johnson
To Speak in Atlanta
Atlanta will be included in the I
itinerary of William E. (Pussyfoot? |
Johnson, who now is touring the I
United States in the interest of the
prohibition movement, according tq
•an announcement issued by the local |
branch of the Anti-Saloon league.
Mr. Johnson will speak in Atlanta
on July 27.
Eighty-five cities will be included
in Mr. Johnson’s lecture tbur, after
which he wil take a short vacation
and then return to England to re
sume the Anti-Saloon league’s fight
for world-wide prohibition.
CLERICAL WORKERS
OF J. C. L. RETURN
TO PLACES MONDAY
Clerks at Three Points of
Central Railroad Also Back
at Work Southern Em
ployes Meet
The calling off of the sympathetic
strike of clerical workers on the At
lantic Coast Line by the head of the
national brotherhood, the return to
work of clerks at three points on
the Central of Georgia system, two
meetings of Southern railway clerks
In Atlanta for the presumable pur
pose of considering a return to work,
and walk-outs of clerks on four lead
ing lines at Montgomery, Ala., were
reported Monday in connection with
the strike situation.
A practical tie-up of freight .on
four of the Atlanta roads involved
continued Monday, while the other
three roads affected were said to be
handling traffic as usual. No clerks
had returned to work in Atlanta
Monday, it was stated, except on the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic,
whose officials said employees were
coming back here and at nearly all
other points.
A dispatch from Montgomery stat
ed that E. H. Fitzgerald, of Cincin
nati, grand president of the clerks’
brotherhood, had notified all general
managers of the Atlantic Coast Line
railway that clerks on this line -who
had joined the sympathetic strike
put into effect last week had been
ordered back. The message did not
make clear whether or not this order
applied to any road other than the
Coast Line- and officials of Atlanta
roads had received no similar ad
vices from the brotherhood chief.
Grand Vice President J. W. Nelson,
in of the situation for the
strikers, could not be seen at the
time the Montgomery dispatch was
received. <
New Clerks on Hand
Officials of the Southern railway
stated Monday that their clerks had
held a meeting at 9 o’clock in the
morning and were to hold another
during the day. No definite infor
mation as to the object of the meet
ings or the results thereof were
available at the time this edition
went to press. The local head of the
brotherhood stated that hb had
heard nothing of the meetings. All
Atlanta clerks were "still in the
street,” he claimed./
M. B. Smith, general superintend
ent of the Central of Georgia rail
way, on which road the original con
troversary originated two weeks
ago, received a message from Vice
President and General Manager L. A.
Downs Mondgy stating that all
clerks on strike at Eufaula and Do
than, Ala., and Albany, Ga.. were
back on the job Monday morning. No
Atlanta clerks had returned, but
more new employes were on han-d
Monday morning here than were
needed, he said.
No Further Negotiations
In accordance with notice served
on railroad officials Sunday, approx-'
imately 150 clerks of the Atlantic
Coast Line, Western Railway of Ala
bama and Atlanta and West Point
railway did not show up for work
Monday at Montgomery, dispatches
stated. Word that Seaboard Air Line
and the Louisville and Nashville
clerks had taken the same action
reached the Atlanta office of the Cen
tral of Georgia Monday.
No steps of any kind toward fur
ther were under way.
Mr. Nelson, for the brotherhood,
stated he was willing to consider of
fers from outside sources, but that
he did not intend to take the initia
tive. He ridiculed the idea that he
might be displaced by the national
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FRENCH HONOR '
U. S. DEAD ON
MEMORIAL DAY
PARIS, May 31.—Reports of Me
morial day exercises held yesterday
throughout France, where American
soldiers or sailors were buried are
given much space by today’s news
papers. French people entered with
enthusiasm into the ceremonies and
formed processions to cemeteries,
where graves were decorated with
garlands.
“France showed yesterday,” said
the Petit Parisien. "that she places
her own children and the sons of the
great American republic fallen on
her soil in the same category.”
General Allen, commanding the
Americans on the Rhine, sent every
available soldier back' into France
in detachments to visit the various
scattered cemeteries.
The principal ceremonies were at
Suresnes, where Ambassador Wallace
and Marshal Petain, commander in
chief of the French armies, deliv
ered addresses in memory of the
dead, followed by a volley from a
platoon.
Other ceremonies went on at Toul,
Thiaucourt. Fere-on-Tardenois, Fla
mes, Neufchateau, Contrexeville, Vit-,
tel, Lemans, St. Nazaire, Dijon,. Is
sur-Tille, Langres, Rouen, Chalons
sur-Marne, Tours, Nevers, Mesves,
St. Maixens. Juvigny, Bordeaux, Mar
seilles, Le Havre, La Rochelle, Nan
tes and Lyons.
At every ceremony the French peo
ple turned out in their thousands,
trudging along dusty roads to bare
their heads and pray over the graves
of their American friends. It was
noteworthy that children were so
numerous, almost every child carry
ing a wreath furnished by the Red
Cross or a simple bouquet of wild
flowers plucked from the woods and
fields over which the Americans toil
ed and fought.
The Red Cross in Paris mobilized
a motor convoy system which carried
most of the American colony to the
near-by cemeteries.
At Brest, besides decorating the
graves, the French erected a huge
memorial centopath to the American
sailors buried there. At Marseilles
the merchant sailors in port joined
the American colony in the ceremo
nies at the request of the G. A. R.,
and Cleveland Coxe placed a wreath)
on the Lafayette memorial.
More than 1,000,000 francs was
raised by the Paris American colony
which was spent for more than 70,-
000 wreaths, or one to a grave. The
wreaths were distributed in time for
today’s services.
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FAILURE TO PROTECT
AMERICANS WOULD
BRING INTERVENTION
Foreign Relations Commit
tee Directs That Report
Be Presented to the
Senate
1 WASHINGTON, May 31.—Recom
| mendation that full recognition of
i the Mexican government be withheld
I until an'agreement to revise the con
stitution of 1917 in the form of a
treaty is entered into, was made by
Senator Fall to the foreign relations
' committee today in his report of the
subcommittee which has been inves
tigating conditions in Mexico.
Should the Mexican government re
fuse to accede to such a condition
of recognition it was suggested that
the American government renew the
notice that it would hold “to a defi
nite reckoning” those in Mexico re
sponsible for the sufferings and losses
sustained by American citizens.
Failure of the Mexican government
to restore order and peace in Mexico
and effectively to protect American
citizens would be followed in the plan
suggested by the subcommittee, by
® the dispatch of an armed force into
| that country "to open and maintain
s open, every line of communication
j between the City of Mexico and ev
t ery seaport and every border port
of Mexico.”
It was recommended that Governor
de La Huerta, now president ad in
terim of Mexico, should not be rec
ognized until it was assured that
his selection was approved by the
Mexican people and until it was
shown that his administration was
of a stable character and was dis
posed to comply with the rules of In
ternational comity and the obliga
tions of treaties.
After receiving the report the for
eign relations committee directed
Senator Fall to present it to the sen
i ate and the senator planned to do
I this later In the day.
Should. Bequest Assistance
"In giving notice that we are
I not warring upon the Mexican peo
' pie,” the committee’s report added,
1 "we should request their assistance;
or at least that they refrain from
joining any armed bands in any at
tacks upon our troops or forces
whose purpose would simply be the
restoration of peace and order; pro
tection of our citizens; protection
of Mexican citizens; restoration of
American citizens to their proper
ties; the affording of opportunity of
opening of mines, fields and fac
tories, and land, the affording of
opportunity for the Mexican people
themselves, in whatsoever manner
they desire to constitute \a Mexican
government of serious, competent,
honest and honorable men who will
meet the world upon a
friendly ground and bind themselves
to deal with other people as they
themselves would be dealt with.”
The outstanding feature of the
agreement which the committee rec
ommends should be the basis for the
proposed treaty betwen the United
States and Mexico is that constitu
tion of 1857 be substituted for that
of 1917. The committee also pro
poses that Mexico agree that none
of the provisions of the new con
stitution commonly regarded as con
fiscatory should in any event
apply to American citizens, that the
restriction against the work of anv
minister of the gospel or any relig
ious body in that country should be
•j removed and that the article pro
/ viding for the expulsion of unde
sirable foreigners, known under thi
old constitution as “article 33,” be
revised or eliminated.
Follow One Follcy
The report ( covers . some 5,000
pages, and includes evidence taken
by the committee at hearings in
Washington, New York and along
th Mexican border as well as docu
mentary evidence to support charges
made by witnesses.
The committee points out that a
new regime has come into power in
Mexico, and says:
"We should first follow one policy,
viz.:
I "(A) Wait before recognizing Gov
ernor de Ja Huerta as president of
Mexico until it shall be assured that
is election is approved by the Mex
ican people and that his administra
tion possessed a stability to endure
and of the disposition to comply with
the rules of international comity and
' the obligations of treaties.
i "(B) We should let every one who
I assumes to exercise authority in any
I part of Mexico know in the most
unequivocal way that we shall vig
ilantly watch the fortunes of those
Americans who cannot get away, and
shall hold those responsible for their
sufferings and losses to a definite
recokning. That can be and will be
made plain beyond the possibility of
a misunderstanding. (President Wil
son’s Wilson’s address to congress on
Mexican conditions. August 27, 1913.)
First Duty of Government
“(C) Repeat to the Mexicans now
what Evarts said in 1878:
“ ‘The first duty or a government
is to protect life and property. This
is a paramount obligation. For this
governments are instituted, and gov-
neglecting or failing to
perform it become worse than use
less. This duty the government of
the United States has determined to
perform to the extent of tis power
toward its citizens on the border. It
is not solicitous: it never has been,
about the methods or ways in which
that protection shall be accomplished,
whether by formal treaty stipulation
or by informal convention; whether
by the action of judicial tribunals or
that of military forces. Protection,
in fact, to American lives and proper
ty is the sole -f»oint upon which the
United States are tenacious.’
“Then if satisfied as to (A) recog
nize De la Huerta (or successor)
upon conditions , plainly expressed
and affirmatively'accepted, that:
“Article 130 of the constitution of
1917 shall not apply to Auyejrlcah mis
sionaries, preachers, minister's, teach
ers or American schools;' nor to
American periodicals, but that Amer
ican 'missionaries, ministers and
teachers shall be allowed freely to
enter, pass through and reside in
Mexico, there to freely reside, preach,
teach and write,- and hold property
and conduct schools without inter
ferenlee by the authorities so long
as such ministers, teachers or mis
sionaries do not participate in Mex
ican politics or revolutions.