Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1916 — AMERICANS PROTEST MEXICAN TREATMENT [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS PROTEST MEXICAN TREATMENT

Eighty-Four U. S. Citizens Appeal to President For Relief From Outrageous Decrees. Washington, May 28. —On the eve of the receipt of General Carranza’s new note, which officials believe will renew the demand for withdrawal of American troops from Mexico and with another conference between American and Mexican military commanders about to begin a protest was received at the white house today reporting serious difficulties between American oil operators at Tampico and the Mexican authorities. The protest came in the forni of a telegram addressed to President Wilson by 84 American citizens residing at Tampico who, had held a mass meeting and determined to lay their case before the government. They declared the Mexican military officials were promulgating decrees designed to make it impossible for Americans to do business in the country and told how one of their number had been arrested and imprisoned for three hours because he refused to pay his employes wages fixed by the authorities in excess of terms previously agreed upon with the men* The signers of the message asserted their right to protection from the American government, announced their determination not to comply with arbitrary and confiscatory orders and decrees by the Mexicans. White house officials sent the protest to the state department for investigation. Other complaints already have been received regarding recent decrees by the Carranza government and it is probable that there will be representations on the subject just as soon as the controversy over the presence of American troops in Mexico is adjusted.