The President directed that a Cabi
net meeting be called for 10:30
o'clock today, when the final arrange
ments for a blockade of Mexican
ports and other steps in the Presi
dent's program will be deliberated.
The crisis thus reached does not
mean that there will be a formal
declaration of war because the United
States could not declare war against
a government which it does not recog
nize.
President Wilson will seek author
ity, however, to send the armed forces
into Mexico, to seize first the ports of
Tampico and Vera Cruz and the rail
road trestle leading from Vera Cruz
toward Mexico City.
The final word from Huerta to
Charg'j O'Sliaughnessy was a refusal
to comply unless the United States
would guarantee in writing that his sa
lute be returned.
The breach that finally has come
with Mexico will make it impossible,
It was declared last night on high au
thority, for the United States further
to protect foreigners in that republic,
and foreign governments have been
notified of the situation in this regard,
The President, it was asserted, not
only would ask Congress for authority
to use the armed forces to uphold the
honor of the nation, but also for an
appropriation, a deficiency already
having been created because of the ex
tensive naval operations in anticipa
tion of Huerta's defiance of this gov
ernment. Negotiations with Huerta over the
demand 'or a saiute, in reparation for
the arrest of American bluejackets at
Tampico on Arril 9 csme to a cl'isi
last night at fi o'clock, the last hour
given by President Wilson for a favor
able respor.se from the Mexican dic
tator In prcpaiation for the crisis that
must be met Senator Shlvely, chair
man of the Senate foreign relations
committee, and Representative Flood.
