Brands Huerta As An Assassin.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 28, 1913:
Senator Fall Would Lift the Ban on Shipments of Arms to Mexico.
SAYS IT INSPIRES HATRED
Senator Smith Suggests Cession of Territory to Compensate Americans for Losses.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, June 27. — In a speech bitterly denouncing Provisional President Huerta of Mexico as a "traitorous and treacherous assassin, " Senator Pall of New Mexico to-day argued for the repeal of the joint resolution permitting the President to forbid the shipment of arms and ammunition into that country. Senator Fall has large mining interests in Mexico, and is a member of the select committee headed by Senator William Aiden Smith, appointed to investigate charges that American capitalists had financed both of the Mexican revolutions.
    That committee has made no report, but Senator Fall said to-day that information received by the committee and from private sources which he dared not divulge had convinced him that no money had been sent from the United States to the revolutionists. The effect of the President’s order preventing the shipment of arms, he said, had been to destroy the feeling of friendship for Americans that formerly prevailed.
    That order, said Senator Fall, had always been in favor of one of the two contending factions. Mexicans realised, he said, that intervention was not contemplated, so that the feeling of animosity aroused by the restriction of shipments had been unrestrained by fear. American property, he said, had been ruthlessly destroyed, while the property of citizens of other countries had been scrupulously guarded.
    Senator Fall said he believed the Madero revolt had been financed, in part at least, with $350,000 which Gustavo Madero had obtained by a bond issue, ostensibly to build the Mexico Central Railroad in Zacatecas.
    By withholding exportations of arms to the revolutionists after Madero came into power, Mr. Fall said the United States had earned the enmity of 80 per cent. of the Mexican population, with the result that Americans there had been held for ransom and outraged.
    Mr. Fall was interrupted by a suggestion from Senator Smith of Arizona. Mr. Smith said emphatically that depredations against Americans and the imperiling of American lives must cease. Admitting the inability of Mexico to pay pecuniary claims at this time, Mr. Smith suggested that all claims of Americans against Mexico be settled by the cession to the United States of some of Mexico's valuable mining lands along the northern frontier in the States of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas.
    At the request of Senator Bacon, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, the resolution was referred to that committee.