Would Tell Senate Truth About Mexico.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 12, 1913:
American Colonists in Huerta's Capital Ask to be Heard by Washington Lawmakers.
THEY DEFEND AMBASSADOR
Mr. Wilson, One Writes, Helped to Save a Difficult Situation in the Revolutionary Crisis.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, March 11.— It became known here late to-night that prominent members of the American colony in the City of Mexico wished to obtain an opportunity to appear before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate to testify as to conditions immediately preceding, during, and since the Huerta-Diaz revolution.
    A Democratic Senator who is a member of the committee received to-day a long letter from one of the leaders of the American colony stating that Americans in Mexico City feared conditions there had been misrepresented here, and requesting that steps be taken toward arranging for a hearing by the Foreign Relations Committee of the American colonists, who would be willing to travel to Washington, if necessary, to testify.
    That letter will be laid before the committee at its next meeting. The Senator who received it will ask that the committee consider favorably the advisability of granting a hearing. From the letter received from the American colonist, it appears that the feeling among the American colonists generally in Mexico City is in favor of Henry Lane Wilson, American Ambassador, and his retention as the representative of American interests in that country.
    The letter says the sentiment among the American colonists is that Ambassador Wilson performed a great service by the way he handled affairs in the crisis, and that he did a great deal to save an exceedingly dangerous situation. It also is evident from the letter that there is a fear in the American colony in Mexico City that Ambassador Wilson either has been or is about to be misrepresented here — that he has been or will be accused in Washington of having aided the Huerta revolution, and that the American colonists think they should have an opportunity to clear away any misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the exact situation.