Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-17
ARMISTICF WILL
BEORDE.g.. DSOON
Peace Proposals P, /. to Point
Where Cessation OF = ilities Is
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NsURRECTOs HAVE 80 DEMAND
Insist on Three Cabine .ces and
Fourteen Governorships.
PRESIDENTS OFFERS MUCH LESS
Willing to Give One Cabinet Place and
Ten GovernorshipS
MADERISTAs HOLD FIRM VIEWS
Rebels Inclined 20 Belief After Ad-
vantages They Have Secured
they Are Mild In Their
Demands.
Insist on Three Cabine .ces and
Fourteen Governorships.
PRESIDENTS OFFERS MUCH LESS
Willing to Give One Cabinet Place and
Ten GovernorshipG
MADERISTAs HOLD FIRM VIEWS
BULLETIH.

JUAREZ. May 1s-within twenty-four
hours a general armlstice throughout Mex
leo will be declared by the federal govern
tnent and the revolutionists The peace
proposals which have passed back and
forth during the day reached a point at
l:30 O'Clock where their acceptance by
the inBurrectos was only a matter of a
few hours. This information was vouch-
safed by one OF the insurrecto chiefs. who,
today. received word OF the government 5
proposals.
II Is rumored that the cabinet portfolios
81 minister of justice and minister of
Eovernacion with be filled by the insurrectos
but that compromise has been reached
On the portfolio OF war. a man mutually
acceptable to both sides to he chosen. The
governors to be named by the insurrectos
probably will be fourteen in number
JUAREZ, Mex, May s5-Cpoh whether
the Mexican government will grant to the
insurrectos permission to name three mem
bers OF the cabinet and the governors OF
fourteen Of the twenty-four Mexican states
depends the issue restoring peace In
Mexico.
This proposition a slight modification OF
the original demand OF the rebels which
called for four portfolios in the cabinet is
the reply which was made today to the
offer Of the federal government Of one
cabinet member and ten governorships as
the price of peace,
The answer of the government is ex-
pected here tonight Judge Carbajal has
authority TO arrange peace on the latter
basis, but in his talk with PROVISIONAL
President Francisco l. Madero, jr last
night 1t was indicated to him that the
rebels must have at least three portfolios
and these should be the all-important posts
Of minister OF war, minister of Justice and
minister OF governaclon. which has turis-
Giction over the interior state administra-
lions in Mexico.
Think ThemseIves Liberal.
The rebels feel that in yielding four
places to three, they are giving the governs
rncnI a majority OF the cabinet, whereas
hitherto they have insisted on equal
strength there and practical power to
deadlock It on important measures. Espe-
cialy after the battle Of Juarez the rebels
think they are displaying the highest gem
erosity for they now claim military posses
sion Of the states OF Chihuahua and SON.
ora as well as a firm hold on many Of thu
others
Judge Carbajal is believed TO have Of.
tered the insurrectos the portfolio of min,
lster Of public instruction which they think
of great Importance to the country, but OF
no political Significance. Once in contro
of the War department. the Department
Of Justice and the Department Of Governa.
cion, they feel. too that they would be
able to reduce the country 70 tranquility in
comparatively short time.
one OF the chief efforts Of the insur-
iectos against the federal government In
Is revolutionary campaign has beer
directed against the administration OF tn,
courts in Mexico and are anxious TO re-
move the political preJudices which theJ
lay cling to the bench. Through the Wa
department. the rebels hope TO concentrate
what little scattered bands which may re-
main after the organized revolution is ended
70 organize an effective standing army fol
the country. Through the portfolio OF
governacion the rebels are OF the opinion
that they can overcome all local disturb
lnoes throughout the country.
With fourteen OF their own governors II
power. the minister of governacion, I'M the
capacity OF supervisor OF state govern.
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