Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-05-22
PEACE TREATY
SIGNED At
JUAREZ
FORMAL AGREEMENT FOR
CESSATION OF STRIFE
Provides for Assumption of
Presidency By De La Barra
and Resignation of Diaz and
Corral.

Juarez, Mex, May 21.-officially
designated representatives of the Mex.
lcan government and the revolution
lists at 10 o'clock tonight signed
peace agreement at the customs house
here intended to end the hostilities
which have been waged in Mexico for
the last six months.
Though covering only the principal
points which have been negotiated
thus far, 1t practically records the
those demands which initiated on
November 20 last armed revolution
in Mexico. kilograms announcing the
signing of the agreement We're des-
patched throughout Mexico to revo-
lutionary and federal leaders alike.
Constitutional restrictions prevented
the inclusion in the peace agreement
Of the fact that the rebels will be per-
mitted to suggest to various state Leg
lslatures the names OF provisional
governors and likewise the fact that
six of the eight cabinet members of
the new capinet have been chosen by
the revolutionists but agreement rec
ords that President Diaz and Vice
President Corral will resign and that
the government Is to concentrate its
attention on desired reforms.
In the same room where President
Taft and President Diaz met in an in
ternational handshake two years ago
and where the portrait of President
Taft tonight in silent solitude looked
down upon the peace commissioners,
the portrait of President Dia5 which
once hung beside the Taft picture,
having long since been removed, peace
was formally drafted today.
The actual signing of the agreement
took place under most extraordinary
circumstances tonight on the steps of
the custom house. When the peace
commissioners arrived they found the
doors of the custom house locked,
with no one present to let them in
Accordingly the gathered On the
steps of the building and, while news
paper men held matches, fountain
pens were produced and the docu-
ment signed The automobiles turned
their searchlights on the scene ana
when the signatures were affixed the
commissioners embraced joyfully.
small crowd which had collected,
shouted, viva la paz."
Judge Carbajal represented the fed |
eral government and DIR. Vasquez Cos |
mez Francisco Madero, Sr., and Senior |
Pine Suarez acted for the revolution
lists The agreement follows.
I'm the city of Juarez on the |
twenty-first DAY of May, 1911 lat the i
customs house. Senior Don Francisco !
s. Carbajal representing the govern
ment of General Porfirio Diaz; Dr.
Francisco Vasquez Gomez, Don Fran I
cisco Madero and Don Jose Maria /
Pine Suarez, as the representatives of
the revolutionary forces. having gath
cred to treat about the method of ef-
fecting a cessation of hostilities in
the entire national territory, and con-
/. That Senior General Porfirio I
Diaz has manifested his resolution OF
the presidency of the repub-
lie before the end of the present
month and
2. That bona fide news is at hand
that Senior Ramon Corral viii resign
the presidency OF the republic
equally within the same period; ana
8. That by the administration OF
the law. Senior Francisco Leon de La
Barra at present minister of foreign
relations OF the government of Senor
General Diaz, will assume for the in
lerim the power of the executive OF
the nation and will call the general
elections according to the terms oil
the constitution, and
4. That the new government viii
study the conditions of public opinion
IN the actuality to satisfy these condi-
ions within the provinces of the con-
and will come to an agree
nent conducive to indemnifying the
losses directly caused by the revolu-
ion, therefore the two parties repre-
iented In this conference, in view OF
he previous considerations, have
lgreed to formulate the following
lgreement:
From today on hostilities in the
lntire national territory of the repub-
ic which have existed shall cease be-
.ween the forces of the government
md those OF the revolution, these /;
orces to be dismissed in proportion as
n each state the necessary steps are
aiken to re-establish and guarantee
tranquility and public order.
"Transitory provision:
"As soon as possible the recon-
or repair of telegraph and
'ailway lines hitherto interrupted shall
be begun. Agreed and signed In du-
1icate by: Il
senior ION Francisco - SaIOdJdi.
Don Francisco Vasquez Gomez ,
Don Francisco Madero. ,
Don Jose Maria Pine Suarez." |
The agreement was signed after
hree days of indecision, Francisco /.
hadero, Jr., leader of the revolution,
xpressing the view that peace could
10 declared only when Senior de La
tarra became provisional president
nd the new cabinet was installed,
Some of his chiefs argued other
wise, declaring that armed forces in
ne interim might precipitate trouble.
was suggested, too. that In defer I
nee to the wish OF President Daz to I
epre when tranquility was restored
ne peace pact be made Immediately,
$ his resignation is expected within
our or five dafs. The latter view
revailed. senbr Madero's hesitancy
las based on the idea that a peace
sreement could have no legal effect {
lasmuch as onA of the parties, the
eVolutionists, expired when peace |
'as declared. II WAS pointed out to Is
I'M however. that n peace treaty, in 4
pc legal sense Of tine word, was not !
eslred, but merely Assigned declara- s
on o. recording what had been done To-