Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-31
Venerable Executive Slow TO
Farley With Those Who Have
RebeIIed Against Admins
tratiOn.
FIRST MOVE MUST COME
FROM REBELS, SAYS DlAZ
With Botn Sides Seeking End
of Strife, Fiide Forbids Each
to Make initial 0Veftue3 for
Peace,
p,r vorc,os sourna, snec.ai Leased wire,

nv Naroips journal speciaI Leased wirei
Mexico City, March 30.-Report
emanating from points in the United
States that the Mexican government
intends TO send a peace commission
to treat with a similar body repre-
setting the rebels have aroused a liVe-
" interest here and the hope of vrl-
fication, but no government ofiicm
has been found who would admit The
existence OF any arrangements of this
character
That the cabinet was reconstructed
in the hope that The lisatiectea cle-
ments might be plecnted a'c that the
government is contemplating radical
reforms for the same roas"n is be-
yond question The government has
gone far in the MATES Of making con-
cessions but the belief Is growing
that President Diaz is not yet will
ing to recognize Madero and his fol-
lowers to the extent that he shall dis
cuss With them terms of peace.
Both foreigners and Mexieans are
inclined to believe that the aged ex-
ecutive will be slow to parlcy with
those who have risen in revolt against
his administration. If peace negotia-
tlons are to be conducted, It is be-
lieved that the initiative must come
from the rebels. According TO state
ments made in the United States the
opposite is the case
In this city there are few that do
not hope the government and the
rebels will come to terms, but there
are many who believe the day OF
peace is far off. 1t Is pointed out
that the fact that the government has
shown O disposition to concede cer-
tain thines Tor which the rebels are
fighting has been an encouragement
to them to continue the campaign.
The government insists that the
change in the cabinet and the re-
forms contemplated have come not
as answers to demands made by
armed men, but in response to a
popular move for altered conditions,
The revolutionsts cannot see 1t in
Just this light. They feel that 1t is
because of their work in the field
and appear to think that continued
rebellion will bring them all they are
after, chief of which is the reslgna-
ton OF the president and another
national election.
Francisco Madero, Sr., has stated
that he hopes to induce his son to
agree to terms of peace, and in TINS
he Is seconded by GustaVo Madero,
but reports brought from the seat OF
war are that Francisco Madero, Jr.'
still insists that there can be no peace
so long as President Diaz remains al
the head of the nation-and it Is the
younger Madero who is doing the
fighting.
Juan Sanchez Azcona, one of the
revolutionary advisers has pointed out
that the elder Madero Is not exactly
the one to determine the terms OF
peace or method Of arriving at sat
lsfactory agreement; that he has TAX
en- no active part in the revolution
This statement Of Sanchez Azcons
comedies with one made last week by
Minister Timantour, who stated tha
the elder Madero said he had LITTLE
influence over his son That the eld
ct ANutln NOulu Wti'pilt ffFtt =
doubtless true. and so would grea
majority Of the residents Of the capl
tai, but on the one hand. there is I,
be considered the administration, de
termined not to yield and on the 9th
or hand Francisco I. Madero fight
ing for something the government
cannot grant, without admitting dc
feat
SO far as the war itself is conccrne'
there has been little change In TIL
last five days The rebels are Target
in control of the rural districts i
Chihuahua. Sonora and parts of IA
cateeas. while throughout the countr
detachments of rebels--genuine han
dts in some cases--appear here an
there These smaller bodies OF in
surrectos report only indirectly,
they report at all. to Madero. bu
nevertheless they keep q certain por
tion Of the Mexican army engaged $
that whether Intentionally or nc
they aid the revolutionary cause.
So far as the larger towns are con
cerned. they still are all in control Q
the government. That the rebel
might take one or two OF these
probable, but whether they could hol
them Is another thing. They hay
no men to waste In garrisoning citie
Great interest is being shown in tn
Presidents message TO congres
which win be read on the evening {
April /. IT Is reliably reported this
II will be one Of the most remarkabl
documents the president has ever SCI
TO congress. In asmueh as It will cor
tain recommendations for Il revisio
of the electoral laws, revision OF th