The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
After Six Months Wax and
Weeks of Parleying
The Document Bringing Quie-
tude to Mexico Is Signed.
BY LIGHT OF MATCHES
And on the Steps Of the Custom
House at JuareZ
The Commissioners AffiX Their
Signature to Document.

Juarez. Mex, May 22.-Tranqullllty
of an officially declared variety hoC
unlike the quietude of the erstwhlle
general armistice, but possessing more
of the normal atmosphere OF real
peace, reigns in northern Mexico 10
day for the first time in six mohths.
Messages are being flashed TO-DAY over
all wires and by courier TO renlole
parts of the country announcing tLlaC
last night a peace agreement dennlIeIy
ended the hostilities between lne 't rev.
TTndfsguised Joy beamed in the race
of Judge Carbajal, the federal peace
envoy. today as he prepared 10 oepart
for Mexico City, his mission mere Delns
accomnIished after nearly four weeks
of narievs Francisco 1. Madero, jr.,
triumphant leader of the reVolt, sat
in his house in the outskirts of the
town, content and happy, receiving
scores of congratulatory teleg grams on
the success of the movement ne lnl-
tiated. He will now await the reslg7
nation of President Diaz, starting for
Mexico City within a week, when 1t is
expected to become an established fact.
Seror Madero smiled this morning
as he heard the story of how the peace
agreement was signed last night. Along
with their joyous manifestations over
the signing of the peace agreement
his callers told and retold of the hu-
m0TOuS SlQellBnI IIldL was lii WI OtA
the signing of a document calculated
to have the most far reaching erect
for Mexico.
Francisco Madero, ST., had called on
Judge Carbajal at Ell Paso about $3.50
O'Clock last night and after tedious
half hour wait for Senor Pine Suarez,
the party started for Juarez in big
automobile, thinking Senior Suarez
previously had gone to the custom
house here When the peace automo-
H1tyf f6rna oPhiTaS filed
with newspaper men, dashed up to
the custom house after 10 o'clock
neither Senior Suarez nor any one else
was there to receive them. The Gus
tom house door was safeiy barred Dy
a huge grating.
Signed on the Steps.
Senior Suarez failed to appear and
after a brief conference 1t was decided,
as the document already had been
drafted, to sign the pact on the steps
of the building, agreeing to allow
Senior Suarez to sign it today. There,
under the stars, typewritten copies of
the peace agreement were signed and
exchanged while four automobiles on
the opposite side Of the street turned
their glaring searchlights upon the
custom house steps. The newspaper
men contributed their hard pads and
some matches and huddled together to
keep the matches from being extin-
guished by the evening breezes.
1t was the elder Francisco Madero's
fountain pen that was used, and IN
watching the commissioners slowly
scrawl their names under the agree
ment, one of the bystanders forgot the
burning match he held and nearly
spoiled one of the signatures when he
suddenly dropped the match while the
pact was being signed. The commits
sioners enjoyed the humor of the situa-
ton and declared that never was a
peace treaty signed under more extra
ordinary conditions. When it was all
over. they embraced in true Spanish
fashion, reaching over each others
shoulders and clapping the palms Of
their hands on their respective spines.
The commissioners expressed great
relief that the task for which they so
long had labored had been accomplish
ed without the introduction of dis
agreeable conditions and without in
Turing the national prestige or dignity
Of their country.
Gradual Disarmament.
Though the peace agreement provides
for the gradual dispensing of the troops.
1t is not believed any counter revolts or
disturbances will occur. The object of
the general disbandment of the insur
rectos, it is explained, is to maintain
for a short time a good fighting force
by which TO keep order among the
small scattered bands who might feaI
inclined to disregard the peace agree
ment. Trouble is anticipated with the
rebels in Lower California Thoueb ~
insurrectos there have never been al
He'd with the Madero movement tba
rebel chiefs here will send envoys or
messages to Lower California 11roine
the acceptance Of the conditions agraa5
upon here. Should they refuse an
armed expedition which probably viii
be led by Pascual Orozco, will he sent
to subdue them.
Senor Madero, in his victory, feels
that he will now be responsible for tbo
restoration of complete tranouiI1itI, onS 'ris
win attempt to demonstrate that if b4
is not in control of some hands - ne
least can subjugate them. --e at
Text of the Agreement
The agreement follows:
I'm the city of Juarez on the DIS
day OF May, 1911, at the customs
house, Senior Don Francisco ( Cto.L
jal, representing the government of
General Porf1rio Diaz; DR.. Franciscn
Vasquez Gomez, Don Francisco No
dero and Don Jose Maria Pine Suarez
as the representatives of the revoI,17
tlonary 1orces' having gathered to
treat about the method of effectine a
cessation of hostilities in the enfira
national territory and CONSIDERING.
II. That Senior General Porfrio
Dfaz has manifested his resolution of
resigning the presidency of the renub-
month, and,
''2. That bona fde news is at hand
that Senior Ramon CorralI win resigp
the vice presidency of the renuhiic
within the same period; and.
"3. That by the administration of
law, Senor Francisco Leon De Ia
Barra, at present minister of foreign
relations Of the government of Sepor
Diaz, VIII assume for the interim tba
power OF the executive of the nation
and will call the general elections AZ,
cording to the terms of the constit1I-
ton: and,
"A. That the new government will
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