The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1911-04-07
CONCESSIONS
MADE BY DIAz
He Yields to Many Demands
Of the ReVOIutiOniSts
READS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS-

No Reelection of President or other
High Executive Officials, Electoral
and Judiciary Reform, Correction of
Abuses by Local Authorities and
Division of Great Estates Promised
mobilization of American Army
Mexico City, April 3. -Committting
himself to the advocacy of many of
the reforms demanded by the revolu-
tionists, although professedly bowling
only to the influence of public opinion,
President Diaz answered his critics
through his semi-annual message at
the opening of the national congress.
President Diaz read his own mes
sage of 16, 900 words in a clear and
steady voice that reached all parts of
The great hall. He was cheered many
times.
The principle of no reelection of
The chief executive and incumbents of
other elective offices and the reform
Of the electoral laws so that the privi-
.ege of the ballot may be enjoyed by
those citizens who are considered
capable OF voting" are advocated.
The message refers specifically to
the application of the no reelection
principle, to the naming of governors,
one of the chief contentious of the dis
contented element throughout the re-
public, and the president states if a
bill providing for the periodical reno
walton" of the officials in question
should come before congress it would
have his earnest support.
Abuse of power by jefes politico,
another of the evils complained of by
residents in the rural districts, is to
be abated, according to the plan out
lined by the president.
The president proposes to improve
the efficiency of the judiciary, through
a more careful selection of its per-
sonnet and frightening of the tenure
of office. Efflcacious punishment of
judicial functionaries for malfeasance
is to be brought about through the en-
actment of more stringent measures.
On the subject of the division of the
great private estates, first preached
by Minister Limantour in his Paris in
terview, the executive declares his
to find efficient means
for bringing about the innovation.
President Diaz pays a high tribute
to the loyalty and valor of the Mexican
soldiers, and takes up the subject of
the mobilization of the American
army.
Relative to these serious occur
rences, the executive says he had OBJ
served the rebels were recruiting fill
busters and effecting the organization
on American territory, and therefore
drew the attention of the government
Of the United States to their acts. That
government, acting by virtue of its
laws of neutrality, at once adopted
such measures as it deemed adequate,
which the government of Mexico
and appreciates. A little
later there was an unusual concentra-
ton Of American forces near the
border.
THE executive, as in duty bound"
says Diaz, gave instructions to Am
oassador De La Barra at Washington
70 ask for an explanation of the step.
THAT explanation caused a message
rom President Taft in which he spon-
.aneously gave assurances that this
of forces had no signiti-
,ance which should cause concern to
he friendly neighbors of the United
States on the south. The withdrawal
If the American warships which had
been ordered to the waters of both our
coasts and the fact that the land forces
ire shortly to engage in maneuvers
lfford the best proof of the sincerity
II these assurances, which have been
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