The Calumet news., 1912-09-07
MUST CARRY
OUT PROMISES
Mexican Congress, Favorable to
President Madero, viii Meet
on September 16
HIS HANDS HAVE BEEN TIED
Executive Has Had no Legal Ma
chinery to Work With

Mexico City, Sept. The new
Mexican Congress convenes September
is, and after that date 1t viii be diff
cult for friends OF the administration
TO find excuses for failure to carry out
vt least few Of the promises made by
President Madero when he was chief
of the rebel army that overthrew the
DiaI government.
The Chamber of Deputies will have
on its ron 24S representatives $50 Of
whom were elected by the Constitu-
tional Progressive party, which gave
Madero the presidency. The minority
~ gS is by no means solid block. 1t
includes representatives of three poll
tical parties. the Catholic, IGvolutionist
and Independent
out of the weird medicy OF revolu-
tionary propaganda which has reach
d the capital from the camps of Oroz-
co IN the north. from these of Zapata
in the south and from the trails of re-
pellicus poems in districts SO remote
that the names of zapatl and Orozco
are rarely heard, the most dominant
note is that In which all unite ma
dero must resign" For the most part
the rebels have vague reasons for
uniting in this demand and all resort
TO the charge that tho president has
failed to fulfill the promises made in
his plan Of San Luis Potosi"
Madero Has Good Excuses.
the very natural defense o. the presi-
dent Is and has been that he has had
neither time nor the legal machinery
necessary foe the carrying out Of the
promised reforms. Not for one day
since his inauguration has his country
been free from rebels who loudly de-
mahded "fulfllment Of his promises" +"
and not vet has the executive had a
congress on which he could depend for
the support of the measures he has
promised.
The congress Madero Inherited was
part of the old administration. The
new congress Is supposed TO be In sym
pathy with his ideas. Under the old
congress, however. the administration
Was able TO have enacted the r1ost
cherished refornl-the constitutional
amendment providing for the non
re- election OF the president. The
electoral law was also altered, but the
elections Of the past summer betrayed
so many defects in the new law that 1t
will come up again for revision in this
session one of the defects most slar-
ing, II was found. was that IT permitted
u man to be candidate for an indeii-
mite number of offices at the came
time. For instance, Francisco de la
Barra, former provisional president.
who was made a member of the SER
ate on the Catholic ticket, was II can
didate in four different states.
Among those measures knows TO be
ready for presentation at the session
beginning in September are an employ
ers' liability act, the abolition of the
jefes pohticos, an anti-peonage law
and a measure for establishing courts
of jurisprudence for the settlement
Of land titles in cases where the rec
ords are missing. In many hundreds
Of cases the records were burned dur
Ing the past revolution End in those
! revolutioEs yet existing.
| q American Gets Even,
| Another dramatic cnapter was added
TO the story of the massacre of soldiers
and citizens at Ticuman by zapatistas
by Gerald Brandon. an American news
paperman working on Ell Diario of this
city. Two of the passengers on tn,
train. assaulted. by the Zapatistas were
liz. T.. Strauss and Ignacio Herrerias
Mexican correspondents Another vas
( Miguel Rivera. newspaper photo
grapher. All were slain, and then
bodies, with those of the other vi;tims
burned Brandon visited the long heal
of human ashes few days later. ant
there, according to a story written II
the first person, which he sent TO hi
paper. "swore to forsake his attitude
of neutrality, and to avenge the dealt
of his companions"
The remainder of the story wa
brought here by the officer in com
nand Of the detachment with whicl
II l,ranton was riding. From this Office
Brandon asked a rifle and cartridges
rhe next day the little force of fed
erals had brush with the rehels
Brandon was firing from the groun
near the officer. There's one 70
strauss" said 'Brandon to the officer
} pointing TO a fallen rebel. a few min
a.. n
and Brandon, turning to the offlcel
added That was for Ignacio. no'
one more for Miguel'. Again rcbc
pitched forward and Brandon. slidin
over TO the officer, handed him th
rifle and cartridge belt with the re
mark that he had done his part !
making the score even.