El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-07
MADERO MUST
KEEP HIS
PROMISES
After Sept. 16 Will Have
Friendly Congress Garry
Out Reforms.
BRANDON SWEARS TO
AVENGE COMRADES

Mexico City, Mex, Sept THE new
Mexican congress conyenes September
16, and after that date it will be diff
ficult for friends of the administra-
ton to find excuses for failure to
carry out at least a few of the prom
lses made by president Madero when
he was chief of the rebel army that
overthrow the Diaz government.
The chamber of deputies will have
on its roll 243 representatives $50 OF
whom were elected by the Constitu-
tional Progressive party which gave
MaderO the presidency. The minority
of SO is by no means a solid block. 1t
INCLUDES representatives of three poll
teal parties, the Catholic, Evolution
ist and Independent
The Progressives also claim to have
the balance OF power in the senate.
The upper house in Mexico is not the
dominant body, however, and undis-
puted control in the chamber amounts
practically to the control of congress.
Demand MaderO's Resignation.
Out of the weird medley of revolu-
tioanry propaganda which has reached
the capital from the camps of Orozco
in the north, from those of Zapata in
the south and from the trails of re-
bellious poems in districts so remote
that the names of Zapata 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 the president has
failed to fulfill the promises made
in his plan of San Luis Potosi."
The charge is not without basis, but
the very natural defence of the presi-
dent is and has been that he has had
neither time nor the legal machinery
promised reforms. Not for one day
since his Inauguration has his coun-
try been free from rebels who loudly
demanded, fulfillment of his prom
ises," and not yet has the executive
had a congress on which he could de-
pend for the support of the measures
he has promised
The congress Madero inherited was
a part of the old administration. The
new congress is supposed to be in
sympathy with his ideas. Under the
old congress. however, the administra-
ton was able to have enacted the
most cherished reform-the constitu-
tional amendment providing for the
reelection Of the president The
electoral law was also altered, but
trayed so many defects in the new law
that 1t will come up again for revision
in this session One of the defects
most glaring, il was found, was that
it permitted man to be a candidate
for an indefinite number of offices at
the same time. For instance. Fran
cisco de la Barra. former provisional
president, who was made a member OF
the senate on the Catholic ticket. was
a candidate in four different states.
Some Proposed Laws.
Among those measures known to be
ready for presentation at the session
beginning in September are an en-
ployers' liability act, the abolition Of
the jefes politicos, an anti-peOnage
law and a measure for establishing
courts of Jurisprudence for the settle
ment of land titles in cases where the
records are missing. In many hun
dreds of cases the records were burned
during the past revolution and in those
revolutions yet exist
Brandon SWenrs Vengeance.
Another dramatic chapter was added
to the story of the massacre of soldiers
and citizens at Ticuman by Zapatistas
by Gerald Brandon. an American
man working on FL Diario
of this city. Two Of the passengers
on the train assaulted by the Zapatis-
tas were H. L Strauss and Ignacio
Hererrias, Mexican correspondents. An
other was Miguel Rivera. a newspaper
photographer. All were slain and
their bodies. with those of the other
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