The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-16
WILL SON AND BRYAN STILL HOPE THAT HUERTA WILL BE
 FORGED TO RESIGN.
INTERVENTION NOT INTENDED
Statements of Both Huerta and Car ranza Against Intervention Is Not Taken Seriously by the Officers Of the Administration.

Washington, Nov l5.-While off, cial information from Mexico City was meagre. the Washington govern
 ment tonight maintained it's conf, dence that Provisional President
 Huerta soon would be eliminated from the situation.
 he steady pressure through diplo. matic channels, the financial blockade and practical certainty that the em- bargo on arms will be lifted unless liuerta yields, are expected to force retirement of the provisional presl.
 dent. How soon. this would occur, no official would predict.
 Neither at the white house nor at
 the state department was there any disposition to regard seriously the statement issued from the national
 palace at Mexico City declaring that "in view of Venustiano Carranza's repudIation of any form of mediation by, or alliance with the United States Provisional President Huerta can do no less than join him in his expres- sion of patriotic sentiment and main tain unaltered his dignified attitude toward Washington
 While on the surface this statement gave the expression that the United
 States had met with rebuff in the diplomatic camps of both Mexican factions. administration officials con- versant with details of the inner situ- ation construed it merely to be an at. tempt to meet temporarily the argu-
 ments of expediency being urged up- on Huerta by close friends.
 The declaration, first from Carran-
 ga, that he would not accept media
 ton by the United States, and reit-
 erated by HueTta, caused no concern
 here, for the Washington government maintains it never has offered to mediate Carranza's utterance, while not misunderstood by the Washing ton government, for, inasmuch as he had appealed to the United States to lift the embargo on arms and a spe- cial envoy had gone 10 his head quarters to discuss the situation, the necessity of showing his followers that he does not intend to surrender the sovereignty of his country by ne gotiation with any foreign govern ment. was taken into full considera-
 ton here.
 The American government likewise realizes that Carranza will not enter into any compromise arrangements or negotiations with Huerta or any or the group surrounding him. For this reason chiefly has President Wilson insisted throughout on the elimina- ton of the Huerta cotere as a neces-
 sary first step to peace, although he always has contended, too, that the Mexicans must. of course, actually compose the situation themselves. Huerta's expression on the heels of
 Carranza's utterance was regarded by
 high officials here. in fact, as an ef- fort to show no less patriotism than
 the constitutionalist chief at this time.
 The Washington government does not construe it's activities in the slt'
 nation as included in the terms "in- terferenceo or mediation. The Wash ington viewpoint is that the United States has the right to say eXactiy
 on what conditions it will recognize any government. It has sought to em
 phasize through it's representatives
 that under no conditions could Huerta
 or any one of the group surrounding him be recognized and has announced also that it will not recognize the legality of any acts of the Mexican congress. which was scheduled to con vene today
 By making it's position similarly clear to other foreign governments, ! the United States has secured The acauieseenee in it's views of every great power without exception As to the constitutionalists, the United States has also refrained from direct interference, according to the | Washington view, for the parieys be- tween William Bayard Hale and Gen | eral Carranza have been confined, II 1 is understood to inquiries as to | what protection to foreigners and
 their property could be expected, not I only if the embargo on arms were lifted, but in the event that Carran2a | element should obtain control of the | Mexico City government This ster
 is regarded here merely as in line with the policy of seeking information