The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
|HUER7A IMPRESSED
ENGLAND SUPPORTING D. S. Al.
MOST PERSUADES him
TO resign At Once

About Change in Time to Prevent
Complete Rupture of Diplomatic
Relations With United States.
President Hrerta's attitude TO-
ward the demands of the United
States that he make way for new
government is that Of one only half
convinced, Notwithstanding a few OF
his friends and political advisers are
arguing, with due caution, that he
accede. The representatives OF this
element in the Cabinet sonferred Fri
day with Nelson O'Shaughnessy,
American charge d'affaires, but were
given no assurances that President
Wilson has unbent sufficiently to war
rant hope that the negotiations will
be reopened.
In spite of this, however, those
friends of Huerta who now are con-
vinced that the United States gov
ernment is not "blufing", believe
they will yet be able to bring about
the desired changes in time to pre-
vent a complete rupture Of diplo-
matte relations. This conviction 'c
based upon the fact that Washinstcc-
has not put into effect its implied
threat to remove the embassy or an
nounced any new course Of action.
Sir Lionel Garden, the British
minister, has conveyed to Huerta an
intimation that the United States is
in earnest in it's intentions and is said
to have told the provisional president
that the British government is dis
posed to back the United States NOR
ally. Huerta is said to have been
deeply impressed when he realized
that the nation which he had be-
lieved would stand by him Indefinite
ly had poined one he already regard
ed as his enemy Saturday was the
date fixed for the preliminary meet
ing of Congress and Friday night
there appeared to be no reason to be-
lieve that it will not convene, not
.withstanding the unequivocal de-
mand of the United States that 1t
should not do so. The. meeting is
for nothing more than the presenta-
ton of members credentials and or
ganization, after which, following the
usual custom, there will b ca lapse OF
some days before the body meets in
formal session to listen to the Presi-
dents message.
It has been represented to Huerta
that the United States, doubtless, will
regard his preliminary meeting as
seriously as it would were it the for
NAL day of opening, since it will in
dicate the intention Of the Mexican
government to defy Washington in
this regard. Those now lined up
against Huerta admit, however, that
his position is perplexing one, since
the law provides that the resignation
of the president must be made to
Congress. The only Congress in Mex
leo is in jail, and Huerta does not feel
justified in compounding his humllia-
ton, friends say, by sending his res
ignation to the penitentiary.
Advisers of Huerta who are send
ing an emissary to treat with Mr..
O'Shaughnessy insist that this last
demand of the United States is an un-
reasonable one, since if the new Con-
gress is permitted to meet, then there
will be body to which Huerta can
send his resignation in due form and
maintain his dignity. 1t has been
suggested that in order to assure the
United States that the new Congress
will be an inocuous institution, doc
ument might be prepared setting
forth the only measures this body
would be expected to enact and that
care would be taken to see to it that
among them there was none which
would be Objectionable to Washing
ton.
1t is not denied that to permit Con-
gress to meet without previous assur-
ances from the executive, would be
at best but a gamble, but it is con-
tended that any other course is diff
cult on account Of the laws govern
ing the resignation Of the President.
A dispatch from Washington on
Friday let 1t be known that the
American government will not re-
sumo negotiations with those officials
close to Huerta who are now urging
further parleys until assurances can
be given the provisional President
Huerta's intention to resign. This
was the status of the Mexican situa-
tion late Friday night. Efforts by
counsellors of Huerta to induce John
Lind at Vera Cruz to reopen the en-
tire subject had not been successful
at a late hour, it was reported, Mr..
Lind refusing to go back to Mexico
City unless some definite promises
were forthcoming from General
Huerta
Chairman Bacon, OF the foreign re-
lations committee, in discussing dis
patches from Mexico City stating that
Huerta's counsellors were seeking to
REQ IN the negotiations, declared
that the only condition upon which
that could be done would be the COM
plete surrender of Huerta.
Dispatches from Nogales, sonor,
announcing Gen. Carranza's refusal
to accept any transaction" with for
eign nations looked toward regula-
ton of Mexico's internal affairs, was
not commented upon. II was sug-
gested that Carranza's declaration
was intendent chiefly to allay any
feeling in Mexico that he was enter
ing into alliances with the United
States.