The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-08
Receipt of Private Telegram
and O'Shaughnessy's Dis
claimer Claim Attention
STATEMENT WAS NOT
SURPRISING TO u. S.
Washington Officials Believe That
Huerta Fears the Instigation of
Plots Among His Generals.
Moving Them About

Washington, September while no an
nouncements We're made at any of the
government departments today of any
change in the diplomatic side of the Mex
lean controversy. two phases of the sit
uation attracted much attention In Off
cial quarters.
One was the published disclaimer on the
part of Nelson O'Shaughnessy. American
charge d'affaires at Mexico City, that
any positive assurances had been given
him of the intentions of Victorian Huerta
not to be presidential candidate in the
approaching elections. The other was the
receipt of private kilograms from sources
close to the administration in Mexico
City stating that General Geronimo Ire
vino soon would be made minister of
war. to succeed General Banquet. 1t had
that Trevino was ordered back to Mexico
City by Huerta to be given the reins Of
the government as provisional president,
while Huerta entered the presidential
campaign.
Statement Not Surprising
Mr.. Shaughnessy's statement was not
surprising here, as it had been pointed
out from time to time by Washington
officials that they had relied only on the
repeated emphasis by Federico Gamboa,
Mexican minister of foreign affairs, of
the statement that Huerta was ineligible
by the constitution to succeed himself.
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy incidentally disclosed
the fact that the Mexican officials had
supplemented the argument of the sec
ond Gamboa note calling attention to
Huerta s ineligibility by verbal refer
ences to that part of the note. This
further encourages Washington officials
to believe that the Huerta candidacy will
not materalize. They realize that HUI
erta could circumvent constitutional OBJ
stacles by resignng in advance of the
elections, but such an act, it has been
openly stated by high administration Of
ficials, would be regarded as a breach of
faith and they are proceeding on the as
sumption that Huerta has been elm
mated
Huerta Fears Plots
The story that Trevino would be ap-
pointed to the cabinet and General
Banquet. the present minister of war
sent to the front is in line with various
reports that have reached here of the
alleged lnhdelity of some of Huerta's
military chiefs. When Huerta recently
issued an order. redistributing his gen
erals to various frontier points of Mex
leo, the move was Interpreted as being
OF military character only, but more re-
Gently Washington officials have been
led to believe that Huerta fears the
instigation of plots and intrigues among
his generals and is moving them about
TO prevent any concerted action against
him. General Banquet was the right
hand man of Huerta in the days Just
preceding the over throw of Madero.
The war department received a report
of the killing of Lieutenant Acosta
Mexican federal officer, by American
immigration agents at El Paso, TEX
The report confirmed press dispatches
ofthe incident, stating that Acosta was
killed after he had crossed to American
territory and fired on the Americans
The affair is in the hands of the civil
authorities al El Paso. though the i'm
migration department here will make
careful inquiry into the occurrence.