The Daily Missoulian., 1913-09-08
1T DEVELOPS THAT NUMEROUS
OFFICERS WERE TRANS
FERRED FOR CAUSE.
MINISTER OF WAR IS ONE
Blanquet Will Be Sent to the Front
and Cabinet place viii Be Taken by
Trevino, 1t Is Said-EIimination Of
Huerta Is Taken for Granted by Of
ficia Washington.

Washington, Sept T.--While no an
nouncomcnts were made at any Of
the government departments today Of
any change III the diplomatic side of
the Mexican controversy, two phases
of the situation attracted much at
tention in official circles.
One was the published disclaimer on
the part of Nelson 'Shaughnessy.
American charge d'affaires at Mexico
City, that any positive assurances
had been given him of the intention
of Nictoriano Huerta not to be a can
didate in the approaching elections.
The other was the receipt of prt
Vate kilograms from sources close to
the administration in Mexico City, sat
ing that General Geronimo Trevino
would he made minister of war soon
to succeed General banquet 1t had
been supposed here that Trevino was
ordered back to Mexico city by Huer-
ta to be given the reins of the govern
ment as provisional president, while
Huerta entered the presidential cam
paign
Not Surprise.
Mr.. o'Shaughnossy's statement was
not n surprise here, as it had been
pointed out from time to time by
Washington officials that he had re-
lied only ON the repeated emphasis by
FREDERICK Gamhoa, Mexican minister
of foreign affairs, of the statement
that Huerta was ineligible by the con-
stitution to succeed himself. Mr.
p'Shaughnessy incidentally disclosed
the fact that the Mexican officials
had supplemented the argument of the
second Gamhoa note. calling attention
to Hucrta's ineligiblity by verbal ref
ereuces to that part of the note. This
further encourages Washington Off
cials to believe that the Huerta can
didacy will not materialize. They real
ize that Huerta could circumvent con-
stitutonal obstacles by resigning in
advance of the elections, but such an
act, it has been openly stated by high
administration officials would be re-
garded as a breach of faith and a sub
terfuge and they stil are proceeding
on the assumption that Huerta has
been eliminated.
Fears Plots.
The story that Trevino would Ire
Banquet the present minister of
! WAR sent to the front, is in line with
| the various reports that have reached
here of the alleged infidelity of some
of Huerta's military chiefs. When
! Hnerta recently issued an order re-
distributing his generals To various
frontier parts of Mexico, the move was
/ interpreted as of a military character
only, but since then 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 Blanquet
WAS the right-hand man of Huerta
during the DAYS just preceding the
overthrow of Madero,
The war department received re-
port Of the killing of Lieutenant
Aeosta, a Mexican federal officer. by
American immigration agents at El
Paso, Texas The report confirmed
esEfs dispatches of the incident, stat
ing that Acosta was killed after he had
ro sed to American territory anC
fird on the Americans. The affair
is in the hands of the civil authorities
at FL Paso. though the immigration
department here will make careful in
IutirN into the pppIlrrpnrp