The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-09-24
HUER7A'S MESSAGE
SENT TO MEXICAN CONGRESS ON
INDEPENDENCE DAY
HAS HOPES OF Peace

Declares the Greatest Possible
Triumph for Him is to Turn Office
Over to Successor With Country at
Peace-Does Not Refer to Recent
Diplomatic Exchonges.
In spite of the rumors which dealt
impartially with attacks upon Ameri-
cans, an army uprising and the assas-
sination OF the Mexican President,
the Mexican Independence Day came
and went with nothing to mar the
holiday spirit Of Mexico City on
Tuesday.
Politically the great event was the
reopening Of Congress and the read
ing Of the Presidents message. But
without doubt Gen. Huerta was NOV
ed less by that than by the spectacle
Of thousands of students, citizens and
soldiers doing him honor as he stood
on the balcony of the National Pal
ace reviewing the great parade, the
feature in which public interest CEN
tered.
Gen. Huerta said the strained dip
lomatic relations between Mexico and
the United States had caused the
Mexican nation to suffer unmerited
affliction and had retarded the paci-
fcation of the country. Nevertheless
he hoped for an early solution Of the
differences between the two nations
= and to see Mexico and the United
States once more united in bonds Of
friendship.
The Provisional President drew a
distinction between the attitude Of
the government of the United States
and that Of the people Of that nation,
saying s'the tenseness Of our diplo-
matte relation with the government
Of the United States Of America, al
though luckily not with that people"
had put Mexico in a state Of appre-
hension.
The period Of six months allowed
American warships to remain In
Mexican waters by special permission
Of Congress will expire next month.
In the opinion of the President re-
newal Of permittion should not be
granted.
The message was disappointing to
: many who had expected that Provi-
:. sional President Huerta would deal
at some length with recent diplomatic
exchanges. This subject, however,
he said, ".being so delicate and the
permanent commission Of Congress
being already informed" he passed
with a bare mention.
In his peroration Huerta said:
s"The Mexican Government regards
the pacifcation of the country as an
urgent necessity in order to restore
the public services to their normal
state, to re-establish the political, So
cial and economic equilibrium and to
make possible program Of reforms,
which will satisfy the national aspira-
ton.
sT will spare no effort and no sac
rifee to obtain the coveted peace and
to- guarantee fully in the coming elec-
lions the free casting the ballot. You
may be sure it will constitute the
greatest possible triumph for the in
terim government to surrender Of
fee to its successor If the latter, as is
to be expected, enters upon its func-
tions with public peace and order an
accomplished fact"
OF the treasury funds amounting
at the beginning Of the last fiscal year
to s27,600, 900, s24,s0o,oe0, he said,
had been expended for the pacifca-
ton Of the country. Of the loan Of
s10o, 100000 authorized in May,
French bankers took s30,000,0e0 at
90. Out Of the Speyer & Co. had re-
paid s2Q,O00,000, half Of which was
loan to the national treasury and
half to the monetary commission.
For the army $500 horses ond $500
mules had been purchased during the
year. The National Cartridge fac
tory, he said, was turning ont $780,
900 cartridges monthly.
Besides great number Of cannon
Of various descriptions, machine
guns, rifles, carbines and ammuni-
tions, the government has contracted
abroad for ten aeroplanes, II armor-
ed and so rnarmored automobiles.
On the subject of the approaching
elections the President said he had
promulgated the law enacted by Con-
gress complimentary to the electoral
law under which the government will
hold election in October.
He declared that the government
would continue to make efforts to-
ward the pacifcation Of the country
within a period relatively short. In
this spect he could inform Congress
that the situation already was domi-
mated by the government in major
ity Of States, only Sonora and Duran
go at present being totally beyond
authority.
He called attention to the fact that
within the period treated by the mes
sage the most salient accomplish
ments of the revolutionary movement
had been the taking Of Zcaatecas,
which had been recovered later by
the forces Of the government, the
taking Of Durango, which was still
in the hands Of rebels, and attacks
on the port of Guaymas and the city
Of Torreon, which were repulsed by
the Federal troops. The fllibuste~