Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-18
bEL|Evi U. S. IS
ONLY MAKING
A BLUFF
SUCH IS THE FEELING IN SOME
CIRCLES IN the CITY OF MEXICO.
==AUERTA IS STILL DEFIANT
PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION OF
MEXICAN CONGRESS COMPLETED.
Foreigners LEAVE
ON EVERY TRAIN

Mexico City, Mex, Nov. 1S.--The
completion of the preliminary organi-
zaton of both branches of the New
Mexican congress is regarded here as
putting the final touch to President
Huerta's defiance. Surprise was caus-
ed by the publication of dispatches
from Washington indicating that Pres
ident Wilson does not contemplate
any active measures to support the
warning given by l3hn Lind to Gen
eral Hnerta against permitting the
new congress to convene.
Talk of the possib 'lty of Huerta re-
signing is still heard, but all the acts
and utterances of the provisional pres
ident are calculated to dissipate the
idea that he himself has any such in
tentions.
/ 1t has been suggested that Wash
ington has been given assurances that
General Huerta will resign after the
new Mexican congress has ratified his
acts since the dissolution of the form
er congress.
| Foreigners here had been keyed up
| to point at which any action prom
Using relief from the prevailing ten
sion would have been acceptable.
There is a large proportion of the ma
tive population which appears to be
keenly awe to the necessity of bring
ing present conditions TO an end and
which looks on intervention as the
only relief in sight.
| Mexican officials here seem to be
convinced that the United States is
bluffing and are quoted as stating that
they are satisfied there will be no
armed interference with their affairs.
/ A singular fact noticeable here and
much commented on by foreigner resi-
dents is the continued absence of any
anti-American spirit among the Mexi-
can populace, TIE efforts Of certain
native newspapers to stir up such
feeling have met with little success.
Similar efforts at the time of the
Madero revolution filled the streets
of the capital with mobs of the lower
classes led by students who shouted
against everything American. Mexi-
cans explain the difference in senti-
ment as due to the character of the
present controversy which fails to
enlist the sympathy of the people.
Owing to the menacing of the town
! of Arizona by the rebels and the con-
sequent threatening of communication
between the federal camps and Vera
Cruz, foreigners are tiocking to the
coast in large numbers. They see
possibility of being bottled up in
| Mexico City and every train to Vera
Cruz is loaded to its capacity
| Colonel Ramirez, in command of the
garrison at Orizaba. is fortifying the
strategetic points about the city and
reports to the government that he will
be able to resist any attack by the
rebels.
| A battle was fought yesterday at
| Ario de Rosales in the state of Micho-
acan between fifty federal soldiers and
$50 rebels. The rebels are said to
have withdrawn from the field after
three hours fighting, leaving % dead
and many wounded Only one federal
is reported killed. Ciudad Victoria,
the capital of Tamaulipas, reported
several days ago as captured by the
rebels, is alleged in dispatches pub
lished here today to have been just
attacked and fighting is said to be
going on in the suburbs. The garrison
of the city is believed to number 600
federals.
No announcement has yet been
made as to successor to Manuel
Garza Aldape as minister of the inte-
rior. The removal of Querido Moheno
from the foreign ministry to that of
interior and the appointment of Pedro