The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-04
Apparently Not Alarms
ed by Enunciation of
Wilson's Policy.
|PORFIRIO DIAZ
ON ACTIVE LIST
Vigorous Denial That Military
Peace Commission Has Been
Sent From Chihuahua to
Juarez to Treat With Rebels,
Washington Is Satisfied
With Developments. ID

Mexico City, December S-The enun-
citation OF Washington's policy appears
not to alarm President Huerta. He
said to-day:
II have no intention OF Yielding.
Should this lighting in Mexico continue
for years. shall continue to do my
part in 1t if am still alive"
General Huerta declared that tho
country was Eelf-supporting, and that
forced loans, II mado necessary, would
enable him to resist indefinitely So
long as he was able to obtain American
oil he did not regard the shutting ofe
or native oil from the railways as VITAL
In official circles there is vigorous
denial OF reports that a military peace
commission has been sent from Chi
huahua TO Juarez to treat with tho
rebels In view OF Huertas repeated
statements that he never would treat
with the rebels, it is not considered
likely that the commission was sane
toned by him.
Diuz on Active List.
An order transferring General Por-
hrio Diaz. the eN-President, from the
retired to the active list. was pub
lished by the War Department to-day.
1t was dated September 20.
Tho city of Tampico to-day was de-
cinred the temporary Federal capital
OF the State of Tamaulipas General
Antonio Rabago. the military Cover
nor, who was erroneously reported to
have committed suicide when he was
forced TO abandon Victoria, has Eono
TO Tampico to re-establish his gov
ernOrship
1t is announced that n vigorous cf.
fort will be made to recapture Victoria.
ana that troops are already mobilizinp.
near Monterey for that purpose.
news or military operations through
o"l mo republic are meagre. and fav-
oraole to the Consttutionalists.
An outline of tho message delivered
ny PRESIDENT Wilson to Congress Mt
Washington was prominently display.
ed by the newspapers to-day.
Bnd Faith of Wilson.
The independents. which is controlI.
cd by the government, said
The man at the White House has
dared to affirm (against the truth uni
versally conceded) that Provisional
president Huerta is losing sympathy
every day, and that his fall is to be
expected. 1t was hardly belicvable
that President Wilson would have the
temcrity to assert such thing He
thereby gives testimony OF his bad faith
towards things Mexican"
FL Paris. the most independents Of
the Mexican newspapers, says:
President Wilson'S words are so in
furious and depressing. and nt the
against the Mexican President are so
unjust that il is preferable to pass
them by in silence. in order not to
awaken anti--American sentiment in
Mexico"
Minister OF Agriculture Lozano IS
said 10 have been responsible for the
rejection by Huerta OF Il mediation pro
posai rendered by Queen Wilhelmina OF
Holland, on behalf OF the European
powers represented in The Hngue
tribunal.
The proposal was that IIuerta should
arrange for new elections, reform the
government. and then resign the pres-
dency In return, the European powers
engaged To use their influence to in
duco the Washington government to
extend recognition to the Huerta ad-
ministration. adj interim. and to guar
antee whatever funds might be need
ed for the process of paciication and
reconstruction.
uucrtn Rejects Proposal.
This plan is said to have been viewed
with such favor by Huerta that no
went so far as to commission DR.
Urrutia, president of the Senate, to
form Il new Cabinet
When the plan was laid before the
Cabinet, however, Senior LoZano, who
is rabidly anti-American and an en-
tremcly persuasive orator, In an im-
paSSioned speech urged Huerta. in the
name OF his country, not to submit to
such an undignifed and unpatriotio
plan. which would mean another tri-
umph for the United States and indig-
nifty for the whole Mexican nation.
IIuerta, after listening to this address,
is said to have decided TO reject the
proposal
News of a sharp engagement between
a detachment of Federal troops and u
band OF ZapatistaS Mt Topiljo, only
twelve miles from tho capital, two
days ago, was made public to-day by
tho War Office. Ten OF the bandits
were killed and twenty wounded, ac-
cordng to the report.