Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-09-04
Would Not Accept Loan.

Would Not Accept Loan.
Mexico City, Mexico. - Declaring
mainly that Victoriano Huerta cannot
be a candidate for president of Mex
leo and that Mexico would not accept
an American loan under the conditions
set forth in President Wilson's mes.
sage, Foreign Minister Gamboa's
latest note to John Lind, the text of
which has been made public, apparent.
ly paves the way for further negotia.
tons, but it does not state that Mex
leo unqualif1edly accepts the aid Of
Tered by the United States.
The note is long and rambling, and
in part is unfriendly in tone.
You say further, Mr.. Confidential
Agent" says the note, "that the presi-
dent of the United States Of America
has authorized you to say that if my
government acts Immediately and ia
vorably on the presidents sugges-
tons, that same president will express
to American bankers and their asso-
ciates assurances that the government
Of the United States Of America will
then look with favor upon the extern
sion of an immediate loan, sufficient
in amount to meet the temporary re-
quirements Of the present Mexican
administration.
Permit me, Mr.. Confidential Agent,
not to reply for the time being to the
significant offer = y = for in the
terms in which it is couched it ap-
pears more to be an attractive ante
cedent proposal to the end that we
should renounce a right which incon-
trovertably upholds us at a period
when the dignity CT the nation is at
stake.
Il believe there are not loans
enough to induce those charged by the
law to maintain that dignity to permit
it to be lessened."
Insists Government Is Legal.
Gamboa began his note by quoting
almost all Of the text of the late note
Lind sent him, which was attached to
President Wilson's message to con-
gress. The foreign minister, referring
throughout to Ellis Excellency, Mr..
Woodrow Wilson" and "Mr. Confiden-
tial Agent" resented the way Lind
referred to Huerta and Mexico. He
said that the Huerta government was
a legally authorized n and not in
any "de facto."
He stated at great length that the
Mexican constitution provided that
a president ad interim or a secretary
of state acting as head of the govern
ment could not be a candidate to sue
coed himself and that therefore Presi-
dent Wilson's proposal that Huerta
pledge himself not to be a candidate
for president at the October election
was unnecessary and a reflection on
Huerta.
Gamboa said that he supposed Pres
ident Wilson and Lind would know
Mexican laws before taking up the
problem of settling Mexico's problems,
but that he evidently was mistaken
and would take pleasure in telling
them that the constitution prohibited
Huerta from running for president.
Furthermore, Gamboa said, the presi.
dent of the United States was the first
to suggest that Huerta might be a can.
didate, the possibility of his being a
candidate not having been thought OF
in Mexico.
The minister, after reviewing Lind's
note, stated that for his part his first
note would have answered Lind's sec
ond one, the Mexican government be
ing firm, but said that Huerta desired
ITO carry his forbearance to the last
point and had instructed Gamboa tc
write a reply.