Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-09-04
HuERTA REQUESTS AFFAIRS BE
ALLOWED TO REST UNTIL AT.
TER OCTOBER ELECTION.
MAY ACCEPT OFFER, REPORT
troops Are Started for Border and
Others Held In Readiness to De.
Part-Gamboa Psves Way for
Further Negotiations.

Mexico City, Mexico. - Declaring
mainly that Victoriano Huerta cannot
be 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 unqualifedly 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-
lions, 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 for in the
terms in which it is couched it APP
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 of 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
1t 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 His Excellency, Mr..
Woodrow Wilson," and mir. Confiden-
tial Agent" resented the way Lind
referred to Huerta and Mexico He
said that the Huerta government was
legally authorized one and not in
any sense ode facto."
He stated at great length that the
Mexican constitution provided that
a president ad interim or a secretary
fNf of hnaI nf hn
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 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 can
didate, the possibility of his being a
candidate not having been thought Of
in Mexico.
The minister after reviewing Linds
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 to
write a reply.
Washington, ID. c. - President
Huerta has made concessions in his
stand against the American mediation
plan Special Envoy Lind cabled that
the de facto president had withdrawn
the demand for recognition which he
made in his original note rejecting the
Wilson proposals, and in effect had
requested that the entire situation be
allowed to remain in statu quo until
after the presidential election in Mex
leo in October.
A willy movement by Huerta to Sc
cure recognition of his status as the
actual provisional president was re-
ported by Lind. The special envoy
said that Huerta covertly asked for
the diplomatic move which would rec
ognize him as the constitutional pro
visional president" He suggests, Lind
stated, that by requesting Huerta not
to be a candidate for the presidency
this government has recognized the
legality of his provisional status un
der the Mexican constitution.
This is denied by the administration
here. No such Interpretation of this
governments representations is pos
sible, officials asserted.
The new request made by huerta
in effect, reopens negotiations upor