The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-28

| BAR to the acceptance of the propositions
| In the second note was in the insistence
| that President Huerta eliminate himself
| from the electoral contest Their point is
that this was impossible for him TO do,
since he is a Mexican citizen. If there
should be further negotiations, it is prac-
tically certain that they cannot be salts
| faetorily concluded If this demand of the
United States be insisted upon"
President Wilson's second note made
public tonight insists upon an immediate
answer only to the demand that General
Huerta be eliminated from the electoral
contest. All other points, says President
Wilson. may be taken up later suggest
ing however that they be taken up with
out great delay.
Reply to Second Note
Senior Gamboa, replying to the second
note presented by Mr.. Lind, said In ef-
feet that his first answer might stand
for reply to this note, but that Presi-
dent Huerta desiring to exercise extreme
forebearance, was willing to make fur
ther explanations to the suggestion eff
fected by President Wilson that If the
Mexican government "acts immediately
and fayorably' upon the suggestions
President Wilson would express TO Amer
lean bankers and their assistants assur-
ances that the government will look with
iaNor upon the extension of an immediate
loan sufficient to meet the temporary
needs of the present administration"
To this Senior Gamboa replied: There
could not be a loan big enough offered
to induce those entrusted with the ma
tional dignity to put that dignity aside
The minister declared that the recon-
mendation regarding the withdrawal of
! General Huerta's candidacy was impossi-
BILE of fulfillment. saying; mot only
would we forego Our sovereignty, but
compromise for an indefinite future our
destinies as a sovereign entity and all
future elections for President would be
submitted to the veto of any President
of the United States. Such an enormity
no government ever will attempt to per-
petrate.
Points Out Clause
He pointed out the clause in the con-
stitution which incapacitates President
ad interim from becoming candidate
at a forthcoming election and said:
IF President Wilson had taken such
paragraph into consideration before ven
turing to impose upon us the conditions
In question, and which we have no power
to admit. the present state of affairs be-
tween you and ourselves would have been
avoided"
Nobody except President Wilson, Min
lister Gamboa declared, raised the point
OF the candidacy of General Huerta and
continued: There does not exist a news
paper. club or group of persons who
launched his candidacy or even discussed
1t. On what then, were the gratuitous
suspicious of the President of the United
States based to demand that General
Huerta should enter into an agreement
never before imposed on a governor of
any nation?'
President Wilson, said Senor Gamboa
might have withdrawn definitely from
his attitude, but at the risk of his action
being wrongly or differently interpreted
by the other nations, he withdrew the
suggestion that diplomatic relations be
resumed and considered 1t enough that
the staff of the respective embassies re-
main in statu quo, but on the basis that
the administration be the ad interim
constitutional government of the repub
lie.