Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-09-20
HUERTA'S MESSAGE
TO MEXICAN CONGRESS
STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN
REPUBLIC AND UNITED STATES
RETARDS PEACE, HE SAYS.
WANTS UNRESTRICTED ELECTION
Executive Promises to Spare No IT.
fort to Bring About Fair 6aIlot'n9
Next Month-Financial Con-
dition of the Nation.

City of MeXicO.-Provisional FresF
dent Victoriano Huerta delivered ms
semi-annual message Tuesday nlghI dI
the opening of the second session OIL
tho twenty-seyenth Mexican congress
In il he promised TO spare no efforts
IN bring about the unrestricted elec-
ton of president and vice president
of the Mexican republic next month";
declaring that it would constitute the
greatest triumph of his career TO turn
over the office to his successor WIN
the country at peace, as he hoped 10
do.
General Huerta said that the strain
cd Diplomatic relations between Mex
leo and the United States had caused
the Mexican nation TO suffer unmerlt-
cd affliction and had retarded the
modification of the country. Neverthe
less. he hoped for an early solution
| of the difficulties between the TWO
! nations and to see Mexico and the
| limited States once more united in
! bonds of friendship.
The provisional president drew
distinction between the attitude OF the
Mexican government toward the Unit
cd States and that of the people OF that
nation, saying:
.'The tenseness of our diplomatic re-
Iations with the government OF the
United States of America, although
luckily not with that people, had put
Mexico into state of apprehension.
The message was disappointing to
many who had expected that Provls-
ional President Huerta would deal at
some length with recent diplomatic
Exchanges. This subject, however, he
said. being so delicate and the per
manent commission of congress being
already informed" he passed with a
, bare mention. The deputies and sena-
rars i'm Joint session filled the floor
If the chamber of deputies. The bal
comics we're packed, the diplomatic
Gallery being filled with foreign rep
> resentatives. and their families.
The silence which prevailed during
he reading of the presidential docu'
ment by the clerk was broken at It's
conclusion by prolonged cheering, III
% which the congressman were joined
by the crowds in the galleries.
In his peroration, Huerta said;
The Mexican government REGARDS
= the pacification of the country as al
urgent necessity in order to restore
the public services to their norma
state. to re-establish the political, SO
cial and economic equilibrium and t.
, make possible a program of reform
- which will satisfy the national asplra
- ton.
II will spare no effort and no sacT
= flee to obtain the coveted peace an
V TO guarantee fully in the coming cleo
n tons the free casting of the ballo
You may be sure it will constitute TN
greatest possible triumph for the il
- terim government to surrender offic
y TO its successor if the latter, as is
be expected, enters upon its function
with public peace and order an accom-
no plished fact"
a OF the treasury funds amounting
no the beginning of the last fiscal yea
u to $27, 500, 900, s24,900,O00, he said, ha
n. been expended for the pacification
a. the country. OF the loan of 100000
al 600 authorized in. May, French banke
nd took $50 1000 900 at ninety. Out of tn
"a Speyer e. Co had been repaid so
9 GOO, 700, half of which was loan
90 the national treasury and half to Il
nv monetary commission.
For the army $500 horses and 2,3
mules had been purchased during Il
year
NJ The national cartridge factory,
% said, was turning out 100000 ca
oh ridges monthly.
Did Besides a great number of cam
lie of various descriptions, machine guI
on rifles, carbines and ammunition, t
ant government has contracted abroad
to ten aeroplanes. seventy-seven armor
automobiles, fifty unarmored auton
biles and two armored transports"