Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-09-18
NOTHING MARS THE HOLIDAY
President in Message to Con.
gress Opposes Presence of
U. S. Ships after
Next Month.

| with nothing to mar the holiday spirit.
! Politically. the great event was the re-
| opening of Congress and the reading of
| the Presidents message. But without
| doubt General IIuerta was moved less by
| that than by the spectacle Of thousands
| of students, citizens and soldiers doing
him honor he stood on the balcony of
the national palace reviewing the great
| parade, the feature in which public inter-
| est conferred.
| More than 1000 volunteers and students,
| ranging in age from ~ years upwards,
| had their first taste of military discipline
| discomfort, standing for hours In driz-
cling rain and plodding through muddy
| streets. They bore the nardships man.
fully. however, marching proudly between
| dense lines of onlookers, whom the rain
| likewise failed to daunt, through the
! principal business streets, past the palace
| and to various points where they dis
| banded
! It Is estimated that close to 10000
marchers passed in review They includ-
ed thousand OF Blanquets veterans,
who did hard service in the Zapata coun-
try. regular and volunteer cavalry and in
fantry rurales. mounted and foot police,
artillersts. cadets and hospital corps.
Next to the students and volunteers,
who received the most enthusiastic APP
plause, were several ambulance auto
mobiles filed with whlte-gowned young
women Of the Red Cross hospital service.
AIR FILLED WITH FLOWERS.
Along the line of march balconies,
house tops and pavements We're crowded.
The air was filled with flowers and con-
fetti was showered upon those who
marched. At each end of San Francisco
avenue the principal business thorough
fare, triumphal arches had been erected
and added to the general decorative ef-
feet of the banners hung from light posts
and windows and the flags of various
nations covering the store fronts.
| President Huerta and his aides. riding
through the streets after the conclusion
of the early ceremonies at Chapultepec,
were greeted with Wild applause. The
Presidents greatest triumph appeared To
be at his reception at the joint session OF
the deputies and senators, when he en-
tered to read his message He was greet
, ed with vivas both by the crowd sur
rounding the chamber and that which fill
ed the hall. Six o'clock was the hour set
for the formal opening of the session, and
a presidential salute of 81 guns was fired
Prompt to the minute the executive
mounted the steps Of the building, stop
ping only an instant at the doors to bow
his acknowledgements.
The city is abaze with strings of in
candcscent lights tonight. All public
buildings are profusely decorated. Unit
midnight the thoroughfares presented the
appearance of New Years eve in tbs
big cities of the United States Crowds
filed the Zocato in front Of the nationa
palace while other crowds wandered
! nosy about the streets. footing horns
and making the most of the expiring
holiday.
HUERTAS ADDRESS TO CONGRESS.
Provisional President Victorano Huerte
delivered his semi-annual message to-
night at the opening of the second ses
sion of the 9th Mexican Congress. In il
he promised to spare no efforts to brnl
about the unrestricted elections of pres
dent and v!ce-prcsidcnt OF the Mexican
republic next month. declaring that /
would constitute the greatest triumph OF
his career to turn over the office to hi
successor with the country at peace, a:
he hoped to do
diplomatic relations between Mexico anC
the United States had caused the Mexican
nation to suffer unmerited affliction anC
had retarded the pachcaton of the coun
try, Nevertheless he asserted he had gooC
grounds to hope for an early solution O
r the differences between the two nations
and to see Mexico and the United State
2 once more united In bonds of friend
Q ship.
n The Provisional President drew
distinction between the attitude OF tn,
$ government of the United Safes anc
= that of the people of that nation, say
h ing the tenseness of our diplomat,
e. relations with the government Of tn,
= United States of America although
: luckily not with that people" had pu
\ Mexico into n state Of apprehension
d The period of six months above,
= American warships to remain in MeX
9 can waters, by special permission o
= Congress, will expire next month. il
$ the opinion of the President renewa
y of such permission should not b.
= granted.
=, MESSAGE DISAPPOINTS MANY
The message was disappointing L
: many who had expected that Provis
| iciioi iSoibSil' iiutild NOllu zeal II
q some length with recent diplomat
l. exchanges. This subject. however, h
g said. being so delicate ana tn
> permanent commission of Congress be
! ing already Informed" and the fac
It that negotiations were still pendinu
l. he would pass over with bare men
J. ton
- The deputies and senator's in ioir
: session filled the floor of the Chambe
l. OF Deputies. The balconies were pack
ed, the diplomatic gallery being file
with foreign representatives and thei
10 families
n The silence which prevailed during tn
ar reading of the presidential document b
he the reading clerk was broken at its cor
clusion by prolonged cheering in whic
l. the congressman were Joined by tn
-" crowds In the galleries In his peroratlor
Provisional President Huerta said:
d 1.-THE Mexican government regards tn
e pacifcation of the country as an urger
d necessity In order to restore the puHfi
l. services to their normal state, to re-e,
S tablish the political, social and econom
Ieouilibrium and to make possible a prl