The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-15
Banquet, After Holding Hucrta
F.. Prisoner Secures Promise to
Resign, but President is
Holding Out.
War Minister PlansCoup d 'Etat
if Promise Not Kept. Train
Ready to Take Dictator to
Vera Cruz. May Flee at
Amy lime.


erai Bianquef. minister of war, In
preparing for n coup d'etat, In cas0
Huerts does not keep the personal
pledge he hns given that he will
not try to hold to the prest-
deney.
Army officers have been ordered
10 take instructions only from
the minister of war, and to hold
themselves I'm readiness for imme-
dlate action. 1t NOV. develops that
Haerta practically under arr
rest at Bianauet's home yester- Il
day, and was allowed to leave
oaiy when he promised to quit the
office. banquet Is said to have
shown him that an attempt to hold
ont against the United states was
madness.
special train has been ordered
by the government to he in readi-
ness to go to Vera Cruz either to-
night or tomorrow.
banquet expects to he chosen
president ad interim tomorrow.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 14--AlI EFFORTS
on the part of certain of the niinis-
tiers OF General Huerta's cabinet to In
duce the provisional president to res
sign. and prevent the new congress
from converting, have come to q stand
still None OF them now dares to breach
&
drawing In response to the United
States demands.
The sudden change from the atti-
tude of a majority of the ministers
yesterday Is due to the fact that Huerta
learned Of the reports that William
Bayard Hale was negotiating with
! General Carransa on behalf Of the
United States government. He was
enraged when he learned Of this phase
of he -S~tscr-c- ottst him from this
executive seat, and will now listen to
no proposal Of surrender
1t is said this evening that the OPP
timistc reports of certain ministers
of the cabinet were made on their
own responsibility without having con-
suited Huerta.
! The members of the diplomatic corps
and high government officials believe
that attempts to renew the negotiations
with Special Envoy John Lind are
doomed to failure. and that even TX the
ministers preached the subject, which
is considered extremely unlikely, and
the provisional president consented,
the United States would hardly re-
open the subject at this late day. 1t In,
In fact, believed that the United States
will make a final demand on Huerta
tomorrow, and set a time limit for
his answer.
! 4 telegram from Vera Cruz saws that
John Lind transferred his baggage to-
day from the Hotel Terminal to the
battleship Louisiana.
Rebels Capture City.
Tuxpam, the city in the State of
Vera Cruz. which has been besiered for
several days by the rebels, was cam
tured today by the forces under Gene
erals Candida and Aguilar. Five hum
dred federal soldiers will be rushed
| from Vera Cruz aboard the gunboat
ZaTasoza to attack the city.
1t is confidently asserted by persons
in close touch with the Mexican gov-
eminent that the resignation Of Pres
tdent Huerta will not be long de-
layed in fact his retirement from the
executive seat at any moment now
would be no surprise.
The negotiations carried on By
Charge D'Affaires Shaughnessy
since the departure of Special Envoy
John Lind from the capital are pro-
crossing favoraby, while the minis-
ter of the interior, Cara Aldape, ana
other close friends of the dictator
have been urging him to withdraw
for the sake of the country-s inde-
pendepce. and in order to avoid i'm
prevention on the part of the United
States.
Mexicans are inclined to resent Mr..
Linds course in view of the fact that
he is not officially accredited to the
Mexican government.
Reports that william Bayard Hale
has been innegotiation with the Carr
ranzitas, have given a fresh impetus
to the revolutionary movement
throughout the country
Taking for granted that President
Huerta will be eliminated Mexicans
and Americans here are asking what
real good this can accomplish as he
is regarded as being Mexico's stroug-
4
to cope with the rebellion now in pro-
gress. or with any fresh one, GEM
eral Huerta has the support Of the
entire ruling class of the republic
and that class has nothing but con-
tempt for men Of the Madera and
Carranza kind whom they look upon
as impractical. idealists, whose course
of action has resulted in the loss OF
thousands of lives and millions Of doll 9
lars worth of property.
The HuertisIa papers are jubilant
at reports that Carranza has rejected
Hale's proposal They ask why Pres
ident Wilson, declining to recognix0
Huerta. seeks the aid of such men an
Carranza and villa. "El Noticioso,~
which Is considered the particular
organ says
including the puritanical Wilson. been
more sadly mistaken If they think Al
that the energetic Huerta will enter VI
into a compromise with bad Mexi- 81
can who is capable of joining the
foreigner 10 the prejudice Of his
country"
Referring TO Lind's departure from
Mexico City the same paper says;
1T has no international significhnc0
for he was in the capitol oily for the q
sake OF the climate. The famous
Lind, with his foolish arrivals and
departures has alarmed only pusiIani-
nous spirits. who foolishly attach inf~
portanee to his movements. Nobody
here Is bothesing Americans Or in~
juring their property. but az Wiisan N
fs seeking n pretext anything may