The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-09


WASHINGTON, Nov "a III
NOR was current tonight that Spe-
cial Entvoy Lind had given Huerta
seventy-two hours to comply with
the demand of the United States
for abdication. The report could not
be verified
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.-Notwith-
standing intimations that Provisional
President Huerta would refuse to re-
sign, American officials said tonight
that his elimination would be accom-
plished Gin one way or another. - They
asserted that every opportunity would
be given him to retro peaceably, and
that drastic steps would be avoided IL
possible.
A development of the day was a call
sent by President Wilson for members
Of the senate foreign relations commit
| tee, Republicans as we'll as Democrats.
BE had Senators Stone and Swanson
with him for an hour, and expects TO
| discuss the subject individually with
other members within the next two or
three days. He is in constant com
munication with Senator Bacon, chair
man of the committee, who early in the
day had q long conference with Sec
retary Bryan.
The Georgia senator said tonight that
rr1,s s1a hA M OF {o Il
his talk with Mr.. Bryan in detail, he
could state that there had been no
change in the fixed purpose Of the
United States to have Huerta elimi-
mated from the situation, and that it
would be done, though every effort
measures
Two Courses Open.
In the view of many officials who
anticipate a rejection by Huerta of the
American demands, only two courses
are open to the United States-either
TO compose the situation directly or TO
throw its moral support with the con
stitutionalists in their fight to obtain
possession Of the government in Mexi-
tion to recognize the constitutionalists,
1t Is reported. Officials in the conf
dence Of President Wilson said that
while there was no alliance between the
Washington government and the con-
stitutionalists, the sympathies of this
government would incline toward the
constitutionaist movement. The discus
sion, they said, had moi. progressed to
the point where recognition Of the bel
ligerenoy of the constitutionalists was
being considered Lifting the embaT
GO on arms, however, is the method by
which many senators believe the situa
ton can best be met, and this is being
urged with renewed vigor upon the
president and Secretary Bryan,
It Is believed that before the Wash
ingtou government takes any step an
Understanding through informal and un
official channels may be reached as to
the exact purposes Of the constitution
alists, so that any act of sympathy TO.
ward their cause might be pTedicated
on assurances Of definite character,
TO this end, 1t Is reported that agents
OF the United States government are
gathering information along the border
and the programme which they have
mapped out.
Awaiting Reply.
It was admitted tonight by state de.
partment officials that no final word
had come from Huerta as to the Amer
lean demands presented by Charge
O'Shanghnessy. The next step, 1t is
believed, will not be decided until
Huerta reply is received. In the
meantime, tho president expects TO
keep members oa congress closely in
formed. He did not take his customary
Saturday afternoon automobile ride,
but remained at the White house alb
sorbed In the dispatches from Mexico
Besides Senators Stone and Swanson,
Speaker Clark saw the president late to-
day, but declined to say whether he
had talked about Mexico,
The president expects to forego his
usual Sunday custom of banishing OF
ficial business for the day, and will see
some of the members of the senate for
eigp relations committee. The presl-
dent is said to be impressing upon all
those who discuss the subject with him
that it is the duty of the United States
to see to it that the arbitrary assump-
tion of power by Huerta, followed by
his dictatorship, should not be permit
ted to ripen into a precedent In Latin
America.
No official comment was forthcoming
tonight on the. dispatches from Mexico
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