The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-09-20
HUERTA TAKES A
FLING At: WILSON
SAYS THE UNITED STATES GOV.
EMINENT, NOT PEOPLE, ARE
UNFRIENpLY.
MESSAGE is DISAPPOINTING
Many Auditors Had Hoped Provision.
al President Would Discuss the
Recent Diplomatic Ex.
changes.

changes.
Mexico City, Sept. 17.-President
Huerta began his message to congress-
with: Besides the fratricidal strife
which exhausts US, the tenseness Of
our diplomatic relations with the gov.
eminent Of the United States, al
though luckily not with that people,
has put US in state of apprehension,
has made US suffer more than one af.
Fiction, which was not merited, and
retarded the complete pacif1cation of
the republic"
Disappointing to Some.
The message was disappointing to
those who had expected that Presi.
dent Huerta would deal at some
length with recent diplomatic ex.
changes. This subject, however, he
said, "being so delicate and the per.
manent commission of congress being
already informed" he passed with 4
bare mention.
In his message, President Huerta
said:
"The Mexican government regards
the pacif1cation of the country as an
urgent necessity in order to restore
the public services to their normal
state; to re-establish the political, so.
cial and economical equilibrium and
to make possible program of re.
forms which will satisfy the national
aspirations. will spare no effort and
no sacrifice to obtain the coveted
peace and to guarantee fully in the
coming elections the free casting Of
the ballot.
you may be sure 1t will constitute
the greatest possible triumph for the
interim government to surrender Of.
fee to its successor IL the latter, al
is to be expected, enters upon its func.
tions with public peace and order an
accomplished fact.
Speaks Of Funds.
OF the treasury funds, amounting Al
the beginning Of the last fiscal year
to $27, 100000, $24, 1900 900, he said, had
been expended for the pacification OF
the coantry; of the loan of 100000
900 authorized in May, French bank
ers took $3O,000,O00 at soc. Out OF
this, speyer & Co. had repaid $40, 900,
900, half of which was a loan to the
national treasury and half to the mon
etary commission.
For the army. 600 horses and 2,3ot
mules had been purchased during the
year. The national cartridge factory
he said, was turning out 100000 cart
ridges monthly. Besides great mum
Der of cannon Of various descriptions
machine guns, rifles, carbines and
ammunition, the government has con
tracted abroad for ten aeroplanes, u
armored automobiles and so unar
mored automobiles and two armed
transports.
At the close Of the reading of the
presidential message the session Of
congress was adjourned until today.
Refuses to Discuss Message.
Observation-Disclosures Wilson and
Secretary Bryan received an abstract
of Provisional President Huerta'i
message to the Mexican congress-, but
no comment on 1t was Forthcoming
from either.
Administration officials were in q
quandary over whether to send the
Huerta government message of con
graduation on the celebration Of in
dependence day throughout the Mexi
can republic. There was hesitancy
about addressing q message of that
character to government which had
not been formally recognized.