The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-15
j. 6. IS NEAR
BREAK WITH
HUER IA
Meeting of Diplomats in
Mexico City Will Assail
Huerta'S Iron Rule

WASHINGTON. Oct. 15.-With Dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Mexico near the breaking
point the government officials left in
the capital today awaited the next
action of Huerta. That his reDrt to
Wilson's message will be short and
pointed is anticipated by all who are
familiar with the temper of Huerta-.
The text of President Wilson's note
to Huerta is as follows:
The president is shocked at the
lawless methods employed by General
Huerta. and as a sincere friend of
Mexico is deeply distressed at the sit
uatfon which has arisen. He finds 1t
impossible to regard otherwise than
as an act of bad faith toward the
United States General Huertas course
in dissolving congress and arresting
the deputies.
1T is not only violation of consti-
tutional guarantees, but it destroys
all possibility of free and fair cleo
election held at this time and under
as they now exist would
have none of that sanction with which
the law surrounds the ballot, and that
It's result, therefore. could not be re-
garded as representing the will of the
people. The president would not feel
justified in accepting the result of
such an election or In recognizing the
president so chosen"
1t is this note which is believed to
have prompted Foreign Minister Mo-
heno's description, Contemporaries"
SPANISH MINISTER PROTESTS
MEXICO CITY. Oct. Ito protest
against the dissolving of the Mexicarz
and the dictatorship assumed
by Huerta, the Spanish minister today
called a conference of all foreign rep
in the capitol.
HUERTA MAY BACK DOWN
That Huerta may back down In his
attitude of defiance toward the United
States was indicated today, when
Senator Moheno, minister of foreign
relations, issued the following state
ment:
The press of the capital interpre-
tated enormously some statements
made yesterday regarding the note
from O'Shaughnessy and gave undue
to messages from the
United States. The government of
this republic has indeed received from
the American state department
the charge d'affaires two
which are going to be an
swered by our government. which
in no way modify the statu quo of
our relations with the neighboring re-
public of the north. This country in
due course will know these messages
and replies
TRIED FOR TREASON
The S3 deputies who have been held
prisoners since the chamber of depu-
ties was dissolved by Huerta, will be
tried for treason. according to the
present plans. This
statement is made by one of the
80 deputies who was released two
days ago.
This deputy said that he and his 20
colleagues, who have been released,
were all approached by other deputies
and asked to enter the plot by which
1t was planned to trap Huerta and
allow the leaders of the northern
revolution to capture the reins of
in a manner similar to
that employed by Huerta during the
last revolution.
PLANNED TO KILL DEPUTIES
This deputy said that certain MEM
bers of the chamber had been in
constant communication for many
months with the insurgents and that
the plan was practically made when
1t was discovered by Huerta's secret
agents.
: 1t was learned that had any of the
deputies resisted their arrest when
the chamber was dissolved, even to
the extent OF making protesting
speech. they would have been shot
down on the spot.
That this wholesale massacre was
averted was due solely to the pres
ence OF mind of the speaker, who
promptly declared the session was
dissolved