The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-15
SAID TO BE MAKING PREPARA, TONS TO RESIGN THE PREsi.
 DENCY OF MEXICO.
FAClNG A QUEER PROBLEM
Constitution Says Resignation Must Be Made to Congress and the Mex ico Congress Is Now Langushine in Mexico City Jais.

Mexico City, Nov. 14.-President
 liuert's stritude toward th,' de-
 mands of the United States that he
 make way for d new government is
 that of one only half convinced, not withstanding q few of his closest friends and political advisers are urg- ing-although with due caution-that he accede
 The representatives of this element in the cabinet conferred today with Nelson 'Shaughnessy. the American charge d'affaires, but were given no assurances that President Wilson has unbent sufficiently to warrant hope that the negotiations will be reopened In spite CI this, however. those friends of Huerta who now are convinced that the United States government is not bluffing, believe they will yet be able to bring about the desired changes in time to prevent a complete rupture Of diplomatic relations. This conviction is based upon the fact that Washing. ton has not put into effect its i'm piled threat to remove the embassy or an nounced any new course of action.
 Sir Lionel Garden, the British min. ister, has conveyed to Huerta an in timation that the United States is ear nest in it's intentions and is said to have told the provisional president that the British government is dis posed to back the Unsted Statas mor- ally
 For publication, Sir Lionel was re- ticent regarding his representations to Huerta, but it is an open secret that they were made and Huerta is said to have been deeply impressed when he realized that the nation which he had believed would stand by him indefinitely, had joined with i one which he already regarded as his 1 enemy.
 That Huerta's friends are attempt l ing to persuade him to vacate the 1 presidency or at least to prevent the | new congress from meeting. is a fea- | ture of the situation that is not dis cussed by them except with absolute ! secrecy. It is one of those subjects which it is considered not safe to discuss, and all their efforts have | been made more by means of intima- tions and suggestions than by defi- mite advices.
 Huerta is said tonight to be consid- ] ering his own elimination, although | this is always denied whenever the l direct question is put to any one con nected with the government.
 Tomorrow is the date fixed for the meeting of congress and tonight there appears to be no reason to believe that it will not convene, 1 notwithstanding the unequivalent de mand of the United States that 1t should not do SO The meeting set foI tomorrow is for nothing more than the presentation of members creden- tians and organization, after which, following the usual custom there Will be lapse of some days before the body meets in formal session to listen to the presidents message.
 1t has been represented to Huerta that the United States doubtless will regard this preliminary meeting as seriously as it would were it the for maj day of opening, since it will in- dicate the intention of the Mexican government to defy Washington i'll this regard. Those now lined up against Huerta admit, however, that his position is perplexing one, since the law provides that the resignation of the president must be made to con gress The only congress in Mexico today is in jail, and Huerta does not feel justified in compounding his hu- initiation, friends say, by sending his resignation to the penitentiary.
 Advisors of Huerta who are sending an emissary to treat with MT, o Shaughnessy insist that this last demand of the United States is an unreasonable one; if the new congress is permitted to meet then there will be a body to which Huerta can send his resignation in due form and main
 tain his dignity.
 It has been suggested that in order
 to assure the United States that the new congress will be an inocuous m stitution. a document might be pre- pared setting forth the only measures this body would be expected to enact and that care would be taken to see to it that among them there was none