The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
TAKE SAN CARL S.
Carranza and Rebel Followers
Capture City.
Huerta Sends kilograms to
Merchants at Laredo.

Del Rio. Tex. Feb. 27--Without fir
ing shot. General Carranza and his
rebel followers took San Carlos. 80
miles from Las Vacas. Mex One bat
terry Of the Third United States field
artillery is encamped here. No disor-
der is expected
Seek to Restore Peace.
Laredo, Feb. 27.-ProvisionaI Presi-
dent Huerta has sent kilograms to sew
eral merchants of Laredo stating that
ne understood Col Geronomo ViIlareaf
had taken possession of Nuevo Laredo
that he recognized VillareaTs force as
an integral part OF the border revoIu-
uonary movement and that their joint
endeavors would be to restore peace TO
the republic 1t has been learned that
a committee from Mexico City has ar
rived in Monterey and will go by spec-
IaI train TO point half way between
Laredo and Monterey to confer with
a committee named by the authorities
at present in charge of Nuevo Laredo.
1t was said another conference Will
De held with the reVolutionists in
northwestern Mexico, including Pas
cual Orozco. jr Recognition of the
revolutionaries in Neuvo Laredo is not
accepted to mean that the new gov
eminent recognizes their right to de-
cree 40 per cent reduction in Gus
toms duties or the appointment of Il
new Mexican consul on the Ameri-
can side of the river. These acts are
being left for settlement at a later
conference. The port of Nuevo Laredo
IN the meantime remains closed TO
custom traffic.
Recognition Not Pressing.
Washington, Feb 27.-PoIiticaI
recognition of the new provisional
government of Mexico is not a mat
Ter requiring immediate attention of
the secretary of state and it has been
made practically certain that il is
another subject which will be left 70
the next administra ton.
In the opinion of state department Of
lcials, the United States has not an in
terest IN Mexico that will suffer bv win
noldlng the full recognition and also all
necessary business can be discharged utl-
deT the existing working arrangernent
Ambassador Wilson has set up This
amounts to the recognition of A Dc facto
condition 1t in no wise Commits the
United States government 10 an acknovF!-
edSnent of the legality of the Huerta
government and that question must BE-
determined hereafter entirely upon the
basis of performances.
II President Huerta is able to conduct
ms government In regular constitutional
form: TO maintain undisputed possession
OF his capital, and to extend full anu
ample projection to foreign life and prop
erty IN Mexico, formal recognition Will
not be withheld Because some doubt ex-
ISIS on the latter point. there is great de
liberation exhibited in reaching a de-
The United States government probably
Will be strongly influenced in its treat
Enent of this question by the extent OF
the measures taken by the provisional
government of Mexico to have a full and
fair election with the object of installing
a permanent constitutional government.
II Is precisely such an omission on the.
part of the de facto government in China
that has resulted in the Withholding Of
the formal recognition of Yuan Shi Kaf's
government.
Will Place Troops
In tie course of a conference with th-s
members of the senate committee on
foreign relations today. Secretary of Wa
SumSon and Major General Leonal Il
Wood said that seven regiments would
be placed along the Mexican line %
Texas They explained that the remoya.
TO Galveston of the detachments from r.!
Paso and other Rio Grande points had |
been rendered necessary by the crisis IL |
the City of Mexico With the accession |
Of General Huerta to the presidential |
chair. they said, it had looked for a time |
as if active Intervention might be neees- |
-ary, and with this possible end in view |
ii became desirable to get as large a force |
as possible to the nearest point of emf
at the earliest possible moment /
On this account the nearby ga-riSonS |
were rushed to that place