Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-08-06
HUERTA REFUSES
u 5. INTERVENTION
Defies World in Determination to
Keep Presidency.
ARREST ACCUSER OF u. S. MEN
Murderer Of TWO Seized After Ameri
can Agents Are Taken on Black
mail Charges at New
Orleans.

City Of Mexico, Aug. 4.-Foreign in
reference in the conduct of his task
Of pacifcation will not be tolerated
by President Huerta. He proposes to
stay in the presidency and will brook
no interference on the part of the ma
tiOnals or foreigners. This determin-
alton was expressed in a statement
issued by DR.. Aureliano Urrutia, Next
can minister of the interior, in behalf
of the president.
AccUser Of U. S. Agent Held.
New Orleans, Aug. 4-Emmanuel
Castillo Brito, former governor of the
Mexican state Of Campeche, was ar
rested here by federal authorities and
held without bail on a charge of muir
der and robbery preferred by the pres
ent Mexican regime He admitted he
had killed two Representatives of Huer-
ia, who, he said, tried to arrest him
Illegally during the recent revolution.
Attorneys for Brito announced his
release would be sought through ha-
beas corpus proceedings. They said
his Offense was political, in that he
lieved were about to subject him to
death under the notorious fugitive
law, and therefore not extraditable.
TWO U. s. Agents Arrested.
The former Mexican governors ap-
prehensiOn came soon after charges
of blackmail, which resulted in the ar
rest of two United States department
Of justice agents and representative
OF the Carranza branch of Mexican
revolutionists in New Orleans. It was
charged that G. r. Matthews and J. L.
Mott accepted $500 in marked bills
from Brito to protect him from arrest,
the affair having been arranged by
Ernesto Fernandez Of Arteaga, who
said he was allied with Governor Car
rama
McReynoIds Ordered Arrest.
Washington, Aug. 1.-The arrest of
former Governor Brito of Campeche
was the result of a request made by
the Huerta government through the
Mexican embassy for his extradition
as fugitive from justice charged with
murder and robbery.
Officials of the department of JUS
tice, stirred by the arrest of Matthews
and Mott, sent a special agent to in
vestigate.
Wilson Against Intervention.
While President Wilson has not an
nounced his policy toward Mexico, it
is believed he is evolving a plan of
noninterference In conference with
members of the house military affairs
committee the president discouraged
the idea of making preparations for a
volunteer army. He never has allowed
thought of armed intervention to enter
his consideration of the Mexican prob
lem
With the idea Of obtaining first hand
Mexican information, especially as to
pleas to lift the embargo on arms, the
senate foreign relations committee de-
termined to hear this week several
persons representing the factions in
Mexico. One of these is Gen. Eduardo
Hay, a constitutiOnalist who took part
In many battles in the Madero revolu-
ton. 1t was suggested that Mrs. Fran
cisco MaderO, Jr, widow of the former
Mexican president, and Alfonso Made
70, 9 brother, be invited to appear be
fore the committee.
The senators expressed a desire to
hear both sides Of the Mexican contro-
versy.
Bryan to Lecture Again.
Meanwhile Secretary Bryan an
nounced he would leave Washington,
probably today, to resume his lectures.
Secretary Bryan vigorously dis
claimed that his request to congress
to appropriate 100000 for bringing
destitute Americans out of Mexico had
any connection with any policy the ad-
ministratiOn may evolve in dealing
with the Mexican situation.