The Washington herald., 1913-08-29

tial Agent that the President of the
United States Of America has authorized
you to say that If my government acts
Immediately and favorably upon the
foregoing suggestions, that the same
President Will express to American bank
ers and their associates assurances that
the government of the United States of
America will then look with favor upon
the extension of an immediate loan suf-
ticient in amount to meet the temporary
requirements of the present Mexican ad-
ministratiOn.
AT the end of your note. Mr. Conf
dentia! Agent. you express the hope of
your government that my government
will judge it consistent with the best
and highest interests of Mexico immedi-
ateIy to accept such propositions. stat
ing that they are submitted in the same
spirit and TO the same end as the original
proposition, but in a more restricted
form. to the end that my government
may act within its faculties without the
cooperation or aid of any other outside
factor.
Wilson stands Firm.
"It appears at once. Mr.. Confidential
Agent. that in this case the proposal Of
ri> eNcelIency, Mr. Woodrow Wilson, is
position originally assumed by him, for
Notwithstanding the time consumed since
the 10th the date of my reply to the
18th. in which you delivered to me your
second note, which l am here answering.
the essence and even the form Of his
original instructions are the same with
the aggraVatinS feature well qualified
by you as more restricted
For my part it would have been suffi-
Cient to answer this note in its totality
by reproducing the whole of my note of
the 18th instant as negative as categori-
cal as I have the honor to reproduce it
III this note
But the President wishes to carry his
fcrbearance to the last point, and to the
end that Mexican public opinion which
is so justly Gistr buted By the present
tension in the diplomatic relations be-
tween the two countries, and also to the
end that the various foreign governments
which have offered their good offices in
the most delicate possible manner-I am
glad to report that this has been their
attitude and not less pleased to express
grateful Acknowledgement thereof-may
you be duly informed has authorized m.
to reply to you in the following terms:
1T will begin by taking notice of a
highly significant fact. Between the
night of the 18th instant, when 1 re-
ceived the sheets containing your in
struction-not directed to any one and
calling the present administration ''the
persons who at the present time have
authority or exercise influence in Mex
ico'-and yet, some progress has been
made, in that now the constitutional
President ad interim (see paragraph 2
of the new proposition is called Presi-
dent Huerta," and in the whole course
of the note the personnel of his adminis-
tration is referred to as the de facto"
government.
Proposals Arc Rejected.
But inasmuch as this or that qualifi-
ground that all the representations of
your government have not been initiated
except with ourselves which gives us,
upon the supposition that we have not
been dispossessed of it, perfect political
and moral personality to clear up the
present divergence, l Intentionally limit
myself solemnly to point out the facts.
If your original proposals were not to
be admitted, they are now, in the more
restricted form in which they are re-
produced, even more inadmissable, and
One's attention is called to the fact that
they are insistent upon, IL it be noticed,
that which the first proposals had al
ready defined.
Precisely because we comprehend the
immense value which is possessed by
the principle of sovereignty which the
of the United States so op-
invokes to our recognition or !
precisely for this rea-
son we believed might never be proposed |
% us that We ever forget our own
sovereignty by permitting that a
oreign government should modify the |
inc Of conduct which we have to follow