Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-13
Government to Be Turned Over
TO CarbajaI Who viii Sur
render II to the ConStitu-
tionaIistS ON Demand,
ANNOUNCEMENT MAY
BE MADE AT ONCE
President Selected to Act ad
Interim Said to Be Accept
able TO United States and
Mexicans of National Capital
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Vera cruz. July l2.-To save his
country from the horrors of civil war
and his capital from capture and per-
haps sack by victorious army. Cen
crai Huorta intends 10 resign the pro-
visional presidency and leave Mexico.
This statement was made today by
Roberto Esteva Ruiz Mexican sub
secretary Of foreign affairs, who
reached Vera cruz from Mexico CITY
ON his way TO Europe Huerta. he
said will surrender the government
10 Francisco Carbajal the new min
lister of foreign affairs, who in turn
will step aside when the time comes
for some other provisional president
wholly acceptable to the constitution
alists
Exact Date Unknown.
Just when the change viii come
Esteva Ruiz said he did not know.
"The president did not make me his
confidant." he declared, nor did |
have much time to talk with him af-
ter il was determined that | should
leave the cabinet"
He was convinced. however, that
Huerta would lay down his power
during the coming week and it would
not surprise him. he said. if his reslg-
nation were announced tomorrow.
Carbaial he added was suggested
as provisional president by the Am
erican delegation at the Niagara
Falls mediation conference and
agreed to by lIuerta's delegates and
the South American mediators, while
the constitutionalsts indirectly had
conveyed the idea that he would be
acceptable 10 Carranza.
Merely Provisional President.
"That is, explained the Mexican
euh-secretaly, Tgarbajai eo.id be
more a provisional president than the
real provisional president To be named
later
When the suggestion WAS first
made villa had not indicated his Will
ingness to accept Carhajal' EsteVd
Ruiz went on, and hc doubted Villas
Willingness TO accept him now. As
fof Zapata, he had no idea that the
southern leader would recognize any
provisional presidency until demands
for the redistribution of lands had
been complied with and he intimated
that objections to such solution of
MeXico's problem might come from
certain parts Of the northern states.
No More Fighting Likely.
Unless something occurs To disar-
range the present plan, Esteva Ruiz
Is convinced that fighting between
federals and constitutionalsts is over
This he said, was indicated by the
evacuation of Guadalajard.
Like POrfirio Diaz, who fled from
his country in the hope that his golng
might avert a long and costly civil
war, Hueria, according to Esteva Ruiz,
has decided to yield to superior num-
hers. Both ,4uerta and General Blan
Quet, his minister of war, know that
longer resistance would be futile and
would mean nothing more than the
slaughter Of thousands and perhaps
the sacking Of the capital itself. with,
perhaps, horrors perpetrated by vic
torous army joined by mad nobs
from the slums of the city.
Blanquct to Leave Seon.
lie expected Blanquet would leave
Mexico City perhaps when Huerta
fled, but not before. Enrique Goros-
tieta, minister of Justice, had offered
his resignation, so he had heard, but
he was not sure the report was true.
He assumed, however, that Gorostl-
eta would resign and all the old cabi~ /
net as we'll The new members Of the /
cabinet lately appointed, he went on,
We're supposed to be those chosen by
Carbaial with the idea that they We're
men the constitutionaists would not {
object to 50 seriously. at least, a s to
interfere with the preliminary work /
Carbaial had undertaken of finding
someone to take his plsce as president !
ad interim
Like Adolfo lie la Lama. the Mexi- I
can minister of finance. who arrived /
here yesterday also in flight to Eu- T
rope the sub-secretary of foreign af- (
fairs professed still to maintain his I
connection with the government He +
had been named. he said special am
bassador to Argentina, Brazil and (
hlle to convey to those countries the /
thanks Of the Mexican republic for
their efforts toward mediation. With 4.
his family he will sail from Vera Cruz T.
on the steamer Alfonso XlII for Spain, +
and from that country he declared,
ne would 80 on his mission to South .
America
fsteva Ruiz and wife appeared al
most pleased to leave behind them
The scenes he hal suggested as posi-
bilities of the future He displayed no
great enthusiasm regarding what the
future had in store II was frank in
his expressions Of doubt regarding
Villas future attitude. Villa he said.
provided the greatest problem before
me new regime.
Huerta MAY Brave Fate.
Senior Esteva Ruiz was not con
Nlnced that General Huerta would
ieaVe Mexico after his retirement from