The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-17
Mexican Dictator is Scheming to Bring About
Hostilities on Theory That it Will Help
His Cause
IEMCAN SALUTE WILL Be RETURNED
|hp. Will Proceed as Originally Ordered and
Force Of Navy and Army Will Surround
Borders.
! a United Press Staff Cor

By a United Press Staff Cor
respondent
MEXICO CITY, April Il.
General Huerta wants dec
aration Of war. This is his
biect in the present negotia-
ions over the Tampico Incl
lent. He has been in almost
CONSTANT conference with his
eabinet and congress. 1t be
came known today his desire
to bring about warfare be
Tween Mexico and the United
States on the theory that il
would solidify the Mexican
I,eople in support Of his other
wise doomed government.
The above message in code SO as to
Escape the censor, was received today
Nv the New York 0ffce of The United
Press from its staff correspondent in
Mexico City who has beenNin close
touch with the situation there during
the past year The message was
necessarily brief and could not carry
any details In view of the extraordfn-
! ary strict censorship.
This message which was the first
important news dispatch from Mexi-
co City since the Tampico incident
h threw the first definite light upon the
attitude OF Huerta in the crisis which
led to the dispatch OF the Atlantic
and Pacific fleets to Mexican waters.
Answering the Salute.
WASHINGTON April II. The
navy departments oficial interpreta-
ton of regulation No. 40, forbidding
the firing of salutes except to nations
formally recognized by the Units0
States and its bearing on the present
situation at Tampico was given by
Rear Admiral Blue today. He held
the regulation had no bearing on the
question of returning salute by
.Huerta
There can be no application of the
order in the present case" he said.
"The salute. if fred, will be between
the Mexican nation and the United
States as a nation, without regard to
Huerta or the constitutionalist fac
tions. The return of the salute could
not possibly be interpreted as cour-
stesy TO Huerta particularly. or recog-
milton OF his government
At the capitol today, members dif-
fered widely on the propriety or ad-
visibility OF returning the salute.
Senator Simmons, one OF the adm1nis-
tration leaders was opposed to the
rsturn Of the courtesy.
mo return should be made he de-
clared, unless it is strictly en1oined
by international law and custom l
am no international lawyer. put IL
seems to me, from plain, every day,
common sense point of view that
return of that salute, such a return
being made to a vessel flying the nag
of one OF the contending factions IN
Mexico, is at least a quasi-recognitlon
OF that particular contending factlon'
Il am told that a former secretary
G., the navy ordered at one time tha'
no national salutes should be tired TO
ship of nation to which We mao
not accorded full recognition. That
: of course, could be rescinded by elth
er the present secretary of the navy
or the president, but the common
sense underlying 1t would remain.
Representative Murdoch, prosres
sive. suggested IF we fire that re
turn salute we might just as Wei
shoot Off few guns in memory o.
Robin Hood Jesse Jam IS. Raisult anu
other bandits
Representative Cooper, ranking re-
publican of the foreign affairs com
mittae held emphatically that II
means recognition.
.. believe President Wilson ana
Secretary Bryan old not think care
fully when they said this would oe
following international usage, ne ,