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

HBy a United Press Staff Cor
respondent.
4 MEXICO CITY, April II.
General Huerta wants a dec
flnation of war. This is his
Eobject in the present negotia-
Eicns over the Tampico Incl
dent. He has been in almost
eonstant conference with his
eabinet and congress. It be
came known today his desire.
Il 10 bring about warfare be-
tween Mexico and the United
States on the theory that il
| would solidify the Mexican
people in support Of his other
wise doomed government.
The ahose message in code 90 ~ to
IEle censor, was rscsiyed to-day
e Ycrx 0fflcD o. s3he United
from Its stair correspondent In
tic0 City who has beenA In close
a nth with the situation there during
~ past year. The message was
iscessarily brief and could not carry
ny details In view OF the extraordfn-
~ strict censorship.
This message which was the flrst
important news dispatch from Next
Eco City since the Tampico incident
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 IL. The
navy departments on1cial interpreta-
ton Of regulation No. 80, 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 ths
question of returning salute by
.Huerta.
There can be no application of the
order In the present case" he said.
The salute, If fired, will be between
the Mexican nation and the United
States as a nation, without regard to
Huerta or the constitutionalist fac
tons. The return of the salute could
not possibly be interpreted as cour-
tesy to Huerta particularly, or recog-
milton Of his government"
At the capitol today, members diff
Tered widely on the propriety or ad-
visibility of returning the salute.
Senator Simmons, one of the admins
tration leaders was opposed to the
return Of the courtesy.
No return should be made" he de-
clared, unless it is strictly enjoined
by International law and custom. II
am no international lawyer, but it
seems to me. from plain. every day,
common sense point of view that a
return of that salute, such return
being made to a vessel flying the flag
Of one OF the contending factions in
Mexico, is at least quasi-recognition
Of that particular contending faction. I
Il am told that a former secretary
T.. the navy ordered at one time that
no national salutes should be fired to
q ship OF nation to which We had
not accorded full recognition. That.
Of course. could be rescinded by eth
sr the present secratary of the navy.
Or the president, but the common
sense underlying II would remain
Representative Murdoch, progress
i've, suggested IF we fire that re-
urn salute we might just as welt
shoot or few guns in memory OF
Robin Hood Jesse Jam IS. Raisuli and
,ther bandits
Representative Cooper, ranking re-
publican OF the foreign affairs COM I.
nittae held emphatically that 1t
means recognition.
believe President Wilson and !
Secretary Bryan Old not think care
uily when they said this would be ,
Glowing international usage" he d ,