El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-10-31
GARRANZA and VILLA OUT.
CARRANZA NAY
END DIFFERENCE
Fabela Indicates Belief that
Aguascalientes Meeting
Will Be Failure.

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I but this everyone knows they will not
do. It may be necessary for CarraIlza
] to end the AEuascalientes convention
| said Ysidro Fabela, minister Of foreign
affairs, Friday night ..-
/ chieftains who desire their personal
/ ACKNOWLEDGMENT at the expense OF the
/ country. -
Gen. Carranza will fight them with
all the probabilities of success as ne
has an army of 10000 men, besides
great quantities Of munitions anu
arms"
RESIGNATION Is Submitted.
The resignation of Nenustlano Cars
rama as provisional president and hrst
chief of the cOnsttutionalist army,
based on the conditions that Gems
Villa and Zapata retire to private life,
was read to the peace convention al
Aguascalientes Friday
In the document, Carranza even eA-
pressed a willingness TO leave the
/ country II his absence would tend
toward the establishment Of peace
The message caused a turmoil in the
convention hall and at one time spec
tators tried to intervene and break up
the meeting. Order finally was re-
stored and business proceeded what
action, if any. was taken on the resig-
nation was not known here this eve
In demanding that Villa and Zapata
retire, Carranza said:
There is a greater ambition than
that Of being president OF the republic
and that is to hold such military
OmnipOtence as to permit one man 10
, Overseay all powers Of union The in
sistency Of Gen. Villa in keeping COM
mand Of a division supposed to be az
powerful, and at the same time pre-
tending to reesta blish at once consti-
tutionaI order on the basis Of the old
regime, is a clear indication that the
dream of this chief is TO constitute
himself arbiter OF the destinies Of Mex
leo. with the faculties to appoint a
president, elect a congress, designate
supreme court and rule the government
OF all the states. I am ignorant OF
what the pretensions Of Gen. Zapata
are, but I believe they do not differ
greatly from those Of Gen Villa
Conditions Of Retirement.
Ct wish my retirement from power
shall not be sterile and that I am not
merely to relinQuish the field to enc
mics of the revolution, to chieftainS
with personal ambitions I consequent
I. " state to the convention that I an
disposed to deliver the command Of
the COnstitutiOnalist army and the ex-
ecutive power Of the nation, and If nee
essary, TO leave the country, only I'M
der the three following conditions.
''First-A unconstitutional govern
ment shall be established with the sup
port Of the Coustitutionalist army I'M
til such time as conditions Justify
Lull legal CONSTITUTIONAL regime.
villa Must Yield.
''Sccond-Gen- Villa shall resign. not
his sndidature TO the presidency or the
vice presidency which have never been
Offered him, but military command Of
the northern division, retiring TO pri-
vaCe life and leaving the republic, if the
convention should vote that il would be
wise for him to 90 So
''Third-Gen- Zapata shall resign his
command likewise, turning the same
over 10. a general designated by the
Gen. Carranza concluded his message
as follows;
But If the only thing desired IS to
remove me from the leadership so that
personal ambitions or reaction may find
the way cleared. I then declare that I
am firmly resolved to serve the cause
for which 1 have been struggling"
To Confiscate Estates.
All the large landed estates owned
by Huerta sympathiZers, some Of them
principalities in extent, will be confis-
Gated by the new ConstitutiOnalist gov
eminent Of Mexico, according to the
decision Of the Aguascalientes cOnven-
ton This is in accordance with the
wishes Of Gen Zapata, whose native
state, Morelos, contains some of the
richest and largest landed estates
Other measures voted for by the
convention include the breaking up Of
the large landed estates Of all holders
by system Of appropriation, one-third
Of these holdings TO go TO the people.
Two-thirds o. the properties TO be con-
fiscated by the government will be ap-
piled TO the care of the widows and
orphans OF those who fell in the revO-
luton.
One Of the delegates said that SIS
percent Of the land in the state of
Of whom are absentee landlords, now
resident in Europe.