Evening star., 1914-11-09
Dispatches to State Depart
ment Fail to Refer to I'M
prisonment of Gutierrez.
is SAID TO BE WORKING
WITH PEACE CONVENTION
Carranza Has Until Tomorrow Night
to Answer Message Notifying
Him He Has Been Deposed.

State Department advices today dis
credit the reports that Gen. Gutierrez
had resigned as provisional president
of Mexico or that he had been impris-
oned for refusing to obey the Villa fac
tion.
Official dispatches to the department
from Aguascalientes. dated late yester-
day. said the convention and Gutierrez
were working in harmony and await
ing Carranza's answer to the message
sent last week to notify him of the ac-
tion Of the assembly in deposing him.
Five days, which will expire at 6
o'clock tomorrow night, were set for
the reply. Carranza, therefore. has un-
til tomorrow night to decide whether
he will recognize the sovereignty of the
convention or be elected by the army
under the conventions orders.
The State Department had no report
OF the rumored execution of two Amer
lean cowboys, Bishop and Eckles. near
Chihuahua.
Convention Agent Expected Here.
The convention at Aguascalientes has
appointed Enrique c. Lorente as its
agent in Washington, and the State
Department has been advised he will
arrive here in a few days. He was
consul at Ell Paso during the Madero
administration, and was once indicted
for recruiting Mexicans on American
soil to fight Orozco.
Dispatches from American Consul Sill
l1man. at Mexico City, today made no
mention of the reported occupation of
the citadel there by Gen. Obregon. Of
tcials thought If that had occurred
fn1 a
have been advised of it.
Assurances that there sis nothing
alarming" in conditions at Vera Cruz
were given in a cablegram from Brig.
Gen. Funston to Secretary Garrison.
Rumors of anti-American agitation and
of possible attacks upon the American
outposts by Mexican forces had caused
Mr. Garrison to ask for information as
to the situation.
Gen. Funston's dispatch follows:
There is nothing alarming in local
conditions. Many unusual rumors have
prevailed for some time. l think it
better to discredit all such rumors."
Carranza Makes His Conditions.
The special committee which the
Aguascalientes convention sent to Mex
leo City and to Puebla to acquaint form
ally Carranza with the selection Of a
eew provisional president has, ao-
cording to another official dispatch re-
ceived by the State Department, indi-
Gated it's belief to the members of the
convention that Carranza can be per-
suaded to retire peacefully, provided
the convention will strip Villa and Ia
pata of their military power and de-
pose. them. Garranza- has been firm in
his insistence that he w0uH not tender
his Resignation unlessssthe convention
beforehand should relegate both Villa
and Zapata to private life: The conven-
tion is dominated by the Villa and Ia
pata delegates. and is unwilling to take
the action that Carranza demands as
basis for his elimination.
Meanwhile there is evidence reach
ing Washington that Carranza Is en-
deavoring to make the continued occu-
patton of Vera Cruz by American
troops an issue with his supporters in
southern Mexico. Information came
here that the Masonic posters, which
were displayed last week in Mexico
City, appealing to the Mexicans to re-
pei the foreign invader" have since
been reprinted in Mexico City newspa-
pers. The posters were suppressed last
week by direction of the minister of
foreign relations.
publication in newspapers was by order
of Carranza. Coupled with this infor-
nation dispatches received in Wash
ington asserted that the publication of
these posters had fa1le0 OF tnelr eHeCt.
Administration officials regarded this
as reaSSuring.
Steps in Behalf of Rodriguez.
Friends here of Agustin Rodriguez
who was one Of the three Mexican dele
gates to the Niagara Falls mediation
conference last summer. and who. ac-
cording to reports from Mexico City.
has been thrown into prison there, are
preparing to lay the matter before the
State Department, with the request that
this government interfere in his behalf.
The charge against him is not known
here.
Senior Rodriguez, who is more than
seventy-two years old. won many friends
In this country at the time OF the peace
conference. Although cheerfully amlable,
he was bent and teeble, and I>equenliy
needed assistance as he went about.
He was almost blind, and while at
Niagara Falls had one of his colleagues
or some other official of the conference
read to him the various reports and
papers presented for their considera-
ton.
Two of his sons. one who lives in
New York city, and another who came
with him from Mexico City, and a
daughter from Mexico City. were at
Niagara Falls with their father. The
younger son won the cup in tennis
held during the closing dayS