The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-16


 Some officials declared that ques- tions of recognition were no more i'm voIved in the demand by the United States for salute from Huerta than in acknowledgi salute from him.
 The disposition of. the administra- ton is understood to be to increase the naval forces in Mexican waters fired GS{sat, in such an event. only part of the ships now steaming south will be turned back
 CRISIS RELIEVED PASSED
 The news was received at the White House today just as Secretary Bryan and Acting Chairman Sfively, of the Senate foreign relations comnfttee. went vent Into conference win President
 Eflfess Huefta chan zs lis mind, ]. the crisis promises to pass over with ing the next A hours.
 eDspatches from Charge OfShaugI1-. messy described his conference with Huerta last night as very cordial and zsatisfactory,' and officials said they were convinced that unless the Charge had misipterpreted Huerta,s intentiens. there was no doubt that compliance with the American de- n1af1ds for apology would be forth and that the crisis would be passed
 The text of the despatches was not made public nor was any formal statement made describing them. ! No orders were issued to the ships already steaming toward Mexico nor was there any change in the plans for enforcing President Wilson's s de- mana. Some officials gave 1t as their personal view that, after Huerta had compiled with the demand for apology and saluted the American flag, some Of the ships now under way might. be turned back but certainly not be fore.
 SHIPS CONTINUE SOUTH
 It was pointed out that all admin tration officials were gratified by the news that Huerta, was about to yield, but there was no disposition to tenn porize or delay further and that all the plans for action would go as they lie until all cause for action had been removed
 Buropean powers today were advis-. ing Huerta to apologize to the United States at once and end 8, situation which threatens grave consequences
 Friends in the United States of the Mexican dictator also were assuring him that, unless a salute was fired to the American flag, the seizure of the ports of Tampico and Vera Cruz and a blockade of Mexico by the American fleet was the Washington program
 President Wilson and other admins tration officials awaited developments while the fighting ships and the mar ines were hurrying down the Allan tic and Pacific coasts to Mexican waters. E
 Pressure upon Huerta was brought not alone by Charge OShaughnessy but by the diplomatic representatives of other nations in Mexico City.
 SALUTE URGED ON HUERTA
 Friends of Iuerta, in the United States, Mexica1ls and others, tele- graphed him that for the best in- terests of Mexico the salute should be fired They advised him that the United States means business" and salute without loss of national dig rity They pointed out that the Unit ed States once saluted the flag of Spalns and the flag of Brazil
 White House officials had>< little to say on the general situation beyond denying emphatical1y published re- ports that, President Wilson was dis pleased with Charge O'ShaushnessJ for his close association with General Huerta- Secretary TumuIty said the President had always spoken of the American charge in most complinnen tary way.
 The messages from Charge O. Shaugh- messy apparently nc longer are being delayed or intercepted. White House officials said they were coming through with regularity
 Along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States today nov ed the American war fleets on their. way to force the Huerta government to salute the Stars and Stripes.
 In this critical situation, the consti- tutionalists who, by their successive victories over the Federal troops, dom mate northern Mexico, have as yet taken no part but reports have reach. ed Washington that during the next 24 hours General CaFranza and his cabinet would meet to decide what att titude should be assumed by them to- ward the dispatch of the American fleets to Mexican waters and the re- latinxz hAtusaan tha EIalArta a4s4-------