New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-13
PICKED FOR PLACE
AT NIAGARA FALLS
Name Suggested by u. S.
Delegates, Ex-Foreign
Secretary Asserts.
DICTATOR SEES FINISH
Goes to Save Capital from Sack
by Rebels-Thinks Fight.
ing Will Stop.

Vera Cruz. July -. To save ni5
country from the horrors of civil war
and his capital from capture. and 7ef-
haps sack by victorious army, Gem
eral Huerta intends to resign the Pro-
visional Presidency and leave MeNic'.
This statement was made to-day by
Roberto Esteva Ruiz. former Mexican
Secretary of Foreign Affairs. who
reached Vera Cruz from Mexico city
on his way to Europe. Huerta. no
said. would surrender the government
to Francisco Csrbajal, the new Minis"
ter of Foreign Affairs, who. in turn,
would step aside when the time came
for some other Provisional President
wholly acceptable to the Constitution
alists. Just when the change VIII
come Esteva Ruiz said he did not
know.
"The President did not make me his
confidant,' he said; nor did | have
much time to talk with him after it
was determined that should leave the
Cabinet"
He was convinced. however, that
Huerta would lay down his power this
week, and il would not surprise him,
he said, if his resignation were an
nounced tomorrow.
Carbajal Picked at Niagara.
Carbajal. he added, was suggested as
Provisional President by the Ameri-
can delegation at the Niagara Falls
mediation conference and agreed to oy
Huertas delegates and the South
American mediators. while the ConSu-
tutionalst delegates indirectly 1ii
conveyed the idea that he would be &C.
ceptable TO Carranza.
That is explained Ruiz. "Carbajal
would be a more acceptable Provisional
President than the real Provisional
President to bc named later"
When the suggestion was first mace
Villa had not indicated his willingness
to accept Carbajal, Estey' Ruiz wen'
on, and he doubted Villas willingness
to accept him now. As for Zapata, h1
had no idea that the southern leader
woul recognize any Provisional Prssi-
doncy until demands for the redisiii-
button Of land had been complied wi'h
and he intimated that objections 20
such solution of MeXco's problem
might come from certain parts o! tns
northern states.
Unless something occurs to disar
range the plan, Esteva Ruiz is O.
vinced that fighting between fede
and Constitutonalists rs ,oyer.-
he said. was indicated by the eva,
ton Of Guadalajars.
Like Porfirio DiaZ, who fed from hi
country i'm the hope that his going
M ght avert long and costly civil war,
Huerta, according to Ruiz, has decided
to weld 10 superior numbers. Both
Huerta and General Blanquot. his Min
lister of War. knew that longer resist
ance was futile and would mean moth
ing more than the slaughter Of thou
sands, and the danger Of the sac>ing
of the capital itself, with. perhay- /,
horrors perpetrated by n victoriouY
army, joined by mad mobs from the
slums OF the city.
Carbajal Names Cabinet.
He expected that Banquet would
leave Mexico City when huerta hed,
but not before. Enrique Gorostietl.
Minister Of Justice, had offered mis-
resignation. he had heard. but he was
not sure that the report was true.
He assumed. however, that Gorosticta
would resign and all the old Cabinet
as well.
The new members OF the Cabinet
lately appointed, he went on. were sup
posed TO be those chosen by Carbaisi,
with the idea that they were men the
Constitutionalists would not object 10,
so seriously, at least, rs TO interfere
with the preliminary work CarbaJs.
had undertaken Of finding some one TO
take his place as President ad interim.
Like Adolfo de la Lama. the Mea;c.n
Minister Of Finance. who arrived here
Yesterday. also on his way 10 EuroPy.
the former Secretary OF Foreign ~.
fairs professed still TO maintain hi.
connection with the government. lie
had been named. he said. special am
bassador to Argentina. Brazil and Chill
to convey TO those countries the thanks
of the Mexican Republic for their of.
forts toward mediation. With his fam
ily he will sail from Vera Cruz on tho
steamer Alfonso Nil for Spain. and
from that country, he said, he would
90 on his mission to South America
He did not explain why he has
chosen a journey from Mexico City TO
the coast through the American lines
rather than TO Puerto Mexico, except
10 say that the Vera Cruz route WAS
shorter and offered better orpor.
tunity TO catch his boat.
Huerta May Go Same Way.
Dc Ia Lama said to-day that the res-
SON he chose the Vera Cruz route Was
tho insistence Of Huerta. who told him
that BY going through the American
lines openly and frankly he would
how the world that the agreement
reached at Niagara Falls WAS not
farce so far as Hucrta and the United
St,tcs were concerned and that rels-
lions between the two countries we're
,gan friendly. This knowledge mas
giycn rise to the suggestion that
Huorta himself. once he decides TO
leave his capital. also may pass