Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-20
Mexican Schemers Would
Have Villa Desert Carranza
for Diaz.
C0NSTITUTI0NALISTS HERE
STRIVE TO DEFEAT PLAN
Successful General Warned-De la
Barra Has Ambition to Sue
coed Huerta.

News of a plot to cause disruption
in the ranks Of the Mexican constitution.
alists by leading Gen. Pancho Villa to
abandon his allegiance to Gen. Carranza
and allow Gen. Felix Diaz to enter the
field was received from the Texas border
by rebel agents here today and was fol-
efforts to break it up.
Back Of the plot. according to the
circumstantial information reaching the
constitutionalists in Washington are
friends of Gen. Diaz in Havana, Cuba,
as well as Reyistas in exile from Mexico.
The news received here was to the
effect that Licenciado Bonales Sandoval,
Mexico City lawyer, is acting as the
agent of the men back Of the plot, and
that he passed through San Antonio, Tex,
last night on his way to Chihuahua city
via Ell Paso to see Gen. Villa
Was Villas Lawyer.
Sandoval was Villas lawyer when the
latter was sent to prison by Gen.
Huerta in Mexico In 1912, although he
had nothing to do with Villas subse-
quent escape. which was arranged by
in the news from the border than San
doval hopes to gain Villas confidence
because Of his former connection with
him.
As soon as the news of Sandovars
mission became known, Gen. Villa was
Friends of Villa here say that he Is a
man who hates treachery, and that he is
apt to deal summarily with Sandoval
when he arrived in Chihuahua City
Villas friends say he has recently re-
newed his allegiance to Gen. Carranza-
De la Barra Ambitious.
Word also was received here today
that Francisco de La Barra, former pro-
visional president Of Mexico, is striving
to succeed Gen. Huerta- It was said that
a so-called peace conference between rep
resentatives of different Mexican states
is to meet soon in st. Louis and that de
Ia Barra will be advanced again as pro-
visional president.
Emeritio de la Cara, jr., who was in
Washington last week, is said to be back
of the plan, assisted by Miss Ysabel c.
Sandoyal. So far as is known here she
is not relative of Licenciado Bonales
Sandoval.
Care Of Refugees Proving Costly.
Inc klndly treatment accorded the
Mexican federal refugees from ojinaga
by the American government has excited
deep gratitude among the people Of Mon
terey and vicinity. and has done much to
encourage the belief that the United
States is really friendly to the Mexican
people, according to report to the State
Department from Consul Hanna.
Care of the unlimited guests is proving
costly, and the officials Of the State and
War departments are casting about for
means to defray the expense of maintain
ing these thousands Of strangers Even
before the evacuation of Ojinaga the
United States government had expended
about $50, GOO for the keep of Mexicans
under detention, and with the Ojinaga
fugitives added the daily bill will amount
to some $3.50.
For a time the Huerta government reg
ularly RENTED the money to pay for
feeding the refugees informed at Fort
Rosecrans and Brownsville, but the pay
ments stopped some time ago because of
the exhausted condition of the Mexican
treasury.
Congress will be asked to give the War
Department an indefinite credit to meet
this expense, although the department
officials realize that this may precipitate
an undesirable congressional discussion
of the whole Mexican problem. Ulti-
mately Mexico will be expected to rem-
burse the United States in full for all
amounts spent in this way.