The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-18
FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC CORPS CALLS AT MEXICAN NATIONAL
 PALACE FRIDAY.
EXPRESS HOPE FOR PEACE
New President Thanks the Repre-. sentatives of the Governments and States He Will Leave No Stone Un- turned to Bring About Peace.

Washington, ID. C., July Ibis matches from the Brazilian minister at Mexico City to the state depart ment tonight announced that the en- tire diplomatic corps called at the national palace today and through the dean of the corps. the Spanish ambassador. and felicitated Francisco Carbajal upon his ascension to the presidency. The ambassador ex- pressed the hope htat order soon would be restored throughout the re- public.
 In roply the report said, Mir. Car baja assured the diplomats that he had assumed office only with the hope of bringing relief to his country and that nothing would be done by him to interfere with adjustment ot the situation in a way satisfactory 10 all factions.
 The address read by Bernardo De Coogan Cologan, the Spanish min. ister was as follows:
 We have come, MT President, to the national palace as the representa- tlyes of the foreign nations in whose names l have the high honor of ad dressing you with the grateful im- pression and consoling hope that Ndxfvo at least Is approaching that peace which is so earnestly desired and which, too, is so indispensable. and we hope it may be given to us soon to witness the cordial embrace Of brethren amid abOunding joy not unmixed with grief for those who have perished and with solictude to staunch the country's wounds and pour into them the saving balm of concord and charity.
 You nave come, MT. President, to but we feel sure that difficulties do not daunt you. You have laid down the highest post in the judiciary, which you attained at an cary age, your merits making up for your youth, an diff in the supreme court you did your utmost to safeguard your fellow citizens and all the in- l habitants of the republic in the en- loyment of the constitutional guaran-
 lees you will not assuredly now. or as long as you have the honor of occupy Ing the supreme magistracy of the l country, omit any honest endeavor or any sincere effort to put an end at the earlies possible moment to the srlels and sorrows of this beautiful land so that Mexico, entering once TOT all on the path leading to normal and lawful conditions, may occupy in her upward and onward march the prominent place which for so many
 reasons she is entitled to among the nations of this continent. such, MT President arc our fer vent and most cordial desires.' The address of the Spanish min ster was approved beforehand by the ulplomatic corps. so there might be no question as to the extent of recoS-
 hltloh walch it implied.
 m reply the president said l am truly gratified by this oppor. euhity of meeting your eXcellencies III my capacity as chief of state. l
 ueslfe first of all to offer you testi-
 "ony oi my highest esteem, together "Ah my respects to the governments
 "nfVh you so worthily represent in
 this republic.
 
 ! nave heard with profound satis- 'ec'loh the generous desires which you express for the establishment
 ', peace and the consequent union of
 'H MeXicans and you may rest as-
 cured that l shall omit no effort to
 ieallze that patriotic purpose which
 - 'he only reason l had for abandon
 s the labors of the judiciary and
 s9Sunhing the responsibilities of the
 position l occupy.
 whatever may be the results of
 ny efforts, l desire to declare that 1
 "u not guided by any interested mo 'e and that my personality will in
 .,o ease be an obstacle to the realiza-
 '," oi the task of concord to which
 nave set my hand and which is so
 s,e.eSsary to my country in these diff
 momements. l. in my turn, ex-
 ps'ss my desires for the prosperity
 <. your respective countries and hope sI"' tle cordial relations which they
 'e hitherto maintained with the