The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24
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u. s. Warns Huerta.
The United States has warned the
Mexican Dictator that no further ar
gument about details for the salute
will be tolerated. Twenty-one guns
must be fired to the Stars and Stripes
In reparation for the arrest If Amer
lean bluejackets at Tampico, or seri-
Gus consequences will follow.
The Atlantic fleet, in the meantime.
continues on its way to Tampico to
back up the demands of the Washing
ton government. No time limit has
been set for an answer to the final
communication sent rejecting the sug-
gestion twice made by General HUI
erta.
The United States. through Charge
O'Shaughnessy, has told Huerta the
only answer that would be satisfac-
tory was an unconditional acceptance
Of Rear Admiral Mayo's conditions.
Eleventh Hour Hitch.
This latest hitch at the eleventh
hour when officials here expected the
situation IA as good as closed up
was disclosed in dispatches from
Charge O'Shaughnessy. President
Wilson discussed it with the cabinet.
The development confirmed the
fears of those officials who expected
Huerta would equivocate again. Any
intention of recalling any ships of the
fleet now bound to Tampico was aban.
dOned and those close to the admins.
tration expected to see President VIII
sons demand for an unqualified
apology.
Dispatches Not Public.
The text of Charge O'Shaughnessy's
dispatches was not made public, but
Ii became known that Huerta's latest
proposal was that as his guns fired
their salute to the stars and stripes,
as al apology for continued a~ffronts
to the United States, particularly the
recent arrests of bluejackets at Tam
pico. that the guns of the American
feet should reply to the Mexican sa-
lutte, gun for gun.
Officials here were ready to acknowl.
edge Huerta's salute Of twenty-one
guns after it had been finished, with
q return salute, such as is prescribed
In naval custom and precedent. That
would merely be acknowledging an
amended honorable, they say. But to
return Huerta's salute gun for gun,
they pointed out, would make the apol,
pgy v~alueless.
Officials described Huerta's latest
move as al act to preserve his own
dignity before thu Mexicans of that
part OF the country under his control.
All the latest dispatches were laid
before the cabinet. Practically all the
members of the official family were
said to be agreed that there should be
no further temporiZing.
To Salute Flag Only.
Under no circumstances will the sa-
lutte be given to the Huerta govern
ment, but to the Mexican flag, as rep
~resenting the Mexican nation. and no
question of recognition is involved, ac-
cording to Secretary Tumulty, who
said that had the Huerta government
ln~terjected into the negotiations a de-
sire that the salute be considered as
recognition. 1t would not have been
considered for a minute.
Acting Chairman Shively OF the sem
ate foreign relations committee. who
had a conference with Secretary Bry-
an. also said there never had been
any official suggestion of recognition
in the negotiations and that no sa-
lutte would be given under such a con-
dition.
More Ships to Go.
Secretary Daniels said the orders
which had been given Rear Admiral