Evening star., 1914-07-12
HUERTA TO RESIGN,
MAYBE TOMORROW
because Of the ample guarantees which
have been extended"
ConstitutionaIist Conference
Suggests to Gen. Carranza
Material for His Cabinet

TORREON, Mexico, July n.-At the
carranza-villa conciliation conference at
Torreon, effort to prevent Gen. Carranza
or any military leader of the revolution
from becoming candidates for the pres1-
dencv or vice presidency failed to be
adopted.
An official statement issued today
makes this known The motion was
made by the Villa delegates.
A motion passed. however oeihaiioiile ~.
that the first chief. as president ad IN
term, at the triumph of the revoiu.lon'
shall call convention composed oi ueiS
gates representing the rebel army, every
thousand soldiers to be represented oy
delegates selected by committee OF
military chiefs to be approved ny tne ne
general of the division, which VIII h@
the date and arrange for the electloh.
clergy's Activity Condemned.
A list of names was suggested to Car
rama by the delegates from when ne
could select. If he saw fit. provisional
cabinet or a consulting committee. to act
until the election Of permanent offcers'
Resolutions also were adopted condemn.
ing what was declared the activity OIL
the clergy in assisting the Huerta gov
ernment ,,,,
This followed a fight in which the villa
delegates attempted to eliminate any
military leader. including Carranza, from
presidential possibilities. Those recon-,
mended as suitable for the provisional
cabinet were Iglesias Calderon. Luis
Cabrera, Antonio Villareal. Miguel Syl-
via. Manuel Bonilla, Alberto PAM. Edu-
ardo F. Hay. Ignacio Pesqueira. M!eue,
Diaz Lombardo. Jose Vaconceios, Mlguel
AleSsio Robes and Frederlco Hoilzaies
Cara.
The convention first agreed Carrahza 1z|
was the supreme leader of the revolu.
ton, and Gen. Villa the chief OF the
basis for the negotiations. discussion
began. Each side advanced certain sug-
gestions, which were voted down. mool-
fled or adopted in full.
In regard to the complaint that zen.
Carranza had not assisted sufficiently
the division of the north with NUM-
tions a resolution was adopted, AGAINST
some argument, which called for all
ceive from the first chief all the ele-
ments that they may need certain
concessions also were given that the
various chiefs might have administrative
powers as we'll as military.
Reference to Sonora Law.
The internal trouble in the state OF
Sonora was mentioned in an adopted
resolution calling on Carranza Ito OBJ
tain a solution of the conflict" In the
western state Gen. Obregon. Carranza' 8
western divisional commander, who was
not represented in the conference here.
and Jose Maria Maytorena, the con-
stitutionalist governor of Sonora have
disagreed 1t was suggested also that
Maytorena resign If he believed such
action would end the trouble.
Carranza was named as having sole
right to appoint or remove any federal
employe.
Resolutions to push the revolution
army shall disappear" and matters per-
tanning to the agrarian and economic
problems Of the country completed the
parts of the documents as adopted ana
signed by the trainers.
The resolution providing for contin-
uance Of the struggle adopted at the con-
ference was as follows:
"This being a conflict Of the disinherit-
ed against the abuses of the rich. and
comprehending that the causes of the
sufferings that afflict our country ema-
nate from pretorianism and the clergy,
the divisions Of the north and northeast
solemnly agree to fight until the ex-fed-
eral army shall disappear completely, to
be supplanted by the constitutionalist
army and to plant democratic form of
government to procure the enactment OF
the wise laws for the protection of labor
ers; economically to emancipate the far
mers by making an equitable distribution
of the lands. as well as all resolutions
which may solve the agrarian problem
to punish and exact responsibility from
the Roman Catholic clergy, who mater
tally or intellectually have assisted the
usurper Victoriano Huerta.