The Detroit times., 1914-04-17
HUERTA WANTS
WAR. Is REPORT
FROM MEXICO
lcontInuea lrom 700 Oael.


Alexicans have suggested a simultane.
ouS salute. and that this government
will never stand for IT, ! fully APP
prove OF this stand by the administra'
ton end personally feel very strong
Is about H. our ships are now
the way 10 Mexico. and go fully pre-
pared 10 back up the original demand
OF this government for salute III
rcparation for the insult
mo simultaneous salute VIII be ac-
copied by this government as an
apology for the action OF the Mex
leans In their insult 10 our flag. That
would be AN entirely different prop
osition from their firing ? guns which
would lie acknowledged by MS by our
GIing y guns The president, | am
Informed. will insist on the salute be
iag given the way il was originally
intended and will cause Huerta 70 be
notified or his determination in this
respect.
There will be no weakening so far
as the administration is concerned.
ant am confident from what sena.
tors have said 70 me that the admin
i2tratIon Will have cordial lndorse-
ncnt and support OF both houses OF
congress in forcing rigid adherence to
he original salute program,
III the Mexicans persist in their
refusal there Will be war. with all
that implies"
Leaving a protracted cabinet meet
lug today, Secretary OF State Bryan
insisted that the latest hitch in the
Mexican crisis was not SO serious as
TO threaten break In the negotiations
with Huerta.
Bryan made it very plain that he
expects complete agreement ne
tween the United States and the Mex
lean government as represented by
Huerta, within very short time. He
said that he was hopeful the entire
matter could be settled SO That he
could proceed on HRS deferred vaca-
ton in Florida on q late train tonight.
ana certainly not later than tomor-
row night.
Bryan insisted that the length or
todav's cabinet meeting was not in
any way due Ia the Mexican situation
He said thar the Mexican situation
still was "encouraging, but not inf.
lished ae'
President Wilson refused to make
anF statement whatever regarding the
situation Questions sent TO him met
wilh no response other than the re-
itt ration OF his yesterdays state
ment that the situation was hopeful.
II was learned that while Hnerta
has suggested saluting the nag IN
accordance with the original de-
he has not yet positively
promised so TO do. Instead, in his
with 'Shaughnessy, the
Mexican dictator has apparently been
endeeyoIing 10 surround any inter
change OF samtes with such formall-
ties as 10 rob them of the efect de-
mand by the United States--that or
making an honorable amend for an
Insult affecting the national honor.
Huerta desires. If possible, to die.
tate the entire manner in which the
salute shall be exchanged. He is un-
derstood TO have suggested II be fired
gun for gun, each discharge OF a
Mexican cannon 10 he responded 10
BY one from an American warship.
ahis would be unprecedented and
G,Skeughnessy was notified that 1t
would not be considered for q single
moment.
Ii was stated that Secretary Bryan
had wired Shaughnessy that this
government would insist on the sa-
lutte being fred In conformity with
strict naval custom, TO be replied to
by the United States only after the
u guns had been fired from either
the forts or a Mexican gunboat
The cabinet session lasted much
longer than usual A number OF mes
sages received by the state depart
ment were hurried across TO Secre-
tary Bryan, but no Information re-
gardlng their contents was made
public.
Secretary Tumulty insisted that he
could make no statements other than
to repeat that the administration was
still hopeful that the salute would be
fired exactly as demanded by the
United States.
The navy departments official in
depreciation OF regulation number 12O,