The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-07-16
GARBAJAL TO TAKE
KUERTA'S PLACE
DICTATOR TO QUIT THIS WEEK.
SAYS MEXICAN FOREIGN Az
FAIRS AGENT.
70 EMULATE PORFIRIO DIAz
Observation-Disclosures Gives Out
Story When Leaving Country
Like Other Officials.

Vera Cruz, July 14.-To save his
country from the horrors Of further
civil war and his capital from capture
and perhaps sack by a victorious army,
General Huerta intends to resign the
presidency and leave Mexico.
Statement by Sub-Secretary.
This statement is made by Roberto
~Esteva-Ruiz, Mexican sub-secretary of
foreign affairs, who reached Vera Cruz
from Mexico City on his way to Eu.
rope. Huerta, he said, will surrender
the government TO Francisco Carbaial,
the new minister of foreign affairs,
who in turn will step aside when the
time comes, for some provisional pres.
ident acceptable to the Constitutional.
lists.
Just when the change will come,
Esteva-Ruiz said he did not know.
The president did not make me
his ~confidant," he declared, nor did 1
have much time to talk with him aft.
er it was determined that / should
leave the cabinet"
Expects Resignation Immediately.
He was convinced, however, that
Huerta would lay down his power dur
ing the coming week and it would not
surprise him, he said, if his resigna-
ton were announced Immediately.
C~arbajal, he added, was suggested
as provisional president by the Ameri.
can delegation at the Niagara Falls
mediation conference and agreed to by
Huerta's delegates and the South Am
erlcan mediators, while the Constitu.
~tionalists indirectly had conveyed the
idea that he would be acceptable to
Carranza.
That u.s." explained the Mexican,
sub-secretary, "Carbaial would be
a more provisional president than the
real provisional president to be nam.
ed later"
Explains Situation.
When the suggestion was first made,
Villa had not indicated his willing.
ness to accept Carbajal, Esteva-Ruiz
went on, and he doubted Villas will
lngness to accept him now. AS for
Zapata he had no idea that the south
ern leader would recognize any proyi.
sional presidency until demands for
the redistribution of lands had been
complied with, and he intimated that
objections to such a solution of Mex-
zoos problem might come from certain
parts of the northern states.
Unless something occurs to disar-
range the present plan, Esteva-Ruiz is
convinced that fighting between Fed
erals and Constituencies is over.
This, he said, vas indicated by the,
evacuation of Gu%adalajara.
Like Porfirio Diaz, who fed from
his country in the hope that his going
might avert a long and costly civil
war, Huerta, according to Esteva-Ruiz,
has decided to yield to superior num-,
bers. Both Huerta and General Blan-
quet, his minister of war, know that
longer resistance is futile and would
mean nothing more than the slaughter
OF thousands and perhaps the sacking
OF the capital itself, with horrors per-
petrated by a victorious army joined
by mad mobs from the, slnms of the
city.
Banquet to Leave, Also.
He expected Banquet would leave
Mexico City when Huerta fed, but no
before, Enrique Gorostieta, minister OF
justice, had offered his resignation. so
he had heard, but he was not sure the
report was true. He assumed, how
ever, that Gorostieta would resign and
all the old cabinet as well.
Like Adolfo De La CANA, the
Mexican minister of finance, who ar.
rived here Saturday, also in fight to
Europe, the ~sub-secretary of foreign
affairs professed still to maintain his
connection with the government. With
his family he will sail from Vera Cruz
on the steamer Alfonso XIII for
Spain.
Carranza May BaIk.
Laredo.-Reports from sources
usually reliable were current in Nuevo
Laredo that General Venustiano Car
rama, Intercepted by Huerta agents
regarding acceptability of Francisco
Carbajal as provisional president of
Mexico. replied he would not ecog-
nize Huerta or any one chosen in this
way to succeed him.