New Britain herald., 1914-04-17
HucTta Demands That Simu|tancol Salute Be Fired by Uncle Slm|
 When Apology Is Offered. \
WILSON REFUSES TO
 AcCEOf TO PROPOSE

Less Than Salute or Jwenty-OI
 Guns and Will Acknowledge Apo
 0gy After Salute Is Fired by Me
 ican Government, Is Statement SeI
 to Charge OShaug.nessy.
 Washington April 17.-Huerta hs parleyed again. He demands tn < his salute to the United States fl shall be returned simultaneously. I'll President Wilson is practically ce tain not. to accept.
 This latest hitch at the eleven( hour when officials here expected tlI situation was as good as closed uI was disclosed in dispatches froI Charge O'Shaughnessy.
 Confers With Cabinet.
 President Wilson discussed it vii the cabinet. Administration official said privately Huertas counter pro} osition would not be accepted.
 The development confirmed tl fears of those officials who expect{ Huerta would equivocate again. AH intention of recalling any ships the fleet now bound to Tampico w( abandoned and those close to the a( ministration expected to see Pred dent Wilson's demand for an unqua| flied apology backed up.
 Text Kept Secret.
 The text of Charge OShaughnessy dispatches was not made public, b,I it became known that Huerta's la proposal was that as his guns firs3 their salute to the stars and Stripd as an apologys for continued affronI to the United States, particularly t1{ recent arrest of bluejackets at TanI pico, that the guns of the America| fleet should reply to the Mexican sd lute simultaneously.
 Officials here were ready to a} Knowledge Huerta's salute of twent{ one guns after it had been finished with return salute, such as is prefI cribed in naval custom and preceden| That would merely be acknowledgir' an amende honorable, they say Bil to return Huerta's salute simultand ously, they pointed out, would mad the apology valueless
 Officials described Huerta's lated
 
 dignity before the Mexicans of thd part of the country under his corl trol.
 Dispatches Before Cabinet.
 All the latest dispatches were laiI before the cabinet Practically all itf1I members of the official family wer{ said to be agreed that there tshoul| be no further temporizing.
 Secretary Bryan left the cabind while it still was in session to go t| the state department and send soni dispatches. lie was silent as to the} nature, but it was understood tha the word had gone back to HuertI that a simultaneous salute woul| not be accepted and that Charg| O'Shaughnessy was advised that th| United States would insist on its dd mand.
 Officials expressed the view thsl Huerta has been listening to -ba advice" during the last twelve houfj and after he promised Mr. O'shapefi messy yesterday that he would giv| the apology.
 Blockade Is Discussed.
 Meanwhile it was emphasized sthll no counter orcers had been issued f| the battleships speeding to the Mex ican coasts. A blockade of Mexic| and other drastic measures were dis cussed in official circles. Those wei informed declared that if within thu next few hours Huerta did not com| ply entirely, some announcement d what definite steps would be takel to compel his, apology would be mad| in Washington.
 When the cabinet meeting ad| journed Secretary Bryan still del scribed the negotiations as "encour| aging" but not final.
 ''I have received one message frorl Charge O'Shaughnessy and have sen| one in reply" he said
 Other members of the cabinet said Huerta had been informed that n( simultaneous salute would be ac| ceptable to this government.
 U. s. Demands Sent
 Secretary Bryan instructed Charg, O'Shaughnessy to finally inform Hu1 erta that the United States will accept nothing less than salute oi twenty-one guns and that the Ameri1 can ships will reply after the salute has been fired.
 President IIalts Trip.
 Charge O'Shaughnessys dispatched dealt with some questions of detail and did not close up the incident. officials, however, said that a settle- ment was not endangered. President Wilson changed his plan to go to White Sulphur Springs tonight and will go tomorrow.
 Orders for assem bling a reRimenf Of marines at San Diego for Mexioa h service were countermanded-