The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-08
Chief Executive Expected to
Spend at Least Another
Month Journeying Through
Devastated Country Before
Returning to the Capital.
No Need for Accredited Min
listers and Ambassadors to
Make Haste to Mexico
City-Damage Claims to
Go Through Governors.
Special to The WASHINGTON Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald
Eagle Pass. Tex, Nov. 7.-Chief Execu-
tive Carranza will not return to Mexico
City until he has seen for himself
how conditions are in the various parts
of the republic and has spent at least
another month journeying up and down
the devastated country.
Special United States Representative
John r. Silliman notified Washington to-
day that in all probability 1t would be
necessary for him to continue with Car
rama in the capacity OF confidential
agent for all OF this period. IL not up to
the first OF the year.
II will be unnecessary for Minister
Charles P. Fletcher to hurry UP from
Chile to don his Ambassadorial toys or
whoever else Washington may name as
Ambassador to Mexico and present his
credentials in the executive suite of the
national palace for there Is little likeli-
hood that Carranza will name the Mexi-
can Ambassador to the United States I'M
til he approaches the City OF Mexico.
Arredondo to BE Ambassador.
This means that Eliseo Arredondo. who
came here not only TO present CarranZa
with President Wilson's note Of recogni-
ton. but to receive the billet OF Ambas-
sador. will return TO Washington as con-
fidential agent. and It also means that
Silliman will stay on in a similar ca
paCity near Carranza.
When John Lind urged the chief execu-
tive to cut short his tour and return to
Mexico City. Carranza retorted:
Why"
Because" answered Lind. you need
to begin At once the task of reorganiZa-
ton of the government. BY returning to
Mexico City you will do much to in
crease foreign confidence in your gov
eminent"
Then Carranza explained patiently TO
Lind that he believed II to be his duty
to re-establish confidence first in his
own country and that nothing had been
done more to make for confidence than
the success Of his tour. Therefore, Don
Venusiana pointed out, he proposed to
extend his tour through the greater part
of the country solidifying the constitu-
tionalist organization so thoroughly that
by the time he should be ready to re-
enter the City of Mexico Il would be a
soundly established and going civil gov
eminent.
And TO other friendly emissaries from
the outside world. as well as to Lind
Carranza has made 1t clear during his
visit to Piedras Negras that for the
present he prefers to hear the cheerful
roars of ''v!vas'' on the station plat
forms than the honeyed fluctuations and
representations of bowling and smirkiHS
diplomats in the national palace.
A PerambulntinE Government.
So while the government OF Mexico
perambulates up through the border
states of Nuevo Leon and Tama ulipss
and then down through Aguas Calientes,
Guanajuato, Queretaro. and the other
central states. and afterward over into
Jalisco and Colima, the crystalliZatiOn
of constitutionalism will have prece-
dence over the resumption OF formal dip
lomatic relations.
II Carranza began to name ambassa-
doris, ministers and charge d'affaires he
would be obliged to receive amba ssa-
doris. ministers, ard charge d'anaires.
There is only one part OF Mexico where
he could receive them with the dignity
befitting their rank. That place is the
City of Mexico. But he can receive the
governors, generals and jefes of lesser
degree on the steps of his Pullman car.
And there he can let them know d.
rectly and effectively just what part he
shall expect them to play in his plans
for the political reconstruction OF his
As CarranZa goes marching along he
proposes to take up step by step the