The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05
Schooner YsidOrO Loaded
 With Munitions of War Wanted by Both Factions. Grubb Hears Arguments
WILL ANNOUNCE HIS
 DECISION IN MATTER
 ON NEXT WEDNESDAY
Believed He Will Deny Juris- dictiOn-Number of We'll Known Mexicans Here for Case

Whether Judge William I Grubb of the united States district court for the north ern district of Alabama will decide on a practical recognition of either the Car ranza or Villa factions in Mexico will be determined next Wednesday, when Judge Grubb will announce his decision on the complaint of Salvador Alvadoro, Carranza chieftain of the state of Yucatan Mex, against P. Cardenas. master of the schooner Ysidoro now held at Pensacola.
 The complaint is that P. Cardenas, an agent of the convention party (the Villa faction) seized the schooner unlawfully at Havana and sailing to Pensacola load ed the vessel with munitions of war, which were about to be shipped to Mex leo when Consul Francisco R. Villavicen- cia of New Orleans, acting as the agent og Governor Alvadoro, filed a libel agaii st the ship on the claim that the vessel was the property of the state of Yucatan. Owing to the absence of Judge w. B. Sheppard, United States judge for the northern district of Florida, the litigants and their attorneys were forced to come to Birmingham and plead before Judge drupD yesterday afternoon
 After a hearing lasting several hours Judge Grubb announced that he would take the case under advisement until Wednesday in order that Attorney Scott M. Loftin of Pensacola, representing Vil- lavicencia of the Carranzistas may sub init additional affidavits regarding the ownership of the schooner Ysidoro by the state of Yucatan.
 Reads Like a Novel
 The history of the adventures of the sidoro reads like a novel. The schooner was seized in the port of Tampa by agents of the Huerta faction some years ago and brought to Mexico. where it served the state of Yucatan as mer- chantman.
 After Huerta had been deposed and Car ranza assumed the reins of government one Ortiz Argumento, acting as Carranza governor of Yucatan, revolted against the first chief and Gen. Salvador Alvadoro was ordered to suppress the revolution This, according to Consul Vilavicenia, was accomplished in about 4S hours, after which Senor Argumento departed from the state of Yucatan with s2Oo0,0O0 in gold of the state funds In the Ysidoro This happened about four months ago.
 At Havana Argumento left the Ysidoro and P. Cardenas, Villa agent, promptly seized the boat while Argumento departed TUT I>tW I OTk to enJON the proceeds or his tabloid revolution. After some court proceedings in Havana, where the Cuban courts refused to accept Jurisdiction, Se- nor Cardenas sailed for Key West with the Ysidoro. At Key West clearance pa pers were given to Pensacola and at Pen sacola large consignment of ammuni- tion was taken on.
 Clearance Denied at Pensacola
 Clearance papers were denied Senor Cardenas and the Ysidoro by the cus- toms authorities at Pensacola and con sul Manuel Garcia M. of the Villa gov ernment at New Orleans was communi- cated with. Senor Garcia M. at once tele- graphed Enrique Llorente, the confiden- tial agent of the Villa faction at Wash ington. who induced the reasury de- partment to order the Pensacola customs house to give clearance papers to the Ysdoro. It was then that Salvador AL vadoro, acting through Consul F. R. Vit- la avivencia of the Carranza government filed libel against the schooner, seeking possession and practically requesting that the United States courts recognize the Carranza faction as a stable government in Mexico. This, it is not thought will be done, as all indications are that Judge Grubb will claim lack of Jurisdiction and the Ysidoro will be allowed to leave Pen sacola with the ammunition for the Villa forces. The decision of Judge Grubb is awaited with interest
 According to the argument of Attor- ney J. F.. D. Young of Pensacola. who represents Garcia M of the Villa faction at New Orleans and P. Cardenas. mas ster of the Ysidoro, the acceptance by the United States court of Jurisdiction over the case is fraught with the possibility of judicial recognition of either the Carranza or the Villa faction. This, Attorney Young pointed out, was inconsistent with the Mexican policy of the United States and he pleaded that the libel be dis missed.
 In his reply to the averments of At torney Young. the Carranza attorney Scott M. Loftin, raised the question and cited several supreme court decisions to aid his contention, that where foreigners iE litigation lacked a common forum in their country, the United States courts would not refuse Jurisdiction. Mir. Loftin averred that with the unsettled condi- ton of Mexico at the present time there was no common forum in that country
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