The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-14

tack on Huerta in the senate chamber
 He promptly disappeared and when his
 colleagues demanded an investigation
 Huerta marched a body of troops into
 the hall of Congress seized 11O deputies
 and threw them in jail
 His next step was to call an election
 at which only Huertistas were allowed
 to vote with the result that he was de- clared President with General Banquet
 vice president. Mr. Lind again demanded
 that Huerta resign and, meeting with a second refusal left Mexico City on No- vember 12 for Vera Cruz.
 Throughout the winter the tension be-
 tween the United States and Mexico con- unued to grow more acute. American warships were dispatched to Mexican waters and large number of troops were concentrated on the border. At the same time the constitutionalists, as the
 Carrarza faction called themselves. ad- vanced from the north defeating the Huerta troops in battle after battle. The climax came in April when party of American bluejackets was seized at Vera Cruz and thrown into jail. The Americans were quickly released but Huerta refused President Wilson's de- mand for formal salute to the Stars and Stripes as a measure of reparation. On April 12, American buejackets and marines landed at Vera Cruz in force and 1 occupied the city after some street fight ing in which a number of Americans were killed
 | Shortly afterward mediation proposal
 was made by Argentina, Brazil and Chile and accepted. Conferences were held at Niagara Falls but brought no decisive result.
 Matters dragged along until July
 when Huerta. his finances exhausted. his army thoroughly beaten and disorganized.
 his enemies growing steadily stronger, ore aented his resignation to the Mexican Congress. He sailed from Puerto Mexico few days later on the German cruiser Dresden and after a short stay in Jamai- ca chartered a steamer and set out for Spain. On November 23, President Wilson ordered the evacuation of Vera Cruz. =.
 On March 3. 1915 General Huerta left Spain ostensibly for Buenos Aires. He disembarked at Algeciras, Morocco. anH early in April boarded a steamer for New
 York, declaring he was coming to this country simply a pleasure trip. After remaining in New York for sometime he started west with the announced inten-
 tion of visiting the San Francisco Panama
 exposition. On June ? he was arrested
 by secret service agents at Newman.
 N. NJ, on a charge of conspiring to
 incite a revolution against friendly
 country. He was released on bond, but
 was rearrested by secret service men
 at Fl Paso on July 3. when apparently
 planning to cross the border
 Huerta remained in jail until December 2S when he was permitted to be removed to his home in Fl Paso on account of the
 serious nature of his illness.
 During Huerta's stay in America nu-
 merous stories were circulated from var-
 ous sources asserting that he was being
 backed by German agents in plot to
 embroil this country with Mexico. These
 stories were officially denied by Count
 Won Bernstorff. the German ambassador.
 They were reviNew again. however. by
 statements by federal officials that Franz
 von Rintelen, a German agent, had spent
 large sums of money endeavoring to
 cause disturbances on the Mexican bor-
 der.