The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-03
RIGHTS GRANTED
 UNDER LAWS OF MEXICO
(By Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, March 2. - Mexico's new constitution, promulgat- ed throughout the republic recently, will give opportunity for the demon stration of the actual working results of many legislative ideas which have not progressed beyond the theoretical stage in many other countries.
 The constitution, in general, follows along broad lines outlined by the first chief, General Venustiano Carranza, Q and submitted by him for considera. tion at the opening of the constitu. tional congress at Queretaro. General Carranza's project in turn followed the broad lines of the Juarez constftu. tion of 1857, changing it with the ob ject of making it thoroughly appli' cable to modern conditions. The mak. CTS of the new constitution in some cases, however, went somewhat be yond the chiefs project in dealing with certain phases of legislation. In his speech to the chief when the lat ter appeared il the assembly to ratify the constitution, Luis Manuel Rojas president of the assembly, said, in part, that in general the assembly had followed the fundamental ideas set forth by Carranza as a result ot his mature experience and that if they had gone beyond in some matters the point he had indicated he believed wise, it was due to the same youthful ardor with which the delegates had followed the flag born by Carranza at Guadaloupe. Natural enthusiasm after the recent struggle and desire to destroy old abuses of the past, he said, offered sufficient motive for de viating from the path marked out by the first chief, although they always had been in thorough accord with his sentiments for aiding the ideas and aspirations of the Mexican people. II was clear, he said, that the legislation adopted must be characterised by its tendency to better the popular classes which always had been oppressed and that if the assembly had comitted CT TOTS or if defects later were found for which it was responsible, history would absolve the delegates because of the sincerity of their convictions as their sole idea had been to make great and happy the Mexican republic
 Two articles of the new constitution deal largely with the rights of for eigners in Mexico. Article 33, as fin ally passed, remains the same as 1t was in the Juarez constitution of 1857. This article declares that all foreign CTS possess the rights to the individual guarantees granted to all within the republic, but the executive of the un ion shall have the exclusive right tt compel to leave the national territory immediately and without prior juds ment, any foreigner whose presence shall be adjudged troublesome. For eigners may not be permitted to mi in any manner in the political affair of the country.
 The other articles dealing with tn rights of foreigners provide that onl Mexicans by birth or naturalizatio and Mexican companies have the rigE to acquire possession of lands or Wa CTS or to obtain concessions to exp.oi mines, water rights or combustibles but the state may concede the sam right to foreigners who appear befor the secretary of foreign relations an agree to be considered as Mexicans respect to the title involved and agre not to invoke in regard to the sam the protection of their government under penalty, if they violate this pr mise, of losing the titles which the have acquired, which pass to Il nation.
 Foreigners may not acquire dire possession of lands or waters with
 one hundred kilometers from the lar
 borders of Mexico nor within tiff
 kilometers of the sea coast.