The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-25
DE FACTO FORCES
 MUST SOON MEET !
 ARMED OPPOSITION
New Government Also Fails to Effect Adjustment With Villa, Who Will
 Likely Start Fighting
By Associated Press

. Mexico City, May Z4.- President Venustiano Carranza committed suicide rather thaA be taken prisoner, according to a telegram given out this afternoon at the headquarters of General Gonzales. It pur- ports to have been sent from Cerro Azul, State of Puebla, the morning of Thursday, May 20, by Col. Rodolfo Herrera, who, previous reports have said, was responsible for Senor Carranza's death.
 Mexico City, May 24.--Adolfo de la Huerta, governor of Sonora, was named president ad interim of Mexi- co by extraordinary session of Con gress this evening. He received 224 votes against 28 for Pablo Gonzales.
 Gen. Antonio Villareal was the only other candidate. The extraordinary session had been fixed for o'clock this afternoon. but did not begin work until 6 o'clock because of the lack of quorum. After one hour and half of voting Governor de la Huerta received the necessary twO- thirds majority
 The new incumbent holds office un- der the "Agua Prieta plan and has already postponed the presidential election from July to September 5, under authority of the Agua Preita plan, which makes him supreme chief of the liberal army. He exercised the same authority in calling the ex- traOrdinary session of Congress.
 Washington, May 24.-Of- ficial interest in the Mexican l situation was intensified today 1 by reports of a widespread re- action from the killing of Venustiano Carranza, the de- posed president. These indica- tions were accompanied by in- formation that the de facto government might have to face almost immediately not only the problem of reducing Villa, the longtime rebel leader, to submission, but also a more im- portant armed opposition.
 Reports reached Washington to-
 day from Mexico City that men prominent in political affairs were
 suspected of preparing to take ad-
 vantage of the indignation caused
 by Carranza's death to lead m
 averaging movement did Car
 ranza when Mndero was assassI-
 mated in 1915.
 Confirmation was received by the state department during the day of the failure of Gen. Elias Gales to ef- | feet an adjustment between the new | government forces and Villa Ig- nacio Enrquez was said to have left Chihuahua Saturday with a strong l force to cooperate with troops in the pursuit of Villa, who then was re- 1 ported at Boarillas.
 One devsfopes ta ''s situation
 occurred to5eg ''hea Lois y
 Maronen u csnf' .nsial aGens 1esst
 to the mited sgA-4e~s ssx flss eaoa,
 called us the AVhise Igouse to saeye ] for Pr ,Aeut Wilson q n,exsare
 signea Ds pbregom eaasMiA3px re-
 assuring declarations as to she
 aims of the revoIutionists.
 ACCOMPANIED BY GOMPERS
 Marones. who is the generally ac- | knowledged leader of Mexican labor, l and who was accompanied by Samuel 1 Gompers, supplemented Obregons mes | sage with a statement of his own, ex- pressing the belief that strong and unopposed government would be es- 1 tablished
 | Villas chances of making more trou- | ble for the Mexican government were minimized by the governments repre- | sentatives here, who declared it would l he fnr l of more than a few hundred men, American army officers studying the ! situation, however, called attention to the mobile nature Villa would have as opposed to punitive forces that might be sent against him.
 1 one meanace to international rela- l tions was eliminated by the reported release of George Miller British man. | ager of the Alvarado Mining and Mill 1 ing Company, who had been held by | Villa. and by the announcement that the oil companies had complied with the demands of the de facto authorities | regarding the payment of the export taxes
 1 The oil companies had delayed their | payments until they could obtain reas-. 1 surances as to whom the taxes should be paid. The taxes were paid at Mexi- | co City. Manuel Pelaez, to whom the | oil companies have pand tribute for several years, but who was announced s 1 to have joined in the revolutionary movement was reported to be on his way to the capital after making a pub i lie statement that he favored the | movement of General Obregon and ] Gonzales His indorsement of the plan of Agua Prieta. the revolutionary programme promulgated in Sonora. was withheld.