New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-13
Mexico, Starts
Rehabilitation.
OF Resources
Half Dozen Economic Meas.
uress i'm Government Pro.
gram to Stabilize Labor
and the Agrariam Unrest
Much Faith i'm Crops
Output of Oil Also Relied
Upon to- Meet Financial Is
saes at Home and Abroad
By George E. Hyde

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 3.-When the
Ds Ia Huerta- Obregon regime began
ssa work Of reconstruction following
cha success OF the revolution against
carrsnza the task was divided into three
,hases. The first was the pacification
AZ the country and was intrusted to
General plutarco Elias Gales, the Min
isser of Wax. Three separate revolts
took place and were promptly cfushed
ar checked by one means or another.
rh;a phase of the program has been
completed. -,
The second phase, as originally out
lined. included the domestic economic
rehsbilitafion Of the country. 1t is TO
Sh;s That the administration is now de-
vasinv it's attention. The government
iegisiasiye program included o. half
dozen economic measures which are
calculated to stabilize the industrial
and aerarian unrest which has grown
ant Of the last ten years Of .interfte-
cine strife. So far as is possible In
Sensational financial questions will be
lsft in the background until this work
is we'll under way.
Good Season for Crops
Il is the opinion Of high officials of
%Aa government that with the harvest
ine Of the fall crops its work along
This line will have progressed far
enough to enable it to take up the in
transitional situation. The general i'm
uression is that President de la huerta
viii have done we'll il he carries this
second phase to approximate compile
tiop before his term Of ONCE expires
and that he can leave future develop
suant to his successor.
The season has been good for crops
and an excess Of foodstuffs and OF cot
sa ns IA exnected. Indications SO far
sre that exports and imports will es-
Sabliah q new record for Mexico, in
snite Of the short interruption of trade
during tho revolution and during the
bubenie plague epidemic at Vera Cruz
and Tampico.
The railway situation will play large
rart In the second phase Of the recon
struction, 1t seems improbable that the
lines will be returned to private man
anement, principally because this will
involve an international financial deal
az some magnitude, due to the large
amo1ns Of interest on the preferred
stock Of the company, which has not
been paid for some years back.
The government is not prepared to
10 into that question until general con-
ditions are on q more stable basis. In
che mean time the work Of putting the
lines back in shspe and OF handling the
fall crops Win be pushed undes govern
mene management.
international Situation
The third phase Of the situation
takes up the international situation
bath diplomatic and financial. Officials
Of che government are hoping sth4t this
can be postponed until the first OF next
year. The new President takes office
December 1, and such Q schedule would
give him time to acquaint himself thor
taking the delicate task Of paying for
shs errors of past administrations. The
government recognizes fully the neces-
sity Of paying for these errors, and
fully intends to as COON as it can.
There is q certain amount OF rancor
ever the extent to which damages and
claims against Mexico are likely to
run. Many officials connected with the
administration feel that the bill is
likely to be Ear heavier than it is
pleasant to contemplate. They do not
like the jde& OF paying for a. dead
heYsa.
NO eSum2tS or the amount OF clSims
lie possible 80 far because few foreign
claims have yet been presented to the
elAins commission, but it is certain
that they will run into many millions.
With the claims will come the neces-
sity Of Strengthening out the national
debt. This is in such tangle at pres
ent that officials have seen nothing bet
ter 70 do than to let it stay as it is
until the government can give the
question Ats undivided attention.
It 10 generally recognized that moth
ing can be done along this line until
the DIPLOMATIC situation is fully normal