Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-05
GALES CONTROLS
MEXICAN CONGRESS
Legislators Expected to Pass
Any Oil and Land Measures
He May Propose.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
MENICO CITY. September At
President Gales sends notifications
of the alien land and petroleum laws
10 Congress they will he passed on
The first roll call. This was made
evident today in the unanimous &C
ceptance by the Chamber of Deputies
of the report of its credentials com
mittee The Senate Is expected TO line
,Ip similarly as soon as the pro
Gales leaders perfect plans FOR Its
organization.
Presidential control of Congress APP
pears to be as complete as 1t ever was
in the heyday of the late Porhrlo
Diaz regime. President Gales has 1t
in the hollow Of his hand. It's mem
bers indicate they will pass any meas
ure he sends to it. However much
the Agrarians and Laborites may be
disposed TO Squabble over their own
projects for setting the pace for the
rest of the world. all indications are
that they will be pro-Calles on snow
down.
A preliminary canvass of the new
chamber of deputies reveals the
Overwhelming preference. however,
for letting well enough alone. as they
nut it, so far as the alien land ana
petroleum laws are concerned. THESE
TWO laws in their present form are
believed ideally to satisfy reVolu-
tionary aspirations as embodied In
article q of the 1917 constitution.
This is the Magma Charta OF Mexico
in the estimation OF the pro -Calles
congress. and in their personal views
the deputies are fervently against
tamperng with the existing laws IN
terpreting it. This will be done, it is
indicated only If the president IN
sists But the most deferential of all
congresses will leave il to him to
take the first step in that direction.
Any projects emanatinS from vest
ed interests-specif1cal great landed
enterprises as well as oil companies
may look for short shrift from the
thirty second congress. This is
aVoWedly an anti-ca pitaliStic con-
gress. It's members proclaim their
championship of the proletariat. Their
legislative program, they further
prophesy, will be devoted to uplifting
the masses of Mexico. They are
strong for the wage Garner, whether
he he in the factory or in the fields.
The supreme task before the newly
assembled Congress, according to
Deputy Antonio Diaz Soto Y CANA,
radical leader, is completion of agra
rian reforms He proposed to make
the fight OF his political life to give
every campeSino in Mexico. as the
humble farm element is called. a piece
of land.
There are 100, O00, 900 acres of ma
tional lands in Mexico. Deputy Soto
Cana wants it divided up among
The campeSI.oS. II tHl3 were done 1t
would give every one of them a
farm of approximately 20 acres, ana
in some sections the allotment to the
Got
Cana brands the government as the
greatest MISUNDERSTANDING land hold
er--of all and he will ash congress TO
pry the federal government loose
from its vast holdings.
Antonio Soto y CANA Is i'll many re-
spects the most interesting figure
in congressional life Mexico has de-
veloped in the last 20 years. He is
radical antedating the present Rus
sian leaders. He wrote the Plan de
Ayala, Bible of Zapatismo.
What is called Zapatismo, otherwise
known as the political philosophy
which underlay the revolutionary
movement liz the state OF MoreloS,
headed by the celebrated late Emiliano
Zapata, was the product of Soto y
Gama's brain. Marvelously learned
in radical literature, he is held by his
followers to be the most original po-
litical thinker OF his time in Mexico.
Even his opponents concede his
sincerity. integrity and Independence
and by common consent he is regarded
As the finest orator of them all. He
IS the standpatter of standpatters on
article q and may be counted on to
vote no to the last on any measure
calling for modification of the exist
ing laws Interpreting 1t.
Soto CANA ia a native of the
state of San Luis PotoSi and is just
past his f1ftieth year.
AS the chamber of deputies line up
on its preliminary organization, the
Agrarians constitute Il strategic mi
nority. They aver they hold the bal
ance of power The ma jority is split
among two groups socialistic in char
aCter known as the alianZaS and the
o-opeiatistaS. The former represents
the labor sNndiCates.
The senate remains to be organized.
The credentials of claimants for seats
are still to be passed upon.