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Show HUERTA READS MESSAGE TO MEXICAN CONGRESS Provisional President Declares He Will Spare No Pains to Have Unrestricted Election. t Mexico City Provisional President Vlctorlano Huerta delivered his semiannual semi-annual message Tuesday night at the opening of the second session of the twenty-seventh Mexican congress. In it he promised to apare no efforts to bring about the unrestricted election of president and vice-president of tbe Mexican republic next month, declar-I declar-I log that it would constitute tbe greatest great-est triumph of bis career to turn ovet ith? office to hit aucessor with th country at peace, at bo hoped to do, General !!urta atld the strained :XfumeiJ emmtumm &etea texlc and the United tatea bad caused th Mexican nation to suffer unmerited affliction and bad retarded the pacification paci-fication of the country. Nevertheless, he hoped for an early solution of th differences between the two nations and to tee Mexico and the United Stitet once more united In bonds of friendship. Tbe period of six months allowed American warships to remain In Mexican Mex-ican waters, by special permission of congress, will expire next month. In the opinion of tbe president a renewal of such permission should not be granted. Tbe message was disappointing to those who bad expected that President Presi-dent Huerta would deal at some length with recent diplomatic exchanges. ex-changes. This subjet, however, be said, "being so delicate and the permanent per-manent commission of congress being already Informed," he passed with a bare mention. |