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Show HUERTA AGAIN CHOSEN GIF BY JAEXIGMIS General Blanquet Elected Vice President; All Members Mem-bers of Senate and Chamber Cham-ber Retain Seats. LITTLE ATTENTION PAID TO ELECTION Carranza Unable' to Arm Thousands Who Flock to His Standard; Dispute With Villa Nears End. MEXICO CITY, July 5. Elections for president, vice president, deputies and senators were held today in that portion of the republic controlled by the Huerta government. Indifference was manifested everywhere. General Huerta appeared to be the favorite candidate for the presidency and General Blanquet for the vice presidency. pres-idency. President Hnerta, it is reported, received re-ceived a virtually unanimous vote of confidence. The returns Indicate the re-election of all present members of the chamber of deputies and the senate. Tiie lightest vote in many years was cast bcth in the capital and nearby towns. CARRANZA LACKS ARMS FOR HORDES ' OF NEW RECRUITS EAGLE PASS, Texas. July 5. Troops from the division of the east have been ordered by General Pablo Gonzales to proceed at once to Querela ro, according accord-ing to reports from Saltillo today. This move is regarded as significant of the part the division intends to play in the tinal capture of Mexico City as the final stand of the federals probably will be made at Queretaro. The movement, it is thought here, also was precipitated by the withdrawal of a body of federal troops under General Pascual Orozco from the Queretaro gar-riso'h gar-riso'h to reinforce the garrison of Mexico City. "Word has been received that the constitutionalist con-stitutionalist troops under General Jesus Carranza, three miles from San Luis Po-tosi, Po-tosi, have taken Ceritos in the state of San Luis Potosl from a small force of federals. The railroad has been repaired re-paired to Ceritos. The troops to go to Queretaro will be drawn from the command com-mand of General Jesus Carranza, who has IS, 000 men near San Luis. Country Friendly. Colonel Francisco Mariel, who is operating oper-ating under the command of General Jesus Carranza, arrived at Saltillo yesterday yes-terday to discuss with the first chief the conditions in the field near San Luis. He said the entire country was friendly to the constitutionalists and that if sufficient suf-ficient arms could be provided. General Jesus Carranza could have a force of 35,-000 35,-000 within a few days. Colonel Mariel, who has led a force of 1500 men. all Indians, in the states of Hidalgo Hi-dalgo and San Luis Potosl for a year, declared Colonel Samuel Santos, with 900 men. Colonel Jose Hernandez Mirze with 600 and Colonel Lagara, with 1000 had joined General Carranza since the latter's arrival at San Luis Potosi and that there were 15,000 more recruits to join if arms could be provided. Colonel Mariel declared that the San Luis garrison had been so weakened by continued withdrawal of troops that he did not expect the federals to make a strong resistance. Cause of Disagreement. The difference between General Francisco Fran-cisco Villa and General Carranza, which are now being arbitrated by a commission commis-sion at Torreon, are the outgrowth of a misunderstanding, according to the messengers mes-sengers from Saltillo. The realization that the break between the leaders was due to such a misunderstanding is said to have prompted the attempt to compose com-pose the disagreement through the commission. com-mission. According to the word reaching here the trouble arose, at least in part, over the efforts of General Xatera to capture Zncatecas. It Is said that General Na-tera. Na-tera. In his anxiety to take the cltv. either was misinformed regarding the number of federals in the town or concealed con-cealed the facts, giving General Carranza Car-ranza the impression that the garrison numbered not more than S'OO men. After Nat era iv-iri lo?t more than 250 in his assaults be asked for reinforcements reinforce-ments and it is .nid General Carranza then Pent an or-W General Villa based on tho informptio-i regarding the federal strength giveu him by Xatera. Villa Knew Better. Villa, having advices that this Information Infor-mation was incorrect and that the federals fed-erals numbered nearly 14.000, took exception ex-ception to the order. It is believed that' when the various facts are discussed frankly at the conference a satisfactory conclusion will be reached. The fleet of six military aeroplanes gathered by the constitutionalist forces at Saltillo Is to be moved at once to San I.u'.a Potosl. according to dispatches and will be uf-r-3 in the attack on that city. They will be under tho active direction di-rection of nn American aviator. Gflorge C. Carothors, representative of (Continued on Paga Two.) HUEHTA AGAIN CHOSEN GIF B! IDS General Blanquet Elected Vice President; All Members Mem-bers of Senate and Chamber Cham-ber Retain Seats. (Continued from Page One.) the state department. Is reported to have gone from Saltillo to Torreon with the commissioners who went there to treat with General Villa's representatives. L. J. Canova, another representative of the state department, remained in Saltillo, to keep in touch with General Carranza. HUERTA SAID TO HAVE MADE PACT j WITH BRIGAND . : VERA CRUZ, July 5. It is rumored ! here that an alliance between Provisional j President Huei ta and Emiliano Zapata, I tue revolutionary leader, is to be formed j EUGll. ; Il.nh here and in the capital the conviction con-viction exists that a crisis Is imminent, but only reasons are offered for the fear the I the next few days will see a - development. Mexicans prominent in the political, official and social life of the capital are joining in increasing strength the army ' of fugitives. Several foreigners other than British have taken the advice of Sir Lionel Garden, the British minister, to get out or what he regards as dangerous dan-gerous territory. Two si ecial trains, made up of the best equipment, with the blinds in the sleeping tars down, left the capital for Puerto Mexico Friday night and Saturday Satur-day morning, respectively, according to persons who arrived here from Mexico City today. Among the passengers are ! said to have been General Joaquin Maas, i Jr., and his family, and Querida Moheno, former minister of commerce. Remains With Husband. it is reported that Jorge Huerta, son of the president, and one of Huerta' s daughters were on one of the trains . It is understood that the president's wife j remained in tiie capital. Mexicans fyom the capital report they heard her' declare she would not abandon her husband, i Mexicans from the interior and those , ! just beyond the American lines do not j regard seriously the elections held t(j- day. It is pointed out that such elec-j elec-j tiuns could hardly have any conciliatory effect on the constitutionalists and never i could be regarded as legal, since the I government is powerless to comply with r the provisions of the law that the votes . ; be cast freely throughout the territory. i Election Compulsory. ! That General Huerta proposes to repeat ; the virtually compulsory choice of himself him-self and General Blanquet for the presi-i presi-i dency and the vice presidency, " respect- ively, as he did last year, is the story brought here tot.: ay by a judge from Jala- ' ta. He suid he had received instructions io prepare the ballots in the usual manner, man-ner, but io see that all votes cast were 1 for Huerta and Elanquet. i Quick returns from the elections 'are I not likely, as many of the places where : ! the ballon ng is supposed to take place are isoiate-i and after the returns are , j all in. a meeting of the- electors must be held. There i.aturaliy wouid ensue a J considerable interval beiore the inauguration inaugu-ration of tiie pi evident. Alliance Theories. One of the theories suggested for any all'.aii''e Huerta -may be a hie to maKe with Zapata is that with the support of j tins chieiiain he may be able to hold I tack for many mom hs the constitution -i ahstp from the north. j Military men who have been studying I the rampaigns of Huerta and the con-t con-t smutionalUts regard tiie final triumph I of the constitutionalists as improbable for seveiul weeks unless there oerur aeiious defections from tha fr-deral army a nd uprisings within t'f.e capital too serious for Huerta lo suppress, or some similar I unexpected development, j Spaniards who have arrived here from I Jalupa over tiie lnteroeeanie route say j Mexicans just outside the American lines hp re have revived heavy reint orcein ems 'I in the past few days. I WILL ELIMINATE I ALL DIFFERENCES i ' TORREOX, Coahulla. July 5 When j the Carranza-Villa conference adjourned , today after a long session both sides were ; apparently confident that whatever dif-: dif-: ferenres had existed between tiie two ; constitutionalist leaders were in a fair way of being eliminated tomorrow when the conference will reconvene for Its final session. While none of the members of the two commissions would discuss any phase of ; the negotiations, it was evident that they I wre in accord on whatever matters there j had been before them. The follow-in I sta lenient was issued by the secretaries j of the conference: "The riek-:y'.?s arrived at a complete understanding of the points which are! being treated in the session today. It I is expected that tomorrow the confer- j ences will be ended witli a satisfactory I result." It was said that all matters discussed at yesterday's session also had been adjusted ad-justed satisfactorily. As soon as damage to the railroads done by recent rains lias been repaired to ihe njrth it was stated many of Villa's brigades brig-ades will be sent to Chihuahua City, which General Villa himself is expected j to visit as soon as the present conferences confer-ences are ended. CONTENTION OVER THEFT OF CURRENCY EL PASO, Tex., July 5. Expressions of optimism received from Torreon today to-day upon the question involving the ownership of constitutionalist national currency were not echoed locally. Roberto Rob-erto Pesqueira, Carranza's confidential agent, tonight sent a strong protest to General Villa regarding Pesqueira termed the "criminal acts" of Villa's agents in making away with Carranza's fiat paper currency on this side of the line. It was learned today that Carranza had outlawed all fiat paper of- the national na-tional issue not put , into circulation by his officials. This will affect several millions mil-lions of pesos which the Villa officials have confiscated and stHtnped. The national constitutionalist government govern-ment will not recognize this issue, according ac-cording to announcement of Carranza officials here. Serape Aguirre. .-Carranza's treasury general, who was arrested at Juarez, still is held by Villa's officials at Chihuahua City. Hearings will be held here upon the temporary injunction secured se-cured by the Carranza people which held a shipment of 4,000.000 pesos of constitutionalist consti-tutionalist money on this side of the line. An additional 3.000.000 pesos of the same issue has not been located. Officials of the United States army and customs department de-partment declared todav that it had not passed the border at this point. Carranza's Car-ranza's agents here announced that tomorrow to-morrow a general Injunction will be sought through courts at Washington, restraining re-straining all express companies from handling the Mexican paper. Pesqueira also sent a long message to Villa's military commander at Juarez. Pesqueira's telegram to Villa charged that Santiago Win field, who had been intrusted with the duty of forwarding constitutionalist currency from Washington, Washing-ton, had stolen the monev and forwarded some consignments to this citv, the shipment ship-ment being addressed to the governor of Chihuahua in care of Lazaro de la Garza. The message adds: "As I am certain that you do not approve ap-prove in the least of these criminal acts. I now hurriedly advise you of the occurrence, oc-currence, so that you may, if you desire, de-sire, repudiate the acts of your agents." Provisions Landed. OX BOARD U. S. S. CALIFORNIA, July 5 (via San Diego, Cal., Julv 5). Much-needed provisions were landed In Mazatlan last night by the schooner Sappho. Sap-pho. The American warships here celebrated July 4 with flags, salutes and aquatic sports. At night there was a smoker on board the flagship. Federal Governor Lapaz is showlnsr a disposition to establish friendly relations and has expressed a desire to excha nee offt--!al visits with Rear Admiral Howard. How-ard. Rear Admiral Doyle, on the cruiser West Virginia, sailed yesterday for San Diego, carrying part of a regiment of marines which will go into camp there. |