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Show HUERTA LANDS OK I AMERIGAN SOIL FORMER PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT PRESI-DENT OF MEXICO EXPECTS TO REMAIN HERE UNTIL MAY. Promises Not to Do Anything During His Visit That Will in Any Way Involve the Neutrality of the United States. New York. General Yictoriano Huerta, former provisional president of Mexico, who for nearly a year has been an exile in Spain, arrived here on Monday on the Spanish steamship Antonio Lopez from Cadiz. General Huerta was passed by United States immigration officials as a transit alien, after he had declared under oath that he would do nothing that wonld in any way involve the neutrality of the United States. The former president said that ho had come to the United States partly for pleasure and partly to atiend to some personal business connected with family matters. He swore that he had no intention of going to Mexico Mex-ico or to Cuba. The length of his stay here, he said was indefinite, but he would return to Spain, possibly sailing from New York early in May. General Huerta was met at quarantine quaran-tine by representatives of the press and an array of photographers. While submitting to being photographed in every desired pose, he declined to say anything as to his mission, agreeing J.o meet newspaper men at his hotel ihere later in the week. Regarding this appointment, he said: "I understand that my presence in this country creates in you the desire to know my view about the affairs of Mexico, and I promise to satisfy your wishes to the best of my ability. I Ibeg you, gentlemen, to remember that no interview with me should be considered con-sidered as authentic unless it carries my personal signature." General Huerta was accompanied by General Jose C. Delgardo, who has been his private secretary for ten vears. and bv Abraham Ratner. a Der- sonal friend of the general, who declared de-clared himself an American citizen giving his residence as New York. |