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Show LASCURAIN PRESIDENT Huerta Agrees to Name Cabinet Officer to Serve Out Uncompleted Uncom-pleted Term of the Murdered Executive El Paso. Tex.. April 3 To satisfy all factions in the Mexican melee. General Huerta has agreed to thp naming ol Pedro l.asriir.iin as pro-lbional pro-lbional president, said advices receded re-ceded here today directly from the n;.i!onc! capital LascurSin would serve out the uncompleted term of the late President Madero As minister of the exterior relations rela-tions In Madero'a former cabinet Las-curaln Las-curaln is entitled to sere as next in line. In view ol thp deHths of Madero and Vice President Suarez. The Huerta cabinet would be retained l ti'c compromise. Between Tvo Fires. I This arrangement, It is taid. has been offered to the constitutionalists now fighting i he Huerta government In northern Mexico It is declared that Governor Csrranza of Coahulla has agreed, and that the Sonora insurrectionists in-surrectionists will fall in line The decision of the present provisional president Is aid to have been occasioned occa-sioned b the recent uprising of Za-jpafa Za-jpafa in the aouth, which places the Huerta forces between two fires Mexican militan men here esti- mate that Huerta has not more than 14,000 troops In all Mexico, with which to m. et the situation This 1 een less than Porforio Diaz pos-I pos-I sessed Madero, on taking office, be-gan be-gan recr.iiting volunteer troops with the ex-lnsiirrecto corps as a basis. In the meantime the regular armv was not recruited to normal strength The desertion lo the opposing side of the majority of the volunteer groups, has ! lerf the actual government forces far 1 below par. |