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Show j General Huerta Parleys Again I DEMANDS THAT MEXICAN SALUTE BE RETURNED SIMULTANEOUSLY I I Eleventh Hour Hitch Disclosed in Morning Despatches From Charge O'Shaughnessy Developments Confirm Officials Of-ficials Expectations That Dictator Would Continue to Equivocate Latest Move a Play for Time No Further Temporizing to Be Allowed. ( SECRETARY BRYAN SENDS FINAL 'WORD :'f 1 I United States Will Accept Nothing Less Than Salute of 21 Guns American Ships Will Reply After Firing Is Over I No Counter Orders to Fleet Battleships Still Speeding to Mexican Coasts Apology Must I I Be Made or American Government Will T Take Steps to Compel Mexico to Yield. IS ' SS ; Washington, April 17. Huerta's i U; ; latest equivocation over an apology I ' ,' to Ihe flag of the United States has1 if been met with an unqualified demand ri for a salute of 21 guns, as originally M ! asked by Rear Admiral Mayo at Tarn- H pico. The American warships will II return it according to international custom. j This word went forward to Mexico) ; ' City today, after President Wilson afe and the cabinet had discussed Huer- ?'i V. ta's latest proposal that tho salute be 'J?' a simultaneous one and that he be 15 assured that the American ships will k return his gun fire. H President Wilson and his advisers H s considered Huerta's answer and Sec-retary Sec-retary Bryan left the cabinet meet- J ing to send the reply. It was brief lfl;f and final. No More Temporizing. H ; "We intend to have that salute," H; said Secretary Daniels as he loft the H White House. Other officials reiter-ated reiter-ated the intention of the American 2fl government to have no more tompo- jjMi rizing, but a complete apology for MA indignities to the flag. CSS?- Senator Shively caBed from an. ex- r-Mf: ecutive session, to be informed of iml the counter proposition of Huerta for JSj a simultaneous salute, expressed dis- approval of such a course. y$M- "There will be no simultaneous sa- S lute," the senator emphatically assert- m ed. "The salute must be fired by SJ Mexico in the manner demanded by 11. this government and in accordance 11 1 w'tu international custom." ' At 3 p. m., White House officials HI explained the status of the situation j H as it is set forth in the foregoing. r Adm'ral Mayo's Demand. r Secretary Bryan made public the li terms of Admiral Mayo's demands on ly the federal commander at Tampico IK for redress of his act in causing the arrest of the American blue jackets. They follow: i "In the view of the publicity of I ' this occurrence, I must require that T' you send by suitable members of your If:, staff formal disavowal and apology for the act, together with your assur- S : ance that the officer responsible for it will receive severe punishment. Al- III so that you publicly hoist the United t States flag in a prominent position on I t shore and salute It with 21 guns. Sa- I lute will be returned by this ship." I Mexico City, April 17. Jose Lopez j Portlllo y' Rojas, Mexican foreign minister, said at noon today ho be- III lieved the controversy between the United States and Mexico would be 5 arranged before tonight. J The foreign minister declared tho HI arrangement of the Incident would l result from negotiations between him- j self. Provisional President Huerta ' and Nelson O'Shaughnessy, American if charge d' affaires. . Senor Rojas declined to say what Ji was the basis for his belief, but it J Is generally assumed that a mutual I exchange of salutes Is one of the : features of the proposed adjustment H I Washington, D. C. April 17. Hucr- I' la has parleyed again. He demands f lhat his salute to the United States tJJ flag shall be returned simultaneously. ggj 1 This, President Wilson is practically MZ certain not to accept. .mi TniB la,esl nitcn aL tlle eleventh : 1 liour. when officials here expected the l situation was as good as closed up, ml was disclosed in dispatches from Dl Cliarge O'Shaughnessy. President 1 1 Wilson discussed it with the cabinet. ' I f Administration officials said privately im Huerta's counter proposition would tM l not- e accentet1' Another Play for Time, ifls Tno development confirmed the 1 H I 'ears of those officials who expected I I Huerta would equivocate again. Any 1 1 J Intention of recalling any ships of the III 'lcet ncm Doun(1 10 TarnPlC0 wb aban-111 aban-111 cloned and those close to the admlni- I B .1 strntion expected to see President Wil-ill Wil-ill son s demaml for an unqualified apol- I I &Ey backed up. !! The text of Charge O'Shaughnessy's a dispatches was not made public, but !t became known that Huerta'B latest 4 proposal was that as his guns fired ;! their salute to the Stars and Stripes, l as an apology for continued affronts il to the United States, particularly the t recent arrest of blue jackets at Tarn- 1 pico, that the guns of the American Meet should reply to the Mexican sa- $ lute gun for gun. 1 I Must Follow Custom. J k Officials here were ready to ac- 1 $ knowledge Huerta's salute of 21 guns f ifter it had been finished, with a re- i lum salute, such as is prescribed in m haval custom and precedent. That would merely be acknowledging an amende honorable, they say. But to return Huerta's salute gun for gun thej' pointed out would make the apology apol-ogy valueless. Officials described Huerta's latest move as an act to preserve his own dignity before the Mexicans of thut part of the country under his control. Complete Apology Demanded. While President Wilson and tho cabinet cab-inet will decide what shall be done, the opinion was expressed Treely in official circles that nothing but a complete apology and .such a salute as the United States demands would be accepted now While Secretary Bryan, when he took the latest dispatches before the president, said the situation was "encouraging "en-couraging but not finished," and White House officials said the details remaining in dispute did not affect the "heart of the matter," It developed that Huerta's counter proposition for a simultaneous salute was regarded as another play for time, which probably prob-ably would not be countenanced. All the, latest Mispatches - before the cafilne.t. -- Prarf the members of the official Tuniuy were said to be agreed that there should be no further temporizing. When the cabinet meeting adjourned. adjourn-ed. Secretary Bryan still described the negotiations as "encouraging," but not final. "I have received one message from Charge O'Shaughnessy and have sent one in reply," he said. Secretary Bryan left the cabinet while it still was In session to go to the state department and send some dispatches. He was silent as to their nature, but It was tinders tooo. that the word had gone back to Huerta Hu-erta that a simultaneous salute would not be accepted and that Charge O'Shaughnessy was advised that the United States would Insist on Its demand. de-mand. Huerta Listens to Bad Advice. Officials expressed the view that Huerta has been listening to "bad advice" during the last twelve hours, and after he promised Mr. O'Shaughnessy O'Shaugh-nessy yesterday that he would give the apology. Meanwhile it was emphasized that no counter ordc8 had been Issued to the battleships speeding to the Mexican Mexi-can coasts. A blockade of Mexico and other drastic measures were discussed dis-cussed in official circles. Those well Informed declared that if within the next few hours Huerta did not comply entirely, some announcement ot what definite steps would be taken to compel his apology would be made in Washington. Will Publish Mayo's Demand. Secretary Bryan announced that later la-ter today he would make public the text of Rear Admiral Mayo's original demand in which he agreed to return the salute of the Mexican commander at Tampico. With the sending of the message to Huerta, stating emphatically that the United States would not accept his counter proposal for a simultaneous salute, the Mexican discussion at the cabinet meeting ended and attention was given to other affairs. it was apparent that the cabinet officials bo lieved that Huerta would yield on all tho points demanded by the United Uni-ted States, but that they were ready to back up every demand. It was learned thut one of the causes cau-ses of Huerta's latest parley was a fear that should he give the salute demanded, the American 3bipB might not return It and thus leave him in a humiliated position. It was said that he would order the salute If assured that the United States Avould comply with the International amenities ameni-ties and acknowledge It. Word that the United States would acknowledge his saluto according to custom and precedent went forward to Mexico City. Secretary Daniels announced late today that Rear Admiral Mayo had given the Huerta commander at Tampico Tam-pico tho alternative of saluting the American colors on the Dolphin Instead In-stead of tho shore and that Huerta still had hlB choice. Vallojo, Cal., April 17. Orders to provision all available warships and prepare a battalion of marines for service ser-vice on tho Pacific coast of Moxlco were revived todny, a few hours after they had been rescinded by a pr.evlous telegram from Washington. Washington, D. C., April 17. Naval officials today declared that a departmental depart-mental regulation, which forbids a salute "in honor of any nation or of any official of an nation not formally formal-ly recognized by the government ot the United States," would not prevent an acknowledgment of the salute Huerta Hu-erta has promised' to fire to the American Amer-ican flag. Ranking officials point out that when the commandant at Tampico fires the salute, President Wilson has demanded, the roply of the American ships, according to precedont and form, will be directed, not to Huerta nor any other individual, but to the Mexican nation. Officials added that should Huerta himself appear in person per-son he would not be saluted. An official statement of the navy department was pointed out as explaining ex-plaining the situation. It said: "If a national salute is fired as an amende honorable. It is Invariably returned gun for gun by a vessel oT war of the power whose flag has just been saluted. This Is in accordance with international comity and there are many precedents to establish the custom." |