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Show MEXICANS DEBATE FUTURjPOLICY Vera Cruz Citizens More Prosperous, Pros-perous, Under Military Rule, Than in Years. INFLUX OF U. S. MONEY Believe Nothing Short of Complete Com-plete American Occupation Will Bring Lasting Peace. Vera Cruz, Mexico May 1. With the occupation of Vera Cruz yesterday by American soldiers under Brigadier General Funston accomplished and the return to their vessels of the sailors and marines who took the port from the Mexicans, questions of the future! are today beginning to engage the attention of American refugees and Mexican business men The future policy of the Washington Washing-ton administration is being debated with much interest. Americans and i Mexicans alike lack any definite state- J ment on this subject aud they are all trying to Interpret, from the trend of events, since the seizure, whether the American occupation of Vera Cruz is to be permanent or not Mexican Will Support Americans If once convinced that the Ameri can flag is to float over this city un til tranquility Is restored throughout the republic it 16 virtually certain that the Mexicans of Vera Cruz will give their heartiest support to the American civil government. They frankly admit that they are enjoying greater freedom from apprehension, appre-hension, more personal liberty and a larger measure of prosperity, owing to the Influx of American money, than they have known In many years Many even say they would cheerfully subscribe to any policy of the United Slates which would insure them n continuance of the present conditions, and the extension of these conditions to the rest of the republic Many Factions Strive for Power. Some careful observers among th Mexicans, hoveer, do not believe that anything short of complete American occupation of Mexico would bring about the desired results The point out that many factions are striving for power. The entire state of Morelos is absolutely controlled by the followers of Zapata, while the state of Guerrero is under the jurisdiction juris-diction of the Figueroa brothers. Fur thermore, northern Mexico, much ol the western coast and isolated points such as Tampico. are hemmed In by the supporters of Carranza and Villa In the capital. Provisional President Huerta is in the saddle, but strong factions favoring Carranza. Felix Diaz, or some other aspirant to the presidency, are intriguing against Huerta and each other. Zapata and the Figueroa brothers have been running run-ning things in the country they control, con-trol, without regard to any claims of a central power. Such states are virtually vir-tually independent principalities within with-in the borders of the distracted repub lie Complete Occupation Necessary. Such a statement of general conditions condi-tions is made by Mexicans to support the idea that complete American occupation oc-cupation Is the only thing that will bring lasting peace. There is also an element of Mexicans Mexi-cans and American refugees now in Vera Cruz, who express doubt that the mediation undertaken by Argen |