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Show HUERTA DENIES KILLING MADERO New York. April 15. Yictoriano Huerta. former dictator of Mexico, who Is now staying at the Hotel An aonia in this city and who has been accused by Villa of having come here to organize a new revolution In Mex ICO. ave out a long signed statement tonight, setting forth his iew of the Mexican situation After reviewing the Madero regime and the subsequent revolution, when, as Huerta says, "For ten days the streets of the City of Mexico ran with blood." the statement continues "Our congress, our senate and our supreme court of justice, complying with all the requisites of the constitution consti-tution of our country named me as the constitutional president of the United States of Mexico, considering I me as the man for the job. Mr Ma-j Ma-j dero. while being conducted to the penitentiary, died an unnatural death j In the opinion of some of the people of this country I am blamed as having taken part in executing him ' I never have tried to shirk any responsibilities and anything I ever did was done openly. I am mm enough to stand by what I do. I know I am not to blame for the death of Mr Madero Time and history will do me justice." General Huerta then pictures his own reign in Mexico City as one in Nhich both foreigners and law-abiding citizens of the republic were fully protected. As proof of this he refers to the former United States ambassador, ambas-sador, Henry Lane Wilson, to Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the former charge d'affaires, and to all the members of the American colony in Mexico City. Refers to His Reign. ' When I took charge of the ministration." min-istration." he says, "our treasury' was empty. In order not to ruin the coun try I struggled along as best I could, but I did not adopt any drastic meas- lfrM 1 did not print any bogus nionej i never called on anybodj for forcible loans. Not a sincle banking bank-ing Institution went to the wall during dur-ing mj administration; They all p.iiu dividends. Nut a single business house shut its doors. You see. I wanted to bUitd up; I did not want to dest roy." "The heads ol your administration," I)'' continues, "have not been fair to Mexico but l believe they were misled mis-led by false statements. If your ad ministration had only oecn In Mexico for thirty days they would hav changed their theoretical, erroneous Ideas "But I would rather not discu vC this subject too deeply it is a discourtesy, dis-courtesy, ou know, for a foreigner to criticise the heads of a nation lioi-r- hospitality he enjoys ' |