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Show l ! CARRANZA TAKES 1 1 OATH OF OFFICE J V I ' Streets Lined With Soldiers as -1 Head of Mexico Leaves the Palace. J MEXICO CITY, May 1. Venustiano Carranza took the oath of office late ' J today as tno first constitutional p'rcsl- l dent of Mexico since the assassination ' of President Francisco Madero on 1 February 23, 1913. Backed by a nia- 1 fority of nearly 800,000 votes, given 1 ijjpj by the Mexican people at the i March elections, President Carranza l drove from the national palace to the it chamber of deputies and swore to up- ."& hold the new constitution. ' president Carranza left the presl- ' dential gate at the palace at 5 o'clock in an open carriage. Seated beside ! jjm -was General Obregon, minister of i -n-ar in the provisional cabinet. The carriage was escorted by the survivors j of the signers of the plan of Guade- - 1 loupe, which formed tho basis of the J revolutionary scheme. The streets were lined by double ranks of soldiers, who presented arms as the cortege passed. As the presi- ' dent emerged from the palace a presi- f i dential salute of twenty-one guns was fired to play the national anthem. I At the chamber of deputies Presi-j Presi-j dent Carranza was received by a com- mittce of congressmen, who led him -f to the rostrum, where tne president of 1 , the chaniber administered the oath. j The ceremony was extremely simple, j consisting of the reading of the oath J and General Carranza's reply, "I swear j u." The president then re-entered his I carriage and returned to the palace. ' The-members of the diplomatic corps ! ittended the ceremony and subsequent- j y returned with the president to tho j palace, where United States Ambassa- ' dor Fletcher, as ranking member, of- ' fered the president the congratulations .. of foreign nations on Mexico's return j 1 to constitutional government. ' 1 Later in the evening a parade of -' more thnn 20,000 persons, composed of I j joldlers, students, government em- h ) ployes, labor unions and commercial , organizations, formed at the Juarez r' monument and marched to the palace, t ' where it was reviewed by the presi- dent As the parade reached the plaza t j in front of the palace all lights were i- extinguished for five minutes while i fireworks and electrical displays i1 l blazed from the cathedral. At the t ; same time 5000 carrier pigeons were v ( released to carry the news of the in- j? , auguration throughout the republic. Lv" i The German minister. Heinrich von h 1 Eckhardt, and other diplomatic repre- C i sentatives, were received in silence. ' President Carranza's first official I ;' act was to pardon E. Velasquez, a la- p bor leader, who has been in jail since , August oncharges in connection with ' the strike at that time. ' ' oo |