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Show CABRERA NAMED AS TREASURER Washington Officials Regard Nieto's Successor Bitterest Enemy of United States. w ashi.mj lUiN, April st&ie oe-Ipartment oe-Ipartment ofticials are much interested , In news from Mexico City today that Luis Cabrera has been appointed by j President Carranza to succeed Rafael NletO as head of the treasury. Nietoi i lias just returned to Mexico City after a fruitless effort to secure a loan for 'his government from New York bank-I bank-I ers. Cabrera I.s regarded in Washington as one oi the bitterest enemies of the; I United Stales in Mexico. During thej j war he toured Latin-America endeavoring endeav-oring to align the Latin republics In a policy of neutrality with Mexico, I where the German minister, von Eck-hardt, Eck-hardt, was operating his anti-American activities unchecked. DurinR the revolution Cabrera was close to Carranza and to him is attributed at-tributed largely tho adoption of a new, constitution which' permitted the "confiscation" "con-fiscation" of properties against which I he 1'nlled Shifes. P,rili.-h and FYeneh Governments have protested and which is now the point of issue between these countries and Mexico. I Cabrera was a member of the Mex-I Mex-I ican commission that came to the lUnltod States at the time of the A. j B. C. conferences. At Atlantic City his conduct there so aroused Judge Gray and Secretary Lane that tho negotiations ne-gotiations w ere for a time suspended. |