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Show DICTATOR PRESENTS VIEWS TOGONGRESS DRIVES FROM PALACE TO CHAMBER CHAM-BER THROUGH LINE OF TROOPS TO DELIVER MESSAGE. Huetra Makes Terse Explanation of His Motives for Dissolving Old Congress. United States Only Country Not Represented. Mexico City. President Huerta appeared ap-peared before the new Mexican congress con-gress Thursday evening and read his message. Few Mexican presidents have read at the formal opening sessions of congress shorter messages and few have confined themselves so entirely to one subject. It was nothing more than a terse explanation of his motives mo-tives for dissolving the old congress, most of the members of which are in the penitentiary, accused of sedition. The senate and chamber of deputies depu-ties met in joint session, and congress con-gress was formally declared convened at 5:30 p. m. President Huerta came to the congress through lines of troops, and the small crowds which gathered were not demonstrative. There were no extraneous frills to the session. It was more in the nature of a business meeting between the president and the men converted into lawmakers by the recent so-called elections. The message General Huerta bore to them was in its essence an admonition. The incident he related relat-ed to them -of the dissolution of the previous congress was one by which it was intimated they might be guided in their conduct as congressmen. The reply of the speaker, Eduardo Tamrez, was brief. Not all the congressmen con-gressmen were present. Twenty-seven, Twenty-seven, the majority of whom were of the Catholic party, failed to appear. It has been announced that the Catholic Cath-olic members had held a, meeting and decided not to participate in the ses sion. This gave rise to the baseless rumor that Speaker Tamarez would not preside, as he is a member of that party. The new congress showed many faces familiar during the days of Por-firio Por-firio Diaz. The exiled ruler would have felt entirely at home had he stepped into the chamber. The congress is composed for the most part of quiet men, representative of the older and more conservative element, and General Gen-eral Huerta appeared to realize this, reading them his message in a grim, straigthforward manner, such as had not been witnessed in the chamber in recent years. The only country not represented was the United States. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the charge d'affaires, acting under instructions, was absent from the session. Sir Lionel Carden, the British minister, was a few minutes min-utes late and his delay in arriving gave rise to the rumor that he, too, had been instructed to absent himself. |