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Show CARRRNZA MAKES K11P0SII1 INTENDS TO CRUSH REVOLUTION AND THEN CALL AN ELECTION ELEC-TION FOR PRESIDENT. Issues a Decree in Which He Declares De-clares That He Intends to Continue Con-tinue 3(5 First Chief Until Peace is Restored. New York. General Carranza's decree de-cree issued December 12 at Vera Cruz outlining his platform was given out here Saturday night by the Mexican bureau of information. The decree says that the plan of Guadalupe shall remain in force until un-til the revolution is ended and that Carranza shall continue as first chief "until the enemy is overpowered and peace restored;" it outlines the proposed pro-posed reforms, chiefly those concerning concern-ing the agrarian problems, and states that at the conclusion of the revolution, revolu-tion, an election for president shall be held and that the first chief shall deliver to the president the executive power. "Upon the success of the revolution," revolu-tion," the decree continues, "the reinstatement rein-statement of the supreme chieftainship chieftain-ship in the City of Mexico and after the elections of the municipal council have taken place in the majority of states, the first chief shall call elections elec-tions for members of the national congress. Reforms are proposed in election laws, the judicial procedure, and the "laws relative to the operation of mines, oil fields, water rights, forests, and other natural resources to destroy de-stroy the monopolies created under the past regime and to avoid the creation cre-ation of others in the future." |