Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1920-05-28 | Page 4 | Huerta Succeeds Carranza

HUERTA SUCCEEDS CARRANZA Chosen Provisional President of Mexico Mex-ico By Congress. Mexico City. Adolfo de la Huerta of Sonora was named president ad interim of .Mexico by the extraordinary extraordin-ary session of congress on May 24. He received 224 votes against 2S for Pablo (ion.ales. (.Jen. Antonio Villareal -was the only other candidate. The new incumbent holds office under un-der the "Agua I'rieta plan," and has already postponed the presidential elections from July 4 to September 5, under authority of the "Agua Trieta plan," which makes him supreme chief of the liberal constitutional army. Ha exercised the same authority in calling call-ing the extraordinary session of confess.