Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.00/9172.

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American Embassy,
Mexico, October 11, 1913—9 p.m.

546. General Huerta’s private secretary informs me that all Deputies will be freed excepting those against whom there is conclusive evidence; violence is to be used against none. I asked him what their plans were with regard to financing the Government as it had now been stripped of all constitutionality. He replied that the Government at the present time had no plans. He said that if the country can not elect a President it can at least elect a new Chamber of Deputies.

Nelson O’Shaughnessy.