Office of the Historian

File No. 812.00/10118.

[Untitled]

American Embassy,
Mexico, December 10, 1913—10 a.m.

675. I transmit the text of yesterday’s congressional sessions:

report of committee.

[Extract.]

We the undersigned members of the Grand Committee of this the Honorable Chamber of Deputies, have the honor. * * * to submit the following bill for consideration:

  • Article 1. The extraordinary elections for President and Vice President of the Republic which took place on October 26, 1913, are declared null since the majority of the electoral precincts did not function legally and since this is a cause for nullity as is provided in article 42, fraction 3, of the law of May 31, 3913.
  • Art. 2. The Mexican people is convoked to new extraordinary elections for President and Vice President of the Republic, which shall be direct and in accord with the provisions of the electoral law of May 31, 1913, and shall take place at the same time as those for Deputies and Senators the first Sunday in July of the coming year of 1914.
  • Art. 3. The mandatories elected shall begin the occupation of their posts as soon as the Chamber of Deputies makes the respective declaration and shall terminate them on November 30, 1916.
  • Art. 4. Citizen General Victoriano Huerta shall continue as Constitutional President ad interim of the United Mexican States until the extraordinary elections for President and Vice President of the Republic have been held and Congress issues the necessary declaration setting the date when he shall turn over the power to the President elect.

Nelson O’Shaughnessy.