Huerta Prepares Army For Rebels.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 27, 1913:
New Mexican Administration Makes Plans to Organize a Huge Military Force.
OROZCO GIVES ALLEGIANCE
Former Rebel Chieftain Promises Support to the Successors of Madero.
HANDS OFF, IS WILSON'S IDEA
Washington Hears the President Elect Said Intervention Was Inconceivable — Carranza's Forces Grow.
WILL FIX GUILT, SAYS DIAZ.
By Cable to the Editor of The New York Times.
    MEXICO CITY, Feb. 25.— The matter to which you refer (the killing of Francisco Madero and Pino Suarez) is being thoroughly investigated by competent authorities, who will fix the guilt where it belongs.
    FELIX DIAZ.

Special Cable to The New York Times.
    MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26.— Napoleonic methods are to he followed by Gen. Victoriano Huerta, Provisional President, and his associate, Gen. Felix Diaz, in pacifying Mexico. Despite attempts at secrecy in regard to its military policy it became known to-night that President Huerta would strengthen himself by building up an army able to cope with every insurrection in the republic. Martial methods akin to those pursued by Porfirio Diaz, uncle of the General, who is aiding Huerta, are to be adopted.
    When President Huerta and Felix Diaz set out to crush the various rebellions it will be with an army powerful enough to force the insurgents to submit.
    Huerta and Diaz at first, it is understood, hoped to pick the rebel armies off one by one. It was their plan to concentrate the forces of the Provisional Government against insurgents in first one State, then another, trusting that each success would make the next task easier.
    Reports of conditions in the disaffected States, however, sent secretly through insurgent territory are said to have convinced them that the project was not practicable. They concluded there would be too much danger that, while most of the Government forces were engaged against bands in one part of the republic, rebels in other regions would make dangerous headway against the Administration.
    The new policy of the administration was encouraged this evening by the submission of Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., whose enmity had been feared more than the provisional Government was willing to admit. Dispatches from Orozco to Diaz stated that the revolutionists under his command placed themselves unreservedly under the orders of the Huerta Government. Orozco said it remained for Diaz to say whether his forces should be enlisted in the Government army or mustered out of service.
    There is little doubt that Diaz will decide to avail himself of the soldierly qualities of Orozco's troops. Those revolutionists have been so active in the north that their military value has long been apparent. Many were formerly in the regular army, and even those lacking that experience have been well drilled in battles and forced marches.

Will Prepare Army First.
    No organized attempt, therefore, will be made to quell the rebellions until the Government's army is reorganized thoroughly. Under the direction of the ablest authorities, the forces of the republic are being raised to their full strength as rapidly as possible.
    Gen. Huerta is a stern commander, and Diaz is equally insistent in getting the utmost out of his officers and men.
    The surrendering revolutionists, as fast as they come in, are used to swell the ranks of Huerta's forces. At the end of the recent fighting the army was completely demoralized. Many regiments were broken up, and their battalions in many instances were scattered widely. Whole companies of infantry had disappeared.
    The keynote of the Huerta-Diaz military policy is concentration in the capital. By assembling their forces here it is believed they can reorganize the army more quickly than if they attempted to operate through several rallying points. The Federal District, therefore, is rapidly becoming the camp of an army that promises to be more formidable than any that has been constructed in Mexico in years.
    A load has been taken off the War Department by the return of the Rurales to the authority of the Department of the Interior. Gen. Caos, who has been appointed Commander in Chief of the Rurales, is a competent officer and is recruiting his force to its full strength. At present this arm of the Government service is being used chiefly in general utility duties. It is said the Government may be unable to carry out completely its intention to wait until the army has attained its full strength before operating against the revolutionists. The belief of military men is that as soon as a good part of the forces shall have been reorganized the Administration will find it necessary to send detachments to several places, where action is likely to be imperative.
    Senator Emilio Rabasa of Chiapas has been named as Ambassador to Washington. He is a prominent student of international law and has a wide reputation as a student of the Constitution. An effort is being made to turn the Mexican loan to the United States, according to a report current here.
    Summarizing the situation after a Cabinet meeting to-night, Señor de la Barra said he did not desire to appear overoptimistic, but he felt the situation was much improved, and that there promised to be no organized rebellion in a short time. He explained it was necessary that some of the bandits be suppressed with an iron hand. He was reluctant to talk of the international situation, but he said it was satisfactory owing to the disappearance of trouble in Nuevo Laredo and Matamoras. Many army leaders, eager to be permitted to bring to terms those standing out for conditions, he added, were held in check to give the insurgent chiefs full opportunity to surrender.
    Benjamin Argumendo, leader of the rebels south of Torreon, communicated a desire to assist the administration today. He was permitted to camp in Soledad, San Luis Potosi.
    The railway situation is much improved. Trains got through to Juarez to-day, and will get to Nueva Laredo and Eagle Pass probably to-morrow.
    The political tangles in Puebla, Tlaxcale, and Hidalgo are being handled tactfully yet quickly. The situation in Aguascalientes has been improved, as the Governor found himself playing a solitary rôle as an insurgent. An army officer was sent to Aguascalientes to-day to take the situation in hand and assume the Military Governorship.