Huerta Restores Quiet but Foreigners May Send Families Away.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 25, 1913:
REBELS NOT SATISFIED
Impose Hard Terms as a Condition of Peace and Government Cannot Grant Them.
UPRISINGS IN MANY STATES
Trouble in Puebla Threatens to be Serious — An American Killed in Tepic Fight.
WILSON STANDS BY HUERTA
Ambassador Says Government Did Not Order Murder of Madero and Suarez.
MADEROS UNDER CUBAN FLAG
Father, Uncle, and Cousins Aboard a Gunboat — Bodies of Slain Men Held by Government.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24.— On the surface all is calm in Mexico City to-day. If appearances are to be taken as an index the capital has accepted the assassinations of Francesco I. Madero and José Pino Suarez as removing the chief factors of disturbance. Gen. Victoriano Huerta and his associates issue reassuring reports telling of the submission of various leaders of rebellions, and promising fair elections in the near future, in which the people can express their will.
    But in the face of the heavy patrols of troops and the secret emissaries of the Government who are all about the city little of the true apprehension that exists finds expression. It can be said, however, that the tension in the capital is increasing. There are renewed reports of disaffection in the garrison itself. Zapata and other rebel loaders who have professed willingness to unite with Huerta in bringing about order are demanding such concessions that the Government finds itself unable to reconcile the conflicting claims. Foreigners who kept their families here even when the bombardment was on are so apprehensive that they are debating whether it would be best to send the women and children to Vera
    Cruz, where they can be protected by the American battleships or leave the country.
    Serious trouble is brewing in the State of Puebla. It is due to the political troubles attending the recent change in the Governorship. The defeated candidate, Augustin del Pozo, is leading a  revolt that is likely to spread.
    Disorders are reported in many other places. Accurate accounts come of uprisings in the States of Campeche, Tabasco, and Yucatan, where Suarez was looked upon as a liberator.
    In the territory of Tepic an American, Boris Garow, a consulting engineer of a mine, was killed in an attack by rebels on the Town of Neuva Buena Visita on Saturday. Ramon Garzueta, a Mexican, was also killed. Some British, American, and German employes are missing, and members of the Diplomatic Corps have asked the Government for information as to their fate.
    One hopeful sign is the adhesion to Huerta of Gen. Geronimo Trevino in Nuevo Leon. He has taken the Governorship with a pledge of loyalty, although he supported Madero strongly in the recent crisis.
    The bodies of Madero and Suarez are still held by the Government. Gen. Huerta offered a military funeral with full honors for both, but this was declined by the families. Señora Madero is bearing up well. She has been at the home of a friend since Sunday night.

Open Charge of a Plot.
    One afternoon paper in Mexico City denies the stories of the attack on the Madero guard, alleging that the affair was carried out in accordance with prearranged plans. But the Mexican Government appears honest in its endeavor to place the facts before the world by means of a judicial investigation. This inquiry will probably not be concluded for some days.
    The fact that the bodies of the two slain men were recovered in the rear of the penitentiary is explained by the statement that a second encounter occurred close to the building. It is said the automobiles ran along a side road, and that Madero and Suarez jumped out and were running when they were caught between the fire of the rural guards escorting the prisoners and that of their assailants, thus accounting for wounds being inflicted on them from different directions.
    The body of Francisco I. Madero, the dead ex-President of Mexico, was deposited in the mausoleum of the French cemetery here shortly before noon to-day. A small crowd gathered outside the penitentiary when the body was removed and shouted "Viva Madero!" It was dispersed  by Federal soldiers. The body of Suarez was taken to the Spanish cemetery.
    It was learned late to-night that the Government had refused permission for the transfer of the bodies of Madero and Suarez, respectively, to Coahuila and Yucatan, giving as a reason that it does not desire to afford the people of those States an excuse for demonstrations.
    The family of the dead President will ask the right to name an attorney to represent them at the official investigation into his death which has been ordered.

Conditions Seem Better.
    With the passing of Madero the general opinion prevails that the tenseness of the situation has been relieved. There is a marked tendency on the part of all classes of society to accept the new order of things as the best, and from various parts of the country reports have been received telling of further adhesions to the new administration.
    Answering the offer made by Gen. Emiliano Zapata, the southern rebel leader, that he would recognize the new Government if its programme was along promised progressive lines, Gen. Huerta to-day sent envoys with assurances to that effect to the insurgent chiefs in the States of Mexico, Guerrero, and Morelos. Through his secretary, Gen. Huerta said the Government would adopt such principles of the San Luis Potosi plan, as revised in Tacubaya, as were compatible.
    Some Zapatistas in the south are giving trouble, and it is reported that one town in the State of Puebla has been sacked. This, however, is characterized by the Government as the work of a small and insignificant portion of the rebel army in the south, and is due perhaps to ignorance of the developments in the capital.
    Gen. Cheche Campos, one of the most prominent followers of Pasqual Orozco, Jr., has sent word to Gen. Trucy Aubert in Torreon that he desires peace.
    Reports from the State of Oaxaca indicate that the disaffected Indians there have been placated.
    It is said that the new revolution attempted by Emilio and Raoul Madero, brothers of the late President, is making little headway.
    Reports are not altogether reassuring, however, from the States of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and San Lius Potosi, where rebels are committing depredations.
    Gen. Aurelio Blanquet, the Military Commander of the Federal District, probably will be appointed Governor of the State of Mexico. Gen. Joaquin Maas, it is understood, is slated for the Governorship of the State of Vera Cruz.
    Juan Sanchez Azoona, the private secretary of Francisco Madero, who had been under arrest since the upheaval in the capital, has been released, and it is probable that a number of others connected with the late Government also will be soon set at liberty.

Four Candidates for Presidency.
    The political world is turning to the elections. It is said that Gen. Felix Diaz will have as his opponents in his candidacy for the Presidency Francisco Leon de la Barra, the present Minister of Foreign Relations; Rodolfo Reyes, son of Gen. Bernardo Reyes, who was killed in the first attack on the palace, and Dr. Francisco Vasquez Gomez. Friends have begun a campaign in behalf of these various candidates.
    The holding of the elections will depend upon the state of the country, but President Huerta insists upon a free choice of the people when peace is restored.
    United States Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson has become one of the most  popular members of the Diplomatic Corps in Mexico City since he took such a prominent part in bringing about the termination of hostilities after the recent ten days' battle in the streets between the Federals and the rebel troops. Even those persons who were before inclined to be antagonistic to him now express the greatest admiration for the promptness and efficacy of his action during the crisis.
    The new Mexican administration continues also to give to the American Ambassador the highest proofs of its confidence and esteem.

Pledge to American Ambassador.
    Mexico will reply to the note sent by the State Department at Washington Sept. 15 last without delay, and American claims for damages growing out of the revolution will receive prompt attention. Incidentally several other matters pending between the two Governments will not be permitted to drag as in the past, according to assurances given verbally to Ambassador Wilson to-day by President Huerta. Unofficially Mr. Wilson called the  attention of the new President to various matters remaining unsettled between the two Governments, and urged that attention be given them, not necessarily in accordance with international law but on the basis of the friendship existing* between the two nations.
    It will be remembered that last September the State Department at Washington forwarded a note to the Madero administration, the contents of which, while never made public, were generally understood, to contain a sharp admonition to Mexico to give immediate attention to the demands of Americans for indemnity by reason of loss of life and property during the period of the revolution. It also was alleged to contain a demand for adequate protection of American interests.
    To this note no adequate reply was ever made, Mexico attempting to deny the truth of some of the allegations contained in it, and to justify her past actions regarding others. This was followed by further representations from Washington, of which it was said that they "did not require an answer."
    The matters which Mr. Wilson cited to-day and was assured would get prompt attention were the Colorado River controversy and the dispute over the Chamizal boundary tract at El Paso.
    "For all the victims," are the words which on a field of black will hang for three days across the Chamber of Deputies building in memory of all those who lost their lives in the revolutionary outbreak which began in 1910. The memorial streamer is a compromise growing out of a resolution to have the sessions of the Chamber  suspended for nine days out of respect to Madero and Suarez. It provoked a spirited discussion, but failed  of adoption, and a substitute measure providing for a memorial to all the victims was then passed, with the understanding that it include a tribute of respect to the dead ex-President and ex-Vice President.
    The opposition in the Chamber of Deputies to a resolution calling for an immediate holding of general elections resulted in an interpellation of the Minister of the interior to confirm or refute the statement that the country was yet in a state of revolution.