Monday, February 25, 2013

Sonora's Congress Discusses Revolt.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 25, 1913:
Deputies from the Cities Are Against Huerta, but No Formal Action Is Taken.
VASQUEZ GOMEZ INDIGNANT
Rebel Reported to Have Accepted Huerta Condemns Murders and Dictation by the Army.
    HERMOSILLO, Sonora, Mex., Feb. 24.— The opening session of the special meeting of the Sonora State Congress to-day was uproarious. Epithets and charges were shouted across the chamber. Deputies almost came to blows, but no definite commitment was made either way on the question of whether Sonora should declare loyalty to or open rebellion against the provision Government of Gen. Huerta.
    Diaz adherents charged that Governor Maytorena's loyalty to Madero was the result of a payment by Madero to him of 118,000 pesos as "damages to buildings and crops of the Maytorena hacienda." Appearing in greater number than expected they demanded that Congress declare Sonora loyal to Huerta.
    The Maderistas asserted the Diaz charges were due to the influence of Col. Emilio Kosterlitzky, former Chief of Rurales. Deputies from all the larger centres of population — Cananea, Agua Prieta, Nacozari, Magdalena, Kosterlitzky's home city, and Guayanas — were reported to be supporting Gov. Maytorena.

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