Huerta Overcomes Legislative Revolt.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 6, 1913:
Has His Man Made Governor of the State of Vera Cruz.
CRITICISE OUR AMBASSADOR
Mexican Editors Assail Wilson for Avoiding Provisional President — Rebels Besiege Tuxpam.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    VERA CRUZ, July 5.— Despite the preliminary defiance on the part of the State Legislature toward the National Government, when ordered yesterday to choose Gen. Eduardo Gauz as successor to Perez Rivert, the Constitutional Governor of the State of Vera Cruz, who was deposed by Gen. Victoriano Huerta's Administration, the local lawmakers became docile today and duly elected Gen. Gauz to the Governorship. Thus ended the exciting situation that developed when the Legislature at first refused to obey the mandate of the central Government.
    The removal of Gov. Rivert leaves only six civil Governors seated in the entire Republic of Mexico. Military Governors have supplanted the civil rulers in the other States.
    Eight hundred rebels are besieging the Port of Tuxpam, in the State of Vera Cruz. Provisional President Huerta is dispatching Federal troops from Vera Cruz to put down this new revolutionary outbreak. Tuxpam is a rich district, and the national Government is unwilling to let it pass into the possession of the insurgents without a vigorous struggle.
    Henry Lane Wilson, United States Ambassador, started back to the City of Mexico to-night. It was told in these dispatches yesterday that Ambassador Wilson came to this port to celebrate the Fourth of July, instead of remaining in the capital to take part in the patriotic festivities held by Americans living there. The Ambassador took that step because he had learned that Gen. Huerta and members of the Provisional President's Cabinet intended to participate informally in the Mexico City celebration, and he feared that he would be confronted with the alternative of seemingly recognizing Gen. Huerta as President of Mexico or ignoring him pointedly.
    Much criticism of the American Ambassador was expressed in the Mexican newspapers to-day. It was asserted in their columns that the diplomatic representative of the United States in Mexico fled from Mexico City under instructions from the Wilson Administration in Washington, so that he need not take part in the Independence Day celebration to be attended unofficially by Provisional President Huerta and the Cabinet members.

    NOGALES, Ariz., July 5.— Private advices reaching here report that the commander of the two Federal gunboats in Guaymas Harbor espoused the insurgent cause early to-day. The boats were said to have turned their guns on the Federal positions in Guaymas, the commander announcing that all Ojeda's troops were prisoners of the Constitutionalistas. Gen. Ojeda was reported to have been on one of the boats. :

    DOUGLAS, Ariz., July 5.— Insurgent reports from the front to-day told of an artillery duel at Guaymas between the Federal gunboat Tampico and a rebel battery commanded by the American adventurer, Charpentier, formerly leader of the dynamite squad which blew up bridges between Juarez and Chihuahua City. The battery, it was said, was composed of cannon captured from Ojeda, the Federal commander, and was planted in the hills back of Guaymas. The outcome of the duel was not reported.
    Further "dispatches to the Constitutionalist Junta said the Federal garrison of Guaymas had been cut off from water supplies for four days, and that fighting in the streets continued.

    EL PASO, Texas, July 3.— Maximo Castillo, revolting chief of Gen. Inez Salazar's auxiliary Federal command in the Casas Grandes district, who is at Barreal, thirty-five miles southwest of Juarez, at the head of 250 men, sent word by his wife early to-day to Gen. Castro that he wished to offer the services of his group in the defense of the border port against the threatened attack by the Constitutionalistas. Señora Castillo came to Juarez on a handcar propelled by a crew of her husband's troopers.