Huerta Bars Peace Plan.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 5, 1913:
Tells Deputies He Will Not Treat with Rebels.
    MEXICO CITY. Aug. 4.— President Huerta to-day told the members of the Chamber of Deputies, who initiated the plan for treating with the rebels in an endeavor to bring about peace, that he would not sanction the proposed plan, and that if the Deputies desired to intervene with the rebels they must do so in their private capacity.
    The extradition papers in connection with, the arrest of ex-Gov. Brito of Campeche are being prepared by the Mexican Government for immediate dispatch to the United States. The documents will deal with the charges against Brito of robbing the State Treasury and the local banks before taking to the hills in the rebellion.
    Documents bearing on the murder charge against the ex-Governor are on the way here from Campeche.
    The convention of the Catholic Party for the nomination of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency at the elections called for October next opened its sessions to-day, the delegates representing nearly every State in the republic. Pedro Lascurain, who was Minister for Foreign Affairs in Madero's Cabinet, is the most prominent candidate for the Presidency. The other candidates are Gen. Felix Diaz and Dr. Francisco Vasquez Gomez.