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Dictator Thinks Best To Reconsider; Crisis Averted THE WEATHER Generally fair tonig'bt and Tuesday. VOLUME XIX No. 159. HUERTA DECIDES NOT TO FORCE HAND OF U. S. AND PROVOKE THE WAR Order for Blockade of Tampico and Dis ruption of the Mediation Proceedings is Countermanded. Another Crisis Has Ap parently Passed Over. Significant Silence Had Been Preserved at Washington Over Action of Admiral Mayo Should Mexican Gunboats At tempt to Interfere With Ammunition Cargo. American Warships. Were Prepared to Enforce Pres’t Wilson’s Order Washington, D. C. —Huerta has decided, after all not to blockade Tampico and force the hand of United States with the possibility of dis rupting the mediation proceedings at Niagara. Mr. Riano. the Spanish ambassador, notified Secretary Bryan officially to that effect today. OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED . Mexico City. —Official announcement that the Mexican government had decided to suspend the blockade of Tampico, which had been ordered, was made today. Has Passed Over. Washington.—The latest crisis in the Mexican situation, fraught with possibilities of renewed hostilities between Huerta and the United States, has passed over. What actuated Huerta's reversal does not appear in the brief official advices, which reached Washington, but tnere were broad intimations that the influence which had caused the dKtator to rescind his order had &**.e to Mexico City all the way from Niagara Fallss. In Strong Terms. It was said the mediators and the Mexican delegates had been urging Huerta in the strongest possible terms to withdraw from his position and let the mediation proceed. It did not appear here that Huer ta’s change of position had been con tingent uton any change of plans for the cargo of the steamer Antilla, steaming for Tampico with arms for the constitutionalists. It has been suggested that possible pressure upon the owners of the ship might cause them to divert her. Very Plain. One thing, however, was plain. President Wilson was determined that Tampico should be kept open to the commerce of the WQrld and the Tampico ships under Rear Admiral Mayo were in evident readiness to enforce it Whether the Antiila’s war cargo would have been consid ered as commerce had the situation come to the point of a break all of ficials here decline to say. The Reason. Mexico City.—The countermanding of the order to blockade Tampico was taken upon the government learning that the mediators at Niagara Falls -were taking some action in regard to the movements of the steamer An* tilla, reported to have sailed from an American port with arms for the constitutionalists, and also to pre (Continued on market page). Power Over Inter State Commerce Washington.—The supreme court to day upheld the interstate commerce commission's orders in the Shreveport rate case, thus placing Interstate rail roads more fully under control of the commission and less under state com missions. , Justice Hughes, announcing the court's decision, outlined the unre stricted power of the interstate com merce commission over interstate commerce, saying the commission was expressly created to prevent con flicting state legislation. First Ocean Liner Goes Successfully Thro Gatun Locks Panama—The first passage through the Gatun I-ocks by a n ocean liner was successfully carried out today by the Panama Railroad steamship Alliance, a vessel of 4,000 tons. The trip was made to test the work ing of the electric towing locomotives in handling a large vessel. The ape ration passed off without incident, the time required being about an hour and a half each way. APRIL MINE DEATHS. Washington.—Men killed In and about coaT mines In the United States during April, numbered 346, as com pared with 285 In April. 1913. the bu reau of mines announced today. The large Increase was due to an explosion at Eccles, W. Va., which resulted in the death of ISO men. For the four months ending with April, this year's total was 917 men kllltd, compared with 916 men killed In the first four months of last year. Poring 1913, there were 2.785 men killed In and about mines. This was at the rate of 3.82 per 1,000 men employed, and 4.88 per 1,000,000 short tons of coal mined. THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES THE AUGUSTA HERALD PRES’T TO ACCEPT TOLLS Final Vote Expected in Senate Today. If Amendments At tached, However, Executive Does Not Feel That Repeal Assent Given in “Ungrudging Measure.” Washington.—President Wilson is expected to accept the senate amend ments to the Panama tolls exemption repeal, specifying that the United States does not waive its right to dis criminate in favor of its own shipping, but he does not feel that the senate will give its assent to the repeal in “ungrudging measure,” if it attaches the amendments. Mr. Wilson in his talk with the newspaper correspondents today took the position that legislation in no way waives treaty rights and he may accept the measure although he de sired pasage of the repeal without lim itation. The President declined to discuss the amended measure in detail, but he did not hesitate to express his disap proval of the movement to attach qualifying provisions. With a final vote on the repeal bill expected before adjournment, the senate today resumed discussion of the measure. Senator Poindexter, progressive, in opposing the repeal, took the position that the United States secured and held title to the Panama Canal through negotiations in which Great Britain had no part and that Great Britain had no rights in Central America which entitled her to exact any eonditons from the United States In the building or conduct of the canal. Can Find No Trace of Two Americans Washington, D. C.—The Brazilian minister in Mexico City reported to the state department today that he had been unable to obtain any trace of E. D. Doster, employe of an American press association, and Patrick Mc- Kinney, and American citizen, both arrested in the capital several weeks ago, and released an hour later Max Blum and Geo. Duvall were released in Mexico City Saturday afternoon. They were held temporarily as spies, i FRENCH CABINET CRI9IS. Pari*.—No solution has been found for the French ministerial crisis caused by the resignation of Premier Dourmergue's cabinet. Felix Ribot has not given President Poincare his definite promise to form a cabinet, but he wa» very active today in In terviewing leaders of various parlia mentary groups and other politicians who he thought might he Induced to take office with him. OPERATORS MEET MINERS. Charleston, W. Va. —Coal operators and miners of the Pomeroy Band region assembled at Mason City to day in the hope of settling the strike in that part of the Kanawha field Seven hundred would he affected by the settlement. i AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 8, 1914. M(gsai©fy feiffied Fane© Fdftira U. S. Consul Sillimon Photographed on Arrival at Meta Cruz LEFT TO RIGHT: W. W CANADA, JOHN R. SILLIMAN, ARNOLD SHANKLIN, U. S. CONSUL AT VERA CRUZ—FORMER CONSUL AT SALTILLO, FORMER CONSUL-GENERAL AT MEXICO CITY. This photograph was made at Vera Cruz shortly after the arrival there of John R. Hllliman, whose Im prisonment at Saltillo, Mexico, by the Federals greatly worried the United States, as It was feared he had been assassinated. The other United States officials shown here have been very active since the trouble In Mex ico began. SiUiman was released after vigorous protests by the Brazilian ambassador to Mexico. SMILE OF BRYAN IS BROADER Sec’y of State Pleased With Rescinding of Blockade Or der. Mediation Scope Prob ably to be Wider Through Carranza Delegates. Washington, D. C.—ln official cir cles rescinding of the Tampico block ade order was regarded as an indica tion that Carranza would be received into the Niagara conference. There was a well defined feeling that con ferences at Niagara Falls yesterday and negotiations resulting from these conferences with the Washington gov ernment and Huerta hud worked out an understanding by which the scope of mediation was to he broadened. Illumined With Smile. Secretary Bryan's face was Illumin ed with a smile broader than usual when he announced. Huertafis aban donment of the projected blockade. He was asked If the Spanish ambassador had made any protest on behalf of Huerta relating to the landing of the Antilla's cargo or if there had been any negotiations on the part of this gov ernment and the owners of the steam er Antilla with a view to diverting the ship from Tampico. "I cannot discuss anything further than to state that the blockade has been suspended,” was Mr. Bryan’s re ply. “Satisfactorily." “What will be the effect of this latest development upon mediation?'' he was asked. “All I can say about mediation Is that It Is progressing satisfactorily," Mr. Bryan said. "With any further degree of satis faction than heretofore?" “I think I better had stick to plain ‘satlsfa*‘orlly,’” Mr. Bryan answered. KNIGHTS OF MACCABEES. Bay C.ty, Mich.- The national camp review of the Knights of the Modern Maccabees began here today with more than a thousand delegate* in attendance. JUSTICE LAMAR SAYS BLOCKADE INCIDENT IS A PAST ISSUE; HOPES NOW HIGH FOR ULTIMATE SUCCESS Niagara Falls, Ont.—The blockade Incident was only briefly discuss ed at the conference today between the American delegates and the mediators. It was regarded as a past issue. Then the American com missioners presented the peace plan which they had drafted. In many respects it is In the same as was suggested by the Mexican delegates and the mediators. Tile points of difference are in matters of detail. Justice Lamar dictated the following statement after the conference: “The mediators have heretofore submitted to us a complete plan and we have now submitted to them our plan. Our counter proposition con tains a number of points on which we have agreed and also propositions on which there has been neither an agreement or disagreement. The mediators are now taking under consideration the points on which there has been no disagreement” Justice Lamar spoke hopefully of the general situation, saying that the adjustment of the blockade incident gave faith In the ultimate suc cess of the mediation. 1 The best indication of the general prospect was that the mediators were able to resume promptly the discussion of the general peace plan today. No wofd has been received from Carranza, according to Justice Lamar. More Public Anger Over the Outrages London.—Public anger In connec tion with suffragette outrages Is ex pressed with more vehemence dally. Reports from the province show that suffragette meetings organized yes terday were generally broken up and two women threatened with violence At Ilford, east ot Ixmdon, the speakers were pelted with tomatoes and other missiles. The orators es caped into the residence of the local leader of the militant society and the crowd afterward pelted the house with stones and broke every window in that place. For Third Year Russia Wins in Horsemanship London. —Russian cavalry officers today for the third year in succession, won the $2,500 gold vase founded by the late King Edward Vlf, for mdtlury horsemanship. The vase thus becomes the permanent property of Russia. The vent Is regarded as the most Important Item on the program of th* international horse show. ' 1,000 DELEGATES IN PARIB. Pari*. -The International Uongress of Chambers of Commerce and Com mercial and Industrial Associations was opened today in the great amphl theater of the Sorhonne by Raoul Peret, French minister of commerce. About l,ouo delegates were present Rebels Executed 26 at Chihuahua City Juarez, Mex. —Rumors that many federals had been executed recently at Chihuahua City led to the state ment by constitutionalists offlclolns here today that those who faced the firing squad were without exception deserters from the constitutionalist army and “reds," or former Madero Irregular troops who had Joined the Huerta soldiery. Of 26 shot, last Thursday at Santa Rosa, a suburb of the state capital, seven were former members of the constitutionalist army and seven were bandits, according to this expla nation Polo Game Until Next Saturday Hemstead, N. Y.—The first game of the international polo cup series was postponed today until next Saturday at 4 p. rn. The postponement was due to the Injury received yesterday by Captain Leslie Cheape of the Eng lish tea*:. The game was to have been played tomorrow. The postponement was ordered by the polo committee after they had re ceived a report regarding the Injury to Captain Sheape, the mar of the Eng lish challenge four, and without re quest from Lord Wlnborne, who heads the English team. FOR WORLD'S CHAMPIONBHIP Sydney, N. B.—Jimmy dabby, In diana middleweight, was matched to day to meet Eddie Mctjoorty, of Osh kosh, Wls., here July 4th for the world's championship. $6.00 PER YE AR—5 CENTS PER COPY. STORM CLOUDS HANGING OVER MEDIATION MEET HAVE BEEN DISSIPATED THAWASKS SUPREME COURT Application for Release on Bail, Pending Consideration of Extradition Case, Filed With Highest Tribunal. Wahington. —Application was filpd today in the supreme court for Harry K. Thaw’s release on bail pending consideration by the court of the ex tradition case on which the state of New York is seeking to remove him iromb New Hampshire. The petition was filed by Former Governor William A Stone of Pitts purg. it was based on the printed statement that it was necessary for Thaw to go to Pittsburg to attend the hearing in he orphan's court of Allegheney County over the settle ment of the estate of his father, Wil liam Thaw. The attorney contended that Thaw’s presence there as a witness was nec essary and he also was needd to ad vise with counsel In the rase. The court will probably announce Us action on the application next Monday. THE COLONEL IS AT MADRID Arrives on Same Train With Kinff Alfonso. Affectionate Greeting With Hermit. Madrid.—Theodore Roosevelt ar rived at Madrid this afternoon to up tend the wedding of his son, Kermit Koosvelt, and Miss Belle Wyatt Wil lard, daughter of the American am hassadod to Spain. A small crowd had gathered at the station, Including a mini lx r of police in plan clothes who were distributed about the depot as a result of the pub lication of several newspaper articles antagonistic to Coolonel Roosevelt. No unfriendly feeling what ever was shown. There was an affectionate greeting between Colonel Roosevelt, lilh son Kprmit and his daughter, Mrs. Nicho las Longworth. Colonel Joseph Wil lard, the American ambassador and the members of the embassy staff, and Senor Mendez, the Spanish under secretary of state, also were at the Station to meet Colonel Roosevelt. He was driven to the American em bassy. King Alfonso travelled on th e same train for some distance with Colonel Roosevelt, but as each was unaware of the presence of the other there was no meeting. The king had been to Biarritz to see his doctor and it was merely a coincidence that his car was attached to the train In which Colonel Roosevelt was travel Ing. The king will not he present at the wedding ceremony, hut It is said he will probably meet Colonel Roosevelt on Wednesday. Goes on Trial Today for a $3,400,000 Swindle Brussels, Belgium. Nestor Wilmart, formerly a prominent hanker and sportsman, whs placed on trial here today Jointly charged with six asso elates of swindling the public out of about 83,400,000 by the over-Issue of stock tn the Ghent-Terneuzsen rail road. Wilmart was manager of the com pany. He disappeared; In October, 1912 but was arrest-.d In March, 1913 at Rhelms, France, after a world wide search. The operations of the accused men placed twenty-four Belgium hanks In difficulties and ruined hundreds of small Investors. The accused are said to have possessed a private printing press with which they produced bo gus bonds of the railway. HOME EDITION Mexican Delegates toPeace Conference Had Been Most Anxious. Evidence Now That Huerta Has Placed His Fate in Out come at Niagara Falls. Embarassing Feature to U. S. Had Been, Not Recognizing Huerta Gov’t, Couldn’t Con cede Dictator Entitled to En gage in an Act Involving In ternational Law. Washington. Gen. Huerta’s dispatch requested the Spaniels ambassador to inform the Ameri can government that the suspen sion of the blockade had been decreed by General Huerta and that orders had been given to the Mexican gunboats to return to Puerto Mexico. It was added that this action was inspired by a sincere desire not to jeopard ize mediation. In diplomatic circles this was regarded as conclusive evidence that Huerta had placed the fate of his government and the settle merit of t'he Mexican problem fully in the hands of his repre sentatlves at Niagara Falls. Order Rescinded. Niagara Falls, Ont.—Mediation pass ed safely today over the shoals of threatened disruption. Gen. Huerta came to the rescue, rescinding the. or der which he had issued for a block ade at Tampico, a circumstance that had imperiled mediation and produced the gravest apprehension since the conference began. “The blockade incident has been satisfactorily adjusted” was the an-, nouncement of Justice Lamar as the\ American delegates entered their con- ' ference with Ihe mediators. “We have ) received word from Herrtary Bryan j that, the Spanish ambassador had been J advised by Gen. Huerta of the raising# of the blockade.” f Justice Lamar said he was unln4 formed as to the reasons which lia4, actuated Huerta. It was rumored that the Spanish ambassador In Washington, who is caring for Mexico's interests in the United states had been able to make some arrangement whereby the Antilla would withhold her cargo of arms from the constitutionalists. This could not he confirmed. Anxioua Waiting. Niagara Fall*, Ont.—atorm clouds hovered over the mediation proceed ings today. The Mexican delegate* anxiously awaited word through the mediators as to the attitude of fjl& American government toward the proposed blockade by the Huerta gunboats of the i ort of Tampico held by the constitutionalists. The /\mer- Continued on Market Page.) Uphold Georgia Headlights Law Washington.—The Georgia law, re quiring electric headlights on lodo motives, today was uphead as con stitutional by the supreme court, at to Interstate trains as well as sts trains so long as congress does set on the subject. TELEGRAPHERS' ,r UNION MEL. Detroit, Mich.—Delegates / rep senting various sections sos t. United States and Canada assembh here today at the biennial onnvoutlo of the Commercial Telegrapljua' Union of America. jjl "Since the demoralizing 1907 conditions were never than at present Tor a complete organization of the Commercial graphers of the United States,” sH[ H. J. Konenjamp, of Chicago, dent of the union. V DOESN’T VIDICATE WILL. % Washington, D. C.—Bad spelling isW not sufficient to Invalidate a suit at " law, the supreme court held today in deciding that the misspelling of Al- J hert B. Gellfuss' last name In a petl- A tion filed In a Minnesota court did not Invalidate subsequent court action. PHILANTHROPIST DEAD. New York.—Henry Rire, philan thropist, merchant and for 24 years president of the United Hebrew Char ities, Is dead at. hi* summer home at West End, N. J. He was 78 yean old.