File No. 812.00/12717.
Special Agent Carothers to the Secretary of
State.
[Extract]
Gomez Palacio,
July 9, 1914.
Sir. I have the honor to enclose herewith a
memorandum of the agreement arrived at between Mr. Carranza and General
Villa. This was given me by General Villa, and contains all but two of
the clauses. The two that are not included refer to General Angeles and
to the railroad situation.* * *
I have [etc.]
[Inclosure—Translation.]
Agreement between Generals Carranza and
Villa.
- 1.
- The Division of the North recognizes Senor Venustiano Carranza
as First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army.
- 2.
- General Francisco Villa will remain at the head of the
Division of the North.
- 3.
- Señor Carranza will furnish the Division of the North with all
the implements required for the speedy and proper conduct of
military operations leaving to its Chief freedom of action in
administrative and military affairs when circumstances so
demand, under the obligation to report his acts to Senor
Carranza for rectification or ratification.
- 4.
- The Divisions of the North and of the Northeast submit to
Senor Carranza the following list of persons for him to choose
from among them the members of his cabinet: Fernando Iglesias
Calderón, Luis Cabrera, General Antonio I. Villarreal, Doctor
Miguel Silva, Engineer Manuel Bonilla, Engineer
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Alberto Pani, General Eduardo Hay,
General Ignacio L. Pesqueira, Licentiate Miguel Diaz Loinbardo,
Licentiate José Vasconcelos, Licentiate Miguel Alessio Robles
and Licentiate Feclerico González Garza.
- 5.
- On assuming, in accordance with the Plan of Guadalupe,48 the office of Provisional
President of the Republic, the citizen First Chief of the
Constitutionalist Army will call a convention, whose object will
be to discuss and determine the date on which the elections
shall be held, the plan of government to be put in practice by
the functionaries who shall have been elected, and the other
topics of national interest. The convention shall be made up of
delegates of the Constitutionalist Army named in councils of
military chiefs on the basis of one delegate for every thousand
men in the ranks. Every delegate to the convention will be
accredited as such by credentials visaed by the chief of the
division to which he belongs.
- 6.
- For the good of the triumph of the revolutionist arms and to
allay feeling in the State of Sonora, the suggestion is
respectfully submitted to the citizen First Chief that he take
such action as he may deem best to settle the conflict existing
in that State without violation of its sovereignty or attack on
the person of the constitutionally elected Governor, citizen
Jose Ma. Maytorena. Appeal shall also be made to Señor
Maytorena’s patriotism to induce him to resign the office of
Governor of the State, a person of influence, impartial and
affiliated to the Constitutionalist cause being nominated to
take charge of the Government of Sonora and afford guaranties to
the people whose sacred interests are in danger.
- 7.
- It is the citizen First Chief’s exclusive province to appoint
and remove employees of the Federal Administration in the States
and Territories controlled by the Constitutionalist forces and
to assign to them their jurisdiction, duties, and powers.
- 8.
- The present conflict being a struggle of the impecunious
against the abuses of the powerful and understanding that the
causes of the evils that bear down the country spring from
pretorianism, plutocracy and clericalism, the Divisions of the
North and of the Northeast solemnly pledge themselves to fight
until complete banishment of the ex-federal army, which shall be
superseded by the Constitutionalist Army, to set up democratic
institutions in our country, to bring welfare to labor,
financial emancipation to the peasant by an equitable
apportionment of land, and other means tending to solve the
agrarian question, to correct, chastise, and hold to their
responsibilities such members of the Roman Catholic clergy as
may have lent moral or physical support to the usurper,
Victoriano Huerta.
-
Gen. AntonioI. Villarreal.
-
Dr. Miguel Silva.
-
Ing. Manuel Bonilla.
-
Gen. Cesáreo Castro.
-
Gen. Luis Caballero.
-
Gen. Jose Isabel Robles.
-
Col. Roque González Garza.
-
Ernesto Meade Ferro,
Sec’y.
