File No. 812.00/6722.
The Mexican Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.
Washington, March 15, 1913.
Excellency: In compliance with express instructions received from my Government, I have the honor to bring the following to your excellency’s knowledge:
By reason of the resignation of their respective offices tendered to the Chamber of Deputies, of the Congress of the United Mexican [Page 779] States on the 18th of February last by Don Francisco I. Madero and Don José Maria Pino Suárez, President and Vice President of the Republic, respectively, the said Chamber, by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by Article 72, Section A, Paragraph 2, and Articles 81 and 82 of the Federal Constitution of the Republic, decreed that it was proper to accept the resignations above referred to and to call the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Foreign Relations to the service of the Chief Magistracy, as required by our Fundamental Charter. But the last-named official, Don Pedro Lascurain, having in turn resigned that high office, and his resignation having been accepted, the Federal Executive Power devolved upon the Secretary of State next in the Constitutional order to that for Foreign Relations, that is to say, the Secretary of Gobernación, General of Division Don Victoriano Huerta, who was called upon by the Chamber of Deputies to take the oath of office as President ad interim of the Republic on the nineteenth day of the same month. As soon as normal conditions are reestablished in the Republic by virtue of the full restoration of peace, the Nation will be called to hold extraordinary elections for a President and Vice President of the Republic.
Informing your excellency that you will shortly receive the autograph letter of the President ad interim announcing his assumption of the office, it affords [etc.]