Mexican Embassy seek to appeal

N° 78

AHSRE L-E-921 F. 171

St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Missouri

2 de diciembre de 1906.

Mexican Embassy seek to appeal

The Republic Bureau Wyatt Building, 14th and F. Streets Washington, Dec. 1. - Mr. Devalos, Mexican Charge d´affaires, is seeking to find some way in which appeal can be taken from the action of the United States Commission at St. Louis in discharging Librado Rivera, the Mexican revolutionary. But it is said at the departments of Justice and State that there is no appeal. Rivera is said to have been released on the ground that his was a political offense, and hence not extraditable under the treaty with Mexico.

It is believed here that the action in the Rivera case indicates more strongly that at the extradition requests made by Mexico, numbering nearly seventy will be denied on the same ground. Antonio Villarreal, whose case comes under the immigration laws, and who is now held at El Paso, Tex., is in the most dangerous plight of any of the Mexicans at this time. His case is still pending in the Department of Commerce and Labor here.

Secretary Metcalf will act upon it early next week.