APPENDIX A
Bills presented to the Chamber of Deputies to relieve the financial crisis
I
Translation—Bill presented to Congress of Mexico providing for an interior or foreign loan to cover the current deficit of the Government. From El Democrata, Mexico City, July 8, 1917.
Mexico Needs to Obtain a Loan of 150,000,000
Pesos to Cover the Deficits in the
National Budgets.
THE EXECUTIVE, WITH THE SAME TENDENCIES WHICH
ACTUATED THE REVOLUTION, WILL AVOID ANY
FOREIGN LOAN AND ATTEMPT TO MAKE
THE FINANCIAL DEAL IN THE
COUNTRY.
IF IMPOSSIBLE HE BELIEVES IN ADVANCE THAT HIS
CONDUCT WILL BE JUSTIFIED SINCE HE IS
TRYING TO DEFINITELY REORGANISE
FINANCES.
In the Department of Finance and Public Credit we were given yesterday by the Sub-Secretary in
143
