Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1914 — MEDIATION PLANS ARE SLOWLY PROGRESSING [ARTICLE]

MEDIATION PLANS ARE SLOWLY PROGRESSING

While South American. Members of Peaee Conference Are Holding Sessions U. S. Halts Soldiers.

Mediation has received a slight setback by a report that Carranza, the constitutionalist chief, will object to all peace proposals, fearing that they will result in some plan for having Mexico controlled by outside countries. The plan that is considered favorable by the representatives of the three countries is said to be to ask all factions in Mexico to lay down arms and it is hinted that this scheme is proposed through Huerta emissaries as an easy means of guaranteeing that Carranza and ViHa are eliminated from the possibility of gaining control of the government. Bad faith on the part of Huerta is considered probable, but the United States is making no aggressive movements at Vera Cruz until the mediation plan is given a trial