Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1914 — MEDIATORS SPURN CARRANZA ENVOY TO PEACE PARLEY [ARTICLE]

MEDIATORS SPURN CARRANZA ENVOY TO PEACE PARLEY

Unofficial Delegate Will Not Be Given Hearing at Niagara. LETTERS ARE REQUIRED Full Authority to Participate in Proceedings Is Demanded—Envoys Hold Conference That Lasts Until Early Morning. Niagara Falls., Ont., May 22. —At a conference of the mediators lasting from midnight until after one o’clock this morning the matter of the procedure In the event that a constitutionalist envoy asked to become a party unofficially to the mediation proceedings was discussed. The mediators decided that they could not admit such a representative. Their position is that any constitutionalist delegate must come as the other parties to the conference have come, with proper letters of credence, empowering him to participate fully in the negotiations. Rebels Ready to Send Delegate. Washington, May 22. —The constitutionalists are preparing to send a representative to Niagara Falls to confer with the South American mediators who are endeavoring to settle the Mexican problem. This will be done with the distinct understanding that the representative is to give information as to General Carranza’s purposes without committing thg constitutionalists to any plan for the pacification of Mexico that the mediators may determine upon. Jose Vasconcelos, now at Montreal on a financial mission for General Car ranza, is understood to be the man chosen to go to Niagara Falls. It was said by men in close touch with, the constitutionalists that he would arrive there within the next few days. The question of taking this step has been the subject of several informal conferences between representatives of the constitutionalists and of the Washington administration recently, and it is understood that General Carfanza has given his consent. Government officials here have urged that the presence; of a representative of the constitutionalists would greatly assist in bringing about a solution of the Mexican question. Secretary Bryan, John Lind and Charles A. Douglas, an attorney for the constitutionalists, held a conference and Governor Lind met Senor Urquidi, the constitutionalist confidential agent?* here. Later Senor Zuburan, a member of the Carranza cabinet, now in Washington, Senor Urquidi and Mr. Douglas had a long conference,

Mediators Meet Mexicans. Niagara Falls, Ont., May 22. — Immediately after the receipt of press dispatches from Washington telling of the intention of the constitutionalists to send a representative here the three mediators went into informal conference shortly before midnight to discuss the new developments. The Huerta delegates who also had been unofficially informed of the constitutionalists’ intention to send a representative here later joined the mediators in conference. They were in session long after midnight. A feeling of optimism was observed on all sides. The mediators held what they preferred to call a “conversation” between themselves and the Mexican delegates during the afternoon. “The is hopeful,” was the statement made by one of those participating in the mediation conferences. The tentative purpose of the mediators to establish a provisional government in Mexico seems to have found no opposition from the Mexican representatives. Problem Grows Larger. The events of the past two days, in spite of the restrictions that have surrounded disclosures concerning them, have served to Indicate that the mediators are proceeding in the hope that they will be able to adjust Mexico’s internal problems and not merely regard their mission as ended if they furnish a satisfactory solution for the differences between the Huerta government and the United States growing out of the arrest of an American naval officer and a boat’s crew of American bluejackets at Tampico. The Washington government nas made it sufficiently clear that the quarrel between the Wilson administration and that of President Huerta has passed beyond the state where the object of the landing of the United States forces at Vera Cruz will have bpen accomplished if General Huerta agrees to order a salute fired to the Stars and Stripes in reparation for the Tampico incident. > The mediators and the American and Mexican delegates were the guests of Martin Burrell, Canadian minister of agriculture, at an official dinner to the distinguished visitors on behalf of the Canadian government.