The Cairo bulletin., 1911-03-17
NEGOTIATIONS WITH FATHER or
REBEL LEADER MAY
BRING RESULTS.
INSURRECT0S CAUTIOUS
Fave Little Confidence in Promises
by Diaz--Limantour Not on
Special Car When It
Reached st. Louis.

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New York, March lG.--The sudden
departure from New YORK of Senior
Limantour, Mexican minister oi
finance, after "a week of conferences
antl negotiations the precise nature
OF which has not hitherto been clear
Is now explained by the understand
ing that. he has succeeded in effectirg
q tentative plan by which substant.a
reforms are expected to be imme.li
ately put in force by the Mexica1
government and the leading insar
.reetionists being satisfied are to ai,i
in restoring peace
The presence here at the Hotel AS
tor "a Senor MaGero, the father of
The provisional president, together
with his three sons Chrothers OF tire
provisional PRESIDENT. tae TACT that
I-imantorr has been, through three
generations, the confidential advisor
ef tie Madero family, and the facl
tnat Limantonr and the senior Ma
dero have teen in conference, while
important messages have been COINS
hack and forth from the finance min
is.er to Mexico City. clearly indicate
negotiations Of importance.
While In Paris. which he left FOR
New Yosk, Limartour declared
through an Associated Press interview
bfa kxsfsae ~, i ,S,r,dvo, - raFa~,,,a ifs
meet the Just wishes OF the insur
reietos. retore leayinv yesterday he
said
M.sts6es lave been made. aer
aapE seeas Of them SERIOUS. but Isl
TACT is not peculiar to Mexico Nafy
reforms have been brought about u
recent years. Others Of even grea.e1
Importance are under waf and ray
be made puhAe In The near futrE4
Simultaneously dispatch from
Mexico announces that Pres!doat
D.az In conference win nunfs. b
citizens assured them that he was
adopting certain Of Limnntour's s
gesticns CT ro9oam. Senior Lina1
tour bears with him full expos.t n
of the demands CT tne insurreet.ol
lists, which 1t is hoped win be accept
able 10 the Mexican government anl
made the basis of peace.
This hope Is not without a reason
able degree of foundation. After his
conferences with Francisco Madero
sr., Mr.. Limantour communicated
rely with the authorities at Mexico
City, and on Tuesday evening re-
ceived long telegram which he 70
garded as sufficient 10 warrant him
IN Immediately setting ont for the
capital OF his country.
The Madercs were asked a number
of pointed question this afternoon.
"You must realize" they SAID
that we are in a most delicate posi-
ton. We cannot talk freely now
tut hcre seen to make an explicit
statement. Why do you not ask
Senior Limantour for your answer
His return Is waited In Mexico WITH
he keenest interest They want him
there to straighten things out"
Telms could not be perfected, they
said, without tire cooperation OF the'i
conferees in the field They ex
pressed their distrust OF any prom
ises that the Mexican goverf-sient
nigh; make and said II would be i'm
possible to perfect negotiations if n
were made a condition precedent
that they should first layldcwn thesi
arms, since that would mean that the
leaders would be hanged as pre-
lim.nary measure, and the reforms
never carried out,
'"The insurrectos,' said they, de
mand radical reforms and a thorough
change In the personal OF the admin
istration, by having fair elections"
No settlement could te completei
until there was an opportunity te
confer with the insumec;o leaders at
the front, and there has been no
time as yet to consult them. Neither
had they any mind to accept over
lures with such confidence as would
be miscoustrued by the government
into an evidence Of weakness.