The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-31
PEACE RUMOR
 STILL RUMOR
MEXICAN SITUATION HAS COME TO POINT BETWEEN MApERo
 AND DIAz.
All Mexico Hopes the Two May Finu Acceptable Footing For Early Ne gotiatons to End the RevoIu-
 ton.


 Mexico City. March 3O.-Reports emanating from points in the United States that the Mexican government; intends to send peace commission to treat with similar commission representing the rebels have aroused here lively interest and the nope that such is the case, but no govern ment official has been found who would admit the existence of any ar engagement of this character.
 That the cabinet was reconstructed in the hope that the disaffected ele- ments might be placated and that the government is contemplating radical reforms for the same reason is beyond question. The government has gone far in the matter of making conces- sicns, but the belief is growing that President Diaz is not yet willing to recognize Madero and his followers to the extent where he shall discuss with them terms of peace.
 Both foreigners and Mexicans are inclined to believe that the aged exc cutive will be very slow to barley with those who have dared to rise in revolt against his administration. If any peace negotiations are to be con ducted 1t is believed here that the initiative must come from the rebels, and, according to statements made in the United States the opposite is the case.
 In this city there are few who do not hope that the government and the rebels are about to come to terms, but there are many who believe the day of peace Is still far off. It is pointed out that the very fact that the government has shown disposition to concede certain things for which the rebels are fighting, has been an encouragement to them to continue the campaign. The government insists that the change in the cabinet and the reforms contemplated have come not as answers to demands made by arm ed men, but in response to a popular move for altered conditions on the part of the public at large.
 The revolutionists cannot see it in just this light. They feel that it IS because of their work in the field, and appear to think tiilt continued rebel lion will bring them all they are aft CT, chief of which is the resignation of the president and another national election.
 Francisco Madero, Sr., has stated that he hopes to induce his rebelliods son to agree to terms of peace and in this he is seconded by Gustayo Made TO, but reports brought from the seat of war are that Francisco Madero still insists that there can be no peace so long as President Dnz remains al the head of the nation-and 1t IS Francisco I. Madero who is doing the fighting
 Juan Sanchez Azcona, one of the revolutionary advisers, has pointed out that the elder Madero is not ex- actly the one to determine the terms of peace or method of arriving at satisfactory agreement; that he has taken no active part in the revolu' ton. This statement of Sanchez Az coma comedies with one made iasl week by Minister Limantour who stated that the elder Madero had saic that he had little influence over hi' son That the elder Madero would welcome peace is doubtless true ane so would great majority of the resl dents of the capital, but on the othe' hand there is to be considered the ad ministration, determined not to yleid and on the other Francisco ]. Madero lighting either patriotically or Idnatl cally for something the government cannot grant without admitting de feat
 So far as the war itself is concern Cd, there has been little change U the last five days. The rebels arr largely in control of the rural dis trlcts in Chihuahua. Sonora and part of lacatecas, while throughout tn' country attachments of rebels--gen nine bandits in some cases-appea here and there. These smaller bodle ot insurrectos report hut indirecty, they report at all, to Madero, pu