The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-09
STlTuTiONALtST WILL NOT ENTER CONFERENCE WITH
 DELEGATES OF HuERTA.
WOULD TAKE MEXICO CITY
Despite Internal Dissenson in Rebel Ranks All Seem to Be Bent on the Complete Conquest of Mexico City and Military Government.

Washington, D. C., July S.-Border dispatches stating that the constitu- tionalists would not enter informal peace conferences with aIuerta repre-. sentatives were partially confirmed heIe tonight. Rafael Zubaran and Luis Cabrera, the two most promi- nent Carranza representatives here. had nothing to say, but word that most of the constitutionalist gen. erals to whom the plan for confer ences had been submitted had disap- proved it came from well informed sources.
 Minister Naon of Argentina, ths only one of the mediators in Wash ington, read the dispatches with evil dent surprise. He indicated that the mediators would take no action until the attitude of the constitutionalists was learned officially. Secretary Bryan said it would be improper for him to discuss the situation in ad- vance of the arrival of Carranza $ formal answer to the pending pro-
 
 constitutionalist leaders strongly op- pose the idea of peace conferences did not surprise officials who main tained 1t would be virtually impos- sible to modify the plan of Guada- lupe. the platform of the constitu- tionalist movement.
 This plan declares a military gov elnment shall be set up after Mexico City is conquered and that no cleo. lions shall be held until the country is pacified by military rule. The present purpose of thet constitutions allsts, it is understood, is to follow that program to the letter.
 Reports from Torreon that differ enees between Carranza and Villa had been composed were verified to- day by agents of both, but there was an undertone of comment indicating mat t was but temporary truce. The break has had a disorganizing effect politically in the constitutions alist ranks and evidences of it are manifest in Mexican circles here. Reports from the border today said one of the conditions of the agree ment between Carranza and Villa was that Rafael Zubaran be retired from his post as head of the consti- tutionalist agency ho""
 MT. Zuharan and MT. Cabrera have worked hard to bring about in formal conferences with the IIuerta delegates, who now are in New York waiting word through this channel ot information. Whether Zubaran and Cabrera will be authorized to speak for the constitutionalist move ment much longer, however is doubted by some Villa agents.
 Despite the Carranza-Villa split it IS evident one common purpose of all the constitutionalist factions seems to be to force the conquest of Mexico City and rule the country by martial law. That neither the United States or Argentina, Brazil or Chile would recognize military government is the opinion of many South American diplomats. Non-recosnitiol means lack of moral and indirectly finan eial support, and the mediators do not believe the constitutionalists could maintain a government under such handicaps.
 III view of the lack of definite in- formation, not only on the Carranza' Villa agreement but the purposes of the constitutfonalist general as to peace conferences, definite eXpres- sion by the Washington government IS not likely for few days. At the end of the present week, however, 1t IS believed there will be some con crete manifestation of the policy the United States intends now to pursue.
 Should the constitutionalists defl.. hitely reject parleys on the internal question, the Niagara protocols be- come nullified. Everything agreed to there was conditioned on the es- tablishment of provisional govern ment set up by the two Mexican fac sions. It is believed the Huerta delegates in few days will an hounce the position of the Huerta government and leave New York for Mexico.
 Whether mediation would termi- nate then, ending the armistire be-