Evening star., 1914-04-26

Those at Conference.
The Costa Rican envoy, Joaquin oao'
ranking minister of the diplomatic eoips
and DR., Alberto Membrane. minister ir'in
Honduras, Joined the three Sonth Amer
ican plenipotentiaries while they were
comforting on their plans for meoiauoh-
Ignacio Calderon, minister of BOLIVIA; |;
FREDERICK Alfonso Pezet. minister OF
Peru: Eusebio Morales. minister from
Panama. and Manuel de Ia Nesa-.Sa
deron, charge d'affaires OF CUBA, 1oinea
the conferees later. The Latin American
din,onnats snent an hour and half In
discussing the move for mediation
NO plans for the future were consioer-
ed >, declared Peruvian Minister PeIel,
after the conference, but We nave tne
best hope. x,ho
,ronosed the intermediation to the United
States laid before their con1erees .hs
notes that had passed between them anu
the American government lheS hasn
ed their plans as far as they mad oeeH
saua,nnad and a general discussion OF
the matter was had. ,,,a
II was decided nothing. furener cuu,u N
be done here until some reply nao Deeh
received by the Spanish ambassador from
,se~;co CITY as to the attitude OF Zen.
HuertaL toward their proposals. men ,ie
this Ia received the Latin American uIp
,nmatic corps probably will be cohsui.eu
as to further steps,
War Plans Go On.
co,,o,asntal,v with the acceptance OF
the offer of mediation, ADMINISTRATOR VI
ficials announced there wouio De ho ee'
sation of preparations by the army anu
navy for future emergencies AM no or
ders would be issued to the naval iorces
now at Vera Cruz or the ships II sea
changing original plans NO fur.her stels'
d;vn,t,es which gave rise to the present
s;tmation will be attempted while the ei-
fort is being made to bring ABOUT Sell
Element through diplomacy.
Although the offer made ~ the three
South American countries did not feNeai
tha;r nlans. it was learned tt.at they con-
tan,n,ated a broad settlement oe the Mex
80, ,rohlem through the elimination OF
IImerta upon which the United States has
insisted from the beginning. Notihcation
of the offer of intermediation was sent
.o+ on,v to the diplomatic representatives
~ Arpentine. Brazil and Chile in Mexico
CITY hut to Gen. Carranza and the con-
stitutionalists in northern Mexico.
Summons Lawmakers.
President Wilson summoned Chairman
S,one and Senators Shively and Lodge
of the Senate foreign relations commit
tee and Chairman Flood and Represen-
tative Cooper of the House committee OH
foreign affairs to discuss the new turn IN
events as the first ray of hope after a
dav of worry and anxiety over the scores
Of Americans held up in their flight from
the Mexican capital
The text Of the offer made by the Bra
lillian ambassador and the ministers from
Argentine and Chile and the reply of
the American government transmitted by
Secretary Bryan in person to the three
1inlomats last night follow:
with the purpose Of subscribing the
interests of peace and civilization in our
Continent and with the earnest desire to
nreyent any further bloodshed to the
pretudice of the cordiality and union
WHhich have always surrounded the rela-
tons of the governments and peoples of
Brazil, Argentine and Chile. duly au-
thorized thereto. have the honor to tender
to your excellencys government our good
offices for the peaceful and friendly set |
Element Of the conflict between the United !
States and Mexico.
This offer puts in due form the sug-