Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-05
MEDIATORS BAR
CARRANzA NOTE:
Have About Decided Against
Hearing Rebels.
DELEGATE TREATED COOLLY
Main Points of Peace Agreement Are
Before Wilson and Huerta For Hc'
ceptance.


The "a. B. c." mediators have VT
tually decided not to receive cohi'
munication from General Carranza'
taken to Niagara Falls, Ont, by Juan
F. Urquidi, a Constitutionallst agent
Ambassador Da Cana called tne
American delegates to inform them OIL
the decision and word was also coli
municated to the Huerta delegates.
Senior Urquidi, who is private sec
retary to Rafael Zuzaran, the Constl-
tutionalist agent at Washington, ar
rived in Niagara Falls bearing mes
sage from General Carranza to the
mediators, saying that Carranza was
willing to send representative to the
peace parleys to discuss international
differences between the United States
and Mexico.
Senior Urquidi said he came mercy
as a messenger to deliver communt
cation, and not to discuss issues.
Urquidi wrote note to Amoassa'
dor Da Cana, chief Of the medlatorS'
saying he was the bearer of a commu'
nication from Carranza and that DIS
mission was solely to deliver 1t. AM
bassador IA. Cana sent word that he
would reply to it shortly. He went lnto
conference with the other medlators,
and Uruuidi went to his hotel on the
American side to await an answer.
After a short conference the media
tors did not ask him for the commun''
cation he carries, nor did th1y tell him
whether they would receive o. later.
Although Urquidi refused to make
public the contents of the communlca'
ton, it is understood that Carranza re-
iterates his original declaration that
he accepted mediation in principle o.
the condition that international que'-
tions alone should be discussed.
Carranza is unwilling that the ques'
ton of a new provisional president or
land reforms should be discussed at
any international conference. He holds
that the occupation of Vera Cruz,
which directly gave rise to the media
ton proceedings, concerns all Mexican
factions as well as the Huerta gov
ernment, and that the Constitutiona.-
ist chief should have voice IN adj
iusting differences which caused the
American troops to enter Mexico.
The mediators held in their first
communications with Carranza that
the international and internal ques.
tions were inseparable, and asked that
an armistice be agreed upon between
Huerta and Carranza. to this Carranza
refused to agree and the mediators
withdrew their invitation.
The mediators are maintaining Sc
crecy in the present stage of their pro-
ceedings, but it is understood that
even the names of those who will COM
pose the new provisional government
in Mexico have been selected and that
the list is now before President Will
son.
The major issues of the pacification
plan virtually decided upon are now
before President Wilson and General
Huerta for approval. When this is OBJ
tanned secondary questions will be
taken up for consideration and deter
mination.
When a protocol covering the basic
principles has been signed the media.
ton conference at Niagara Falls will
close, the delegates will return to
their homes and the mediators VIII
complete the details of the undert1k.
ing in conjunction with the authorities
at Washington and Mexico City. This
work may require several months.