The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-18
MEDIATORS ON WAY
 TO NIAGARA FALLS TO MAKE PLANS FOR
 PEACE N MEXICO
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 tion will not affect communication with Mexico City, the principal route is over the Mexican Central railroad. General Funston also reported rumors that General Navaratte. the federal com mander, was in the vicinity of Vera Cruz with a force of 5000 men. Army officers seriously doubt, however, that Navaratte has so many troops.
 Secretaries Hard at Work | Secretaries Garrison and Daniels spent several hours at their desks today, but both announced that no new orders had been issued. Secretary Daniels came twice | to the navy department for consultation with his aides but upon leaving late in the day to go south to fill speaking engagement, said no reports had been re- ceived from any of his commanders in 1 Mexican waters. Secretary Garrison was | in conference with General Wotherspoon chief of staff.
 The Mexican delegates today received lnewspape' men courteously, but without breaking .heir rule of silence concern ing their mission. The state department had engaged quarters for the delegates but they courteously insisted that they must pay their own bills.
 It was learned from quarters in close touch with the three Mexicans that they are decidedly optimistic concerning the chances for mediation Mexicans and other persons who talked with them de- scribed their attitude as follows:
 | The Mexican delegates are said to real ize that the present administration ir Mexico City is fast crumbling and that the choice of some one to succeed Hu- erta is inevitable.
 But conceding the retirement of Hu. erta, the delegates are said to be most interested in the vital question of what is to follow: what guarantees are to bt obtained against possible confiscaton oi property by the invading constitutional ists; protection against conditions of an
 archy and what kind of a government
 that will be stable and will secure world
 wide recogniti9n can be set. up. Are Not "Huertistas'
 Persons close to the delegates em-
 phasized that the three men who rep
 resent the Huerta government at the
 mediation were not "Huertistas,'' or tht
 representatives of any groups of per
 sons but representative of the best in terests of the people in the territor, controlled by the Mexican federal gov,
 ernment. Though theoretically the del
 egates are dealing with an information al question-difference with the Unit ed States-privately they admit tha
 before them actually Is the problem ! of pacificatfon of Mexico Those clos, to President Wilson and Secretar! Bryan said the question to be mediate, no longer Is the failure of Huerta t, salute or the offenses committee : against the dignity of the United Statel
 but the broad question of pacifyinl Mexico. Those who know the view ) point of the Washington government best declared American troops will no l hp wjthdraVV until . l stable government Is established or l. : in sight in Mexico City.
 7 The Huerta delegates were much in Iterested in their informal talks il : what the probable attitude of the con stitutionalists would be toward medi
 ation. Persons close to Emilio Rabas,
 said when the time came for their an tswer to suggestions as to a successo
 for Huerta, they probably would insis that no man who had gained militar.
 prominence or was obtaining powe "by arbitrary force" as set forth il
 President Wilson's Latin American dec lardtion should be permitted to talk, the reins of government. This would l in effect, eliminate Generals Carranz. e and Villa, but there are other men il n the constitutionalists ranks who ar l looked on as of presidential calibr, n who would not be unacceptable to tn ! Huerta faction. These, it has bee . stated, are men of the type of Luis Ca F brera, prominent attorney, close frien . and counsellor of General Carranzs
 and a man who has won the conf F dence of the Washing gton administra f tion in direct dealing with the consti
 tutionalist cause Cabrera at presen n is en route to New York from Spair
 It was said today that some of th
 Mexican delegates believe the consti
 tutionalsts again will be asked to D parties to the mediation or that the in : iuence of the American governmen ., will have to be exerted to gain thei n participation in any plan submitted b {" the mediators. The constitutionalist = have insisted that they will not com :, promise Whether the United States wi Il accord recognition to the constitution 2 alists if they establish government i $ Mexico City by force Is the problel d which some of the Mexican commission t CTS have told their friends will arise. l. Although General Huerta has sent u,
 delegates here to mediate difference
 and they know his viewpoint, there a possibility--and 1t is admitted by rep : resentatives of all Mexican faction ,here--that hostilities at any time ma be provoked by the federal troops nea
 Vera Cruz, which may entangle the si' g uation and force another crisis. Huel r. tas whimsical moods are pointed to b ). even some of his friends a s dangerou Is aspect of the situation. though they se " nothing just now to mar the progres d of mediation.
 This view finds credence among thos