Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-19
MEDIATION IS ON
BRINK Of FAILURE
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Niagara conference is marking time
and threatened with complete failure,
was regarded as highly significant. If
ii was known among officials that Min
lister Naon was returning, news of it
was carefully guarded. The minister
went direct from the train which had
brought him from New Haven and
Cambridge, where he had been at
| tending commencement exercises at
Yale and Harvard Universities, to the
uptown hotel where he was close to
the State Department and the White
House.
PRESIDENT INFORMED
At the White House IL was said that
If President Wilson knew of Minister
Naon's visit to Washington he had not
| impaired the information to officials
there. 1t was thought, however, that
the mediatOr's visit has been one of the
subjects discussed at an early CONFER
ence between the President and the
Secretary of State. The Argentine
legation professed not to know of the
minister's arrival. Mr.. Naon at first
denied himself to all interviewers. 1t
was understood. however, that confer
ences with administration officials had
been arranged later in the day.
CRISIS AT HAND
The issue of the note of the Mexican
delegates by Senor Rabasa and the
reply of the American delegates pub
lished last night after it had been
approved by President Wilson ad-
mittedly has brought the mediation
orally is expected to fail unless one
side gives way. The Huerta delegates
standing firm for the selection of a
neutral for the provisional presi-
dency and the American delegates no
less firm that the new executive shall
h<. Gull I,x, tI~
tutiOnaliStS are confronted VIII q sit.
uatiOn which only modification OF
demands OH one side can ameliorate
The general belief was that Mr.. Naon
had returned to Washington to use his
efforts with the President and the
Secretary of State to prevent a break.
1t was among the possibilities, too,
that he might personally present the
names of some of the men suggested
for the presidency of Mexico.
Almost at the hour of Mr.. Naon'S
arrival long message was received
at the White House from the American
delegate. Secretary Bryan, after its
would be meeting i'm Niagara Falls
at ) o'clock this afternoon.
The Cabinet assembled at the White
House as the news of Minister Naon's
return became known. Evidently none
of the other members had heard the
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with expressions of surprise and great
est interest. 1t had been planned to
give over the entire meeting to a dis
cussion of the Mexican situation.
After a short stay at his hotel Min
lister Naon went to the Argentine lega-
tion. He said he did not expect to
| have any conferences there, but
planned to see Secretary Bryan later
to-day.
Nothing to Say
When shown dispatch from Ma
CARA Falls saying he had come to ask
| Secretary Bryan if officials here had
any information which would seem to
make it advisable to continue the Mil
CARA conference Mr.. Naon said:
You had better be satisfied with
that at this time. There is nothing
| can say
Although the leading agents of the
Constltutionalist junta here, including
those with whom the American dele
gates conferred at Buffalo, were in the
same hotel with Mr.. Naon. it was said
he would have no conferences with
them whatever
Those officials who regard mediation
as having definitely failed looked upon
the minister's visit as one of courtesy
to officially notify President Wilson Of
the deadlock and inquire formally if
there is anything further to be laid
before the conference before it end.
| Bryan NoncommittaI
Secretary Bryan was more noncom-
initial than usual as he went to the
Cabinet meeting. There were inti-
nations that some sort of an official
announcement might be given out late
! to- day.
With mediation as a solution of the
Mexican difficult in an admittedly pre-
carious stage. attention was divided
with the status of the situation be-
tween Carranza md Villa. Official re-
| ports confirming earlier announcements
that the chief and his fighting general
mad patched up their differences with
the understanding that Villa Is to have
supreme command of the army were
received here. with the additional in
formation that Villa is about to return
to their civil offices all those Carranza
supporters whom he seized when he
| forcibly took possession of the Con-
stitutionalist affairs in Chihuahua.
This was taken as added evidence that
the difficulties had been smoothed
over.