The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-06-11
United States Will Not
Permit Him to Make Ap-
pointments of the Man
Selected by the Mediators
and Also Insists That
New President Be a Man
of Distinct Constitutional
Sympathies.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Niagara Falls, April 10-Differences
30 serious as to imperi1 the continua-
ton Of the mediation conference have
developed between the American dele
gates and mediation plenipotentia
A flat disagreement on two vital
points exists. The mediators repre-
senting, presumably the view point Of
the Mexican delegates insist that
the provisional president shall be a
neutral, who has not been an active
partisan of the Constitutionalist cause.
The American delegates have stated
emphatically that unless the choice is
a man OF distinct ConstitutionaIist
sympathies, not necessarily a, military
fidence there can be no hope of Con-
stitutionalist acceptance Of the peace
program adopted here.
The United States also has deter
mined that the method of transition
from the present regime to the new
government shall not be through ap-
pointment by Huerta as minister of
foreign affairs OF the man agreed upon
for provisional president so as to per-
init him to exercise the Constitution
al function Of naming his successor.
The Americans hold this equivalent to
recognition Of the Huerta government.
The mediators spent today discussing
questions among themselves and did
not confer with the Mexican or Am
erican delegates.
General Huerta be permitted to ap
point the man agreed upon here as
provisional president This the Am
erican mediators object to. On this
egates are blocked. One side musv
give way before any advance is made.
SOME LOSE HOPE.
Some of the principals have actual
1y lost hope for a settlement but there
is g. growing confidence that the med
lat -Hil
bridging the difficulty rather than
allow mediation TO founder on the
rocks.
Inrolved in the question of method !
In choosing the new provisional pres
ident in an underlying principle, |
which, If not settled now, will GER
tainly provoke other disbursements |
before any protocol can be signed. The |
American government believes that |
the ConstitutionaliStS with their large |
army form the real party which must !
be pacified and that the transfer of !,
power must be to them in order to |
inquire peace The American delegates, |
1t is understood, have conceded the |
principle that none of the foremost |
military chiefs of the Constitutional |
lists, or any who have been Conspic- |
uous IN the Huerta government should |
be provisional president. But they do |
not believe any progress can be made |
toward a settlement unless the man |
chosen is Of Constitutionalst SYM
pathies, broadminded enough to be i
acceptable to the Huerta party. The |
mediators are not averse to selecting |
= man OF Constitutionalist leanings if |
he Is not an unalterable partisan.
Amnesty for the Huerta followers
and q guarantee of their property |
rights has been undertaken by the |
American government. Also the Uni |
ted States considers it has acted mag |
i'm declining to ask for a /
war indemnity a S a result of the oc
cupation of Vera Cruz. 1t wants as
the establishment Of -
peaceable government. 1t win ask
nothing more.
Unless the mediators find a way to
out the differences which
have arisen the proceedings will come
to an abrupt end. On the other hand
intinations have come from the Mex |
ican delegates that they will not in
eist on techniCalities in the method Of
transfer, though they seemed to be de
terrnined that a neutral be- chosen pro-
visional president and that no one ac-
lively identified with the Constitu-
tfonalist cause be considered eligible.
The mediators were of the opinion
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