The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-06-17
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UNITED STATES WON'T ACCEPT
APPOINTMENT OF HUERTA.
WOULD be RECOGNITION

American Government is Unwilling
to Recognize Him by Letting Him
Name New Foreign Minister to Ac-
cept Presidency-Believed That
Difficulty Will be Cleared Away.
The United States is unwilling to
extend recognition to new provi-
sional president if named according
to the method prescribed by the Mexi-
can delegates, which is that Gen.
Huerta would appoint as minister of
foreign affairs the man who is agreed
On at Niagara Falls to head the new
government.
The Washington administration
contends that if Huerta is permitted
Fto'name the foreign minister, who by
constitutional succession would be
elevated to the presidency, even
though the election be made by the
mediators, such an act would be con-
strued as recognition Of the Huerts
government.
On this issue, the mediating pleni-
potentiaries came to fat disagree
ment late Tuesday. For more than
two hours the mediators and Ameri-
can delegates urged in vain and 1t
was apparent when the conferences
ended that what hitherto had been
considered a matter Of detail might
develop into an obstruction.
The Mexican delegates had not dis
cussed the question at any length
with the mediators when the latter
took it up with the Americans. Al
though the three South American dip
lomats argued strongly from the Mex
lean viewpoint there was reason to
believe that the Mexican delegates
would not insist on this arrange
ment if they found the United States
absolutely determined against it.
One Mexican delegate insisted that
the Mexicans regarded the form Of
transition as technicality which
could be dispensed with if the Amer
lean government found it impossible
to agree to the method suggested.
The mediators contended that the
forms of the Mexican constitution
should be preserved. The American
delegates are understood to have
pointed out that the Constitutional
lists would not agree to plan of
transition which legalized Huerta's
status. Also the American govern
ment, it was declared, could not e1-
tend what would be tantamount to
recognition of Huerta.
There is possibility that COM
promise will be agreed on. Pedro
Lascurain, minister Of foreign affairs
under President Madero, could be re-
appointed to the cabinet and succeed
to the provisional presidency and then
appoint as foreign minister the man
agreed on by all parties for the new
provisional executive. Lascurain is
persona non grata with the Constitu-
tionalists, but it is not believed there
would be objection from them to the
brief tenure of Office in order that the
transition might be effected constitu-
tionaIly.
Predictions that an agreement
soon would be reached were practi-
cally abandoned Tuesday. The coun-
ter-proposals Of the American gov
ernment to the Mexicans have not yet
been taken up with the Mexican dele
gates, though they received them
from the mediators earlier in the day.
The days conferences were taken up
with details Of the peace plan and
for the moment the question Of Con-
stitutionalist representation was for
gotten. The answer from Gen. Car
rama to the last communication OF
the mediators is not expected mate
rally to alter the mediation situation,
and it is authoritatively known that
no armistice will be declared by the
Constitutionalists- condition on
which the mediators are insistent,
and without which the Constitution
alists can not hope for admission.
The mediators believe the claims Of
the Constitutionalists for participa-
ton in the provisional government
can be cared for in whatever final
agreement is reached, and that it
matters little whether representatives
of Carranza appear at the confer
ence: The American delegates main
tain that certain concessions should
be made to allow Carranza to have
his agents present.
In Tuesdays discussion Of the form
of provisional government the Ameri-
can delegates are understood to have
told the mediators that, inasmuch as
Carranza had been moving forward
toward undoubted military conquest
of Mexico City, it seemed essential
that the Constitutionalists be given
ample share in the new government.
The mediators are not averse to this
but are willing to transfer the Mexi-
can government at one full swoop to
the Constitutionalist party.
They think that in the general
elections which would follow shortly
after the new provisional government
was installed the Carranza faction
very likely would emerge triumphant.
For the present, however, they think
that Huerta should be allowed to re-
tire with dignity and not be compel
iedto turn over his power directly to
the Constitutionalists.
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