The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-19
PRESIDENT WILSON AND SECRE- TARY BRYAN HOLD CONFER
 ENCE WITH MEDlATORS.
HUERrA MUST BE ELIMINATED
Some Fear is Felt That There Will Be an Incident to Break Up the Spirit of Mediation, Coming From Military Situation in Mexico.

Washington, May IS. President Wilson today told the American com missioners. who leave tomorrow for the meditation conference at Niagara Falls, ontario, that the United States government regards the settlement of the Mexican problem in definite form as d prerequisite to the with drawal of the American forces from Vera Cruz.
 The president gave the American commissioners Lamar of the supreme court of the United States and Frederick w. Lehman. former solicitor general, and Diplomatic Sec retary H. Perciyal Dodge-no specific instructions.
 lie told them to place themselves in a receptive mood and await pro posals from the three South Ameri- can mediators. But at the same time he outlined to his representatives that peace in Mexico seemed to him to be conditioned on the elimination of the Huerta administration and the establishment in it's place of strong provisional government which would conduct an election giving fair treat ment Co all factions, ana parties. and guaranteeing, moreover, a solution of the international difficulties which -wrtch have bred revolution in tire southern republic during the last three years.
 The president wishes the Mexican question settled on comprehensive lines that will take into account the economic principles for which Iapata in the south, as well as Carranza in the north, have been fighting, and at the same time will conserve the rightful interests of the people in the territory now controlled by the Huerta government.
 During the day a dispatch came 10 one of the foreign diplomats here from a diplomatic source in Mexico City stating that General Huerta was ready to resign and would permit his representatives at the mediation con ference to eliminate him if it should become absolutely necessary.
 limitations that have come from the three Huerta delegates since their visit to this country showed that they had realized Huerta's elimi- nation was regarded as essential to settlement, and knew from the out set that unless they came prepared to deal with this phase of the problem their efforts would be fruitless.
 The Huerta delegates too, it is learned from persons who have talked with them, understand thor oughly that the scope of emdidtion now comprises the entire Mexican problem.
 They are said to be ready to recon mend Huerta's retirement but only on condition that a definite under standing is reached on the kind of government that is to follow
 President Wilson in his final talk with the American commissioners, at which Secretary Bryan also was present, spoke hopefully of the me- daton. He is earnestly desirous that it shall succeed, and indicated that every power and legitimate in. fluence at the disposal of the Ameri- can government would be eXerted to make it succeed.
 Though the constitutionalists have not yet agreed to take part in the mediation. one high administration official held out hopes today of their ultimate participation, saying mls- understanding which might be rene died in a short time was largely re- sponsible for their failure to be rep resented at Niagara Falls
 The president laid before the com missioners the entire Mexican prob lem as he saw it, emphasizing that the duty of the United States was to seek unselfishly to assist Mexico to set up a constitutional government which could be accorded recognition by the world because of its capacity not alone to maintain peace within it's confines but to observe interna- tional obligations.
 The Huerta delegates have con ceded privately to their friends that the international phase of the Mexi- can question is closely interwoyen in the internal affairs of their country. The mediators have taken a similar