The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-06-24
ULT|MATUM TO MEDIlTORS.
NO HOPE or SETTLEMENT EX.
CECT ON AMERICAN con.
DITIONS.
nitcd states Insists on Constitutional
list for President and Unless Mex
leans Nicld the Mediation Confer.
cHCc Will Ind i'm Failure.


hasa, head of the Mexican mediation
delegation, announcing that the
United Sttacs must insist on the ac-
ccptancc Of it's plan for the pacifica-
tion of Mexico, is an ultimatum. I'm
less the Hucrta delegates yield media
ticn will end tomorrow or Monday.
This is the firm determination of the
United states as conveyed to the
mcdiatOrs today. Ambassador Da
CANA of Pra2il and Minister Suarez
OF Chile asked the American delegates
if their position had changed in view
Of the Carranza-Villa split and the
reply was that it had not.
1t was an informal talk, but served
to advise the mediators that the
published statements Of the Ameri-
can and Hucrta delegates, with oppo-
site views on the type of man to be
selected for provisional president, de-
/
Of the American government
Just what would be the American
policy if medi2 tion fails or what dis
position it would make of the Amer
ican troops at Vera Cruz is not known
even to the American delegates. The
Huerta commissioners say they do not
know what course of action Gen.
Huerta may pursue.
The mediators held no formal ses-
sion today because Minister Naon Of
Argentina stopped in Washington in
stead Of returning directly from uni
versities where he has been receiving
honorary degrees. Minister Naon is
expected back early tomorrow and
i will confer first with his colleagues,
who are anxious to know whether his
conferences y.th officials of the
Washington gon ernment today devel-'
opcd q new rotd towards solution of
the problems confronting them.
Ii it has not the various plans will
pe IOTIllallH presented.
Rejection by the Americans Of the
mediatOrs' plan as we'll as that offer
cd by the delegates will be recorded
as matter of form, together with
) disapproval by the MeXicans of the
American plan. Automatically that
| would adjourn the conference, ac-
: cording to the rules of procedure
adopted when they first convened.
The mediators. however, still have
some names to suggest for provisional
president.
: \ report from Mexico City that
Gen. Huerta had decided to appoint
Pedro Lascurain aS minister Of for
cign affairs may change the entire as
pcct of things, if it develops that Mr..
; I.ascurain is to be made provisional
president, irrespective of the media
ton proceedings. Mr.. Rabasa, head of
the Mexican delegation, said he
thought it was improbable this would
occur.
ciGn affairs under MaderO and at his
overthrow became provisional presi-
dent, appointed lIuerta to his cabinet
and then relinquiShCd the presidency
to him. Many constitutiOnalists have
explained that they opposed the ele-
vatiOn Of Mr.. Lascurain because Of
his unrcsiSting subServiency to Huer-
ta's assumption OF office.
4. The American delegates hitherto
are understood to have objected to
Lascurain on the ground that his re-
sumption of the foreign ministry
would not mean n restoration of the
unfairly had abandoned his right to
hold that office. Many here believe,
however, the American gOvernment
would accept Lascurain pending an
election.
/ The following paragraph from the
memorandum OF the American dele
gates sums up the stand Justice La
mar and Frederick w. Lehman have
been instructed Ia hold:
The United states is n party to
the mediation in the hope that il
might lead to peace and that the
place would lead to prosperity. The
plan the American representatives
lropuSc and on which we must in
sst Will be formulated solely with
that end in vicw.'
Another paragraph which s the
American SuVcrnmCntS practical re-
lection of the mcdiatorS plan reads:
"AmCriCan ohjC tiOns to the plan
approved 10y the Mexican reprcsen-
'''irc~ have N"o"1.n~e' o" the pro-
found conviction Shat the adoption
Of the plan would rot stop the prog