The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-14
HAS NOT YET DIRECTED HIS REP RESENTRTlVES TO ATTEND
 MEDIATION CONFERENCE.
REBEL LEADER IS TECHNICAL
Charles A. Towne, Former United States Senator From Minnesota, Has Been Representing Huerta at Washington.

Washington, D. C., June 13-Fur- ther definite results in the Mexican mediation conferences at Niagara Falls are looked for by officials of the Washington government early next week. their conclusions being based on communications received from the American representatives who were in touch with Secretary Bryan late to- day
 No word of any actual progress at the joint conference today was re- ceived by officiais here, but 1t is stated that mediators and parties to the conference had talked over the character of the proposed provisional government to be instituted in accord ance with the protocol signed yester- day by the representatives of Huerta and the United States.
 In several sources the attitude of the constituencies toward media ton was declared to be di atory, in view of the announcement from Gen eral Carranza's headquarters at Sal tillo that a reply to the latest note to the mediators would be awaited be- fore the representative of the consti- tutionalist chief wculd proceed to Niagara Falls to confer informally with the American representatives and the Huerta commissioners.
 That an answer was expected from the mediators to the communication stating that the constitutiolalist dele gates would be sent also was declared by Carranza's agents in Washington. Ne reply from the mediators had been received tonight
 President Wilson, just before leav- ing early in the day in the Princeton, was notified of the signing of the first protocol which specifics that a provi. sional government should be estab- hshed in Mexico to succeed the Huerta regime, such government to be recognized by the United States
 The president expressed satisfac- tion over this actual achievement in the negotiations. Secretary Bryan again reiterated in his insistent dec laration late in the day that the peace negotiations were progressing satis- factorily.
 The fact that the Huerta govern ment has an active representative in Washington working for the interests of the dictator iI the progress of me- diation became known today when it developed that Charles A. Towne New York attorney and former United States senator from Minnesota had been retained by the Mexico City regime. Mir. Towne has been in Wash ington several days, has had two coll ferences with President Wilson and today was in communication with Sec retary Bryan. He plans to see Presi- dent Wilson agai ntomorrow. He also was in touch during the day with the Mexican deiegates at Niagara Falls.
 Mir. Towne late today issued a state ment expressing approval of the sign ing of the first protocol. but declaring that the matter of choosing the per sonael of the provisional government particularly the man for the presi- dency, was the gravest problem before the mediators, and that the situation at the present time was tense and de'icate." He would not discuss the status of the proceedings from the viewpoint of the Huerta government, further than to sag that "it is a mis- take to infer that the rest of the de- Alterations are bound to proceed smoothly"
 Reports were current here tonight that the Huerta delegates. in view of concessions already made by them in the proceedings thus far, now were asking that the United States make some concessions in the plan proposed by them for the establishment of the new government.
 It is argued from the Huerta stand point that he first yielded to the de- mand for his elimination and that he thereby yielded the stipulation of his commissioners that he be permitted to name a secretary of foreign affairs to succeed him as the president and then name the prc visional government to
 e selected by the mediation confer lence.
 For the Huerta government to agree