Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-06-27
CARRANzA IS SLOW
Rebel Chiefs Reply to Media
tors Delayed by Wire
Trouble i'm Mexico.
WASHINGTON HAS NEW HOPE
Wilson and Bryan Believe constitu-
tionaIists Will Accept Provisional
Government Proposition

Washington.-Every indication in
Washington pointed to some form of
participation by the Constitutional
lists in the mediation conference at
Niagara Falls.
Agents here for General Carranza
explained the delay of the answer to
be forwarded to the South American
mediators by Geographic disturbances
between the United States border and
Saltillo. 1t was expected that the
definite position of the Constitution
alists would be communicated to Nj
agara Falls before many hours.
Some of those in touch with Car
rama have insisted that the revo-
lutionary leader would not consent to
an armistice in the campaign against
the Huerta government at Mexico
City, but that he would express will
ingness to acquiesce in peace propos-
ais as they relate to establishment of
a provisional government pending
general election, provided ample rep
resentation is given in the provisional
government to the belligerents
against Huerta.
Protocol in Sight.
There was a suggestion from Mag
ara Falls that whatever CarranZas
answer might be, the peace proposals
between the Huerta and United
States commissioners would be incor
porated into protocol; that the me-
diation conference then would recess
and that the United States govern
ment would undertake negotiations
with the Constituencies with
view to procuring their consent to the
provisional government proposal.
At Outs Over Presidency.
Niagara Falls, Ont.-The United
States is unwilling to extend recog-
milton to a new provisional president
if named, according to the method pre-
scribed by the Mexican delegates
which is that General Huerta would
appoint as minister of foreign affairs
the man who is agreed upon here to
head the new government. The Wash
ington administration contends that
if General Huerta is permitted to
name the foreign minister, who by
constitutional succession would be e1e-
waited to the presidency even though
the selection be made here, such an
act would De construed as recognition
of the Huerta government.
On this issue the mediating pleni-
potentiaries came to a flat disagree
ment at a conference held for
of the exact method by
which the new provisional govern
ment in Mexico would be created.
Huerta suspends Tampieo Blockade.
Washington-Genera Huerta's or
der suspending the order to blockade
munition by the steamer Antilla to
the Constitutionalists, served to dis
pei apprehension over a new crisis
Huerta government, which had threat
ened mediation OF Mexican affairs.
Though Washington officials ex-
pressed satisfaction over Huerta's ac-
ton, it was persistently suggested
outside of official circles that the
blockade had been suspended only
conditionally as a result of confer
ences between thu South American
and the Mexican and
American delegates at Niagara Falls.
and that the AntilIs cargo of arms
might be diverted in her course
of the Ward line, her owners, an
American corporation.
United States Peace Plans.
Niagara Falls, Ont-The United
States government, through Justice
Lamar and Frederick w. Lehman
presented to the three South Ameri
can mediator a complete plan for
the pacification of Mexico. 1t is the
same in principle as that presented
by the mediators and already agreed
to by the Huerta government 1t
contemplates establishment at the
earliest date practicable, of a new
provisional government in Mexico
City, which would conduct general
elections for a permanent govern
ment-
The plan written by the American
delegates, after consultation with the
Washington government, is brief and
includes several counter propositions
of which the Huerta delegates will
be advised at once. From the me-
diators themselves it became known
that the differences in the two plans
are slight. A full conference of all