Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
QUESTION OF PEACE
PUT UP TO FACTIONS
United States Invites ENJOYS
of Huerta and Carranza
to Conference.
new PLAN OF MEDIATORS
FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS
Fighting Forces Receive Appeal
Backed by Pressure Through
the American Government.

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, June a.
The United States government has in
rited Representatives of Gen. Carrnnxa
and Gen. Huerta to meet mt an Informal
conference here, with the hope of bring
Ing about the pacifcation Of Mexico.
The Huertn delegates today Informed
the American delegates. through the
medfators, that they were willing to
deal with the constitution aIists in this
way.
Actual negotiations between represent
atives of the two fighting factions in
Mexico in an effort to agree on an in
dividual for the provisional presidency
is the latest plan which the mediators
have evolved for the solution OF the
Mexican problem
Just how the two elements will he
drawn together remained a secret today.
out IT became known that strong pres
sure had been brought to bear on Gen.
Carranza- through the American govern
ment. and that the mediators had per-
suaded the Huerta government to come
into the plan.
Informal parleys between the repre-
sentatives of the two factions outside of
the formal mediation proceedings, but
with the counsel and advice of the
American delegates. is the object of the
new plan. This move was adopted as
stitutionalists to agree to armistice
as desired by the mediators having
failed.
Appeal to Patriotism.
The appeal, which is said to have in
fiuenced both factions. is that the Mexi-
cans themselves must save their country
from further spoliation and bloodshed by
each making certain sacrifices. but
neither side will be asked to abandon the
principles for which it has been con-
tending.
It will be several days before the plans
will materialize and constitutionalist
delegates can arrive. In the meantime
the mediators and the Huerta and Ameri-
can delegates will continue their discus
sion Of other points in the general peace
plan than those on which they have been
deadlocked. Separate conversations with
the Huerra and American delegates We're
set for today.
The determination seems to be to
leave the question of a provisional
president to the two Mexican factions
to decide. Any agreement which they
may reach will be sanctioned by the
American government and the results
of the negotiations would later be in
corporated in the mediation proceed
ings for nnal agreement.
Advantages of New Plan.
The advantage of the new plan, it Is
said, is that the conferences will be
continued while the situation in north
ern Mexico is developing. Fernando
Iglesias Calderon. leader of the lib
eral party in Mexico, is understood to
be the head of the delegation appointed
by Carranza to attend the informal
conferences here He is now en- route
from Saltillo to Washington.
The Huerta delegates are understood
to have consulted their government
and secured permission to deal with
the constitutionalists.
Proceedings to Be Prolonged.
After the conference between the Amer
lean delegates and the mediators Justice
Lamar said he had not been authorized to
make any statement. He indicated, how
ever, that the proceedings would be con-
siderably prolonged. No inkling was
given as to what had been discussed, Sc
crecy being scrupulously maintained on
every side
few minutes later the Mexican dele
CATION was summoned for a conferences
with the mediators.