The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-19
PEACE DELEGATES DEADLOCKED OVER
 MEXICO'S LEADER

Niagara Falls, Ont, June 19.-The American and Huerta delegates hold firmly today to the opposite views ex- pressed by them in public statements explaining the type of man desired by each side for provisional president or side will give way and that the dead lock will result in 9. complete break down of mediation.
 Aside from the inability to select man for provisional president, a con troversy has developed between the American and FIuerta. delegates as to how the elections for permanent pres. ident, to be conducted by the provis- ional government, should be super. yised. Likewise. the American dele gates in insisting on a constitutdonal- ist for provisional president have ar gued that the conetitutionalist party not only dominates the country from a military point of vdew, but Is nu-l merically in the majority.
 Emilio Rabasa, the head of the Mex ican delegation, enphatically denied today that the constttut1onaliSts con tro1led the greater population, saying millions of people had been passive and not indicated in any way that they favored the revolution. He ar gued also the inpracttcability of l bipartisan election board, such as has been proposed by the American delegation, on the ground that the constitutiona1ists and the faction fighting them were not political par-s ties. but opposing military forces. He said there were many in the section controlled by the Huerta government who stood for the same reforns asked by many of the constitutionalists and that there has been no sharp division along political lines.
 The Mexican delegates were in con- ference early today discussing w7leth-s f<aT ment in answer to the American de1e- gates utterances of last night. The most striking thing about the docu-, n1ent issued by Justice Lamar, with the consent and approval of President 1 Wilson and Secretary Bryan, is it's un- hinching argument for a constitution alist control of the government This l was on the ground that military suc- cess by the constitutiona1ists soon would give them that power and 1t was the duty of the Huerta party te cooperate with the American govern ment, in avoiding further bloodshed, in arranging a transfer of government at once.
 The United States will insist to the last for a man of constitutionaIist principles for provisional president. a progressive as opposed to a reaction ary. This the El1erta. delegates ai-. ready have hatly rejected without even consulting their government. The American delegates reluctan anfIy made public their views, being asverse to airing the controversy in the press but the initiative having been taken by the Huerta delegates, felt conn peIled to present their side Of the case.
 The American representatiyes ut terly repudiate any suggestions that the American president has any in- l tention of destroying the electoral Hb- l erty of Mexico, was the reply made to the suggestion of MT. Rabasa5 that putting the constitutionalists in con
 troI of the provisional government was stantamount to abettfng and even exacting fraud at the elections
 To the proposal of the Huerta. dele
 gates that a s.neutraI,' be chosen, the
 American memorandum set forth Gaat 1 to reach an agreement with the Huer- ta delegates alone, without securing 1 the approval of the constitutionalists,
 would be at best "a paper agreement
 and +woITId not stop the progress of
 the victorious army nor bring that
 speedy peace which the American
 government so sincerely desires