The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12
The Dictator Will Not Be Al
lowed to Name Provi-
sional President
IMPORTANT STEP
TO PEACE MADE
Coming of Constitutionalist
Delegates Welcomed by
United States

Niagara Falls, Ont, June l2.-Media-
ton had to-day achieved the first real
important step after nearly three
weeks of parleying. The mediators and
the United States and Mexican dele
gates are ready to approve formally
method by which the executive power
in Mexico shall be transferred from
Huerta to the new provisional govern
ment The constitutional form OF sue
cession permitting Huerta to appoint
as minister of foreign affairs the man
TO be chosen by the mediation confer
ence has been abandoned.
Instead there will be an abrupt trans
fer of authority to new provisional
president with the probability that the
oath of Office will be administered by
the chief justice of the supreme court.
The work OF the conference is now
centered on the second point in the
plan for pacihcation, the personnel OF
the provisional government. The COM
ing of the constitutional delegates at
time when the proceedings had reached
a critical stage is not unwelcome to the
Americans and it is suggested in some
quarters that even the Huerta delegates
are anxious for an end of the civil strife
and will be glad to have the negotia-
tions hurried by having all the parties
in the Mexican controversy represented
The mediators viii not officially adj
nit to the conference the representatives
Gen. Carranza has announced he will
send north. The American diplomats
said they could not recede from the
original contention, demanding an armis
tice. Carranza's despatch was shown the
mediators, but they declined to make a
formal comment. However, they let it
be known that their attitude had under
gone no change. 1t was reiterated that
the admission of the constitutionalists
is and will continue to be contingent
upon the declaration of an armistice. Ii
is considered possible that the Carranza
delegates might be informally received
here and their argument heard as to why
an ar1nistice cannot be declared.
The mediators themselves had almost
lost hope of a peaceful settlement.
Somewhat piqued at Gen. Carranza's de-
lay in answering their last communica
tion they had suddenly made public all
the correspondence with the constitu
tionalists, declared the incident closed.
A spirit of pessimism prevailed. 1t
seemed as if the mediators would close
the entire proceedings unless the United
States would yield.
As the Americans began their discus
sion with the mediators the latter con-
tended again that the method of trans
fer would not be construed as recogni
ton as all the world would know that
the new provisional president would be
chosen at the mediation conference and
4L.4 4 t.~
appoint him was merely an empty form
designed to appease his wounded dignity.
The Americans reiterated that the
constitutonalists would never accept
such a method and the United States
could not yield consistently with its own
policy.
Finally, when matters seemed at a
breaking point, Luis Elguero, one of the
Mexican delegates, entered the confer
ence room and Immediately a spirit of
compromise was noticeable. Observing
it. the Americans suggested that the
other Mexicans join in the conference |
and Emilio Rabasa and Augustin Rod
riguez Joined the group.
1t was not a full conference of the
formal kind with which the proceedings |
here were inaugurated, but an i'm
promptu, get-together talk. In a sur
prisingy brief time. the Americans
found that they had made more head
way with the Mexicans directly than
they had previously by working through |
the mediators.
The American delegates explained
anew the embarrassing position in which
the United States found itself with re-
spect to the transfer of authority. The |
Mexican delegates appreciated these diff
ficulties and though anxious to follow |
the constitutional form said they would |
not Illustrate the proceedings on tech |
nicality and yielded. Accordingly, the |
first clause of the medators' plan re-
specting the method OF transfer was
omitted A substitute process has not
been agreed to and will be left to future
conferences.