The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-28
JUNTA TO RULE
 MEXICO, PLAN
 OF MEDIAT 0RS

4 F Niagara Falls. Ont, May 2s-dedia- t ion conferences have been in pro-
 gress a week today and already many Modification of Mexico have been agreed upon. Details are being with held until there is complete agree
 ment on all subjects but the main points of the plan on which both aides at present look favorably are the fol- lowing:
 The transfer of the executive power
 at Mexico City from the hands of General victoriano Huerta to a provis- iona1 president and four cabinet min isters. This talked of body has often
 been referred to as a committee or junta-
 These five men would share equally the responsibility of putting into op- eration a. program adopted at the con ference here for the conduct soon as soon as practicable of new elections
 for president, vice-president and mem
 bers of Congress. The five men would be neutral persons so far as political affiliations are concerned butN would be representative men, as nearly accepta-
 ble as possible to all factions in Mexi- l co, including the constitutiona1ists and approved also by the American govern
 nfent- Prompt recognition of the pro- yisional government would be given by the United States
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 Withdrawal of American troops is expected by the Mexican delegates to
 follow as a matter of course as soon as the new government is installed While there may be no formal dec laration on the subject the Mexican delegates expect tacit understanding to be reached that the United States will regard as legal the financial trans actions of the present Mexican con-
 sress- In the protocol there will be proclaimed principles on which a study i of the agrarian and educational prob iems in Mexico would be based but there will be made no mention of indi- viduals to comprise the government The n1ediators and delegates intend
 ed to use every effort to keep secret the names of individuals until all ele- ments in the proposed new govern ment have assented to the plan or the actual change in government accom- plished- There is every reason to be- Ieve, however, that already the Washington government has in it's possession list of names from which i've men acceptable to it eventually will be agreed upon. The suggestions were made by the Mexicans and the theory under which the United States is being asked to approve some of them Is that it has right to indi- cate who it will or will not recognize. It is also probable that this list also has been sent by the Mexican dele gates to General Huerta- The protocol will declare for gen looking to the restoration Of perma-
 nent government The new president
 would serve until 1916, filling the un-
 expired term of the last President
 AIadero.
 Not Favored By n1exicans.
 The Mexican delegates have looked
 with disfavor the. proposal that a
 commission government should be es-
 abolished prOvisionally pending an
 election They have contended that 1t
 would be unconstitutional
 The mediators, who are understood to have conceived the idea originally, have found a way to bridge that difi- culty by preserving the forms of the Mexican constitution- The provisional president and four ministers to all in- tents and purposes will act as a. unit in resolving the various questions in
 cident to re-establishment Of a per nnanent government. The executive
 power, according to the Mexican con stitution Is vested in the president, who can bestOw it upon cabinet off, l cfals. The four men who would act I with the new provisional president I doubtless would take charge of the i departments of foreign relations finance, war and interior. Sub-secre- taries would continue in charge of the other departments.
 | Belief is constantly expressed that an agreement for protocol will be
 drawn up and perhaps signed in an- 1 other week. The mediators are anx- ious for a speedy settlement. as are also the Mexican delegates. The Mex jeans hope, too, that no time may be
 lost In setting up the new government
 after signatures are fixed to the pro- I tocoI-
 Have Huerta's Approval. Already they have General Huerta's approval for the main points in the plan. They came with plenary pow CTS but. nevertheless. have been re- | ferring vital issues to him and he has 1 been giving approval to their work Interests in the constitutionalists are being kept in mipd by the mediators. I Names agreed upon for the new pro visional government are expected .o
 be such as the iconstitutioaalists might endorse.
 I The mediators do not expect the question of constftutiona.list repre- sentation here to be reopened The conferences have progressed too far 1 for that. The general belief is that 1 the American government already is sounding out the con<titutionalists on
 details of the plans being discussed Conferences between the mediators and Mexican delegates were expected