New Britain herald., 1914-05-11
TWO DELEGATES ARE l
 NAMED BY WILSON
Associate Justice Lamar and FTed- eriCk Lehman Presidents Choice.
MADE BY BRYAN
South American Mediators Considcrl Protest Filed by Huerta Over Re-I ported Seizure of Iabos Island byl Landing Party from IT. s. Boats.


 Washington, May 11.-Associate1 Justice, Joseph Fucker Lamar of thed United States supreme court and Fred- erfck w. Lehman of St. Louis, for- mer solicitor general, have been se- lected by the president to represent hisN views before the South American me- diators in the Mexican mediation ne- gotiations at Niagara Falls, Canada.
 Secretary Bryan made this official an- i nouncement today.
 Whether a third representative4 would be appointed, MT Bryan de- clined to indicate, stating that it couldaI | be assumed that there would be mol other, although he did not wish tod definitely indicate that such possibil- | ity was foreclosed.
 Take Up Protest.
 i Huerta's protest over the reportedfI 1 seizure of Labos Island, an import-. ant lighthouse point off the easternf
 coast of Mexico, by landing party ofaJ | United States torpedo boats was tal.e nj |
 up today by the South American en- voys who are seeking to pave the wayl | to peace in the sournern republic. The reported occupation of the isiand | probably to assure uninterrupteuI|
 operat ton of the lightship--first wasl| revealed in a telegram from foreignI |. minister Ruiz to the mediators. It|| l stated a party had been landed frons
 the American torpedo boats, that the
 light keepers had been arrested. then4 l released after they had turned over| apparatus for operation of the strat- l egic beacon. The mediatore were asked to make representauonsI ] to the Washington government, rcla-
 tive to it's truce with Huerta.
 Already. it was believed, reply to the note had been made, and In some quarters the conviction was ez- pressed that Ambassador Da Gama had taken it up at White House meeting l Sunday. I Was Precautionary Measure.
 If was believed that it would be con-
 tended that the seizure was in tho nature of precautionary measure to
 safeguard shipping. As such, 1t was asserted, it would be without any sig
 nificance as territorial aggression.
 Fear that a consignment of wan
 munitions for Huerta might have been {; unloaded at Puerto Mexico from tha
 Kronprinzessin Cecilie caused a slight | 0urTN III OIlC1dl CISfCS' ahoe W%A set at rest early today by the receipt 1 of a despatch from Admiral Badgers
 stating the steamer. now at Vera Cruza
 still had on board the consignment q
 War Correspondents Released.
 Release of the American war cora
 respondents who were arrested by fed-l
 eral soldiers relieved a tense situa-i
 tion. Pressing representations made l tx.I0 tkxl sources resulted in freedom for Wal-' ter whiffen of the Associated Press,,
 Richard Harding Davis of the Ncwl
 York Tribune, Medill Mccormick or the London Times, and A. J. Suttona 1 of the Washington Post
 Reports from Brigadier-G enerau l Funston declared that there was noI l truth in the rumored statements of Huerta's war minister that the trucal 1 had been broken at Vera Cruz by thol extension of American lines. Whrol slight enlarging Of the Ainericanl territory would be advantageous fer maintaining sources of food suppliesd yet great care, General Funston reI ported had been taken not to overstem orders from Washington. Will Receive O'Shauehnessy. President Wilson, it was announceu today, will receive Nelson O'Shaugh-l messy, former charge of the Americam embassy at the City of Mexico, tod morrow. MT. O'Shaughnessy has conferred with Secretary Bryan sevl eral times since his arrival in Wash -d ington last week. He also has talket3 with Secretary Tumulty, but the presd ident has not found an earlier opI portunitJ to see him A MoreIos Blown Up.
 Rear Admiral Howard, command srx of the Pacific fleet, reported today that the abandoned Mexican federar gunboat Morelos was yesterday boards ed, set on fire and blown up by the constitutionalists at Mazatlan. Admiral Howard further reported that the constitutionalist artillery at San Piedras Island drove the Mexi- can transport Kerrigan out of the harbor.
 Have Full Power.
 Yer Cruz, May 11-Emilio Raba sa. Augustin Rodriguez and Luis Elguero' the three peace commissioners an. pointed by Provisional Presidnn ' Huerta to represent him at the Mic gara Falls conference who win oa,v late today for Havana enroute to E..r West, are clothed with full powers nominally at least, to sign an arraas l ment or convention. M # The Mexican senate in a renolut,o,, l approving Huerta's nominationa VI the three commissioners conferreys
 full power and ample authority t-l judge, counsel, carry on business nnI fR